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This rally between Nebraska and Kentucky was insane (from a couple of years ago) Just really skilled volleyball on both sides. Of course, I love that the Huskers finally won the point ❤️🌽🏐 www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLSDDbku/
Jillybean
@jillybeanbuttle.bsky.social
Nebraska expat living in Southern Missouri. Huge fan of our National and State Parks. 🏞️ I miss the plains.
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This rally between Nebraska and Kentucky was insane (from a couple of years ago) Just really skilled volleyball on both sides. Of course, I love that the Huskers finally won the point ❤️🌽🏐 www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLSDDbku/
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This brilliant book by Serhii Sobko, with insights from the war in Ukraine, is now available as an ebook. I was honoured to write the foreword, and highly recommend it to any soldier or citizen wanting to learn about modern war. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HPCNLMY...
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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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“The effort affects about 27% of Microsoft’s total workforce of 223,000 people.” Jesus.
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marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government
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Maurene Comey served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan for around a decade. A judicial ruling finding her dismissal unlawful adds to concerns of politically motivated firings at the DOJ. n.pr/3UJ9SUh
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So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...
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Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->
Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...
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NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...
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Replying to @gregsargent.bsky.social
Relatedly, such a critical point from @brianbeutler.bsky.social. Guess who DOESN'T want a D electoral victory to be interpreted as call for investigations/accountability for Trump's corruption/authoritarianism? Trump and Rs, that's who! Dems can't let that happen: www.offmessage.net/p/wheres-the...
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Pots go spinny 🌀 I do love showing off my pots on the very wheel they were created on 😉 These pots available on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available
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Replying to @rafiews.com
After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.
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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
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This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.
I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.
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This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."
They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.
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Bloomberg has called it for Lula
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This is real evidence of societal decay. My No. 1 complaint to the Mets every season.
Freshly cut grass, hot dogs, cold beer, the crack of a bat and the sound of an organ playing: Few places are as distinct as a baseball stadium. But live organists are disappearing. Only 10 of the 30 MLB teams tell NBC News they have someone performing at every game.
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