Donna
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This sketch is too silly. Episcopalian. I write, I paint, and I draw. Vegetarian She/her. Everybody needs food, housing, and education. Favorite shows: #Moonlighting. #Endeavour. Massive supporter of #PBS.
Please join @thepixelproject.bsky.social and me on September 4 as I read a bit about a strong woman character, and we talk books.
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: The Pixel Project will be kicking off the 12th annual Fall Edition of the Read For Pixels campaign in September 2026 with Susan Elia MacNeal doing a live YouTube session @ 8.30pm PT, Saturday 12th September 2026. For more details: tinyurl.com/SEMacNealR4P
More than just training: How Metcash team members are using Mental Health First Aid
More than just training: How Metcash team members are using Mental Health First Aid
“One of the most powerful outcomes that’s come from this journey is seeing leaders being able to – confidently and with care – deal with something that’s in front of them.” Metcash has trained more than 600 team members – ensuring every site and shift has a trained MHFAider. Team members now know that mental health support in the workplace is never far. The post More than just training: How Metcash team members are using Mental Health First Aid appeared first on Mental Health First Aid Australia.
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Bangor Daily News: 'Congress has a plan to help people with chronic fatigue syndrome. It needs to fund it.' 'The NIH has a roadmap, the science is ready, and the plan is written. What is missing is the funding...' By Amy Blackstone www.bangordailynews.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion: Congress has a plan to help people with chronic fatigue syndrome. It needs to fund it.
"In a state where rural families often have little financial cushion, and where the nearest specialist can be hours away, ME/CFS is not just a health crisis. It is an economic one. "
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This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.
And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
Scottish activist Flora Drummond was a fearless operational leader of the British militant suffragette movement. Nicknamed "The General," she famously marshaled massive #WomensRights parades thru London & Edinburgh on horseback & wearing a military-style uniform. She was born #OTD in 1878.
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Our #SongOfTheDay is "Rain Rain Rain" by Epic Soundtracks & Jowe Head. Driving, hard grooving experimental stuff from '81 with improvised vocals by Carmel. 🎧 Listen at thepropagandasite.com #Music #NowPlaying #MusicSky #MusicianSky
"We all become better martial artists when we learn to train scientifically this doesn't require studying different arts it requires studying the human sciences of mechanics, dynamics, and physiology." 📍NJ 🌐 37th Chamber 🗨️ John Little 🎧 "Brilliant" by Giulio Cercato 🏷️ #jeetkunedo #martialarts
#nowplaying on Over 60's Club: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Joni Mitchell Listen In 🎧 https://over60s.club/ #oldies #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #radio
Colorado’s youth mental health corps improves student attendance and behavior
Colorado’s youth mental health corps improves student attendance and behavior
"Near-peer" mental health navigators work in Colorado schools as part of a program designed to improve the professional pipeline, too
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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, was arrested in New Jersey in June, and died after a ‘medical emergency’, agency said
Immigrant being held at Delaney Hall dies, marking 22nd death in ICE custody
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Guarani beekeeper Marcio Karai is devoted to caring for stingless bees native to his home in Brazil, working to ensure that the knowledge of generations is carried on for the next reut.rs/4xoDN1U
In Brazil, Indigenous experts care for native, stingless bees
Guarani beekeeper Marcio Karai is devoted to caring for stingless bees native to his home in Brazil, working to ensure that the knowledge of generations is carried on for the next.
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here's an idea, anyone caught doing that has to pay the IHS from now on
news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
medium.com/philosophyto... Incisive political economy of current insecurity injustice and increasing wealth for a few
Karl Marx and Why Societies Stop Growing
The Material Roots Behind the Hollowing of The Middle Class
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RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.
Trump’s ‘red scare’ is rhetoric divorced from reality. What’s real is the crushing of the left observer.co.uk/news/interna... Why is there no socialism in America asked Sombart 120 years ago. Part of the answer is that governments have repeatedly terrorised its adherents, as documented here.
Trump’s ‘red scare’ is rhetoric divorced from reality. Wh...
The spectre of communism has little currency since the demise of the USSR. But the targeting of activists and institutional capitulation to conservative demands has an eerie 1950s feel
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Remember moral economy not just political
Like Burnham, I was an altar boy. His Catholic upbringing is shaping the way he governs |Julian Coman
With a prime minister raised in a tradition that emphasises our mutual dependency, we may finally have a leader who can address the anomie gripping our country, says Guardian associate editor Julian C...
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Deanna Klymkiw tells Xtra about playing the franchise’s first out lesbian, and her career pivot since.
Alex from Degrassi on finding her calling counselling queer teens | Xtra Magazine
Deanna Klymkiw tells Xtra about playing the franchise’s first out lesbian, and her career pivot since
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How Krystal Gonzalez reclaimed the day of her daughter's death in Baltimore's deadliest mass shooting.
This Mother Refused to Accept Violence as Normal
How Krystal Gonzalez reclaimed the day of her daughter's death in Baltimore's deadliest mass shooting.
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"Much as the First World War created the legal authorities used for the Palmer raids, through the PATRIOT Act and other legislation, the post-9/11 national security apparatus provided the investigative powers needed to treat a domestic political movement as a threat."
The Third Red Scare
“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.
liberalcurrents.com
All is not well in the campaign to Make America Healthy Again—and it’s not just because of the movement’s fracturing alliance with the Trump administration. @nimabassiri.bsky.social writes on MAHA’s newfound obsession: the alleged problem of overmedicalization.
Overmedicalization and Its Discontents | Nima Bassiri
The MAHA camp turns to psychiatric reform and the alleged problem of overmedicalization.
thebaffler.com
Tories must use the same vetting system as Reform. #ToryScum www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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