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Local politics nerd. Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. She/her. Account prone to cat & flower pix! Pittsburgh
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The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

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If you're part of Pittsburgh's Pitt & CMU community and you do NOT want to see Trump visit CMU campus on June 13th, here's a petition.

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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

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Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

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A week after 75 Dems vote for a resolution expressing gratitude toward ICE in a resolution that pretended to be about antisemitism, ICE goons arrest the Jewish comptroller of NYC without cause.

submitted 4 hours ago • 36 comments

Democratic politicians & consultants should spend less time yapping about the effect of random leftist social media posts on their branding, and more time dealing with the Democratic Senator taking a pro-Trump position with a mere 16% popular support then adding, for flair, the language of genocide.

submitted 2 hours ago • 31 comments

T-Mobile is partnering with Elon Musk’s non-union, job-killing Starlink service. Tell them it’s time to stop financing Musk’s anti-worker crusade: cwa.org/dumpstarlink #StarlinkTakedown #TmobileFundsMusk

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

I just signed on to this War Powers Resolution to prohibit unauthorized U.S. involvement in the escalating crisis between Israel and Iran.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

ICE is confirmed to be in Southside and Market Square today. Share for awareness and stay safe Pittsburgh. ICE emergency line: 412.736.7167

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Big news from the Maine ACLU: "Maine lawmakers have officially defeated all eight bills attacking transgender rights. The bills ranged from banning trans student-athletes to entirely removing gender identity protections from the Maine Human Rights Act."

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I joined State Senator Lindsey Williams at East Liberty Family Health Care Center to oppose Republicans' dangerous Medicaid cuts that would hurt 14,000+ folks in PA-12. These cuts would mean no chemo for cancer patients, no medicine for seniors, and no speech therapy for kids.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the way. Can we have more Governors, Mayors, etc doing this?

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A Muslim candidate for mayor of the nation's largest city, defending the rights of a Jewish candidate for mayor, who was arrested for defending the rights of immigrants not to face detention without warrants. This is the kind of solidarity Trump and his goons fear.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE

submitted 5 hours ago • 683 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Please stop texting, using Messenger / Whatsapp / Slack. It's time to use Signal, and it's easy.

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The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban. Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision. Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

"FML" is so good!

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Milestone: First little errand on my new e-bike. I went to Rita's Frozen Custard for a cone, and then I picked up a few groceries at Giant Eagle. I can ride both up & down my ridiculously steep driveway! My old bike's panniers don't fit it, so I need new ones. I have a basket on order.

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If you've ever planted coreopsis, you've probably had it gallop through your flowerbed. If you've wondered what can out-compete it, the answer is the busily self-seeding rose campion (silene coronaria). Here it has pushed the coreopsis to the edge of the retaining wall.

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Without the Community Development Block Grant program, we wouldn’t have repaved streets, accessible ramps, or safe alleys for emergency vehicles. Trump’s budget would devastate small towns like Dravosburg. Local communities matter and we’re going to fight to protect their funding.

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