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michele collins
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Retired Architect. The Sidecar is the best cocktail. Ask your bartender.
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It seems the birds aren't the only ones joining in the festivities this year… 🎄

A rather magnificent winter friend is waiting behind door 3.

#RSPBAdvent25
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
When we overlooked the torture of prisoners during the George W Bush admin, I knew we were past the idea of a 'moral' military.
Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.

We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
December 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Nate Silver and others continue to rehash Biden's mental fitness as a way to distract themselves from the decrepit mental state of the current president.

Not only that. Silver and guys like Alex Thompson don't spend a lot of time acknowledging the heinous, barbaric nature of Trump policy.
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Life in Bamako, the capital of Mali, has been brought to a standstill after a jihadist organisation launched a series of attacks on inbound fuel convoys. Bellingcat has verified six attacks since September, which together have damaged more than 130 fuel tankers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
Mali Under Siege: Tracking the Fuel Blockade Crippling Bamako - bellingcat
Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found.  The systematic attacks b...
www.bellingcat.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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This is just precious. If you ever tried to engage with this dude in a good faith way, you know he didn’t want conversation, he wanted to be right, to prove to you he was right, and then have a thousand replies applauding his rightness. There’s a reason nobody is asking where he went.
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Why is the onus always on BP/Dems to fix what WP/repubs fuck up?

It's sad that until WP suffer, you lazy fuckwads, won't do shit to fix the country until it affects your mediocre asses.

BP ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING MULES... leave Jeffries alone, this is on your people, you hypocrital, traitorous Bish.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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“They appear to be quietly killing field offices,” one staffer said. The plan comes after Trump carried out the largest staffing cut in SSA history, cutting the workforce by around 7,000. The cut left one worker for every 1,480 beneficiaries, resulting in understaffed offices and phone lines.
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Social Security Administration planning documents show that the agency is aiming for “no more than 15 million total” in-person visits to field offices in fiscal year 2026 — half the level of the prior fiscal year.
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Gupta: These are the most credentialed radiologists in the country. No one is aware of any type of screening guideline that says as you age you should get an MRI of the heart and abdomen.
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Trump now says affordability is a “Democratic Hoax.” Think of that next time you check out at the grocery store and see that receipt.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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i think it goes underappreciated that there are no ads here
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Abbondanza! This large mosaic emblema uses a limited palette of stone tesserae to depict baskets of fish and fruit, symbols of abundance from the sea and land. It probably once decorated the floor of a Roman villa's triclinium (dining room). 🏺

1st-2nd c. CE, Carthage. #BritishMuseum
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December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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LARRY SUMMERS: I hereby resign from your organization.

AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION: Oh yeah? We hereby ban you from having anything to do with us until you die.
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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More and more countries are phasing out coal use - South Korea just announced they will cease using coal by 2040.

There’s simply no future in old fossil fuel mining and extraction.
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Your annual reminder... do NOT give to the Salvation Army.
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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In 2000, almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. By 2024, 90% of their electricity was from renewables. ⚡ Energy transitions can happen faster than we think!
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Good morning 🐀🌲
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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My friend told me she always bakes muffins with her leftover cranberry sauce, and I was amazed that had never occurred to me.

So I looked up a recipe for cranberry coffee cake. Will be trying that tomorrow.
December 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM