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Container gardener in a city, enjoy reading, writing, walks, cooking
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
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Bellingcat has pieced together a detailed view of a crisis that has left much of Mali in the dark. Learn how the attacks behind the fuel shortages brought daily life to a halt here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Bellingcat has pieced together a detailed view of a crisis that has left much of Mali in the dark. Learn how the attacks behind the fuel shortages brought daily life to a halt here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
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I'd rather design a world where we don't NEED to rely on the "generosity" of billionaires.
An announcement by Michael and Susan Dell that they will donate more than $6 billion in the form of contributions to soon-to-be-opened Trump accounts is a “super exciting” development for American children, experts say.
https://to.pbs.org/3XyL3IC
https://to.pbs.org/3XyL3IC
Trump accounts just got a massive promised donation. Here’s what to know about who qualifies
Experts say the massive donation is a boon to children, but concerns remain with the structure of the accounts.
www.pbs.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I'd rather design a world where we don't NEED to rely on the "generosity" of billionaires.
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I would not, could not, in my docs
Please get out of Firefox
I would not, could not, on the phone
Please just leave my calls alone
I will not, will not, even free
LLMs, just leave me be!
Please get out of Firefox
I would not, could not, on the phone
Please just leave my calls alone
I will not, will not, even free
LLMs, just leave me be!
I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I would not, could not, in my docs
Please get out of Firefox
I would not, could not, on the phone
Please just leave my calls alone
I will not, will not, even free
LLMs, just leave me be!
Please get out of Firefox
I would not, could not, on the phone
Please just leave my calls alone
I will not, will not, even free
LLMs, just leave me be!
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There's been some debate over the last few weeks about whether or not DOGE still exists. I don't think that semantic debate matters. We should be talking about who will be held accountable for all the catastrophic damage those over-confident idiots created.
Forget Whether Or Not DOGE Exists: Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For 600,000 Deaths?
First, let's dispense with the theater: the question of whether DOGE "still exists" as a formal entity completely misses the point. The always-misleadingly-named "Department of Government Efficiency" was never…
First, let's dispense with the theater: the question of whether DOGE "still exists" as a formal entity completely misses the point. The always-misleadingly-named "Department of Government Efficiency" was never…
Forget Whether Or Not DOGE Exists: Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For 600,000 Deaths?
First, let's dispense with the theater: the question of whether DOGE "still exists" as a formal entity completely misses the point. The always-misleadingly-named "Department of Government Efficiency" was never really about efficiency. It was Elon Musk's excuse to gain access to the federal government's fundamental systems and wreak havoc, Twitter-style—smashing anything that got in his way, enriching his allies, and dismissing any consequences with a wave of his hand.
www.techdirt.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
There's been some debate over the last few weeks about whether or not DOGE still exists. I don't think that semantic debate matters. We should be talking about who will be held accountable for all the catastrophic damage those over-confident idiots created.
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Notably, they did not *need* to comply with the order.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order
The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Notably, they did not *need* to comply with the order.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
The president does not have the authority to compel their cooperation.
This is complying in advance and selling out one of the most vulnerable minority communities in America.
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For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
![Red cover with the silhouette of a child with a missile falling from above with title ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL ALWYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS, author Omar El Akkad "Author of American War"
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times
"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vul…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvhw6v6rt4motcndq4gh5qo7/bafkreieuaku7fvqyktelutykflyzanjmna6j3oiiqfkdxvgebund6pdz2e@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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"But libraries are essential — to learning, to community, to democracy, and to any hope we have of building a society organized around education and collective care, rather than control."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"But libraries are essential — to learning, to community, to democracy, and to any hope we have of building a society organized around education and collective care, rather than control."
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Low-trust societies are so expensive, I swear.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
My kids go to a "rich" public school. My daughter is 7 and cannot read; she is a sweet, caring, intelligent child, but if you spend a moment with her it is clear that she has ADHD an order of magnitude more serious than what you think of when you hear "ADHD." Anybody questioning her IEP can fuck off
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Low-trust societies are so expensive, I swear.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
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I'm looking to speak with teachers, principals and other school administrators across the country about the impact of ICE on their students for an
@theintercept
story.
