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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

A question worth asking when something spiritual captures your attention: Does this encourage me to think more clearly and make my own choices, or does it encourage me to hand my judgement over to someone else? The answer matters more than the packaging. ✨ #WitchyTips

Epic idea… let’s see every community roll out their weirdest and most wonderful whips for free rides against fascism! 🤘

Big announcement! Today, YES! launches a new series in collaboration with @truthout.org: Taking Back the Public Commons. The series shines a light on visionary organizing to win public funding and public goods, while shifting power away from the ultrawealthy toward the rest of us.

The e challenge of combating authoritarianism seems to grow more daunting as November 3 approaches. Check out YES!'s October newsletter to read about democracy beyond the ballot, the essential ingredients of democracy, and bringing joy to courageous action. www.yesmagazine.org/issues/2026/...

💜 #BTS MAMA Fans Choice ‼️ voting ENDS SHORTLY ‼️ Let’s get it!

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

Drink water. Take vitamins. Vote for #BTS Fans’ Choice MAMA on Mnet Plus. 🔍😌💜https://mnetplus.onelink.me/TRa8/a9hkozdj

READ. THIS. NOW. By one of the most badass writers of our times. Reads like a novel, dissects and lays out reality with language that is by turns lush, incisive, humorous, and shockingly chilling. A call to intelligent and heart-filled (courageous) action. www.equator.org/articles/aru...

ICE agents are terrorizing CA farm workers with random stops and abductions. We’re working around the clock helping workers, documenting civil rights violations and sharing know your rights information in the fields. Please donate. act.seiu.org/a/raidsfall2... or www.paypal.com/paypalme/ufw...

how to help Borneo during horriffic fires in Indonesia donorbox.org/borneo-s-und...

Rec’d Rev. Barber’s email on The Moral Mandate of the Midterms and now viewing “Bad Faith,” a film documenting the Christian nationalist horseshit we’re up against ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/the-moral-...

How can you help protect the right to vote this midterm season? Our experts break it down.

Let’s make that 🤬 waste his f*ing money!!! 🗳️

Call your Senators today! Tell them to vote NO on the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA) 📌 ☎️ U.S. Senate Switchboard: 202-224-3121 📞 📬 and send an email to your members of Congress: climatejusticealliance.org/action

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

Honor Indigenous Peoples Day. Lift up with respect the diverse cultures and experiences of indigenous peoples, and look toward a future of land back and rematriation, learning, healing. Because our only way forward is together: Thinking about this article today. www.peaceandriot.org/how-origin-s...

MAMA voting is on #BTS #ARMY mnetplus.world/event/en/202...

May goodness, protection, and beauty flow around, over, and directly to my trans and gender nonconforming kin. May you know that someone somewhere is holding your glorious being close in their hearts and minds because they genuinely care about your existence, survival, and flourishing.

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Following our FOIA requests, we obtained groundbreaking records showing ICE’s attempts to silence voters. ICE obtained 48.4 million records from Heather Honey, a known election denier, as a “strategic line of effort” to pursue voter fraud investigations.

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

The thing a lot of people don’t tell you about art is that you can just go make it. Like you can do it right now. You don’t have to wait for someone to give you permission. Write your book now. Make your comic now. Find other creatives and put on a show together. Do it now. That’s all we have

WATCH IT NOW, please. youtu.be/dLQzVLtvdv8?...

Is U.S. democracy ready for AI? We tested how chatbots respond to election disinformation — and whether they would help create it. Here are the results: bit.ly/3TSPbV6

NEW: While many foundations and donor-advised funds pile up wealth while lagging in moving it to working charities, some donors are showing how to give quickly and effectively to support urgent societal needs. They should be applauded — and copied en masse. REPORT from @inequality.org:

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

“Already the chemicals are thought to contaminate the blood of nearly every living person. Research links them to cancer, liver disease, kidney issues, high cholesterol and birth defects.”

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

news flash

Right, but let’s keep building data centers and fighting over oil. 🫩

"We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking."

Pierre Damas Bel should be here. ICE & DHS have inflicted immeasurable mental anguish on whole communities through Placing shackles on former TPS holders to demonstrate dominance & control is blatant dehumanization. Restore Haitian TPS & abolish ICE—now. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I despise the way AI is making fools or cynics of us all.

And of course it’s the patients finding and reporting the errors, not their GPs. More cleanup labour for unsafe tools shunted onto those with the least power to demand better

Reposting to get MORE EYES ON IT!

Don’t let “intellectual,” “political moment,” or “elucidates” (really? 🙄) turn you off from learning more about this book and the importance of what it lays out. (Just watched a web panel with the author and two women of color panelists and it was 🔥.)

ARMYs 💜 — a fellow WV ARMY is going thru a rough spot (I know: it’s going around!) so I’m sharing this link in case you’re in a position to help lend a hand. All love. gofund.me/3506514b3

More like “shows its ASS” — The always-incisive Ms. Ifill expertly debones, dissects, and deep-fries this miserable majority’s deference to a wannabe dictator. Got to be ready to fight like hell just to cast a f*ing ballot this year.

THIS

If rage-writing onto cramped spaces helps you like it does me… lets GOTV postcard. secure.ngpvan.com/bcp6GpoxVEC3...

If you care about protecting Big Bend, it may be time to rethink where you spend your money. YETI co-founder Ryan Seiders is part-owner of a West Texas ranch that has been facilitating construction tied to Trump’s border wall project in the Big Bend region.

With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg... #WeFeedYou

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All for shit we didn’t ask for and don’t need.

A critical new bill, the Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565) has been introduced by Rep. Delia Ramirez. This bill would block weapons that have been documented in devastating attacks against Palestinians. Email your representative to demand support! Free Palestine!

Every ad, everywhere: Lower your cortisol 🧘🍄‍🟫🍵 Me: *cackles in polycrisis* 🍸