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courageousstep

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  • Antarctic scientists plead for help after ‘sexual assault and threats’ by colleague

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  • The need to be polite and feeling of blame are both an extension of the lie that we are weak and can’t physically stand up for ourselves. It doesn’t necessarily matter whether we’re believed if we are ultimately safe from the assault in the first place.

    But our culture has made us forget that we are strong and capable, has raised us to never develop the muscles to be able to stop someone, to never tear an assailant’s skin off with our teeth, etc.

    I could be wildly out of left field, here, and I am extremely privileged that I’ve never been hurt in this way. I just want to see minorities believe that we are strong…because we are.

  • Antarctic scientists plead for help after ‘sexual assault and threats’ by colleague

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  • Women and some other minorities are raised to not even consider using acts of violence to protect ourselves, like it never crosses our minds as a possibility that we could physically hurt an assailant if we wanted to. We have internalized a sense of weakness that isn’t actually true. This has been detrimental to our safety as well as the safety of other women. Fuck the patriarchy for doing this to us.

  • US Weather Agency Experts Seek Jobs Abroad After Trump Cuts | Hedge funds are paying top dollar for weather and climate experts, while China aims to attract foreign talent

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  • Also, being paid by a private company can pressure even the most moral of people into obeying orders to lie or release fudged information. Scientists hired by oil companies in the fifties to study the impacts of fossil fuels didn’t say anything publicly when told not to by their bosses. This is dangerous for everyone.

  • US multinationals purge website references to climate change

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  • Americans are speed-running climate change, leading to the death of Earth as we know it. If I was the head of another country, I’d consider this behavior an act of war against my citizens.

  • More Canadians avoid setting foot in the U.S., 'without even a connection or layover'

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  • Americans fuck around, Americans find out.

    This world doesn’t need us. We’ve enjoyed decades of undeserved praise and good will from the world, and it’s inflated our ego enough that we think we’re invincible.

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  • that introduced many teens to fast fashion.

    Sounds to me like the company is getting what they deserve.

  • PepsiCo buys prebiotic soda brand Poppi for more than $1.6 billion

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  • Is there no such thing as market competition anymore??? This is so frustrating!

  • That's it. Done with Amazon.

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  • I’d love to learn how many people have cancelled their connection to Amazon in the last two months. I keep hearing stories of people doing it, across many social media platforms.

  • US arrests second student over Columbia University pro-Palestinian activism

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  • That’s too terrifying to be funny.

  • US arrests second student over Columbia University pro-Palestinian activism

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  • As someone who works in higher ed, this is terrifying.

  • Texas lawmakers file FURRIES Act, targeting animal roleplay in schools

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  • You raise an excellent point, and it honestly makes me think of Tyson Yunkaporta’s perspective on the actual historical purpose of free public elementary education: to retrain the human mind toward total obedience to the state. In order to mold a person into obedience, you have to take away their sense of agency, their ability to think for themselves, and their creativity. Children increase their understanding of the world and express their creativity through play, which includes pretending to be elements of the world such as animals. In removing the natural ability to be creative through play, you wrangle tighter control over how they think.

    So I’m not saying the creators of this bill are actively intending to further force ingrained obedience in American servants citizens, but I’m also not saying that they’re totally unaware of the possibilities.

  • Ontario slaps 25% increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump's trade war

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  • Awesome! I’ll add them to my list!

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  • I want off this ride.

  • B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

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  • If American society as a whole devolves so much that I and everyone else are all fighting to survive together because we are all homeless, then society as a whole will look a lot different, structurally. I can’t speak to how resistance will look, in that case, because I don’t know what it will consist of. I imagine that we will have much better community support systems in place, since more will be needing them to survive.

  • B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

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  • I understand the community-first perspective. I agree that we survive together or die together. But we also can’t pour from an empty cup. I can’t help others if I’m fighting to survive, forced to spend time hunting down food and water and a warm bed, which also takes time away from protesting and helping others.

  • B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

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  • This American gets what you’re saying. I’m trying to figure out what I can do without ending up homeless.

  • Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service

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  • Young millennial, actually.

  • Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups

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  • What do we do?? What the fuck do we do??

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    RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’

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  • Just got three of mine updated. I just don’t understand the anti-vaccine sentiment from parents were have been vaccinated their entire lives and have no adverse effects.

    Like. The critical thinking is in the negative.