@irenes charity navigator is a great resource. @inaya @housepanther @merileedkarr
@inaya @AlliFlowers @housepanther @merileedkarr in general with the organizations that everyone has heard of, it's important to look at their financial reports - it's often the case that everyone's heard of them because they spend most of their donations on marketing rather than on providing services
we would not want anyone to become disillusioned with non-profits on our account (we work for one!), we just want to educate people on how to navigate the landscape
@irenes We donate platelets weekly, but not with the RC. @inaya @housepanther @merileedkarr
@ned We watched tonight, as well. I no longer know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are outside of our original group.
@inaya In this case, the people who benefitted from the help of the SA had no idea where the help came from. They delivered blankets silently and went on about their business. @housepanther @irenes @merileedkarr
If you are feeling sad today for any reason look into #podiumgate and #lecterngate and see how much trouble the surly, lying Sarah Huckabee Sanders is in right now. I promise that it will brighten your day.
@inaya I was a shelter manager during Hurricane Katrina. The ARC did nothing, but had 2 reps who sat in chairs at the shelter. The SA brought us blankets even though their own building was completely flooded and they had nowhere to go. When the public shelters closed, the RC opened 2 of their own, pretended they’d been open all along, and took all the press. It was disgusting. @irenes @merileedkarr @housepanther
Iranian hackers leak photos of former PM Ehud Barak - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-762021 Instead of protecting Israel Netanyahu was collecting Intel about his rivals
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for #Murder
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The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a #baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable.
Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.
#Pregnancy #Stillbirth #Mothers #Parents #Families #Health #HealthCare #CriminalJustice #JunkScience #Science #Forensics #News
@YakyuNightOwl As a neighborly act, they could come on my instance. @ckaras
#ALweather #ALwx
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Bad: Asking small content creators why they deserve financial support.
Good: Asking everyone why billionaires deserves billions of dollars.
Great: Draining the bank accounts of the ultra rich and distributing their wealth among the masses like some kind of modern day tech-savvy Robin Hood.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
Rand Paul is the reason there are no US ambassadors in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon.
No representation, no insight, no official relations.
Rand Paul is holding the appointments hostage because he wants documents on the origins of covid19.
How can he and Tuberville, both minority senators, jeopardize US security so easily?
The woman whose body was seen in the video in the back of a van driven by terrorists to Gaza has been identified. The terrorists stripped her, and she is probably no longer among the living.
30-year-old Shani Look was a German citizen who visited Israel to participate in the music festival held near the border fence in Gaza.
#AureFreePress
State ethics commission finds North Bay Village Mayor Brent Latham’s London trip was a prohibited gift, but decides ignorance of law is an excuse
https://www.floridabulldog.org/2023/10/north-bay-village-mayor-latham-london-trip-prohibited-but-ignorance-of-law-is-excuse/
TIL that after large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to their extinction without early human farmers.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/172hbpe/til_that_after_large_animals_went_extinct_such_as/
Lotta F words but if you’re like me, you’re into it.
@GottaLaff My husband has a huge cup somewhere that says “giant cup of shut the fuck up.”
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