Scifee, she/her
@scifee.bsky.social
Larp nerd, renfaire goer, poly but NOT the board game type. Wine pirate.
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The first redistricting proposals for TX are in.
This is what cracking and packing looks like.
This is an intensive gerrymander.
See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities.
Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.
This is what cracking and packing looks like.
This is an intensive gerrymander.
See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities.
Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.
July 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The first redistricting proposals for TX are in.
This is what cracking and packing looks like.
This is an intensive gerrymander.
See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities.
Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.
This is what cracking and packing looks like.
This is an intensive gerrymander.
See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities.
Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.
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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
September 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
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This thread is incredible.
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
xcancel.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This thread is incredible.
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In 2017, when President Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors rallied against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, they've gone quiet.
GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states
In 2017, when President Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors rallied against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, they've gone quiet.
n.pr
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In 2017, when President Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors rallied against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, they've gone quiet.
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Lutnick’s “generational factory jobs” pitch is just a reboot of the caste system with better lighting. Your family fixes the robots forever, while someone else’s kids build empires.
No mobility. No exit. It's patriotism in a jumpsuit.
No mobility. No exit. It's patriotism in a jumpsuit.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.
fortune.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Lutnick’s “generational factory jobs” pitch is just a reboot of the caste system with better lighting. Your family fixes the robots forever, while someone else’s kids build empires.
No mobility. No exit. It's patriotism in a jumpsuit.
No mobility. No exit. It's patriotism in a jumpsuit.
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I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story.
A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours.
We are in this together and there's only one way out.
A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours.
We are in this together and there's only one way out.
1. Far right federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has just vacated all EEOC protections for gay and trans people in the work place.
He says protections from "being fired" do not mean they are protected from harassment by Title VII.
I cover this insane ruling here.
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He says protections from "being fired" do not mean they are protected from harassment by Title VII.
I cover this insane ruling here.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
Judge Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, ruled on the EEOC's treatment of Title VIII employment discrimination claims on gay and trans people.
www.erininthemorning.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story.
A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours.
We are in this together and there's only one way out.
A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours.
We are in this together and there's only one way out.
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Republicans in Congress have done a lot wrong, but their unforgivable political sin, in my book, is their conscious decision that making every American's life worse is an acceptable price to pay for not being primaried.
They know what Trump is doing to America, and it doesn't matter to them.
They know what Trump is doing to America, and it doesn't matter to them.
the tariffs help no one and make the gop agenda much more difficult in just about every way.
but no republican will tell trump that. at least, not in a way he has to listen to.
but no republican will tell trump that. at least, not in a way he has to listen to.
April 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Republicans in Congress have done a lot wrong, but their unforgivable political sin, in my book, is their conscious decision that making every American's life worse is an acceptable price to pay for not being primaried.
They know what Trump is doing to America, and it doesn't matter to them.
They know what Trump is doing to America, and it doesn't matter to them.
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Michigan’s red flag law is saving lives.
In just one year, it’s helped stop potential school shootings, domestic violence, suicide, and more.
Now Republicans want to repeal it. I wrote about why we can’t let them. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
In just one year, it’s helped stop potential school shootings, domestic violence, suicide, and more.
Now Republicans want to repeal it. I wrote about why we can’t let them. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
McMorrow: Red flag law is saving lives
I will never forget the devastated parents I met with after the Oxford High School and Michigan State shootings. Their lives were shattered.
www.detroitnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Michigan’s red flag law is saving lives.
In just one year, it’s helped stop potential school shootings, domestic violence, suicide, and more.
Now Republicans want to repeal it. I wrote about why we can’t let them. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
In just one year, it’s helped stop potential school shootings, domestic violence, suicide, and more.
Now Republicans want to repeal it. I wrote about why we can’t let them. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
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The NIH have gone full henchmen for the Trump regime.
In a wildly illegal, un-American move, the NIH will disregard HIPAA, breach databases, and create an “autistic registry” for RFK Jr!
They’re turning in autistic Americans! 😡
Wtf is NIH doing??
#DisabilitySky
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
In a wildly illegal, un-American move, the NIH will disregard HIPAA, breach databases, and create an “autistic registry” for RFK Jr!
They’re turning in autistic Americans! 😡
Wtf is NIH doing??
#DisabilitySky
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.
www.cbsnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The NIH have gone full henchmen for the Trump regime.
In a wildly illegal, un-American move, the NIH will disregard HIPAA, breach databases, and create an “autistic registry” for RFK Jr!
They’re turning in autistic Americans! 😡
Wtf is NIH doing??
#DisabilitySky
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
In a wildly illegal, un-American move, the NIH will disregard HIPAA, breach databases, and create an “autistic registry” for RFK Jr!
They’re turning in autistic Americans! 😡
Wtf is NIH doing??
#DisabilitySky
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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NEW damning details on Pete Hegseth:
Minutes before U.S. jets hit Yemen, Gen. Kurilla sent strike intel through a secure gov system. Hegseth turned around and dropped it in at least two Signal chats—on his personal phone.
