@bestgardener.bsky.social
Plants, tech, cars, coffee. Raging red headed Democrat.
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It may very well be an echo chamber, B U T(behold the underlying truth), we are all on the side of the Constitution here. It is not as simple as you’re trying to make it. Just like NPR/PBS are fact-based orgs. The GOP attempts to legitimize itself by saying any opposing viewpoints are liberal.
The GOP and Trump are religious fascists.
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The GOP and Trump are religious fascists.
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
THIS…
Pass laws making ICE's enforcement actions (of the President's illegal orders) illegal and grounds for arrest in all the blue states, wait six months to appeal the district court decision to SCOTUS, then pass another law very similar to the first one and go through the process all over again.
June 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
THIS…
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If you’re following the debate over Medicaid cuts, you may have seen different enrollment numbers reported: 69M, 71M, and 83M.
In a new column, @drewaltman.bsky.social explains where these figures come from — and why “reach” may matter more than any single count. on.kff.org/3ZKhJAn
In a new column, @drewaltman.bsky.social explains where these figures come from — and why “reach” may matter more than any single count. on.kff.org/3ZKhJAn
June 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you’re following the debate over Medicaid cuts, you may have seen different enrollment numbers reported: 69M, 71M, and 83M.
In a new column, @drewaltman.bsky.social explains where these figures come from — and why “reach” may matter more than any single count. on.kff.org/3ZKhJAn
In a new column, @drewaltman.bsky.social explains where these figures come from — and why “reach” may matter more than any single count. on.kff.org/3ZKhJAn
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Our analysis shows how the Senate Finance Committee’s proposed changes to the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would go beyond the House bill in reducing federal Medicaid funding — especially for ACA expansion states.
See the potential impacts:
See the potential impacts:
Senate Finance Language Would Further Cut Federal Spending for Medicaid Expansion States | KFF
Prior KFF analysis allocated CBO’s federal Medicaid spending reductions and enrollment losses across the states, and this policy watch builds on that analysis to examine the potential impacts in expan...
on.kff.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our analysis shows how the Senate Finance Committee’s proposed changes to the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would go beyond the House bill in reducing federal Medicaid funding — especially for ACA expansion states.
See the potential impacts:
See the potential impacts:
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Approximately 66 million people live in rural areas — about 20% of the U.S. population. Nearly 1 in 4 of them have Medicaid, a higher share than in urban areas (24% vs 21%).
The reconciliation bill could have a big impact on health coverage in rural areas: on.kff.org/4lopnbI
The reconciliation bill could have a big impact on health coverage in rural areas: on.kff.org/4lopnbI
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Approximately 66 million people live in rural areas — about 20% of the U.S. population. Nearly 1 in 4 of them have Medicaid, a higher share than in urban areas (24% vs 21%).
The reconciliation bill could have a big impact on health coverage in rural areas: on.kff.org/4lopnbI
The reconciliation bill could have a big impact on health coverage in rural areas: on.kff.org/4lopnbI
People need to look to Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Bill Ackman and mostly Yurvin for their hand in all this. They believe in eugenics, slavery and that only the techno-inventors have the mental capacity to rule. Talk about “Death Panels”, the GOP HHS Secretary has created the first one with ACIP.
13. The unstated belief behind every policy decided by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is “the survival of the fittest,” in which the strong *should* rule and the weak *should* die.
June 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
People need to look to Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Bill Ackman and mostly Yurvin for their hand in all this. They believe in eugenics, slavery and that only the techno-inventors have the mental capacity to rule. Talk about “Death Panels”, the GOP HHS Secretary has created the first one with ACIP.
I think this is the perfect time to for us to discuss the “alternative facts” phenomenon. Reinventing accounting as we know it. Criminals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
Republicans Prepare to Open ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Budget Gimmicks
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I think this is the perfect time to for us to discuss the “alternative facts” phenomenon. Reinventing accounting as we know it. Criminals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
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"The Trump administration...is now offering relief from some of that illegally imposed hardship in exchange for Harvard’s adoption of policies that are aligned with the government’s ideology. This is not a 'negotiation.' It is extortion. It’s like negotiating the terms of a mugging."
Incredibly important. Harvard is about to fail the Lando test, opening itself, the rest of higher education, and all of civil society up to further illegal and unconstitutional authoritarian exertion. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"The Trump administration...is now offering relief from some of that illegally imposed hardship in exchange for Harvard’s adoption of policies that are aligned with the government’s ideology. This is not a 'negotiation.' It is extortion. It’s like negotiating the terms of a mugging."
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Today's Planned Parenthood decision was a devasting blow to women, and it wasn't even about abortion. It was a devasting blow to civil rights, and it wasn't even about Civil Rights.
