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#GenX Ann Arbor #Hippie #Townie #EmptyNest Mom of 2 #LGBTQIA+ Advocate, #BLM #AnimalLover #Abortion Advocate Against Genocide in all its forms.

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randahl , to random
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Israeli official to prosecutor at The International Criminal Court:

"You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@randahl The Audacity of Evil…

world_beauty Bot , to random
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Inside the Eagle Nebula
Credits: T. A. Rector, NOAO, AURA, NSF

DSDJ3147 ,
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@world_beauty
I dare say…that might be the location of “Mt. Olympus”…
It feels like it, anyway.

tzimmer_history , to random
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The Students Have Never Been the Enemy

Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about.

New piece:

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-students-have-never-been-the

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@tzimmer_history Thank you Thomas.
I’m a & daughter of working class “ Hippies”.
We’re all born & raised in Ann Arbor, MI…my parents were HUGELY involved in the ‘68 & went on to start our cities Ecology Center.

But current protests really get under their skin.
Mom & I argue over it.
I’ve been unable to voice effectively my concerns.
Your piece lays it all out there.
Hopefully after she reads this piece, we can reach a clearer understanding of this issue.

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“Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide were among the 371m lb of pollutants released into waterways by just 41 Tyson slaughterhouses and mega processing plants between 2018 and 2022.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/tyson-foods-toxic-pollutants-lakes-rivers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@GottaLaff
W/all the tax breaks big corp. get, they still $h*t on the area that supports & enables them. Basically, the state is extending tax breaks to businesses that pollute the community.
“Gross”!

“Ethical business” practices is an oxymoron.

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I did not see this one coming:

The US is about to impose sanctions on specific members of the Israeli army, the IDF.

Behind closed doors, the US has investigated the IDF's violations of human rights in West Bank, and the result is now on Anthony Blinken's table.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/20/us-israel-sanctions-idf-west-bank

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@randahl it’s outrageous & wrong that it’s taken 4+ months to address human losses?
Where’s the ‘ole Biden compassion…a piece by Nicholas Kristof keeps haunting me…

“If occupation & attacks on civilians & infrastructure is so bad in how come you accept exactly the same when done against the by ?”

Kristof finishes: “I think he’s(Biden) personally a good man w/a compassionate ❤️.
That makes his complicity in the cataclysm of all the more tragic.” 1/2➡️

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Why are Trump and Republicans relentlessly attacking judges?:

"Authoritarianism involves arranging government to keep the leader safe from prosecution and allow him to commit crimes and corrupt acts with impunity. That means judges and prosecutors are always among those harassed and persecuted, along with lawyers who defend dissidents or don’t fall into line with the government."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat


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https://lucid.substack.com/p/judges-and-prosecutors-targeted-by

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@wdlindsy

“The threats to judges & prosecutors in the US are a metric of the rising assault on demo. “We had never even contemplated that one of us could get killed in this job,” said US Dist Judge Royce Lamberth, who was interviewed for the Reuters article. Lamberth had been harassed by drug dealers & gangsters, but was unprepared for the volume of hatred from another kind of thug: loyalists. “I couldn’t believe how many death threats I got,” he said.” -Ruth Ben-Ghiat

GottaLaff , to random
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"This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it." https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

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@GottaLaff great piece! This really brings the point home:

“Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power”—historian Timothy W. Ryback.

“It explains how German leaders – including some in the media -- thought they could use #hitler as a means to get power for themselves & were willing to look past his obvious deficiencies to get where they wanted. In tolerating & using Hitler as a means to an end, they helped create the monstrous #dictator responsible for millions of deaths.”
#MAGApropaganda #gop

GottaLaff , to random
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🤔Gee, who owns the ? Oooo, ooo! Pick me! I know!🙋🏻‍♀️ 1/...

Via democracydocket:

BREAKING: Republican National Committee files lawsuit alleging that 's voter rolls are outdated and the state is in violation of the National Voter Registration Act. The RNC wants Michigan to purge voters before the November election.

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@GottaLaff
Here, here!
You can’t take your eyes off these “destroyer of (political)worlds”.
It just “burns my buns” the bs they try to pull.
I know our Sec. of State & AG will do their part…
But so must we…

I encourage all those able…
*keep checking your reg. at:
michigan.gov/vote
After I vote I follow to check status.
We shouldn’t have to… but

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