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Thirteen years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

I called it the #DuhonwOak 7.32m girth, approx 600 - 700yrs old around in 1400’s Henry IV & the Rebellion in #Wales under Owain Glyndwr.

A single 400-year-old ancient oak tree produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, & may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, & lichen.

Rich & rare Ancient Trees are irreplaceable, explore and record them on the Ancient Tree Inventory ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/

#Trees #photography #Nature #history @CoedCadw

10 million pounds of propellant, we never seen that much prop in a rocket. Never.

Congratulations to the whole team down at Starbase!

Local politics. If you want to stop fascism and white supremacy get involved at the local level. School boards, library boards, your city hall, county, etc. These are testing grounds for fascism.

So, after half an hour fighting with the European Commission's website to provide feedback on the draft-proposal of the Cyber Resilience Act, I tried in Chromium and went through swimmingly. What does this tell us about how serious the EU institutions are about reigning in Google's quas-monopoly if the same institutions cannot be arsed to make their websites work on browsers like Mozilla Firefox?

"Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries — and any other "unvetted" book — inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution."

That's quite a lede. We're in big trouble down here, folks.

from @juddlegum popular.info/p/florida-teacher

RT @micahuetricht@twitter.com

Management at an Oklahoma pork plant allegedly fired a worker, then asked him to finish his shift, then called the cops on him, who then shot and killed him on the plant floor. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

🐦🔗: twitter.com/micahuetricht/stat

Me: My privilege makes others uncomfortable, so if you could be more subtle next time please?

Server who accidentally gave me two napkins:

TEACHER: do you know what estimate means
STUDENT: not exactly
TEACHER: yes you are right
STUDENT: about what
TEACHER: also correct
STUDENT: …i guess
TEACHER: wow you really know your stuff

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