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If you have a Democratic senator, please call them as soon as you can & tell them to both raise a point of order on & then vote against the inclusion of the trans healthcare ban in the budget reconciliation bill. Remind them that likely dem voters want eleceteds who actually *fight* for what's right
This means that Democrats will have to raise a point of order on this part of the bill. This would force a vote on the amendment that would require 60 votes. Republicans have 53 Senate seats, so it means they would need to pick off 7 Democrats for this.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democrats wrestle whether to kill ban on trans care in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Democrats have an opportunity to protect transgender people’s health care. It also comes at a time when Republicans see anti-trans policies as a winning issue, Eric Garcia writes
www.independent.co.uk
June 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
If you have a Democratic senator, please call them as soon as you can & tell them to both raise a point of order on & then vote against the inclusion of the trans healthcare ban in the budget reconciliation bill. Remind them that likely dem voters want eleceteds who actually *fight* for what's right
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The singularity is awesome
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The singularity is awesome
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"Do you mean a series of moral panics over at least a century based in nostalgia for a memory of Roman greatness that never really happened, at least not that way?"
"Well, actually kinda"
"Well, actually kinda"
May 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Do you mean a series of moral panics over at least a century based in nostalgia for a memory of Roman greatness that never really happened, at least not that way?"
"Well, actually kinda"
"Well, actually kinda"
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"It's like the fall of the roman empire!"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
May 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"It's like the fall of the roman empire!"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
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Takes five seconds, and might mean you can still get COVID boosters.
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Takes five seconds, and might mean you can still get COVID boosters.
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MA folks, today is be a great day to call the governor and ask her what the plan is to keep ALL Massachusetts residents safe in the face of kidnappings by masked men who refuse to show warrants. *Everyone* is endangered by this. Contact info here: www.mass.gov/orgs/governo...
May 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
MA folks, today is be a great day to call the governor and ask her what the plan is to keep ALL Massachusetts residents safe in the face of kidnappings by masked men who refuse to show warrants. *Everyone* is endangered by this. Contact info here: www.mass.gov/orgs/governo...
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OUR Librarian.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
In her own words: Fired Librarian of Congress speaks with GBH in last week on the job
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, fired from her job late Thursday night, spoke out against efforts to ban books and promoted wider access to information.
www.wgbh.org
May 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
OUR Librarian.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Heartbreaking.
May 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Heartbreaking.
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Bring back proper games journalism.
April 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Bring back proper games journalism.
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Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well.
Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:
Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.
www.wired.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well.
Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:
Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:
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23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.
Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.
Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
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Omg most relevant meme I've seen all year
March 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Omg most relevant meme I've seen all year
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Wow.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
March 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Wow.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
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Controversial Firebrand Politician Gaius Julius Caesar Dead After Senator-Involved Stabbing
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Controversial Firebrand Politician Gaius Julius Caesar Dead After Senator-Involved Stabbing
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":
"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
March 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.
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Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither—
[Stabs him again.]
[Stabs him again.]
March 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither—
[Stabs him again.]
[Stabs him again.]
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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
@aoc.bsky.social
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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@emorwee.bsky.social's HEATED and SciLight are opening a tip line for federal government employees to "securely report industry and political interference in science and science-based decisionmaking processes"
heated.world/p/a-tipline-...
heated.world/p/a-tipline-...
A tipline to protect the planet
Polluting industries have captured the federal government. We’re opening a secure tipline for employees to report the impacts.
heated.world
February 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@emorwee.bsky.social's HEATED and SciLight are opening a tip line for federal government employees to "securely report industry and political interference in science and science-based decisionmaking processes"
heated.world/p/a-tipline-...
heated.world/p/a-tipline-...
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It's not that I don't wake up at night feeling The Terror, but it's hard to deal with the administration being cartoonishly villainous in both the "stupid" and "over-the-top" sense. Like, this is the evil you do when you live in a cloud castle and are trying to steal Rainbow Brite's color crystals.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's not that I don't wake up at night feeling The Terror, but it's hard to deal with the administration being cartoonishly villainous in both the "stupid" and "over-the-top" sense. Like, this is the evil you do when you live in a cloud castle and are trying to steal Rainbow Brite's color crystals.
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Using state and local police to do the federal government’s bidding doesn’t just hurt the communities in which they serve, it also stretches thin and overwhelms local resources that Granite Staters are entitled to. #nhpolitics www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/31/m...
Anti-sanctuary immigration bill clears N.H. Senate - The Boston Globe
The proposal, Senate Bill 71, would bar any county, municipality, or other political subdivision in New Hampshire from prohibiting or otherwise impeding state or federal enforcement of immigration law...
www.bostonglobe.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Using state and local police to do the federal government’s bidding doesn’t just hurt the communities in which they serve, it also stretches thin and overwhelms local resources that Granite Staters are entitled to. #nhpolitics www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/31/m...