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fkamiah17, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to USpolitics

BREAKING: 🔥 🔥

“What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”
Jewish Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call resigned in protest at its refusal to stop arming Israel. It's an astonishing letter.
Update: a few minutes after tweeting this, her X account was suspended 🤨

#USPolitics #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael

Alt-texters please note that pages 2 and 3 have a huge amount of citations and footnotes, which I have not included.

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to legal

#TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵STARTS HERE. 1/…

(Please remember to use NFL …Not For Laffy… in replies)

😂 See my previous post, just before this one, in my TL

Pagliery:

The judge starts out be making an odd clarification about his gag order.

He says that despite the restrictions on what Trump can say outside the courtroom, he can absolutely testify from the witness stand.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche thanks him.

dendroica, 1 month ago to Birding

Short Face Long Beak

I want a bird who's the queen scolopacid,
I want a bird who knows her niche.
I want a bird who's hell-bent onward,
Racing the storm 'cross the Solomon reach.
I want a bird with the right adaptations,
Who is fast, and thorough,
As she probes her mudflats.
She's been wintering in Auckland,
She's visiting Pohnpei,
She's touring coral atolls and their beach habitats.
I want a bird with a short face
And a loong beak...

1/4

@loren @timdesuyo
#Birding

Snowshadow, 1 month ago to news

⚠️ 🚨 April 27 & 28🚨 ⚠️

Avoid this: It is NOT a book festival

Ottawa Book Festival Platforming Far-Right Speakers Uses Fake Employees and Misleading Sponsors

"But not only will this year’s event platform several far-right speakers linked to the 2022 Freedom Convoy occupation, a number of the festival’s corporate sponsors and key employees also appear to be misleading or fake."

👉 Info about organizers in article.⬇️ Please read it.👀

#News #Books #Festival #Ottawa
https://pressprogress.ca/ottawa-book-festival-platforming-far-right-speakers-uses-fake-employees-and-misleading-sponsors/

johann, 1 month ago to random French

☆ ♡ LORIOL · PIANO SOLO ALBUM ♡ ☆
23 April 2024

[FR] 50 minutes, 7 titres, des impros, des mélodies, des drones, enregistré et mixé par moi-même, ce qui est une nouveauté, mais pas la seule : j’en en ai fait un tirage de 100 cassettes !

[EN] 50 minutes, 7 tracks, improvisation, melodies, drones, recorded and mixed by myself, which is a novelty, but not the only one: I've made an edition of 100 cassettes!

listen & download :
https://johannbourquenez.com/faircamp/johann-bourquenez-loriol

order :
https://ko-fi.com/s/8473028f56

🖤🎹🎶

#piano

La cassette et le boîtier avec la photo de couverture, posées sur une table marbrée.

cdarwin, 2 months ago to MountainBiking

In the 1980s as railroads abandoned thousands of miles of track following deregulation,
Congress provided for “#railbanking,” seeking to preserve rail corridors while allowing for interim use as trails.

Today, there are nearly 26,000 miles of rail-trails in the U.S., according to RTC.

• More than $830 million in U.S. Department of Transportation funds announced last week under the ⭐️Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods ⭐️grant program went to #trails, #walking and a #biking #infrastructure, according to the Rails to Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

• Among the projects selected for the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods program are at least four that will 🔸repurpose former railroad lines into trails.🔸

• Additional funding of nearly $45 million is now available under the ⭐️Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment ⭐️program for planning and construction of #connected #pedestrian and #bicycle #networks within communities or along transportation spines between communities, regions or states.

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/connecting-communities-pedestrian-walking-biking-rail-trails/710666/

Devilstower, 3 months ago to random

If you really believe that we should "take care of America's needs first" then your primary concern shouldn't be averting the government shutdown, or even dealing with the border. It's providing assistance to Ukraine, and it isn't even close. …

JackTheCat, 4 months ago to random

I genuinely can't believe ANYONE can still be defending Israel. It's now February 9th. Palestinians have been unceremoniously displaced, rounded up and murdered in numbers so large as to render the original Hamas attack almost insignificant in numerical terms. Genocide before our eyes. You CANNOT defend it. If you do you are morally bereft and personally abhorrent.

davebonta, 4 months ago to random

Untitled

Fog blurs the difference between the white below and above, the trees reduced to gray wraiths as a Carolina wren sings for the break of day.

https://morningporch.com/2024/01/159130133/

chris, 4 months ago to random

@NunavutBirder would be interested in signing and boosting this petition! Also looking for our first rep from Nunavut! :) #e4769
https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/111800528246626841

alexwild, 4 months ago to random

A gallery of Eciton, the most famous of the neotropical army ants.

