The Irish capital Dublin might not be as well known for its transit as other English-speaking cities around the world, but it's got a solid rail and tram system now and an even more exciting future. Let's take a closer look!

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Lawsuit challenges Colorado's conversion therapy ban, saying it violates free speech

The same conservative law firm that represented a Colorado Christian graphic artist in a national freedom of speech case – and won that case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 – has filed a similar lawsuit
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Happy solstice! ☀️❄️

Today is the end of spring and the first day of summer in the Southern hemisphere, and what a beautiful spring it was! Thanks to our wonderful staff for these photos.

Wishing our Northern colleagues warmth on their first day of winter! 🥶

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1-2: A. Alexov
3-5: K. Kelkar

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Please let this be true!!

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FAIR [Dec 20] --Good explainer (seems to be my morning for these) on the journalistic shell-game being played to make GAC seem dangerous by "exploiting real but marginal scientific uncertainties or outliers to promote public misunderstandings of the…

The remains of a Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia during demolition

See the rest at abandonedamerica.us/st-bonaven…

Scoop: Jeffries' plan to kill the debt ceiling forever (Axios)

axios.com/2024/12/20/hakeem-je…
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Regarding my last boost, here's a direct link to the article, both Apple News and direct:

apple.news/AmA59zfVSRIWrgeB63N…
thenation.com/article/society/…

This is perfect framing of the pseudoscience being used against gender-affirming care: straight out of "Merchants of Doubt,” the same playbook the far right has used to attack the science around climate change, tobacco, and abortion. The pseudoscience that corporate media parrots.

Bookmark this article.

#transphobia #MerchantsOfDoubt #fascism

In August 2023, the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBS) announced that Masha Gessen was the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.

In December, days before the award was due to be presented, the HBS said that it was withdrawing its support because it objected to Gessen's December 9 New Yorker essay
"In the Shadow of the Holocaust"
on German Holocaust memory and the Israel–Hamas war.

In the essay, Gessen argued that Germany's remembrance culture regarding the Holocaust was being used as a "cynically wielded political instrument"
by the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
to target Muslim immigrants.

Gessen was also critical of the Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip, which they considered to be highly destructive and comparable to
an Eastern European ghetto "being liquidated" by the Nazis.

On December 16, 2023 Gessen received the Hannah Arendt literary prize award in a scaled-down ceremony.
apnews.com/article/germany-han…

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THE NATION [Dec 4] -- Another good explainer on how the evangelical Right work sows doubt on affirming care using the same disinformation techniques they did to overturn the science around global warming, tobacco use, and Covid-19. Same playbook, new…

Ten years ago, we released Tutanota - now Tuta Mail. What's your wish for 2025?

With your help we've achieved a lot so far:

✅ Published all apps on F-Droid
✅ Made Tuta completely Google-free
✅ Released FREE desktop clients for Linux, Windows, macOS
✅ Made Tuta quantum-safe

And there's more to expect soon! 🎉

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