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Well then welcome to the Streisand effect

Camelia japonica, a pi k flower under blue sky

Camelia japonica, under blue sky last weekend, happy #FlowersOnFriday everyone 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday

This was also a nightly observation in Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. I’m so glad some reporting is out on it now.

Already a land of boundless wealth, [America] can at one stroke treble its wealth, treble the productivity of its social labour, and thereby guarantee to all working-class families a decent standard of living worthy of intelligent human beings, and a not excessively long working day of six hours.

look before the big freeze this weekend 😔

watching all the little monarchs flutter around here and thinking about how they will follow the food and sun north in a few months because migration is natural and borders are colonial violence

The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource::
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GENEVA (AP) - UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war.

@apnews.com

ramadan is my favorite time of year to pick up new recipes bc i'm a lazy cook and a lot of recipes designed for iftar are nice and streamlined lmao

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us...

BREAKING: ABC News, citing sources: The United States is facing difficulty evacuating its personnel from facilities under bombardment in Iraq

the handle of my food processor broke a couple weeks ago. i went looking for replacements. no such luck, but i did get a little whiplash from the price difference between then and now

There is something so utterly magical about stop motion (and about T.rex, obviously).
I am so grateful to artists like Lucas for keeping the medium alive in the digital era.

“This is a veto rooted in cowardice, not the livelihoods of our residents.”
- City Council President @elliottpayne.org

Reuters: Trump administration says cost of Iran war's first two days was $5.6 billion, source says

No Child Left Behind left so many kids behind, it's kind of hard to comprehend. A friend of mine became an English teacher in Florida in 2001, and the "teaching to the test" that was already in place was deeply upsetting.

That was 25 years ago, and we know it only got worse.

#stlwx DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE WARM WEATHER!! a deep freeze is on the way 😭

Kim Clement prophesying about Donald Trump 2007 YouTube video by Rob Poindexter

Trump just shared this video from his Truth Social account

i should be allowed to call in autistic to work for the week following daylight savings time. especially under these circumstances

Every time we bomb/invade/destabalize/coup a country we "welcome" in those displaced by our actions, only to turn those very same victims into a scape-goat for the next phase of racialized violence.

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’ The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity

Hopefully, there will be more articles written as follow-ups to when CEOs lie about laying off workers by claiming AI is replacing them. The news media needs to stop doing stenography and free PR work for tech CEOs.

#internationalwomensday

And some horses 🐎

But you cannot draw the masses into politics without drawing in the women as well. For under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed.

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Would you hate a country that dropped a bomb on your child's school? 🤔 Asking for a friend!

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

bag of jujubes, also known as a red date. they are used in some east asian cuisines and are a staple in traditional chinese medicine.

ohhhhhhhh. i see the confusion happening here.

original recipe called for goji berries to add a subtle sweetness but i didn't have any on hand. i only used 4, pitted and sliced in half. they added basically nothing tbh. saw some folks used apples, which i also didn't have on hand but i might try next time.