A man of leisure living in the present, waiting for the future.
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A man of leisure living in the present, waiting for the future.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.
The bizarre link between rising sea levels and complications in pregnancy ( www.vox.com )
When America was ‘great,’ according to data - Age, more than anything, determines when you think the nation peaked. ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Instead Of Banning Books, Idaho Library Decides To Ban Kids In Response To New Law On ‘Inappropriate Books’ ( www.techdirt.com )
Public libraries are supposed to be places for communities to gather and learn, with an important focus on being a place for kids to gain access to information. But thanks to a moral panic in the GOP about “indoctrination” in libraries, it seems that at least one library has decided to shut its door to children....
These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down. Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry. ( www.nytimes.com )
It's a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.
.ml user roots for the peace-loving Republican Party ( lemmy.world )
MSNBC Guest Says He Spotted Trump ‘Editing’ Speeches Allies Made Outside the Courtroom ( www.mediaite.com )
Some context:...
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel ( www.bbc.com )
Is Lemmy a good alternative?
New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what's everyone's experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?...
Oh boy, they're both the same, I can't decide... ( lemmy.world )
“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam” ( bigthink.com )
House Democrats launch probe of Trump’s dinner with oil executives ( wapo.st )
Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.
It is very therapeutic to garden, though. ( lemmy.today )
Ermahgerd a Meema ( i.imgur.com )
Name and shame: Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters ( www.reuters.com )
School board votes to restore Confederate names to schools in Shenandoah County - It Passed ( youtu.be )
Israel Rejected a Cease-Fire. The Media Isn’t Telling Us. ( jacobin.com )
Fuck capitalism. ( lemmy.world )
Court bans 'Glory to Hong Kong' protest song ( www.dw.com )
An appeals court has granted a Hong Kong government request to ban a popular protest song. The ruling deepens concerns about the ebbing away of freedom in the semi-autonomous territory....
Why doesn't any country do this? ( sh.itjust.works )
Are they stupid?...
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Hamas accepts Egypt, Qatar's ceasefire proposal, Al Jazeera reports ( www.reuters.com )
Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past ( www.motherjones.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240503114919/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/many-universities-calling-in-police-today-also-celebrate-campus-protests-of-the-past-elite-capture/