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For people who do not know this. The GOP Save Act bill has already passed in the House. If it passes in the Senate .There’s 69 million women who will not be able to vote anymore. This is due to voter’s registration names will not match birth certificate names due to name change in marriage.

submitted 123 days ago • 38 comments

Watch out fellow veterans, they’re coming for us, too. He has told us what he thinks of us. Now he’s coming after the disability and medical benefits of those whose service took more from them than just the years we were in uniform.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Trump firing the 300 people who oversee our nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile and then realizing the gravity of his mistake before trying to backtrack is a perfect encapsulation of how is dangerous incompetence is putting the entire world at risk. Don’t let anyone forget it.

submitted 123 days ago • 34 comments

Liebes Deutschland, Als Amerikaner tut es mir sehr leid, und ich schäme mich, für unsere heutige Regierung. Bitte versuchen Sie daran zu denken, dass wir nicht alle wie Trump, Vance und Musk sind.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

submitted 123 days ago • 385 comments

Rooting for the asteroid.

submitted 123 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve told myself to try to post tidbits with at least some substance, but this proves the exception.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Are any MAGAts seeing what is happening, and filled with horror and regret? Or are they just slurping up Fox propaganda and cheering?

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

I have a new favorite pope. apnews.com/article/pope...

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

I have a new favorite pope. apnews.com/article/pope...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

I love this: Ron Charles in the WAPO, about the Episcopal bishop who called upon the maggat-in-chief to be merciful: “Trump was seated in the front row of the congregation, but he was still too far away from Budde to grab her by the pulpit.”

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

How does the right miss something so fundamental? DEI does not mean “hire unqualified people.” It means “stop overlooking qualified people because they’re disadvantaged by prejudice.”

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‘It’s the season to be (Edward) Gorey.

submitted 193 days ago • 8 comments

Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.

submitted 193 days ago • 1702 comments

The time when Elon Musk got told how it is.

submitted 197 days ago • 33 comments

I just ran into the main plaintiff and their family in the hallway of the Supreme Court in the skrimetti case today, and we all hugged and now I’m in tears in the press room. I thanked them profusely. Trans people deserve equal protection. We deserve to live like anyone else.

submitted 196 days ago • 85 comments

Kushner Sr., in addition to his felonies, doesn’t speak any French. Chris Christie [said about him], "it's one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney, and I was a US attorney in New Jersey, — so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there!"

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

I’m new here, like many. I was indiscriminately following back anyone who followed me. Now I’m flooded with post by porn cam models and escorts (or con artists posing as such). I don’t judge consenting adults doing their thing, I’m just not interested myself. Anyone know of a block list?

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.

submitted 198 days ago • 72 comments

Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

submitted 198 days ago • 1858 comments

I’m not happy Trump was elected, but he was. Now he gets to assemble the cabinet he wants, subject to approval of the senate. The senate should NOT vote down candidates that aren’t outrageous. If they are remotely qualified, Trump has the right to pick them. Some of his picks need rejecting.

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

This is who Trump wants to be the face of America to a nuclear power and key NATO ally.

submitted 199 days ago • 1 comment

It’s December 1st and we should all pay homage to Rosa Parks today. On this day in 1955 she decided not to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama, and well the rest is history. We are all going to need to channel our Rosa Park’s for the next four years! Thank you Rosa for showing us how to #Resist

submitted 199 days ago • 219 comments

I have a model I use to think about software design. My model has three axes; - automation - insight - value for all parties I’m thinking about writing an article about it, but not sure if it’s ground already well-trodden.

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

…surprising absolutely nobody.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

My main ukulele (a Blackbird Farallon) is getting new tuners. So I’m on to a backup. It’s an odd brand - a Bulgarian Kremona I bought ~10 years ago. I really enjoy it! Its neck is a hair wider, which I like. Tone is sweet. I’ll be happy to have my Farallon back. But the Kremona is a blast.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Thanksgiving.

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

Kollege von mir heute: Zwischen #CDU und #AFD passt gerade noch soviel, dass ich reinkotzen kann. 😂

submitted 203 days ago • 18 comments

A recent analysis found that when Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions. Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars. It's crony capitalism at its worst.

submitted 203 days ago • 107 comments

Jetzt, da herausgekommen ist, dass es auch eine Hausdurchsuchung nach Anzeigen wegen Beleidigungen gegen Merz gab, werden die Rechtsextremen und Konservativen Merz genauso tagelang durch die Mangel nehmen, wie zuvor Habeck, oder? Natürlich nicht. Er ist halt ein Grüner. Da gelten andere Standards.

submitted 207 days ago • 44 comments

I know our principles don’t mean much if we can’t get elected and do something about them. I read about the zeal to move to the center, to regain power. But I hope we don’t abandon the stigmatized and structurally disadvantaged people who need our protection the most.

submitted 207 days ago • 0 comments

Russische Logik.

submitted 207 days ago • 5 comments

Perhaps it makes me a bad person, but I find Māori Hakas at the beginning of some sports match tedious and contrived.

submitted 207 days ago • 0 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

submitted 212 days ago • 760 comments

#Bluesky

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