More than 1,000 grocery items will be reduced through September 8 at Meijer grocery stores.

Meijer Slash Prices on More Than 1,000 Items: List of Biggest Savings

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The "modified drone" contained an "unknown substance" and a "detonator," according to police sources speaking to German media outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Whether you’re an experienced poet or completely new to writing poetry, we want to hear your perspective on climate change. If you're a UK or Ireland-based academic, apply to our climate poetry competition! Apply before 1 September: tcnv.link/sAoQss8

Introducing The Conversation Climate Poetry Award – for UK and Ireland-based academics

The Conversation invites academics across the UK and Ireland to write a poem inspired by climate change research.

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Mass funeral held in Gaza for victims of 2023 Israeli strike

Mass funeral held in Gaza for victims of 2023 Israeli strike

Remains of 112 victims, including 40 children, recovered from rubble more than two years after residential block was destroyed Mourners gathered in central Gaza on Tuesday for a mass funeral for 112 people, including 40 children, who were killed in 2023 in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war. Their bodies could not be recovered until now because of Israel’s continuing strikes, which have slowed, though not halted, since the ceasefire in October. Continue reading...

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As a Trans+ person, taking part in sport comes with risks as the right are determined to keep us out. Strength sports are no exception.

How accessing strength sports taught me to accept my trans body

"As part of my transition, I wanted to get buff, with a muscle bear physique. It's by no means a universal trans-masc thing, but it was mine."

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The reality is that this is exactly what Trump wants. He wants to force Ukrainian capitulation and this is how he wants to do it.

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left. The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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The US is governed by a racist regime. But you know that. "The State Department is making permanent a program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, & raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries

A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...

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Even Republicans are now saying the GOP has gone too far #AlterNet

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Even Republicans are now saying the GOP has gone too far

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We need to build a new infrastructure for electricity and build some energy storage units. Its pointless to end use of fossil fuels when we dont have the means to transport or store renewable energy

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · yesterday

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

While it's good that he has announced some exclusions from this, some prisoners serving time for certain sexual or violent offences will still be eligible for release at the halfway point of their sentence if they have not committed serious breaches of prison rules.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

About 1,000 fewer prisoners to get early release as Burnham tightens rules

Pete Buttigieg is being way too cute on Israel's live genocide in Gaza. Acknowledging war crimes while justifying brutality is a non-starter. That cowardice disqualifies him from the presidency. Apartheid wasn't acceptable in South Africa, and it isn't now in Israel. No more taxpayer blank checks.🤦🏾‍♂️

An important warning from @meiselasb.bsky.social that the “sham document” Blanche’s advancement seems to rely upon showing the insurrectionist slush fund is *dead* is actually “unenforceable” @SenThomTillis @JohnCornyn

Arizona clergy who learn of child abuse in confessions aren’t required to report it, court rules #TheGuardian

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Arizona clergy who learn of child abuse in confessions aren’t required to report it, court rules

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South Florida Sunday Front Pages... 🗞️

Outbreaks of cyclosporiasis are pushing more shoppers to their local farmers markets instead of supermarkets.

America’s Lettuce Crisis Has Shoppers Ditching Supermarkets for Farmers Markets

Outbreaks of cyclosporiasis are pushing more shoppers to their local farmers markets.

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So this CHUD woke up one day and thought to himself “how am I going to virtue-signal to our increasingly growing anti-vax part of maga” and the thought that came into his head is to go to war with a 2,000 year old institution that outlived every government?

In Alhaurín de la Torre (Andalusia, Spain), 300 women spent three years crocheting a massive 60-meter yarn canopy to protect residents from extreme summer heat. [🎞️ sambentley] Original post

Medicare and Social Security have long been the “third rail of politics.” But CMS just announced it’s ending a subsidy that stabilizes premiums for Medicare Part D drug plans — covering nearly 25 million people. The timing? Open enrollment starts Oct. 15… less than three weeks before the midterms.

"We're Taking Away Your Medicare!" is an interesting campaign slogan.

Look at this breathtaking immense supercell thunderstorm over Nebraska capture from an airliner over Nebraska on July 31. [📹 ReedTimmerUSA] Original post

A prominent MAGA lawyer bankrolled an election denier now working inside the Trump administration, according to tax filings.

MAGA lawyer bankrolled a 'conspiracy theorist' inside Trump's administration

A prominent MAGA lawyer bankrolled an election denier now working inside the Trump administration, according to tax filings.According to reporting by Democracy Docket, a dark money fund run by election denier and anti-voting attorney Cleta Mitchell granted just over $72,000 in the last fiscal year t...

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Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.