Jet timing. Target locations. And he still has the job.
Minutes before U.S. jets hit Yemen, Gen. Kurilla sent strike intel through a secure gov system. Hegseth turned around and dropped it in at least two Signal chats—on his personal phone.
Jet timing. Target locations. And he still has the job.
April 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
NEW damning details on Pete Hegseth:
Minutes before U.S. jets hit Yemen, Gen. Kurilla sent strike intel through a secure gov system. Hegseth turned around and dropped it in at least two Signal chats—on his personal phone.
Jet timing. Target locations. And he still has the job.
Minutes before U.S. jets hit Yemen, Gen. Kurilla sent strike intel through a secure gov system. Hegseth turned around and dropped it in at least two Signal chats—on his personal phone.
Jet timing. Target locations. And he still has the job.
It took less than 3 months. A US Citizen will be sent to an ICE detention center even AFTER a judge declared his US Birth certificate a valid document that proves he is a citizen.
If you still thought this was about our country, you're wrong. It's plain, cruel racism.
If you still thought this was about our country, you're wrong. It's plain, cruel racism.
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
www.nbcnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It took less than 3 months. A US Citizen will be sent to an ICE detention center even AFTER a judge declared his US Birth certificate a valid document that proves he is a citizen.
If you still thought this was about our country, you're wrong. It's plain, cruel racism.
If you still thought this was about our country, you're wrong. It's plain, cruel racism.
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Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
April 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
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Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.
This is organizing for power. Finding the weak point where the people have leverage, and organizing to hit it as hard as possible. Really good shit.
Tesla protest organizers held a call tonight w/ US Rep Jasmine Crockett, actors Alex Winter, John Cusack speaking. They're planning protests at all 277 US showrooms, 500 worldwide on March 29. In Minneapolis, protests continue to increase in size each week.
chaddavis.photography/tesla-takedo...
chaddavis.photography/tesla-takedo...
March 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
you gotta burn your Alexa's folks
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
March 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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There is no point in Senate Democrats voting to fund the government only to let Trump and Musk do whatever they see fit with those funds.
Dems should only vote for a continuing resolution if it stops DOGE pillaging and fully funds services.
Call your Dem Senator 202-224-3121
Dems should only vote for a continuing resolution if it stops DOGE pillaging and fully funds services.
Call your Dem Senator 202-224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There is no point in Senate Democrats voting to fund the government only to let Trump and Musk do whatever they see fit with those funds.
Dems should only vote for a continuing resolution if it stops DOGE pillaging and fully funds services.
Call your Dem Senator 202-224-3121
Dems should only vote for a continuing resolution if it stops DOGE pillaging and fully funds services.
Call your Dem Senator 202-224-3121
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Happening now at Trump Tower, activists w/ @jvp.bsky.social calling for release of Mahmoud Khalil @thecity.nyc
March 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happening now at Trump Tower, activists w/ @jvp.bsky.social calling for release of Mahmoud Khalil @thecity.nyc
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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
www.nhpr.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”
Great News For Us, Awful News for Trump
Onward.
www.dworkinsubstack.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”
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BREAKING: Judge in mass firing case orders the Trump administration to reinstate probationary federal workers across multiple agencies.
Judge orders Trump to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies. U.S.
bit.ly
March 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
BREAKING: Judge in mass firing case orders the Trump administration to reinstate probationary federal workers across multiple agencies.
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We had to collect 180K signatures to put proposition A on the ballot to increase minimum wage to $13.75 and guarantee sick pay for Missourians. The measure won.
Just now, the Missouri House voted to overturn our will. Without signatures…with a vote. They do the bidding of the wealthy.
Just now, the Missouri House voted to overturn our will. Without signatures…with a vote. They do the bidding of the wealthy.
March 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We had to collect 180K signatures to put proposition A on the ballot to increase minimum wage to $13.75 and guarantee sick pay for Missourians. The measure won.
Just now, the Missouri House voted to overturn our will. Without signatures…with a vote. They do the bidding of the wealthy.
Just now, the Missouri House voted to overturn our will. Without signatures…with a vote. They do the bidding of the wealthy.
Just had a FB shared post "fact checked" by this website that concludes that even though "transgender" is a label only applied to humans, Trump did not in fact confuse terms. Even though they directly quote him referring to mice as "transgender" within their own article.
Do better, Lead Stories.
Do better, Lead Stories.
Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Mistake 'Transgenic' For 'Transgender' While Talking About Mice Before Congress | Lead Stories
Did President Donald Trump confuse research on transgenic mice with research involving "making mice transgender," when addressing Congress, as some...
leadstories.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Just had a FB shared post "fact checked" by this website that concludes that even though "transgender" is a label only applied to humans, Trump did not in fact confuse terms. Even though they directly quote him referring to mice as "transgender" within their own article.
Do better, Lead Stories.
Do better, Lead Stories.
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“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”
Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”