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(she/her) Engineering leader, powerlifter, pun maker, wife, dog mom, lifelong Prince fan. Cautiously optimistic -> near cynic.
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Old establishment Democrats would rather get endorsed by supervillains than change LMAO

It's Heidi from Bluesky, Santos, Libs of TikTok and Clinton for Cuomo.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Our neighbors are having a cookout and all the attendees have gotten to the point in the evening where they've taken to singing the Xennial Negro Spirituals, which is to say that everyone is shouting to Biggie in unison at the top of their lungs.

#history not only of the enslaved people at Monticello but the deliberate suppression of the cruelty necessary to run Jefferson's economic system. of course not mentioned in the Monticello web site section on the Nailery was flogging enslaved children to improve productivity

This article has stayed with me 13 years. In a time where ahistorical accounts of how this country's founders navigated the subjugation of Black people are being used to justify all kinds of modern-day horrors, stuff like this is important to elevate. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

there are certain qualities a person possesses to sexually harass and assault people. those qualities are inherently incompatible with ethical and competent leadership.

~15% of people who *die* in front of you can be brought back to life if high-quality CPR is started immediately. It’s a skill that you definitely want to have.

Seeing the studies come in showing clear evidence of intellectual and moral deskilling from AI cognitive automation, a phenomenon that I predicted ten years ago, feels like shit. It was so utterly foreseeable, and avoidable, yet here we are throwing ourselves off the capability cliff like lemmings.

The stick to sports crowd is gonna be REAL fucking quiet about this

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics. #wnba

Evergreen. Juneteenth was slavers getting caught trying to hold on just a little bit longer.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Jesse Singal is cited 3 times in the amicus briefing for the decision to allow states to ban youth gender-affirming care www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

i went through the wrong puberty and got denied hrt when i was OVER 18 and like yes i survived but i don’t want anyone to suffer the way i had to suffer. protect trans kids with full-throated support or shut the fuck up

Clear, concise,and damning to everyone else in the space with its simplicity

"Since September 2023, the group has found 27 sites with human remains in the desert, Holeman said." www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the domestic terrorist murders where 9 Black lives were taken while praying in a church that is a symbol of Freedom, Hope, and true patriotism. A 🧵

"This type of crime is now possible because ICE agents insist on going around like masked thugs."

There is always a tweet.

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

Black person jaywalking: “throw them under the jail” White assassin: “I mean, surely we’ve all belonged to a religious cult that thinks leftists should die”

Next time a publication publishes a piece about "ideological diversity" simply google if they have any trans writers or editors on staff (they don't)

Have been thinking about how TACO—which I’ve laughed at, too—misdirects. Trump doesn’t chicken out. His imaginary world of “invasions” and “ripoffs” constructed of ignorance and bigotry is, to quote Orwell, “a false belief [that] bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”

Many local outlets covered yesterday's rallies. Focus there.

I have an email account dedicated to subscriptions / spam. someone signed the account up for a newsletter that appears to send updates related to OJ Simpson's family. truly baffling. even more baffling is that it has been damned-near impossible to unsubscribe from the list.

There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Myrna is a Vieques island treasure and amazing human. Our @imrorg.bsky.social project on the island has introduced us to her and others who are justice advocates, for the Viequenses and all globally oppressed peoples www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Part 17 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #punk

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

The tech industry needs serious, meaningful regulation about the things it can sell and how it can sell them, and the neoliberal bullshit of “free markets” has allowed this nakedly harmful software to proliferate, taking advantage of the fact that more people than ever feel alone and desperate

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

When MN Democrats last held the gov trifecta until 2024, they had a narrative that they’d been given a trifecta so they could use it, not waste it. Hortman herself said, "The reason you have political capital is to do something.”

Minnesotans need very specific answers right now in regards to was this actually a police car and where are these actually police officers that carried out this assassination?

Reminder: You don't actually need to even throw a brick at cops for cops to say you threw a brick at them