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Eciton

#Eciton #Insects #ArmyAnts

flexghost, 4 months ago to random

OK look 👀

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And that takes money.

❤️ So its time to show your love by showing your support ❤️

It's a #MastodonPledgeDrive !

Check your instance about how to become a sustaining supporter. A couple of bucks a month goes a long way.

During this thread I'll be sharing some ways to donate to popular instances. Feel free to add yours!

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Video of the AOC dancing slightly better than Elaine from Seinfeld but I love her anyway Remember when AOC dancing melted the brains of everyone in conservative media? They live to be outraged its insane

noelreports, 4 months ago to random

Your daily summary on Ukraine is available: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1748644668575752192.html

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markarayner, 4 months ago to random

Umberto Eco has a cogent essay about how to spot the signs of what he calls "Ur-Fascism", or the essential components of fascism.

I turned it into an infographic, because, well, you know why...

Mirror of the article here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

#fascism #authoritarianism #elections #infographic #democracy

davebonta, 4 months ago to random

Untitled

After a night of snow and rain, trees rock and clatter under orange clouds. The roof drips. Scattered flakes swirl past.

https://morningporch.com/2024/01/159130111/

CosmicRami, 4 months ago to astrophotography

Heading for some hiking in Patagonia and the Atacama in a couple of weeks. The opportunity to head to darker skies is always my go-to option for a holiday.

One issue I have is lugging lots of big and pricey camera gear for #astrophotography (and having to worry about insurance, damage, etc.)

This week I picked up a Seestar S50, which is compact enough for travel, and does sky tracking for long exposure imaging. So, will be taking this with me!

Just did a few solar shots right now. Look at those sunspots!

Its very good quality, easy to set up and minimal learning curve. Good price as well. Real test will be to see how it performs at night - my benchmark is it has to pick up galaxies from my Bortle 9 city skies. Will update when we have a clear night!

#Astronomy #Science #Astrodon

The Sun captured through a telescope

noelreports, 4 months ago to random Dutch

Zelenskyi's evening speech

This day has already entered the history of our country: today we have an agreement with Great Britain, a security agreement, on which we worked for a long time. This is the first bilateral agreement that implements the basic agreement of the "Big Seven" regarding the security of Ukraine, our defense, and our secure growth. Thank you to Great Britain and personally to Prime Minister Sunak for your leadership and leadership.....

video/mp4

gilduran, 5 months ago to random

From @lolgop:

The most successful part of his new campaign, where he’s basically recycling the hits from his previous attempts at ending democracy, is where he sounds just like Adolf Hitler.

Much as several mass shooters have sounded just like Trump.
This is all part of running “for dictator,” as rhetoric professor Jennifer Mercieca calls it.
Why would Trump seek to associate himself with the worst enemy America has ever defeated in war?

More at FrameLab:

https://framelab.substack.com/p/why-trump-wants-you-to-compare-him

chad, 5 months ago to random

What’s with Americans always needing to embellish the anthems? Just sing them normal. #LetsGoOilers #HNOM

georgetakei, 5 months ago to random

Who wants to tell him? 🙄

NunavutBirder, 5 months ago to random

New fish. Who dis?

NunavutBirder, 5 months ago to worldwithoutus

When I first started with Parks Canada we had to move down south to Iqaluit. A few days before we left I took a walk down the shore. A bit before midnight I took this look back at the old town.

Less than a week later, the day we arrived in Iqaluit I learned my mom had untreatable leukaemia and the world changed forever. #Nunavut #Arctic #photography #LandscapePhotography

DarthPutinKGB, 6 months ago to random

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

BruceMirken, 6 months ago to random

THIS: "The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

Manigarm, 6 months ago to random

So there I was, teaching class. My Divine Madness was course discussing the history of Victorian hysteria and the witch panics that came before it. And one of my students, in the midst of asking a question, says, in complete seriousness, "....but because they were expecting the Spanish Inquisition..."

And, of course, I say: "Anna. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."

Friends. Colleagues. Kinfolk.

There was only silence.

Deafening silence....