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Recovering progressive MN DFL’er hoping for equity and climate solutions in my lifetime. Believe government offers the only solution to systemic problems but can’t find them on its own. Have lived in MN, NYC, VT. ChemE, MPH.
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It's so important to remember that eugenics was 100% mainstream, not "fringe" (many countries had eugenic policies); then after WW2 eugenics did *not* magically disappear... Great thread 👇🏻

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

Freedom is being able to question your own sexuality and gender and not have anyone else between you and that answer - as humans have for millions of years. Freedom is being able to have one sexual orientation and gender when you are born and then changing it as circumstances and knowledge change.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to *stability*

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Anti-racism is a mindset. It is not something they can censor. BLM is a fact. It is not something they can censor.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The Congressional special elections are our opportunity to fix this! The Democrats can win back 2 seats, meaning no more Speaker Johnson. If we win the 3rd seat in NY-21, we have Speaker Jeffries. I’m Gay Valimont, and my race in FL-1 has national implications. Get involved: gayforcongress.com

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Hyperloop, boring company, full self-driving, cpap machines when promising ventilators during covid, promising to clean Flint's water, promise to save the kids in a cave, promise to land on mars...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

submitted 123 days ago • 6 comments

Captures it perfectly.

submitted 6 days ago • 459 comments

I think I figured out the way to defeat Trump. Federal workers need to audibly laugh at their new bosses. “I need you to dismiss that case against Eric Adams.” (Laughs like it the funniest thing you’ve ever heard) “lol, that would be the most preposterous thing ever. You’re so funny Mr. Bove.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

"More than half of the 100 congressional districts with the largest proportion of federal workers are held by the GOP, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis." (@wsj.com chart below shows congressional districts in the South.) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

Here ye hear ye! We’ve regularly had disease outbreaks that kill millions! Public health exists to detect and contain disease. Their job is literally to prevent preventable disease from spreading to you. Yet Trump is cutting those people. Watch this space.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The constitution gives us paths for resolving our differences and changing direction. Elections is one. Amendment is another. It is clear our democracy is broken. We have lived with it broken for too long. It is time for us to band together and change it. It’s better than civil war, isn’t it?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I want a really clear explanation of how the president is taking care to execute the laws of the United States by firing whole workforces and cutting entire budgets of money already committed by congress. We need to be really clear that he is breaking the law at every turn and it is a high crime.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My masters studies centered on using federal data for analysis and I worked for years consulting for researchers across the country using Medicare and Medicaid data. I say this to preface that federal data is extremely dirty and takes experts to decipher and clean. This is to say musk is a fraud.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"No white people during Kendrick's halftime show? So much for diversity" Oh you didn't hear? DEI got canceled. He clearly hired the best people for the job 😌

submitted 11 days ago • 482 comments

This is what I was on my soap box going off about today. We need some heroes and some good folks with spines. These EOs seem flimsy and dubious. #resist #news #transyouth #LGBTQIA

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You know Musk isn’t finding fraud because if he had software that could uncover fraud across different unrelated federal computer systems he would have a software company selling the product to Fortune 500 firms. He has no such product. He sold his services to bilk the feds and suck up our data.

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