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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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The play to save democracy goes straight through boycotting the largest billionaire donors to the Republican Party. Cut off funding for them and we starve the beast of PACs and their propaganda machine.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If you are in a public service position, especially in the federal level, you must make active effort to protect your data, files, and work product now so it cannot be memory holed.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump got onto Epstein’s plane 7 times, but we still don’t know how many times Donald got off on Epstein’s plane, although we’re pretty sure it was in the teens.

submitted 27 days ago • 115 comments

"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

(2025) What’s the difference between measles and plane travel? Measles can stay in the air for 2 hours.

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

I would like to add Lawfare to that mix.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats should step into the government efficiency battle and make it lean through an organized process rooted in good business practices like six sigma, kaisen, QMS. That is a fight to step into. Yes, we can be good stewards of tax dollars. Demand the legislature be at the table of those cuts.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

submitted 177 days ago • 98 comments

Another way of writing ‘unitary executive’ is ‘emperor’, ‘king’, or ‘dictator’. We don’t have those in this country and anyone claiming to want the power of a unitary executive is not fulfilling the role of president. They are acting as something else.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

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 👇🏻

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

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 53 days ago • 114 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 53 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 54 days ago • 52 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 55 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 56 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 55 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 174 days ago • 7 comments