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Balcony solar is taking state legislatures by storm In more than half of U.S. states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of DIY solar systems.

In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo

11.03.2026 12:50 👍 950 🔁 273 💬 21 📌 42

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

11.03.2026 20:40 👍 739 🔁 196 💬 29 📌 11
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‘Which Way Is Iran?’ Asks Pantsless, Sword-Wielding Trump Wandering On Side Of Freeway WASHINGTON—In a chaotic scene that left motorists confused and alarmed, witnesses along Interstate 495 reported Tuesday that President Donald Trump was seen wandering pantsless on the shoulder of the ...

“Which way is Iran?” “Woman! Tell me if Iran is to the left of here or if it’s south!” the commander-in-chief yelled at a morning commuter

11.03.2026 23:45 👍 1163 🔁 153 💬 36 📌 5
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🚨 HUGE UPDATE: NY Senate & Assembly propose $175 MILLION for immigrant legal services in One House Budgets! 🏛️⚖️

Now we must ensure the FULL amount stays in the final budget.

📞 Call Gov Hochul: 518-474-8390
📞 Call your legislators

Demand the full $175M + passage of #ARA and #BUILDAct!

11.03.2026 23:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

09.03.2026 13:46 👍 3115 🔁 881 💬 22 📌 28
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Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease By watching Alzheimer’s-related protein clumping unfold second by second, researchers have uncovered new clues about the role of metal ions.

This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...

10.03.2026 15:56 👍 8472 🔁 2497 💬 169 📌 128
Well Shit, Man Thought He Secured Infant Car Seat

Well Shit, Man Thought He Secured Infant Car Seat

Well Shit, Man Thought He Secured Infant Car Seat

10.03.2026 22:00 👍 1116 🔁 75 💬 18 📌 7
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The Unspoken Cost of War: How Women and Children Pay for the Conflicts of Powerful Men. Across modern conflicts, the wars waged by so-called powerful men continue to leave women and children carrying the heaviest burden—through displacement, violence, hunger, and death.

The Unspoken Cost of War: How Women and Children Pay for the Conflicts of Powerful Men.
open.substack.com/pub/thewomen...

10.03.2026 22:01 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 12:15 👍 9370 🔁 1937 💬 358 📌 196
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Our government keeps telling us America can't afford universal health care or expanding Medicare for ALL. There's a reason for that.🗽

09.03.2026 23:19 👍 1020 🔁 469 💬 28 📌 26
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Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.

Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails

I've covered deaths in immigration prisons for years, but I've never seen so many people die of what appears to be preventable conditions in such a brief period of time.

This will come back to haunt them. It must.

09.03.2026 15:08 👍 256 🔁 108 💬 4 📌 6
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Minnesota Lawmakers Can Act Now to Protect Themselves and Their Constituents Improving security measures at the state capitol complex would help combat political violence and protect free speech rights.

There’s a crisis of political violence in Minnesota and nationwide. A Minnesota advisory committee recommended ways its state lawmakers can address critical safety gaps:
bit.ly/4u2U0su

09.03.2026 18:02 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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“It’s Sickening” — Cardinal Cupich Blasts White House for Gamifying War From the streets of Chicago to the halls of the Vatican, Pope Leo’s hometown cardinal is waging one of the most sustained moral confrontation with an American president in modern Church history.

NEW: A close ally of Pope Leo XIV is accusing the Trump-Vance White House of turning war into entertainment.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich blasted a White House video celebrating U.S. strikes on Iran as “sickening,” warning that real deaths are being reduced to spectacle in the age of social media.

09.03.2026 00:07 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
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Non serve aggiungere altro.

#8marzo

08.03.2026 11:06 👍 42 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

07.03.2026 19:43 👍 607 🔁 175 💬 21 📌 12
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Tell Congress: No Unconstitutional War with Iran The president’s reckless decision to bomb Iran without bothering to ask for congressional approval is a clear constitutional violation that puts us all in danger. The time to act is now.

action.aclu.org/send-message...

07.03.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump now blocking terror threat warnings because it makes him look bad.

“They don’t want anything getting out that says what they’re doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home.”

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

07.03.2026 17:45 👍 1951 🔁 1091 💬 189 📌 91
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President Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally declare war.

Head to aclu.org/war-on-iran- and tell Congress: Not one more taxpayer dollar for this illegal war with Iran.

07.03.2026 18:29 👍 353 🔁 91 💬 14 📌 6
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

07.03.2026 02:01 👍 1025 🔁 611 💬 51 📌 57
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Trump admin hits back at ex-California mayor's call for federal guaranteed income as cities hand out cash Michael D. Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, advocated for federal cash assistance while Trump administration opposes such initiatives as unnecessary handouts.

"The Trump administration punched back at the founder of the Mayors for a Guaranteed Income organization, saying that Democratic mayors should prioritize other issues within their cities instead of issuing handouts."

Basic income isn't a handout, and the GBI pilots often show increased employment.

07.03.2026 00:43 👍 61 🔁 18 💬 6 📌 3
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Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’ WASHINGTON—Striking a note of optimism as the prospects for a protracted conflict with Iran grew likelier, President Trump on Friday urged Americans to bear in mind that they’ll no longer have to pay ...

“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump

07.03.2026 01:00 👍 2328 🔁 338 💬 33 📌 16

We won a court order forcing the Trump administration to continue FEMA's BRIC program and provide billions in funds that protect our communities from floods, wildfires, and other disasters.
 
I'll always fight to ensure our state gets the funding we need to keep New Yorkers safe.

06.03.2026 17:22 👍 160 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 3
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Hochul meets with border czar Tom Homan at NY Capitol Gov. Kathy Hochul says she told border czar Tom Homan during meeting Friday that there is no need for surge in immigration enforcement in New York.

Gov. Hochul held an hours-long private meeting in Albany on Friday with border czar Tom Homan. Topics included ensuring that asylum seekers could work and her disdain for the development of more large-scale detention facilities. @danclarkreports.bsky.social reports.

06.03.2026 17:46 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 👍 40393 🔁 9125 💬 1493 📌 307

Look, it's just purely a coincidence that Donald Trump started a war just days before the release of FBI 302s of interviews of a victims claiming he raped her when she was 13 years old.

06.03.2026 17:04 👍 6264 🔁 2110 💬 205 📌 74
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Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump The department shared FBI documents outlining allegations involving Trump.

"The woman’s central allegation, according to FBI summaries of her interviews with investigators, known as FBI 302s, is that Trump hit her after she bit his penis when he attempted to force her to perform oral sex."
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

06.03.2026 17:59 👍 1458 🔁 595 💬 115 📌 39
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Another terrible monthly jobs report for the Trump Administration and they don’t have a pandemic to blame it on.

92,000 jobs lost in February. One has to wonder how much worse it really is?

06.03.2026 14:48 👍 1165 🔁 504 💬 96 📌 42
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US House narrowly rejects resolution to end Trump's Iran war The US House votes 219-212 against a resolution requiring Congress's approval for further military action on Iran.

The US House votes 219-212 against a resolution requiring Congress's approval for further military action on Iran.

06.03.2026 02:30 👍 98 🔁 40 💬 22 📌 19
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Ohio lawmakers send bill banning ranked choice to the governor • Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio Senate voted Thursday to prohibit ranked choice voting in statewide elections and withhold state funding for governments that try it at the local level. The bill now heads to Gov. Mike DeWine...

Truly telling that banning ranked choice voting is a bigger priority for Republicans in my home state of Ohio, because it would produce more moderate officeholders, than building a 21st century economy & culture that can stop the state’s brain drain as it hemorrhages young people.

05.03.2026 23:20 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Meet the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin:

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