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Tree hugging liberal. Arkansan transplanted to New Zealand since 2020 and so grateful for it right now.
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We've had a hard week, and while we try to go high, tonight we are looking to vent some petty rage. What's your favorite name for the DOGE cronies? Dogebags? Shitler youth? Traitor tots? Whatcha got, fam?

On the streets of Brussels I encountered numerous little plaques in front of doorways. They commemorate the Jewish families who were taken from their homes and murdered by Nazis. Never forget no matter how many lies Elon Musk tells.

People who don’t vaccinate their children…

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

The United States has a Trust responsibility to Native American Tribal Nations. Treaty law is law. Even thinking of cutting funding to the Indian Health Service, which is already underfunded and understaffed, is beyond the pale. Only a worm-eaten brain would ever suggest such a thing. #resist

An hourly reminder that DOGE is not about Elon Musk cutting government money waste, it is about wasting more government money on Elon Musk. Here is Elon cutting NASA, a government agency that his private company competes with for federal funding. They aren't even bothering to hide the corruption.

“We appreciate all your efforts, especially your focus on providing care to those who are struggling. You embody the mission and vision of the Department of Health and Human Services.” 140-plus Obama and Biden appointees, including Sebelius + Becerra, sign a thank-you letter to career staff at HHS.

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

Bait and switch. 💔

If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

This right here.

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

Now that’s a frightening thought!

I’ve already sent via @resist.bot but this is an important bill. Easy to edit, print and send by hand, with my whole family signing it. FYI, the $7.00 a month Resist.bot subscription gives you a first class mail option.

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.

Based on the current fuckery, do you think they won’t take all these meds off the market for adults as well? Get as many months worth of your prescriptions filled as you can. 3/3

“assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs” 2/3

This executive order appears to be addressing children’s health, medications, and research via a new assessment and committee review, all based on “gold standard” research . That’s scary enough as it is. 1/3 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Firing the heads of Institutes at the NIH (NIAID, NIDA, NCI, etc) will mean: -More cancer deaths -More overdose deaths -More AIDS deaths -More asthma deaths -More cardiovascular deaths -More lupus deaths -More measles deaths -More sepsis deaths -More liver & kidney-related deaths -More infant deaths

Another emergency hearing scheduled for 5pm today on Trump’s firing of inspectors general

UPDATE: Judge CHUTKAN has called a 4pm hearing on the lawsuit over Elon Musk's authority to run DOGE.

Always fighting ghosts. And so long as they inject race into it, they can get millions to accept it in the place of actually making their lives better. BLM, CRT, DEI, “woke,” antifa And this has the added benefit of targeting any nascent effort of organizing in which Black ppl are involved.

“Democracy Is Fragile” and Trump’s Threat to Us All, With @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @katiecouric.bsky.social youtu.be/f-78R0monV4?...

“Handled” and “affirmed”?? She prevaricated, insulted and demonstrated incompetence about the field of education.

RFK has been confirmed as secretary of HHS. For those of you who contacted your senators on this issue, please know your efforts were NOT in vain. You give us hope and courage for the fight.

Going forward, I'm calling all bodies of water Gulf of Mexico. Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico. Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico. Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico. My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.

If you call yourself an ally, it’s time to step up. We aren’t going back and we will not be silent. We’re here, we’re queer, we’re everywhere. If Stonewall taught us anything, it’s don’t piss off the drag queens. World Pride is in DC this year. You know what to do. #resist #LGBTQIA #TransRights

Goddammit! We relied on REI for outdoor gear and clothes. No longer. 😡

The woman who arrived in American politics from nowhere. Has no accomplishments to speak of in govt, and has expressed sympathy for some of America’s geopolitical enemies, has been handed supervision of U.S. intelligence infrastructure.

FROM YOUR INSIDE GIRL AT THE TSA: We have just been briefed that EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY all officers that identify as TRANSGENDER or NONBINARY are DECERTIFIED from performing any bodily PAT- DOWNS.

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession