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Every Michigan community has early voting starting tomorrow, Oct. 24. That’s at least nine days to cast your ballot in person before Election Day. Find your site and hours at Michigan.gov/vote.
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#homeopathy is a fake treatment with no evidence of effectiveness for any condition. In recent years a number of countries have ceased funding for it through their national health / insurance systems. It is great news that Germany, where homeopathy was invented, has done so too
FINALLY: The end of reimbursed homeopathy in Germany edzardernst.com/2026/08/the-… via @edzardernst
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Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
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My column this week is about how fat people can’t win and I’m fucking sick of it !! theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory Doctorow on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
ALT Cory Doctorow: the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying. “AI” written in large wonky font against a black background
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Queen Máxima officially opened the 2026 WorldPride celebration in Amsterdam, becoming the first reigning Dutch monarch to open a WorldPride event. She joined thousands in celebrating LGBTQIA+ equality, visibility, and human rights #NOH8
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Are people actually crazy? 🤣 This is the St. Joseph, Michigan beach cam earlier this afternoon, with hundreds of beachgoers enjoying the smoky conditions on Lake Michigan. With the current AQI, if they’ve spent the entire day there, they’ve essentially smoked the equivalent of about 17 cigarettes today…
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@Starbucks: Why aren’t you following your own reusable cup policy?
Starbucks’ official policy is that any beverage at a company-owned store with cafe seating (meaning the vast majority of stores) “will be served in a ceramic mug or glass unless a customer specifically requests a to-go cup.”
But Starbucks is frequently violating its own policy. During our Starbucks recycling investigation, we were never once served our beverage in a reusable cup; and 88% of the time, we were not asked if the drink was for here or to-go.
It appears the default at Starbucks is single-use disposable cups, and not reusables.
Sign our petition to ask Starbucks to follow its own reusable policy at beyondplastics.org/actions/s… #starbucks #reusablerevolution
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This Mars wrapper has a 1986 date on it. It still looks like trash you could have dropped yesterday, but it was pulled off a beach in 2019.
That's the problem with plastic, It doesn't really go "away." It fades, cracks, shreds, and breaks into smaller and smaller pieces until it becomes microplastic in the sand, water, food chain, and eventually us.
Bring a bag to the beach with you the next time you go. You might be surprised by what you find.
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The EU has invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal — and today I am shaken and deeply disturbed by this.
This is the same Taliban that banned girls from secondary schools and forced them into marriage. The same Taliban that, earlier this month, arrested dozens of women in Herat for how they were dressed. The same Taliban that detains, beats and executes women who dare to speak out or break their rules.
Through its system of gender apartheid, the Taliban have erased women and girls from public life. Europe must not legitimise a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world.
Any engagement with the Taliban must begin and end with the rights of Afghan women and girls.
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On May 29 the White House published a 412-page rule letting political appointees sign off on every federal science grant and demoting expert peer review to advisory only. Comments close July 13. Tell Congress to block it. resist.bot/petitions/PVBSWC?…
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One Pulse. One Heart. One Love. Today we remember the #Pulse victims, support the survivors & take action for the future. #HonorThemWithAction #NOH8
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"In my lifetime I have witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery."—Sir David Attenborough
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If I do anything good with my life, let it be convincing people that balloon releases are littering and kill wildlife.
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Moms deserve more than symbolic appreciation once a year—they deserve real policy change 💗🌸
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"I like a book that carries the dirty fingerprints of the people opening the book to read a line or two, ogle a picture, drip some croissant crumbles on it, and then put it back upside down on the shelf in the wrong alphabetical row.”
Meeting a great American poet. First reply.
