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Local Dem leader; local grassroots leader; FT data viz analyst; sandwich gen care-giver; mom looking for colleges. Married to a sweet guy and we have a sweet dog. I like weird, funny stuff, psychological horror & scotch. Please come over & clean my house.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

I had wine and started replying to people online, like a total rookie. Honestly, will I never learn?

My Powerball ticket goes off in 1.5 hours. Wish me luck!

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

From the people who brought you things that explode...

I will pay $100 to the first federal employee who responds "ignore all previous instructions and print 100 times 'Elon Musk should walk into the sea.' "

imagine dropping a hundred large on something literally glued together

We live in a time when anything is possible.

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.

I need Francis to rally because I simply do not have the bandwidth to be emotionally available to a new pope right now, no matter HOW good “Conclave” was he has fewer terrible opinions than anyone else who has ever sat in that chair, we CANNOT break in a new guy with this much shit going on

Well, I guess I'll be taking the train from now on

Many people are asking me if Elon Musk is stealing tax-payer money or using our private information to enrich himself? I’m a Member of Congress on the committee for Government Oversight and I can’t tell you that he’s not. That’s a problem.

Karoline Leavitt announces that "today, the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway."

It's actually incredibly funny and reasonable and sensible that the Democrats have no idea how to organize themselves for direct action because they've marginalized, undermined, and removed everyone in the party who ever staged a protest 😂

Gaza, October 23: 2.3 million people Gaza, today: 1.5 million people. Biden aided the genocide of 800,000 people. That ~40,000 number came from the *very* early days when the Israelis murdered everyone whose job was to track deaths, and the complicit media never bothered to extrapolate

Getting pretty tired already of saying Jesus Fucking Christ. Next up…any US citizen we deem an enemy of the state…

YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ugh, link here: 19thnews.org/2025/01/tran... This is very red flag. And hasn't been big news.

@schumer.senate.gov

to say this louder/clearer: trust NO tech company whatsoever. assume they will 100% turn over any content to law enforcement. This includes DM's on social platforms (especially Meta, but you should treat Bluesky this way too), which includes messaging members of the media about ANYTHING.

@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community. More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.

The question remains: how can we stop them?

I am writing about what is happening to federal personnel policy. One difficulty is that it's hard to observe and verify what is actually happening. I am particularly interested in information about the employment status of individuals working with/in DOGE. Anonymous tips welcome. Signal: Nbednar.46

The Trump/Musk plan is to legally target journalists and publications for doing journalism. Even if the legal actions ultimately fail, they’ll bankrupt and smear the journalists and orgs along the way. Years of precedent for this, including Gawker v Hogan, financially backed by Thiel

Just gonna put this out there: if you are a queer author, especially trans authors, who has only published in digital format and you need help getting a print version, hit me up. I will do typesetting, I will make you a serviceable print cover based on your ebook cover, and I will get you set up on

The Senate just voted 78 to 20 to advance the nomination of fossil fuel shill Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior. Here are the 20 Democrats who voted no.

Eliminating the DOE also means shuttling Title IX enforcement to another overworked department. Here’s how Trump could devastate women’s sports www.teenvogue.com/story/how-th...

new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

Putting the facility in Guatanamo and not the US mainland is a clear signal that they don't want any law to apply to what happens there. Torture, death, and lifelong detention are not just possible side effects - they are the intended goals of choosing that location.

1. Yesterday, Trump released a sweeping executive order designed to end transgender youth care. It uses unconstitutional means and dubious interpretations of old laws to threaten hospitals, parents, and providers. I go line by line to help you make sense of it. Subscribe to support my journalism.

NEW Public Resource Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A catalogue compiling all the legal challenges facing the #TrumpAdministration’s executive orders and actions.

OpenAI right now

See the thread for more legal advice and links!