Software Dev/Volunteer/Environmentalist. Individual racism/hate is a waste of your life. Systemic racism needs to be dismantled.❤️🐕🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🚲 🏞️ 🌏
Solar PV and hot water, no flying, bike to replace almost all car trips, plant based foods, line dry clothes, no heated dishwasher dry, no fossil fuel powered lawn equipment, minimal food waste, no methane burning, voting in every election only for science supporting candidates.
Seed guardians of the Amazon: A family's solitary fight to save endangered plants
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-amazon-indigenous-seeds-64cf35f6ec625c73453cde39258fd585?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity cris...
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The Senate version of the new SAVE Act would require Americans to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate not just to register, but every time they vote. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor
ICYMI: Almost 9 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still doesn't have a functioning power grid.
In late 2024, Angely Mercado wrote a review for us on Bad Bunny's “Una Velita”, a song which discusses this exact topic:
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Looking for pre-K - 12 books for libraries, classrooms, and everywhere on Puerto Rico and the diaspora? Here are some recommendations from @teachingchange.bsky.social's Social Justice Books. https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/puertorico/
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000…
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai faces sentencing in landmark national security case
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-sentencing-apple-daily-1c3baaedf2abe7710f149c55ce4111d9?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
Portugal has made a clear choice for a center-left president instead of a far-right one, probably by around 70-30.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/08/centre-left-antonio-jose-seguro-beats-far-right-rival-to-portuguese-presidency-exit-polls
“Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one. You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal. And this country chose the criminal. You put a criminal at the top of America. A convicted felon.”
— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
#TrumpMustGo #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Democracy Docket is not on Substack. From the beginning, I made sure it had its own tech stack. It's more expensive, but it assures independence from corporate interests and that its content won't sit aside Nazis. You can support it by joining truly…
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🎥 NEW: Trump is more desperate than ever — and he’s getting serious about taking over elections. @marcelias.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and…
Oxfam report highlights how billionaires rig politics https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1446/analysis/oxfam-report-highlights-how-billionaires-rig-politics #Auspol
RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/116034103882446828
"Governments can buy into the zero-sum thinking of the far-right and retreat into isolation, scarcity, selfishness and decline. Or they can harness the very same forces that, not without difficulties, have allowed our societies to thrive for centuries.
For me, the choice is clear. And for the sake of our prosperity and human dignity, I hope many others will follow suit."
Hungary's opposition Tisza promises wealth tax, euro adoption in election programme
Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich, adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO, its 240-page election programme published on Saturday said.
Epstein tracked #MeToo fallout and advised accused men behind the scenes
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/jeffrey-epstein-files-tracked-metoo-fallout/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into The 19th @the-19th-19thnews
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
https://www.propublica.org/article/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-grant-guidelines-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Library #Museum #Funding #Government #USPolitics
Some good news
Bermuda snail thought to be ex...
The remarkable climate case for turning farm waste into building materials
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/could-we-cool-the-planet-by-turning-crop-waste-into-building-materials/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Sustainable Agriculture @sustainable-agriculture-AnthropoceneMag
The Guardian has taken a fresh look at Substack making money from subscribers to Nazi publishers on the platform.
The article doesn’t mention how many of its own journalists and ex-journalists run Substacks (or for that matter how many are on white supremacy platform, X)
