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  "A federal judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy of allowing transgender youth to play on sports teams that match their gender, a major loss for Donald Trump and the DoJ." #california #trans #goodnews https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/trump-trans-athletes-california-lawsuit-dismissed

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  "From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions. They have acted as if the Constitution doesn’t exist." #uspol #law https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-26-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  "There is a corruptive mental contagion at work, but it’s not “woke.” It’s a spirit… documented in indigenous folklore, the same demonic presence that has plagued humankind for eons: the corruptive quality of power-over, of demonizing the other. This is the spirit of the powerful preying on the powerless. " #uspol #pagan https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/opinion-will-the-real-mind-virus-please-stand-up.html

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  "History is not just a set of facts and events. It is the study of how and why societies change. Why do people act in certain ways? Are there patterns in human behavior? What makes a society successful? What makes one fail?" #uspol #history #smithsonian https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  Erin Maus gets a shout-out in this article! #pagan #ai https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/progressives-religion-civil-liberties-social-justice

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  "In size and ambition, this moment compares to the building of the railroads in the 1800s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s, and the Manhattan Project to create an atomic weapon in the 1940s, technologists said." #ai #doom https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/29/technology/ai-chips-data-center-boom.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.o55Z.wibyH3Y8EZ11&smid=url-share

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  "Trump’s overall approval rating in the new CNN poll matches his rating just after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol—his lowest ever—at 34%. The number of those who strongly disapprove of him is 50%, a new high, while only 15% strongly support him, a record low." #uspol #iran #fauci https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-29-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  "A society that prizes warriors above all else eventually begins to treat every disagreement as a battle, every compromise as surrender, and every act of care as weakness. Modern Paganism offers a useful contrast." #pagan #uspol https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/editorial-the-opposite-of-the-warrior.html

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  "These objects were created with a purpose other than simple enjoyment,...They might have helped early humans to hold onto memories or express group affiliation." #bird #birds #pagan https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02312-y

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  "Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not appear to have a strategy for their war on Iran. Instead, they had an ideology." #uspol #iran https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-31-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  Solitary Lammas. #pagan

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  "The DHS and ICE have conducted these procedures throughout the years, regardless of which presidential administration is in power. In 2024, under Joe Biden, the Guardian found that the DHS attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in ICE detention to forced medical treatment." #uspol #ice #torture #law https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/trump-dhs-hunger-strikes-force-feeding-ice-detention

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  "Confirming Blanche, who clearly works for Trump alone, carries with it the fact that Blanche appears to have been the person most responsible for ignoring the Epstein Files Transparency Act." #uspol #epstein https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-3-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  "The process is called “cellular transdifferentiation. The jellyfish looks like it’s dying and sinks to the bottom. Then – like a butterfly returning to a caterpillar – it shrinks into a ball, and within 24 to 48 hours, buds off a new polyp with the same identical genome, she says." #pagan #marinelife https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/04/when-you-kill-it-it-doesnt-die-the-jellyfish-that-has-cracked-the-secret-of-immortality

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  Io Hekate, Io ho! #pagan #hekate https://wildhunt.org/2026/08/after-113-years-hecate-regains-temple-long-attributed-to-demeter.html

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  “They are close to her. It’s not just her with her dead calf. There’s a recognition on the part of the whole pod that there is something going on here.” #dolphins #marinelife #grief https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/science/dolphin-mother-dead-calf.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3FA.xk2w.8E79bkdtDP5r&smid=url-share

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  "By focusing entirely on one human being and by calling him all sorts of names, including ‘evil’, and by calling for him to be jailed, it abdicates Republicans’ own responsibility in the US response to the pandemic, which was under President Trump." #health #fauci #covid #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/anthony-fauci-republicans-harm-public-health

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  "If humanity hadn’t overheated the planet by burning coal, oil and gas, the scientists determined, such extreme fire conditions would occur less than once every 40 years." #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/06/canada-wildfires-climate-crisis

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  "As the countdown to November’s midterms begins, what could be Trump’s political demise has become a subject of obsessive speculation in Tehran. Iranian media track the US president’s waning ratings, attributing the decline to the war’s unpopularity and high oil prices. The changing politics of the Democrats is minutely examined." #uspol #iran https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/07/iran-war-trump-midterm-ballot

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  "Participants who use AI systems that tell them what to do say they often 'go along with the system because it sounds knowledgeable”'. About one-quarter of participants said they thought their detection skills were improving, even when their performance was getting worse." #ai https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/chatbots-critical-thinking-skills

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  "Many experts speculate that Tsitakakantsa suffered a fungal infection during prolonged periods of heavy rains or tropical storms, which have become stronger because of climate change." #pagan #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/africa/baobab-tree-dying-madagascar-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.llA.Et_l.A_gyZtBSVVgM&smid=url-share

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  Mastodon, Mastodon, show me a #bird . Gladden my heart. I am a nerd.

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  "Canadian authorities accused her boyfriend of being a gangster trying to traffic her, chiefly because of his tattoos, it seemed. Nothing she said convinced them otherwise, she recalled. They arrested and held him, while they sent her back to the US, straight to ICE – and the nightmare began." #uspol #ice #canada https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/ice-detention-immigration-journey

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  “After a point, even they stop playing,” Shahida says, looking towards Jannat and the other children sitting quietly. “Sometimes they just sit silently and stare around. Seeing them like that worries us even more.” #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/30/delhi-homeless-family-endures-extreme-heat

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  "We’re all adults here, and we can approach biblical mythology with the same attitude that we take with Greek or Norse mythology. Even if we don’t worship the raging deity of Exodus, we can understand the symbolism of the golden calf." #pagan #uspol https://wildhunt.org/2026/05/the-golden-calf-and-american-idols.html

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  "For the unaccompanied children at the San Benito facility, there is the added stress and confusion of being pregnant and alone. The facility has housed pregnant children as young as 13; about half of the pregnancies are the result of rape." #uspol #ice #orr https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/pregnant-minors-texas-ice-facility

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  "Working Americans whose savings are held in Nasdaq 100 index funds will be made to invest in SpaceX...people who are merely hoping to save for retirement will be on the hook if SpaceX crashes. By no choice of their own, those same people will also be made to further enrich the wealthiest man in the world." #musk #spacex https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/?utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web

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  I wish the nonprofit sector could hire every single one of them. #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/03/federal-workers-ptsd-like-symptoms-trump-firings

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  Lawmaker-church-state crap no bueno. #uspol #pagan https://wildhunt.org/2026/06/pastors-say-house-speaker-urged-churches-to-mobilize-for-upcoming-midterm-elections.html

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