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Amazon, Verizon, and other major corporations have ended or reduced their support for Juneteenth celebrations this year, forcing events in major cities to be significantly scaled back, a Popular Information investigation reveals.

The corporate retreat appears to be related to the Trump administration's demand that corporations end their support for programs related to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI). This pressure campaign has extended to any activity that recognizes the reality of racism in American history.

inclusion" (DEI). This pressure campaign has extended to any activity that recognizes the reality of racism in American history.

In Denver, the annual Juneteenth Music Festival was cut from two days to one day due to "a sharp decline in corporate sponsorships," the Denver Post reported. The organizers of Denver's celebration "declined to share the list of 2024 sponsors who are not returning for 2025" with the Denver Post.

But an archived version of the festival website reveals that Verizon, a "Silver" sponsor of the 2024 event, was not listed as a sponsor this year.

Last month, Verizon told Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr that the company was "ending its DEI-related policies…effective immediately." It was part of Verizon's effort to win approval from the FCC to acquire Frontier Communications, a broadband technology company, for $20 billion. Among other things, Verizon agreed to end "workforce diversity goals" and remove its "'Diversity and Inclusion' website." The gambit appears to have worked. The day after Verizon sent the letter, the FCC approved the merger. In a release, the FCC said its approval of the acquisition "Ensures that Discriminatory DEI Policies End."

Verizon also ended its financial support for the Juneteenth In The Streets Festival in Santa Clara County, California, according to an archived version of the festival's website.....

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every person in the world believes they have a completely unique problem that they can’t talk to anyone else about, and they’re all wrong. every hardship ever experienced has been shared by numerous strangers across time and space, and whether or not they ever meet each other, there’s comfort in knowing that logically, someone else is out there just like them. except me i’m special i’m the exception #myproblem

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we are so back

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Update: Brainspotting is real.

I have no idea why or how, but today, I got my first ever glimpse of life without executive dysfunction.

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By reorganizing the sentence like this, you can move the highest-impact word to the end of the sentence, which can make it hit harder. Like the punchline of a joke. When Jane Austen does it, it slaps.

But it makes the sentence clunkier. I get why some people don't like it.

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Another Kremlin policy to kill Americans put in place by MAGA traitors.

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This is so scary and sad.

I'm sympathetic, because spirituality does seem to genuinely benefit some people. I dabble in it too.

But this is so beyond over the top. And I'm not sure what recommendation I can give to prevent someone from falling into this. It seems like such a slippery slope.

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I love you, sunflower oil.

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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how it feels trying to talk abt basic points of feminism on this website

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Todoroki Yuu as Che Guevara.

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I'm so sick of seeing this. It's so bizarre.

Bisexuals contemplate suicide at >2x the rate of gay people. And attempt at almost 7x!!

We're not privileged, stright-lite princesses. We need and deserve more support from the queer community, not less.

More fundamentally, do you want people to treat YOU differently when they find out you're gay?? Would you feel great about this?

its so irritating when gay ppl complain that straight ppl treat them differently after they enter a gay relationship because… fucking obviously we do?

If you don't like this, then don't do it to someone else! wtf?

Look inward!

its so irritating when bi ppl complain that gay ppl treat them differently after they enter a straight relationship because… fucking obviously we do? why would we ever treat you like one of us when you live as a functionally straight person. they’ll say they’re choosing a person not a side, as if it’s gay people’s faults that the gender of your partner has huge social political ramifications…. that’s just life every decision opens and closes doors. don’t try to make me care about your boyfriend.

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It's crazy that like 15% of people will say like, the government has genetically manipulated mole people they sacrifice for blood magic. But this doesn't seem to affect their worldview at all.