My email is [email protected]
@theintercept
story.
My email is [email protected]
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'm looking to speak with teachers, principals and other school administrators across the country about the impact of ICE on their students for an
@theintercept
story.
My email is [email protected]
@theintercept
story.
My email is [email protected]
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This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
It's not ineptitude, folks. He doesn't need messaging or strategy tips. He's doing just what his bosses want. We aren't his bosses & this is not democracy in action. It's oligarchy. He's a tool but can still revel in getting to be the person with more power than us. Loves the groveling from suckups
Question: Who are his donors, and how do they benefit from this situation?
Answer: One of his biggest donors is BlackRock, which is actively investing in Palantir and in private prison companies.
Implication: Jeffries is actively profiting from ICE's expansion.
Source:
Answer: One of his biggest donors is BlackRock, which is actively investing in Palantir and in private prison companies.
Implication: Jeffries is actively profiting from ICE's expansion.
Source:
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries - Campaign Finance Summary
Fundraising profile for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries - New York District 08
www.opensecrets.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's not ineptitude, folks. He doesn't need messaging or strategy tips. He's doing just what his bosses want. We aren't his bosses & this is not democracy in action. It's oligarchy. He's a tool but can still revel in getting to be the person with more power than us. Loves the groveling from suckups
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So to tell you how LA resists ICE- this morning there were people waiting at the exit of the CBP facility who took photos of every vehicle that left with their license plates. They cross referenced those license plates with old photos and found that one vehicle had a plate from a different vehicle.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So to tell you how LA resists ICE- this morning there were people waiting at the exit of the CBP facility who took photos of every vehicle that left with their license plates. They cross referenced those license plates with old photos and found that one vehicle had a plate from a different vehicle.
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
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over 90% of the vote in and it looks like the rurals will average out to a 10pt shift, yeah
good luck to the GOP trying to figure out how to allocate resources to every seat that's less than
*checks notes*
R+15
good luck to the GOP trying to figure out how to allocate resources to every seat that's less than
*checks notes*
R+15
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
over 90% of the vote in and it looks like the rurals will average out to a 10pt shift, yeah
good luck to the GOP trying to figure out how to allocate resources to every seat that's less than
*checks notes*
R+15
good luck to the GOP trying to figure out how to allocate resources to every seat that's less than
*checks notes*
R+15
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What we know, 10:30pm:
—Dems flip mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia.
—GOP defends TN-07. Margin shifts blue by ≈14%.
—Solomon crushes McGreevey to become Jersey City mayor; his progressive slate also dominates city council.
—In Atlanta, establishment ahead in most but not all battles vs. left
—Dems flip mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia.
—GOP defends TN-07. Margin shifts blue by ≈14%.
—Solomon crushes McGreevey to become Jersey City mayor; his progressive slate also dominates city council.
—In Atlanta, establishment ahead in most but not all battles vs. left
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
What we know, 10:30pm:
—Dems flip mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia.
—GOP defends TN-07. Margin shifts blue by ≈14%.
—Solomon crushes McGreevey to become Jersey City mayor; his progressive slate also dominates city council.
—In Atlanta, establishment ahead in most but not all battles vs. left
—Dems flip mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia.
—GOP defends TN-07. Margin shifts blue by ≈14%.
—Solomon crushes McGreevey to become Jersey City mayor; his progressive slate also dominates city council.
—In Atlanta, establishment ahead in most but not all battles vs. left
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There was some progressive energy in Jersey City not just around the mayor's race, but some city council races. And the Working Families Party endorsed a slate of five city council candidates — two of which won in November, and the other 3 (Denise Ridley, Joel Brooks, Jake Ephros) won today.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
There was some progressive energy in Jersey City not just around the mayor's race, but some city council races. And the Working Families Party endorsed a slate of five city council candidates — two of which won in November, and the other 3 (Denise Ridley, Joel Brooks, Jake Ephros) won today.