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Task juggler. Content writer. Awesome in October and meeting expectations the rest of the year. California expat.
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Democracies require your courage.

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

Someone better tell DOGE there’s this guy working from home

All of this, but especially at 26:10 in: @therickwilson.bsky.social

There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

Every serious DC political journalist should be at Speaker Johnson’s & Senate Majority Leader Thune’s doors today, with copies of the Constitution, their oaths of office, & Federalist 65, asking them where the articles of impeachment are & why it is taking so long for them to fulfill those oaths.

Democracy, it’s been a good run. 👋🏼

This is my current understanding of the Constitutional order in the United States It is, needless to say, very bad

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Zelenskyy: "I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine. Never."

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”