Ashmead
@ashmead.bsky.social
Same ol' same ol'. Still love fandom.
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BREAKING: Sean Dunn acquitted of throwing sandwich at CBP/ICE agent. The charges didn't pass mustard.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
BREAKING: Sean Dunn acquitted of throwing sandwich at CBP/ICE agent. The charges didn't pass mustard.
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Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
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Amazon and Walmart are two of the biggest recipients of SNAP and Medicaid funds because they don't take care of their employees. Families working 40+ hours a week requiring gov subsistence. In Canada they go to food pantries to make ends meet.
Corporations are the real "welfare queens" of society
Corporations are the real "welfare queens" of society
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Amazon and Walmart are two of the biggest recipients of SNAP and Medicaid funds because they don't take care of their employees. Families working 40+ hours a week requiring gov subsistence. In Canada they go to food pantries to make ends meet.
Corporations are the real "welfare queens" of society
Corporations are the real "welfare queens" of society
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Mark this down:
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Mark this down:
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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September 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
October 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
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LIVE: Remembering the Children
Watch the multilingual commemoration in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here: www.youtube.com/live/Nb4gTI3...
Watch the multilingual commemoration in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here: www.youtube.com/live/Nb4gTI3...
Remembering the Children | APTN News
For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.
www.aptnnews.ca
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
LIVE: Remembering the Children
Watch the multilingual commemoration in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here: www.youtube.com/live/Nb4gTI3...
Watch the multilingual commemoration in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here: www.youtube.com/live/Nb4gTI3...
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That last line. Oof. That's how you do it.
Zohran Mamdani just released a statement about Cuomo working with Trump:
August 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
That last line. Oof. That's how you do it.
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Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.
Be aware that another shitty bill has been introduced: The SCREEN Act.
If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.
Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.
Spread this pls.
Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa
If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.
Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.
Spread this pls.
Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa
www.congress.gov
August 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.
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⚡️ The Indigenous Women’s Conference has kicked off today in Brasilia! 🧵
August 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
⚡️ The Indigenous Women’s Conference has kicked off today in Brasilia! 🧵
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Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
July 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
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If *you* have dealt with AI in your workplace—if your boss is forcing it on you or your team, if it's causing your freelance work to dry up, if a manager is threatening to replace you with it, or even if it's made your life wonderful!—I want to hear about it.
Send stories to AIkilledmyjob@pm.me.
Send stories to AIkilledmyjob@pm.me.
The response to this piece has been wild. It quickly became one of my most-read posts, and I've been hearing more and more stories from workers impacted by AI in tech and other sectors. Thanks to all who've read, shared, and reached out.
May also have a couple new scoops to share before too long.
May also have a couple new scoops to share before too long.
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
June 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If *you* have dealt with AI in your workplace—if your boss is forcing it on you or your team, if it's causing your freelance work to dry up, if a manager is threatening to replace you with it, or even if it's made your life wonderful!—I want to hear about it.
Send stories to AIkilledmyjob@pm.me.
Send stories to AIkilledmyjob@pm.me.
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Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.
July 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.
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🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
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We spent eight years giving the best centrist, moderate argument the Democratic Party could make the best chance possible.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
June 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We spent eight years giving the best centrist, moderate argument the Democratic Party could make the best chance possible.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
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I was at this town hall and saw her say this live.
My jaw almost hit the floor.
I am running against her to get her the hell out of the senate.
My jaw almost hit the floor.
I am running against her to get her the hell out of the senate.
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
May 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I was at this town hall and saw her say this live.
My jaw almost hit the floor.
I am running against her to get her the hell out of the senate.
My jaw almost hit the floor.
I am running against her to get her the hell out of the senate.
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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Just to be clear, it's not a joke when I say the Trump admin WANTS you to get Covid:
"Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a 'reasonable compromise' that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups to continue while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people."
"Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a 'reasonable compromise' that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups to continue while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people."
New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots
Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy.
apnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just to be clear, it's not a joke when I say the Trump admin WANTS you to get Covid:
"Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a 'reasonable compromise' that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups to continue while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people."
"Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a 'reasonable compromise' that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups to continue while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people."
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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
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Uline's owners are the 2nd biggest political donors to Trump, so found a non-MAGA alt rec'd on Reddi: EcoEnclose. For shipping boxes for original comic art, so I got EXACTLY the size I wanted. It's half the price once you add in shipping to my house from Uline. EcoEnc $120.32 vs Uline $238.38.
May 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Uline's owners are the 2nd biggest political donors to Trump, so found a non-MAGA alt rec'd on Reddi: EcoEnclose. For shipping boxes for original comic art, so I got EXACTLY the size I wanted. It's half the price once you add in shipping to my house from Uline. EcoEnc $120.32 vs Uline $238.38.