It's one of the worst decisions from this SCOTUS, worse than you probably think.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It's one of the worst decisions from this SCOTUS, worse than you probably think.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court Has Dealt Another Devastating Blow to Women
The court's ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood twists logic, common sense, and the law to further the right-wing assault on bodily autonomy.
www.thenation.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Today's Planned Parenthood decision was a devasting blow to women, and it wasn't even about abortion. It was a devasting blow to civil rights, and it wasn't even about Civil Rights.
It's one of the worst decisions from this SCOTUS, worse than you probably think.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It's one of the worst decisions from this SCOTUS, worse than you probably think.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Republican party is just the modern day Confederacy.
That's all it is.
That's all it is.
June 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The Republican party is just the modern day Confederacy.
That's all it is.
That's all it is.
Pete Hegseth the new Sean Spicer of Trump 2.0.
I had to turn him OFF.
I had to turn him OFF.
June 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Pete Hegseth the new Sean Spicer of Trump 2.0.
I had to turn him OFF.
I had to turn him OFF.
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This is who Trump and his goon-squad are throwing out of the U.S. They refuse to do the work and arrest the criminals they “pledged” to deport. Then they treat them like animals.
Homeland should be abolished. It’s worthless now.
Homeland should be abolished. It’s worthless now.
THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq.
The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for.
He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction.
He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.
The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for.
He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction.
He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This is who Trump and his goon-squad are throwing out of the U.S. They refuse to do the work and arrest the criminals they “pledged” to deport. Then they treat them like animals.
Homeland should be abolished. It’s worthless now.
Homeland should be abolished. It’s worthless now.
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Wow. Fourth batch of Byrd droppings is out - Dem staff absolutely dominated the HSGAC fight
We won on reorg & bonuses for cost cutters ofc, but also on at-will, filing fees, and USPS green vehicles & infrastructure sales
Seriously, major praise to the D staff
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
We won on reorg & bonuses for cost cutters ofc, but also on at-will, filing fees, and USPS green vehicles & infrastructure sales
Seriously, major praise to the D staff
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
“One Big, Beautiful Bill” Has More Provisions That Violate the Byrd Rule, According to Senate Parliamentarian | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
www.budget.senate.gov
June 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Wow. Fourth batch of Byrd droppings is out - Dem staff absolutely dominated the HSGAC fight
We won on reorg & bonuses for cost cutters ofc, but also on at-will, filing fees, and USPS green vehicles & infrastructure sales
Seriously, major praise to the D staff
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
We won on reorg & bonuses for cost cutters ofc, but also on at-will, filing fees, and USPS green vehicles & infrastructure sales
Seriously, major praise to the D staff
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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/4 my wife asked if it was protestors and I wildly anachronistically said damned millennials. Damned millennials are home getting DoorDash Thai and recovering from their colonoscopies, not setting off shit downtown. I am old and my frame of reference is antiquated.
June 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
/4 my wife asked if it was protestors and I wildly anachronistically said damned millennials. Damned millennials are home getting DoorDash Thai and recovering from their colonoscopies, not setting off shit downtown. I am old and my frame of reference is antiquated.
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they want to distract from the lawsuit that has legs about election Fraud that is ongoing in a state court right now...NY state in fact...
June 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
they want to distract from the lawsuit that has legs about election Fraud that is ongoing in a state court right now...NY state in fact...
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CA5 upholds the federal ban on guns near schools for the unfathomably stupid reason that a 697-year-old English law is sufficiently analogous to the ban rather than that a democratically-enacted law banning guns near schools just, you know, MAKES SENSE.
storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/06/...
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![The Statute of Northampton, first enacted in 1328 in England, provided that, with some exceptions, Englishmen could not
"come before the King's Justices, or other of the King's Ministers doing their office, with force and arms, nor bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed by night nor by day, in Fairs, Markets, nor in the presence of the Justices or other Ministers, nor in no part elsewhere, upon pain to forfeit their Armour to the King, and their Bodies to Prison at the King's pleasure."
