Brina
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Mad Scribbler. FIRST Robotics Lead Mentor, team 8738. Salty Jew. Food Enthusiast. (she/her)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Sen. Cory Booker just broke segregationist Strom Thurmond's record for longest speech on the floor.
"I'm here despite [Thurmond's] speech," Booker said, a minute before that achievement.'
"I'm here despite [Thurmond's] speech," Booker said, a minute before that achievement.'
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sen. Cory Booker just broke segregationist Strom Thurmond's record for longest speech on the floor.
"I'm here despite [Thurmond's] speech," Booker said, a minute before that achievement.'
"I'm here despite [Thurmond's] speech," Booker said, a minute before that achievement.'
If you want your teenagers to find their place in a community that doesn't just accept diversity but actively encourages it, check out FIRST Robotics. I'm a head coach/mentor for a team, and a couple months ago, they made it a point to announce we're standing our ground on DEI.
Resistance in STEM.
Resistance in STEM.
April 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you want your teenagers to find their place in a community that doesn't just accept diversity but actively encourages it, check out FIRST Robotics. I'm a head coach/mentor for a team, and a couple months ago, they made it a point to announce we're standing our ground on DEI.
Resistance in STEM.
Resistance in STEM.
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Costco sees a gain in foot traffic for a 13th consecutive week after sticking with its DEI initiatives.
April 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Costco sees a gain in foot traffic for a 13th consecutive week after sticking with its DEI initiatives.
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This is why the people who want raw milk are dumb ass rich people who have never been in the same zip code as a farm.
March 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is why the people who want raw milk are dumb ass rich people who have never been in the same zip code as a farm.
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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
March 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
This is your doomscroll break.
March 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is your doomscroll break.
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Rep John Larson - Connecticut:
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Rep John Larson - Connecticut:
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You don't have to support or even like the campus protests to recognize how dangerous deporting a legal resident is. This is literally the point of the 1st Amendment. This is their test to see how much they can get away with. Next it will be immigration advocates and on. Don't make excuses.
March 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You don't have to support or even like the campus protests to recognize how dangerous deporting a legal resident is. This is literally the point of the 1st Amendment. This is their test to see how much they can get away with. Next it will be immigration advocates and on. Don't make excuses.
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News everyday here is like
- Trump fires everyone who was hired, hires everyone who was fired
- Plane carrying bird flu crashes into measles factory, creating rare superbug, Flusles
- DOGE eliminates workers that run the facility that imprisons the Deep Gods
- Your mother has been detained by ICE
- Trump fires everyone who was hired, hires everyone who was fired
- Plane carrying bird flu crashes into measles factory, creating rare superbug, Flusles
- DOGE eliminates workers that run the facility that imprisons the Deep Gods
- Your mother has been detained by ICE
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
News everyday here is like
- Trump fires everyone who was hired, hires everyone who was fired
- Plane carrying bird flu crashes into measles factory, creating rare superbug, Flusles
- DOGE eliminates workers that run the facility that imprisons the Deep Gods
- Your mother has been detained by ICE
- Trump fires everyone who was hired, hires everyone who was fired
- Plane carrying bird flu crashes into measles factory, creating rare superbug, Flusles
- DOGE eliminates workers that run the facility that imprisons the Deep Gods
- Your mother has been detained by ICE
If I really did have that Jewish space laser, I'd do it just for you.
my birthday is next month and I’m not asking for much. just one million people to buy copies of my books and two targeted lightening strikes.
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If I really did have that Jewish space laser, I'd do it just for you.
I paid $8.93 for 18 eggs yesterday, AND we have Nazis again.
March 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I paid $8.93 for 18 eggs yesterday, AND we have Nazis again.
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I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just sampling a buffet of farm-to-table panic attacks
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just sampling a buffet of farm-to-table panic attacks
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At max, you can expect to infect 5-7 people with COVID. That’s considered pretty transmissible, which is why we (tried to) lock down about it.
An infected person will give measles to 16-18 other people. It’s extremely virulent
It’s long past time for you to wear a mask again.
An infected person will give measles to 16-18 other people. It’s extremely virulent
It’s long past time for you to wear a mask again.
A thing I wish more people knew is that measles is basically the most contagious disease in the world
March 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
At max, you can expect to infect 5-7 people with COVID. That’s considered pretty transmissible, which is why we (tried to) lock down about it.
An infected person will give measles to 16-18 other people. It’s extremely virulent
It’s long past time for you to wear a mask again.
An infected person will give measles to 16-18 other people. It’s extremely virulent
It’s long past time for you to wear a mask again.
Everything is scary and stressful right now, but there can be tiny, little moments of serenity if you look for them.
March 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Everything is scary and stressful right now, but there can be tiny, little moments of serenity if you look for them.
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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
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It’s always the most thumb looking motherfuckers ready to tell you about how the “inferior” shouldn’t “breed”
Like this truly morally repugnant character, now (appallingly) the Trump administration's Acting Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs www.newsbreak.com/share/380315...
Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’ - NewsBreak
A Trump State Department official has, on a number of occasions, called for the sterilization of “low-IQ trash,” a new report has revealed. Secretary of S
www.newsbreak.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s always the most thumb looking motherfuckers ready to tell you about how the “inferior” shouldn’t “breed”
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A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse.
It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.
It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.
The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse.
It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.
It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.
Me: How am I? Me? Hahaha... hangin' in there, like a hair on a biscuit.
My high school friend who now lives in New Zealand: Umm. That wasn't a very reassuring response.
My high school friend who now lives in New Zealand: Umm. That wasn't a very reassuring response.
February 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Me: How am I? Me? Hahaha... hangin' in there, like a hair on a biscuit.
My high school friend who now lives in New Zealand: Umm. That wasn't a very reassuring response.
My high school friend who now lives in New Zealand: Umm. That wasn't a very reassuring response.
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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I don't understand why people are still using X. If you are worried about losing an established network audience, some real numbers: I had 30K+ followers there and I have 13K here--the engagement is the same, if not better, here. Re-build. You don't *need* anything Muskrat's empire offers.
February 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I don't understand why people are still using X. If you are worried about losing an established network audience, some real numbers: I had 30K+ followers there and I have 13K here--the engagement is the same, if not better, here. Re-build. You don't *need* anything Muskrat's empire offers.
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House GOP Leadership just announced they want to cut at least $880 Billion from Medicaid.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
How To: Medicaid Congressional Advocacy Webinar | Matthew Cortland
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February 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
House GOP Leadership just announced they want to cut at least $880 Billion from Medicaid.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
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New Yorkers: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in this year's mayoral primary — don’t count on others to get rid of the corrupt & compromised collaborator Eric Adams, who's mayor because 79% of eligible NYers failed to turn out last time.
Do your part, dammit:
vote.nyc/page/registe...
Do your part, dammit:
vote.nyc/page/registe...
Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
vote.nyc
February 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
New Yorkers: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in this year's mayoral primary — don’t count on others to get rid of the corrupt & compromised collaborator Eric Adams, who's mayor because 79% of eligible NYers failed to turn out last time.
Do your part, dammit:
vote.nyc/page/registe...
Do your part, dammit:
vote.nyc/page/registe...
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All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
February 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
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I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.