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We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created [email protected] for us to learn from each other. There is also the official [email protected] community which has a similar purpose.

We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂

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Watch the emotional moment Kyle Verreynne hits a boundary to secure ICC World Test Championship victory against Australia, South Africa's first title since winning the 1998 Champions Trophy.

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Stay safe Lemmings! None of us are free if one of us has chains, none of us are free!

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Ukrainian soldiers launching rockets toward Russian positions near Pokrovsk, earlier this month.


From NYT > Top Stories via this RSS feed

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South Africa beat Australia by five wickets in the World Test Championship final to end their long wait for a major global title.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed hope that US President Donald Trump is the only leader capable of halting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s actions.

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with US television channel Newsmax

Quote: "No one has been able to stop Putin… And that is why Trump can stop him. For that to happen, Putin must lose money. Only by losing money will he be unable to grow his army or increase military spending.

"To achieve this, sanctions must be imposed… the banking sector, the shadow fleet and also about oil prices. It is really important for us to limit the prices of energy resources, meaning price caps on Russian oil, because that is the main source of profit for Putin. And you can see what has happened: Israel struck Iran, and oil prices went up. There are many factors that influence the situation and they are happening not only in Europe; they are also impacting the security situation in Europe. So a price cap on Russian oil is really important."

Details: Zelenskyy described sanctions as a strong tool to curb the flow of deadly technology and components that enable Russia to produce advanced weapons in large quantities.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)

Fri Jun 14, 1811

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, born on this day in 1811, was an American abolitionist and author, best known for her anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", published in 1852.

Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut to a large and deeply religious family that produced other notable theologians and abolitionists, such as Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.

Harriet's own politics were influenced by direct experiences with black people terrorized by race riots in the 1820s and 1830s, as well as the Lane Debates on Slavery, which led to the founding of Oberlin College after a mass exodus of students from Lane Theological Seminary.

Later in life, she was an outspoken critic of slavery and supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in her home. It was during this period, in the decade before the Civil War, that she authored "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Within a year of its publication, the book sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies and was widely read in both the United States and Great Britain.

Harriet Stowe was also an early feminist thinker, connecting the struggle for black liberation to the struggle for women's liberation more broadly, writing in 1869 that "the position of a married woman...is, in many respects, precisely similar to that of the negro slave. She can make no contract and hold no property; whatever she inherits or earns becomes at that moment the property of her husband...Though he acquired a fortune through her, or though she earned a fortune through her talents, he is the sole master of it, and she cannot draw a penny".


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Wenzel Cerveny ist der Vorreiter der Cannabis-Legalisierungsbewegung in Bayern. Mit seinem Projekt aus Anbauclub und Hanf-Biomarkt in Aschheim bei München wurde er bundesweit bekannt. Jetzt muss er wegen finanzieller Schwierigkeiten aufgeben.

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Fudge being made at the sweets station during the grand opening of a Buc-ee’s in Pass Christian, Miss., this month.


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Juvenile Eurasian Robin wandering around the woodland floor this morning

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

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Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

Mychael Denzel Smith, a writer and activist, participated in a 2015 panel discussion about the riot in Ferguson, Missouri, that occurred following the 2014 Michael Brown police shooting. Someone asked the panel how to engage in peaceful societal change. Smith replied that revolutions in history have happened through violence. “The destruction of property is not … Continued

The post J. Pharoah Doss: Five years after George Floyd … an unlearned lesson appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

 R. Kelly’s attorneys have filed a motion asking that he be freed. They say officials solicited another inmate to kill him. As per Variety, the legal team representing R. Kelly has submitted an urgent request for his release. His attorney on retainer Beau Brindley says that they having damning evidence that the high-level employees at FCC Butner propositioned an … Continued

The post R. Kelly Lawyers Asks He Be Freed, Says His Life Is In Danger appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

On June 6, 2025, more than 1,500 employees gathered in person at New Life Church in Decatur, and over 2,000 more joined via livestream, for DeKalb County’s first ever Employee of the State event under the leadership of CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson. From the opening remarks by Chief of Staff Dr. G. Leah Davis to the … Continued

The post DeKalb Honors Public Works with Official Proclamation and National Recognition appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.

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