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Blue dot awake in red state, Gardner, mom, & grandmother. Climate change is real. Vaccines Save Lives #SlavaUkraine🌻 I don't care for narcissists or nazis. 🌱 🥄 🥄 🥄 🥄
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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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“They only win if everyone thinks they’re too strong to rush.”

This is an excellent template and should be disseminated widely

He nails it.

Please take care of yourselves, y'all! And remember that while it hurts right now to be broken, one day you will heal & become even more beautiful... Seriously, the human brain is wired to be self-healing. Part of my career is that of a neurobiologist studying brain plasticity & repair.

More subtle outcomes of litigation. Courts have not just blocked DOGE and other actions, but also forced Gov to produce answers and commitments. Friday night's Treasury decision requires: Gov certifying what is the security clearance process for DOGE team; revealing authorizations for DOGE; more⬇️

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

This is sick.

We need to do something about this. My Governor @biggretchenwhitmer.bsky.social has fewer followers than I do. Help me fix that bluesky friends. Please repost💙

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#Florida insurance companies steered money to investors while claiming losses, says study never given to lawmakers. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

2,200 workers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have been furloughed due to the partial government shutdown. Nearby restaurants are worried about the economic fallout. 60% of Alabama voters voted for TrumpIsAFelon. They're getting what they voted for. wapo.st/42SEft8

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Let’s make him FAMOUS, shall we?! 👇 You know what to do.

Another day, another #Florida city decides it prefers tooth decay to putting fluoride in its water supply. Yay, freedumb! www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/02/21/l... via @orlandosentinel.com

This is what a true patriot looks like! Thank you, Gov. Janet Mills!!!

Daily reminder:

BOOM !! New York City files lawsuit against Trump administration over revoked $80 million in FEMA funds abc7ny.com/amp/post/new...

You are right. But it's 2025. Talking about it as if it will happen is how politics works. It also forces right wing media to talk about it and if there is enough Dem proposed legislation, Trump and Elon have to respond to the Dems rather than vice versa

USPS is an independent agency that receives no funding from Congress. “According to The Washington Post, which first broke the story, the move “would probably violate federal law,” and throw “the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions.”

'Tax Elon!' Irate crowd shouts down GOP congressman during town hall in deep-red county: Even residents of a county President Donald Trump won by a significant margin are outraged by the Trump administration's slashing of public services — and their Republican congressman's support of the cuts.…

This info also came out before the 2016 election but I'm reposting it because apparently sites are deleting their posts about this.

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

While GA is working to pass a "Fetal Personhood" bill...

In my community, TX07, the average annual tax cut for the richest 0.1% would be $314,266 while 95,130 people on Medicaid are at risk of losing their health care under Republican budget plans. This includes 58,932 children under the age of 19 and 10,565 seniors over 65.

This Is GOOD‼️👇 Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser on the Ukrainian president's team, says the Americans' conduct in their talks with Russia will shift global politics toward Putin's worldview: 'violence for the sake of violence' By Liza Rozovsky Full article 🧵