Merrimon
@merrimon.bsky.social
Photographer, avid reader, medieval literature and comparative literature enthusiast, animal lover.
Report: New Hampshire could ban funding for programs for disabled people www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Report: New Hampshire could ban funding for programs for disabled people
It’s part of an anti-DEI attack.
www.motherjones.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Report: New Hampshire could ban funding for programs for disabled people www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans
The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.
www.motherjones.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
AG Weiser joins lawsuit to restore $6.8 billion in education funds paused by Trump coloradonewsline.com/briefs/weise...
AG Weiser joins lawsuit to restore $6.8 billion in education funds paused by Trump | Colorado Newsline
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joined a lawsuit calling for the release of $6.8 billion in K-12 education funds withheld by the Trump administration.
coloradonewsline.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
AG Weiser joins lawsuit to restore $6.8 billion in education funds paused by Trump coloradonewsline.com/briefs/weise...
How best to fight Trump? Colorado governor candidates disagree. coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/14/f...
How best to fight Trump? Colorado governor candidates disagree. | Colorado Newsline
Sen. Bennet on Friday pushed back on the notion that opposing President Donald Trump is the biggest key to winning in Colorado.
coloradonewsline.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
How best to fight Trump? Colorado governor candidates disagree. coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/14/f...
Federal megabill likely to result in cuts to ‘real services’ for Coloradans coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/15/m...
Federal megabill likely to result in cuts to 'real services' for Coloradans | Colorado Newsline
Colorado leaders brace to cut spending and fill gaps left in the state budget because of the federal spending and tax cut bill.
coloradonewsline.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Federal megabill likely to result in cuts to ‘real services’ for Coloradans coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/15/m...
Why has Colorado seen so many “breakthrough” measles infections in vaccinated people? coloradosun.com/2025/07/08/c...
Why has Colorado seen so many “breakthrough” measles infections in vaccinated people?
As of the end of June 2025, more than a third of Colorado's measles infections for the year have been breakthrough cases in vaccinated people.
coloradosun.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Why has Colorado seen so many “breakthrough” measles infections in vaccinated people? coloradosun.com/2025/07/08/c...
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Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ experts call an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
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Trading with dictators, EU may be funding threats to itself, ECB says reut.rs/3IvPrn8
Trading with dictators, EU may be funding threats to itself, ECB says
The European Union is increasingly trading with autocratic regimes, funding their often expansionary strategy and potentially aiding an existential challenge to the bloc itself, a European Central Bank blog post said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Trading with dictators, EU may be funding threats to itself, ECB says reut.rs/3IvPrn8
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Recently I opened a PDF and immediately a message popped on the screen that said "this document appears long. Would you like an AI summary?" The document was only five pages long.
Getting annoyed that an AI "research assistant" is bolted onto everything, including clunky ebook readers.
No I don't want fake sparknotes on each chapter.
No I don't want fake sparknotes on each chapter.
July 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Recently I opened a PDF and immediately a message popped on the screen that said "this document appears long. Would you like an AI summary?" The document was only five pages long.
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The Big Ugly Bill is-in part-a smokescreen to cover the MAGA agenda
Which is to destroy the Affordable Care Act
This was ALWAYS the plan
"The bill 'will move us as a nation back to the same percentage of uninsured before Obamacare'"
But it's worse
Rural hospitals will close
And people will die
Which is to destroy the Affordable Care Act
This was ALWAYS the plan
"The bill 'will move us as a nation back to the same percentage of uninsured before Obamacare'"
But it's worse
Rural hospitals will close
And people will die
July 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The Big Ugly Bill is-in part-a smokescreen to cover the MAGA agenda
Which is to destroy the Affordable Care Act
This was ALWAYS the plan
"The bill 'will move us as a nation back to the same percentage of uninsured before Obamacare'"
But it's worse
Rural hospitals will close
And people will die
Which is to destroy the Affordable Care Act
This was ALWAYS the plan
"The bill 'will move us as a nation back to the same percentage of uninsured before Obamacare'"
But it's worse
Rural hospitals will close
And people will die
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First, the fascist said he will deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record but he is deporting all undocumented immigrants. Now his regime is saying they will deport naturalized citizens with a criminal record but they will deport us all - 24.5 million of us!
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
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Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
July 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
First, the fascist said he will deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record but he is deporting all undocumented immigrants. Now his regime is saying they will deport naturalized citizens with a criminal record but they will deport us all - 24.5 million of us!
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their greatest moral failure is arguably not lack of courage but rather lack of empathy. They simply do not care about the pain they are inflicting on others.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The bottom line: The bill is cruel.
Republicans don’t care about hurting people.
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
their greatest moral failure is arguably not lack of courage but rather lack of empathy. They simply do not care about the pain they are inflicting on others.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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NEW: During this year’s legislative session in Texas, Elon Musk’s lobbyists and representatives publicly advocated for almost a dozen bills that would benefit his companies.
All but three of his priorities are now slated to become law.
By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social
All but three of his priorities are now slated to become law.
By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s Long Game to Influence the Texas Legislature
While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big political wins in the heart of his vast business empire: Texas.
www.propublica.org
July 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: During this year’s legislative session in Texas, Elon Musk’s lobbyists and representatives publicly advocated for almost a dozen bills that would benefit his companies.
All but three of his priorities are now slated to become law.
By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social
All but three of his priorities are now slated to become law.
By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social
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Republicans refuse to admit that they are hurting ordinary, hard-working Americans... To do otherwise would be confession of their inhumanity. ..MAGA politicians convince themselves those who rely on vital benefits are unfit and undeserving. Republicans dub them “rats” or “vermin” or “murderers.”
their greatest moral failure is arguably not lack of courage but rather lack of empathy. They simply do not care about the pain they are inflicting on others.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The bottom line: The bill is cruel.
Republicans don’t care about hurting people.
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Republicans refuse to admit that they are hurting ordinary, hard-working Americans... To do otherwise would be confession of their inhumanity. ..MAGA politicians convince themselves those who rely on vital benefits are unfit and undeserving. Republicans dub them “rats” or “vermin” or “murderers.”
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Today, USAID shuts down.
Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5.
Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry.
This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.
Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5.
Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry.
This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.
July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Today, USAID shuts down.
Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5.
Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry.
This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.
Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5.
Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry.
This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.