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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 12d

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."

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KALX Berkeley @kalxberkeley.bsky.social · 7h

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 2h

Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size
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A 'Secret Weapon' for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back

Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 3h

20 years ago - Gilberto Gil in the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/music/2005/o...

Minister of counterculture

Gilberto Gil is a musical legend - and a senior Brazilian politician. He tells Oliver Burkeman how poverty can be challenged if ideas are shared for free.

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 1d

Dictators silence voters, terrorize communities, occupy cities, and reward billionaires while families suffer.

But this country does not belong to a dictator, it belongs to US.

On October 18th, millions will rise up and say NO KINGS.

Join an event near you 👉 www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=5...

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power…

www.nokings.org

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 4h

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10/15/1991
Anita Hill testifies about sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Faces brutal questioning from male Senators

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 22h

"Life is tempting you to tiptoe to the brink of the threshold of the rawest truth, the wildest beauty, and the most precious love."

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KALX Berkeley @kalxberkeley.bsky.social · 1d

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 1d

Trial participants call for new Vyvgart research
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Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. - The Sick Times

We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FD...

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 1d

If you can't march, you can still call to say No Kings.

We got you 👉 5calls.org/issue/trump-...

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 1d

10/14/1964
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., receives Nobel Peace Prize

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KALX Berkeley @kalxberkeley.bsky.social · 2d

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 2d

A collection of antique hold-to-light postcards, something to look out for at your next flea market
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From the ephemera community on Reddit: My Collection of Antique Hold-To-Light Postcards

Explore this post and more from the ephemera community

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 2d

10 years ago - Facebook UK made £105M in 2014, paid £35M in bonuses, and will pay £4,327 in tax
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Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax despite £35m staff bonuses

Social networking firm paid average of £210,000 to staff in Britain, but overall loss in UK of £28.5m meant very little corporation tax was due

www.theguardian.com

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American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) @aila.social · 7d

📢 This weekend, we dropped a banner that reads: RETURN MAPLE BAY -INDIGENOUS LANDS IN INDIGENOUS HANDS - #LAKEBACK
Read about our action in the article, "Onondaga ‘LakeBack’ protest shades arrival of Seneca Chief with history of harm," that was published today by #centralcurrent.

🔗www.aila.li/olp

Onondaga 'LakeBack' protest shades arrival of 'Seneca Chief' with history of harm

As Central New Yorkers commemorated an ‘Erie Canal moment,’ the Onondaga Nation remembered the canal’s long legacy of Indigenous harm.

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 2d

10/13/1943
Jews at Nazi extermination camp in Sobibor, Poland revolt; over 40 reach freedom

Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 4d

President accuses China of ‘very hostile’ moves and says additional tariffs could come on 1 November ‘or sooner’
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Trump threatens 100% China tariffs as Beijing restricts rare-earth exports

President accuses China of ‘very hostile’ moves and says additional tariffs could come on 1 November ‘or sooner’

www.theguardian.com

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been talking about it with everyone I know! My bf is a caseworker with the SF Department of Public Health and he has many clients who were recently unhoused, he’s reading it next. I so so appreciate your work

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KALX Berkeley @kalxberkeley.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight on Round Midnight (12-1am): Sex 14s hosts A celebration of pianist Fred Hersch’s 70th birthday

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 5d

10 years ago - Leaked (final?) TPP Intellectual Property chapter spells doom for free speech online
www.theguardian.com/business/201...

Wikileaks release of TPP deal text stokes 'freedom of expression' fears

Intellectual property rights chapter appears to give Trans-Pacific Partnership countries greater power to stop information from going public

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 5d

What I Learned Today: Ortega hypothesis
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Ortega hypothesis - Wikipedia

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Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 5d

Listening: Charles Lloyd, Madi Diaz, Rhett Miller, Madison Cunningham, Makaya McCraven, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, The Autumn Defense, Max Reger

Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 5d

"The fact that the very apparatus of 21st-century life relies on the internet is rendered visible to us only when something snaps, like the sole cable running to Tonga."
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

www.theguardian.com

Heidi J. De Vries @matokieslaughter.bsky.social · 5d

Currently listening to Brian Goldstone's There Is No Place for Us and it's perhaps the most important book about America since Evicted. It's empathetic, heartbreaking, bracing...and the people who need to read it will never read it
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Working and Homeless in America

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 6d

MTG: About 60% of the calls coming in right now are calls of support and saying yes, health insurance is a crisis... I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying that if the ACA tax credits expire they aren't going to be able to have health insurance, they're going to have to drop it.

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