Bruen, 597 U.S. at 40 (quoting 2 Edw. 3 c. 3 (1328)). The Government offers King Henry VIII's version of the Statute of Northampton, applicable to Wales and which additionally prohibited arms within two miles of a court, as an analogous historical example of a "buffer zone" law. 26 Hen. 8, c.6, § 3
(1534). But to assess whether the Statute of Northampton, as a location-based restriction, is "relevantly similar" to § 922(q)(2) (A), we must look beyond the law's text because, in practice, the Statute was not strictly enforced as written. According to scholarship cited by the Supreme Court in Bruen, 597 U.S. at 30, "[a]n indictment or presentment for violation of the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreiaicpihrekfev36t3xsyswv6widfbn5rgho72avjtngqiukmyjyf4@jpeg)
![Statute of Northampton had to specify that the arms carrying was [in quorandam de populo terror- to the terror of the people." David B. Kopel & Joseph Greenlee, The 'Sensitive Places' Doctrine: Locational Limits on the Right to Bear Arms, 13 CHARLESTON L. REV. 203, 217 (2018) [hereinafter Kopel & Greenlee]; see also Bruen, 597 U.S. at 5 ("[No wearing of Arms is within the meaning of [the Statute], unless it be accompanied with such Circumstances as are apt to terrify the People." (quoting 1 PLEAS OF THE CROWN 136)). "[Bly the time of American independence[]... the old Statute of Northampton... was only applicable to carrying for the purpose of terrorizing other people, and not to carrying for legitimate self-defense." Kopel & Greenlee at 227. Thus, "the Statute... was no obstacle to public carry for self-defense in the decades leading to the founding." Bruen, 597
U.S. at 45.
Even so, though perhaps not a "dead ringer" or "historical twin" of modern "buffer zone" restrictions on firearm possession, the Statute of Northampton is nonetheless of a type of historical location-based regulation relevantly similar to § 922(q)(2)(A)'s application to Allam: the so-called
"going armed laws," which the Supreme Court has addressed at length. See Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 697; Bruen, 597 U.S. at 40-54. These laws prohibited
"riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, [to] terrify[] the good people of the land," and were "incorporated into American jurisprudence through the common law." Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 697 (citing 4 BLACKSTONE 149). "As during the colonial and founding periods, the common-law offenses of 'affray' or going armed "to the terror of the people' continued to impose some limits on firearm carry in the antebellum period." Bruen, 597 U.S. at 50.
"Why and how" the Statute of Northampton and going-armed laws
"burden[ed] the right" to carry firearms, Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 692, mirror the operation of § 922(q)(2)(A) here, suggesting that "applying [§ 922(q) (2)(A)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreieudsqypug4tjd3ca3ug2hth2xkc4onfhwk3jlnzmnjfqpqpj2i6m@jpeg)
![to [Allam] is consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation," Diaz, 116 F. 4th at 472. First, why: Section 922(q) was enacted in response to "concern about violent crime and gun violence," the possibility of "parents... declin[ing] to send their children to school for the same reason," and the "occurrence of violent crime in school zones." 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(1)(E) & (F). These aims are consistent with a longstanding tradition of restricting those who carry firearms "to the terror of people" and those who pose a "clear threat of physical violence to another." See Rahimi,
602 U.S. at 697-98. Next, how: Section 922(q) (2)(A) delimits schools and buffer zones around them as areas in which firearms may not be carried, subject to significant enumerated exceptions that materially ameliorate the restriction of the right. This roughly maps with how the Statute of Northampton's various location-based restrictions generally operated in practice, as well as the behavior the going-armed laws proscribed. As applied to Allam, then, § 922(q)(2)(A) is relevantly similar to the Statute of Northampton and, more broadly, the going-armed laws of which the Statute is one example.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreicmzo3ijlsahe74w5tribzcydyo7sb2lcv33shnbfguhq5j3qcjuy@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
CA5 upholds the federal ban on guns near schools for the unfathomably stupid reason that a 697-year-old English law is sufficiently analogous to the ban rather than that a democratically-enacted law banning guns near schools just, you know, MAKES SENSE.
storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/06/...
storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/06/...
No one will benefit from this except the wealthy corporations and private citizens worth billions.
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
No one will benefit from this except the wealthy corporations and private citizens worth billions.
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thread. there's a lot going on right now that has more immediate harm to people, but selling our public lands will have really rotten effects on climate change, shared experiences, & public wealth
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
thread. there's a lot going on right now that has more immediate harm to people, but selling our public lands will have really rotten effects on climate change, shared experiences, & public wealth
No tax on Social Security benefits, or $4,000 senior 'bonus': How they compare www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/s...
No tax on Social Security benefits, or $4,000 senior 'bonus': How they compare
House Republicans have included a proposal in their tax bill to provide a $4,000 deduction for individuals ages 65 and up. Here's what it may mean for retirees.
www.cnbc.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
No tax on Social Security benefits, or $4,000 senior 'bonus': How they compare www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/s...
Such a joke. People need to realize these GOP economic disasters ahead willfully expect seniors TO BE WORKING FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. They say nothing about destroying SS because they aren’t repairing the funding. Or Medicare.
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June 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Such a joke. People need to realize these GOP economic disasters ahead willfully expect seniors TO BE WORKING FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. They say nothing about destroying SS because they aren’t repairing the funding. Or Medicare.
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