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Lover of nature, science, diversity, justice, and empathy. Alarmed and angry, but holding fast to hope in solidarity and action. Rooted in the U.S., transplanted to Atlantic Canada. She/Her.
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Unbelievable. Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

This is what Susan Collins is voting to advance, folks. And our understanding is that the cuts are permanent while the 'relief fund' is only funded for a few years. #MEpolitics

Turns out the rural hospital band-aid in the Trump tax bill is TEMPORARY but the Medicaid cuts are PERMANENT. Why does Susan Collins continue to enable this farce? #MEpolitics

ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.

The wild Islamophobic bigotry coming from elected Democrats after Mamdani’s win — Is why Dems can’t beat the “they’re just as racist as republicans” allegations.

You can't make this shit up.

Inspiring

This is the 6-year-old who just finished chemo for leukemia and is now falling apart without his medical care in a detention jail for brown people

If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.

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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from lawabiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.” https://trib.al/JPTodQp

2022: Dobbs 2023: Ending affirmative action 2024: Trump immunity (just a few end-of-term highlights!) Yet “serious” people tell me it’s unfair and unfounded to claim the rightwing justices act as political operatives who rationalize back from their ideologically defined preferred outcomes. Lol!

i am wrecked

Me waiting for the motivation to kick in before I can start anything

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” now being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades.

I miss having a human president.

Three years post-Dobbs, Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood and gut Medicaid while forcing people to give birth. It’s outrageous. Great to join Rep @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social to talk about what’s at stake. Thank you to @velshi.com and @msnbc.com @lastword.msnbc.com for having me on.

There’s absolutely NO reason in the world not to do this. If Schumer fails to rise to the occasion, it’s a clear sign that we need new Democratic leadership in the Senate.

Gods' work....

I don’t like that we now live in a country where we have to sue our government to not violate our constitutional rights.

the lander/mamdani partnership is fantastic because lander has that hater's spirit that zohran isn't allowed to bust out, every public-facing nice person needs a mean bud

I urge the world: don’t forget the people of #Sudan. Ongoing fighting has displaced more people than in any other crisis. Health facilities are out of service or providing limited care. Diseases are spreading fast. We need urgent funding. We need access to make sure people receive health care.

I remember this! If only because one of them was in my office and we were all evacuated

Absolutely outrageous. 😡

Lander is freaking awesome

Shrewd analysis.

I am sorry, "war plan" may be what the beltway consultants are telling her to use, but during a time when we have helped arm a genocide, have bombed a country under fraudulent pretenses, & are using national guard & marines to allow masked goons to abduct folks off the street, it's repulsive to me.

Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I keep hearing from highly educated friends, including Ivy League attorneys, that I’m overreacting to the authoritarian onslaught of this era; I would ask them what they think they know that she does not

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden: They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it. 5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.

awful — and the silence from lawmakers is stunning

Solidarity to everyone in Budapest today.

These anecdotes keep appearing as if they are exceptions. They're not. They are the rule. 65% with NO form of criminal conviction; 93% with no violent criminal conviction. (Image from Cato Institute)

This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...