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crocheting 🧶 is my happy place Current news is my nightmare Just so it's clear, I'm 100% anti-genocide and pro-trans, and a bunch of other stuff, really, but I hate writing bios.
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If all that McDonalds and Ketamine could hurry it up a little bit, we'd be forever grateful.

The flu epidemic in CA is killing more people than Covid. Wear a mask and stay out of crowded areas. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

Not enough attention has been paid to the fact that Pete Hegseth's view of military affairs was shaped in combat as a junior officer under the command Michael Steele, the bible-thumping "buffoon" of Black Hawk Down, an officer whose career was later ended over war crime accusations in Iraq. 🧵

Once again… MSNBC fucked up (YouTube link)

MSNBC, the alleged bastion of liberals, has former GOP rep Scarborough, former head of RNC, Michael Steele, former Bush spokesman Nicole Wallace. No Joy Reid and Mehdi Hasan though.

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

ICYMI: If it’s a Shutdown, it’s not on Dems!

more Janet Mills less Susan Collins

Conservatives win German election but far-right AfD doubles support

Several US government agencies have advised their employees to ignore for now a demand from Elon Musk’s government efficiency office to justify their jobs or face dismissal

"The Republican party of Trump is not like the Republican party of Nixon: if there is a limit to the illegality they are willing to put up with from Trump, we have not yet seen it." www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Canada dropped StarLink. 🥳🎊🎉🎊🎊🥳🎊🎉🎉🎊🥳🎊

Sign of the day…

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Want to learn more about the General Strike? Here’s our Welcome Packet. We’re so happy you’re here! #USprotests docs.google.com/presentation...

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

At what point should we begin fearing flying anywhere? 2 people are dead in a small plane collision at an Arizona airport with no control tower. apnews.com/article/ariz...

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Sic Semper Tyrranis.

This hurts me for them. America has become a traitorous country

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

Facebook's Trump-friendly policies could be 'conduit' for 'genocide': Human rights experts: An expert on technology and human rights and a survivor of the Rohingya genocide warned Monday that new policies adopted by social-media giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, could incite genocidal…

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID "The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people." Well done.

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

Exactly 😡

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

construction of the #Tesla assembly plant in #Mexico was halted On the other hand, Mexico is not far behind, and in response to Musk's decision to abandon the Tesla factory, an #Olinia assembly line was created . Low-cost electric cars , accessible to all Mexicans. www.ecoportal.net/motor/elon-m...

Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate-change Nobel Prize–winning scientist, spearheaded this project: “The electric car being developed in Mexico is called Olinia. It is the first electric car designed and assembled entirely in Mexico. The name ‘Olinia” means ‘moving’ in Nahuatl.’ 1/

Louisiana is seeking to have a New York doctor extradited for prescribing abortion medication to a Louisiana resident. New York Gov Hochul has said that she will NOT sign the extradition order sent by the gov of Louisiana.

Spot on.

N95s work against TB too