this adorable tiny pearl crescent butterfly flitted by me while I lay on a park lawn last week. I’d not seen one before. they’re so small—this one had about a 1 inch wingspan
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![Megi Endeladze, the owner of Penny's Coffee Shop in Buffalo, NY. Megi Endeladze
Megi Endeladze never expected to be at the center of an AI backlash.
She and her husband opened Penny's Coffee Shop in downtown Buffalo, New York three years ago. [following sentence highlighted in blue:]Endeladze kept her 9-to-5 as a chiropractor while spending her free time helping out in the shop.
One of the duties she relished was photographing the drinks and menu items, including a few signature items like a cheesy bread dish from their native country, Georgia, for their social media channels and website.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lineyodgwtbvs6djim67kjgt/bafkreifrewgu5sho3yzvakloeyny5nczwyne3el76b6iuymus3imdp37jq)
![From 2023-2024, Metzl served as the lead Democratic commissioner in the Heritage Foundation Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19, alongside lead Republican and Commission chair, John Ratcliffe.[65] The commission’s report, released in July 2024, detailed the aggregate costs of the COVID-19 pandemic and outlined essential next steps for preventing similar future crises.[66]
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[66]"Let citizens sue China for COVID costs says new US report". The Nightly. July 8, 2024. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
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![Christina Whitehouse, founder of the advocacy group Bike Lane Uprising, described O’Neil as someone who “genuinely cared.” She called his death a “poetic injustice.”
Better infrastructure is needed to prevent deaths like O’Neil’s, Whitehouse said. So too is better education for drivers, she said.
Bike lanes in the area near where O’Neil died are painted, not protected by a physical barrier. Bike safety advocates criticize unprotected lanes, saying they aren’t sufficient to protect bicyclists from car drivers.
In Chicago, some efforts to build more protected bike lanes have sparked organized pushback from people who say they are concerned about the loss of parking spots and ease of driving for car users.
“[O’Neil’s] death was preventable, and is a painful reminder that these tragedies are a result of policy choices and political will,” said Kyle Lucas of the advocacy group Better Streets Chicago in a statement. “Our elected officials must say enough is enough, and commit themselves to building the kind of infrastructure we know works to save lives.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lineyodgwtbvs6djim67kjgt/bafkreibpvdyvh2zfid76o7c5trc3uwn537xedvg6x5pcwfak7d7emtndni)
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“…them, made people run from them," said Xavier de Janon, lawyer for one of the defendants at the state level and director of mass defense at the National Lawyers Guild. According to de Janon, the fact that there was a gun present and that the black bloc participants did not conform to certain standards of respectable activism made this case seem unsavory or too risky to support.
The prickliness of the case was heightened by the dominance of the police narrative within media coverage, helped by the fact that the defendants themselves, whose phones were confiscated upon arrest and who knew their jail calls were being monitored, were unable to give outlets their own story or were initially fearful of doing so. A flurry of news articles on the case's disturbing implications for First Amendment rights began to be published only during the trial
—and, in many cases, after the verdict. It was only after the convictions that the liberal and progressive and leftist media started focusing on it," said de Janon. "[But] the facts have never changed." Democracy Now!, for example, wouldn't respond to media requests from the support committee for the entirety of the trial, only running a piece once the verdict had come down.
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