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A retired old lady interested in the environment, politics, and gardening.
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Corruption. At. It’s. Finest. ✨

Casar: "I've knocked on 1000s of doors and not a single time has someone said, 'Thank God you're here. I want to ask about trans people fencing'..what the hell are we doing? We are here bc MTG thinks if she picks on trans folks, she can avoid having a discussion about allegations of insider trading"

EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. JUNE 14TH WE MARCH! 🌟NO KINGS🌟 MASSIVE NATIONAL MOBILIZATION JOIN US!!!! www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

Ben Meiselas at Milken Institute: They want to hear: Why are you bullying a marginalized community? Why are you punching down at human beings? We are the United States of America—why are you treating people like this?

If you read nothing else today, read this. Naomi Klein deftly summarizes the whole ballgame. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"End Times Fascism": Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right "Don't Believe in the Future"

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

“If you are watching this right now and you’re thinking I don’t want a king in this county, good news: Neither do we. And you can be part of this.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social We’re mobilizing nationwide on June 14 to say No Kings. Find an event near you or start one: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

The more you know…💫

She's 100% right!

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

My big takeaway from tonight’s DC Bar president candidates Q&A is that Pam Bondi’s brother is exactly who you think he is, and it’s very important that DC lawyers cast our votes for @whatajlp.bsky.social by the 6/4 deadline. Search your email for “Vote Today in the D.C. Bar Election” and do it now.

Here are the good guy, pass through PBMs that @costplusdrugs.com has partnered with. Talk to a couple of them before youe company makes any decisions on their pharmacy benefits.

Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

‪Rise of the #assholes: why do we keep rewarding bad behaviour? A much-needed documentary for our times #CanadaSky #AmericaSky youtu.be/Fb5hGCp3o5A?...

A gift to the NRA.

It was always performative outrage.

At a time when Democrats must fight together, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse jets off to some ocean conference and misses two crucial votes that would have impacted Trump’s agenda. Read the room. Have a clue. Do your freaking job. #ProudBlue

Thank you, Mr. Reich.

😂

Nice try, Donald. The law expressly forbids the President from using the tax exemption grant as leverage.

Mexican President Sheinbaum confirms that Trump has phoned her to secretly pressure her to allow US troops to enter the country. The president said no to Trump and told him "Mexico's sovereignty is inviolable and it's not for sale."..."We will never accept a US military presence in our territory."

☕🚨🦅 "This is BEYOND INSANE" 😱 "Jerry Springer Clip EXPOSES the Roots of the #MAGA Movement" [YouTube video by #TYTSports] #JerrrySpringer youtu.be/hm1jH_aVOco?...

Racism is when you believe a white guy is innocent after a jury has concluded 34 times that he isn’t, and you immediately decide an immigrant is guilty when the immigrant hasn’t even had a chance to present their defense.

And somehow, there are still vets out here backing this man? It makes zero sense. He dodged the draft, insulted POWs, called fallen soldiers “suckers”—and now this? At what point is enough finally enough?

Gabriel harvests oranges in Selma CA: I earn $24 per 900lb bin. The pay hasn't changed in 4-5 years. It doesn’t justify the hard, heavy work we do. We run back and forth and go up and down a 16-foot ladder quickly picking oranges in a bag that weighs 60lb when full. #WeFeedYou

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The now Emmy nominated documentary From Russia With Lev is still available on streaming platforms: www.docplus.com/details/from...

"... the full-scale dismantling of the administrative state, if successful, could bring the US “back to the era of tainted meat and lead in hot water”.

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

once upon a time, in the early 90s, when I worked at our uni complab, we got funded to *compile a list of every uni IP# we could locate* yeah 😖 So, I spent a semester re-routed into this project *because I was the only touch typist in the Dept Staff* imagine my surprise: #FastFlux #security #threat⁉️

Meanwhile, in Canada…

it is fun to read profiles of this guy which play him up as some diabolical mastermind and then watch him in action and see a huge loser