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Anyone who has ever lived in LA county will not be surprised it was the sheriff's department that escalated
June 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Anyone who has ever lived in LA county will not be surprised it was the sheriff's department that escalated
From earlier today before law enforcement created chaos in downtown LA.
June 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
From earlier today before law enforcement created chaos in downtown LA.
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Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
May 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
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This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
Wisconsin man who showed up to support an anti-trans bill does something amazing - Queerty
“I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…” “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…”
www.queerty.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
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When I see many Democrats talk, I think about one of the great texts on the rise of fascism, Daniel Guerin's prescient 1936 book Fascism and Big Business. It's chilling to examine his study of Italy and Germany. It's the story of how liberals walked society off the fascist cliff:
!["The misfortune is that we have permitted the bourgeois-democrats to seize hold of anti-fascism. These gentlemen fear the fascist whip for their own skins, but they fear the proletarian revolution as least as much… [They] declaim against fascism but without taking a single thoroughgoing measure to attack its material roots. [A]nd by their economic and social policies, they deepen the causes of friction between the proletariat and the middle classes; and thus they push the latter towards the very fascism from which they pretend to divert them.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cltmdg3fnumhwdfusmfvmm7r/bafkreih2lnvx6ps62jh57wnuth7y5wql7eso4iffyxfgvi7fsqljjkw5dq@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
When I see many Democrats talk, I think about one of the great texts on the rise of fascism, Daniel Guerin's prescient 1936 book Fascism and Big Business. It's chilling to examine his study of Italy and Germany. It's the story of how liberals walked society off the fascist cliff:
Took me 5 minutes max.
If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at askvisa@visa.com. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.
Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.
www.cnbc.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Took me 5 minutes max.
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
A sunflower Ken planted in our COVID garden in 2020.
A sunflower Ken planted in our COVID garden in 2020.
January 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
A sunflower Ken planted in our COVID garden in 2020.
A sunflower Ken planted in our COVID garden in 2020.
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Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
January 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:19 AM
5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
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Disabled people…heck and ppl who have limited time during the day…NEED Congress to act to save Telehealth.
So many of us were able to actually able to easily access dr appts, get meds, etc
So many of us were able to actually able to easily access dr appts, get meds, etc
December 10, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Disabled people…heck and ppl who have limited time during the day…NEED Congress to act to save Telehealth.
So many of us were able to actually able to easily access dr appts, get meds, etc
So many of us were able to actually able to easily access dr appts, get meds, etc
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because this old post seems to be resurfacing—here’s my advice if you get an insurance claim/pre-auth denied. seriously. go straight to the government. your state has a dept of insurance. file a complaint with them. email your state representative too. they will do something about it.
my tip is that asking for the documents used to make the denial determination won’t actually do anything 99.9% of the time and is a waste of time tbh :( go straight to the top and file a complaint with your local dept of insurance/dept of health. they actually scare insurance companies
December 7, 2024 at 2:52 AM
because this old post seems to be resurfacing—here’s my advice if you get an insurance claim/pre-auth denied. seriously. go straight to the government. your state has a dept of insurance. file a complaint with them. email your state representative too. they will do something about it.
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To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
March 26, 2024 at 2:16 AM
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
Overheard outside: [one kid chases another down the street; the slower one says] Max! Stop! I’ll give you a free rock!
Max does not reply.
Slower Kid: I’ll give you money!
Max does not reply. Max’s compliance cannot be bought with rocks or cold hard cash.
Max does not reply.
Slower Kid: I’ll give you money!
Max does not reply. Max’s compliance cannot be bought with rocks or cold hard cash.
November 30, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Overheard outside: [one kid chases another down the street; the slower one says] Max! Stop! I’ll give you a free rock!
Max does not reply.
Slower Kid: I’ll give you money!
Max does not reply. Max’s compliance cannot be bought with rocks or cold hard cash.
Max does not reply.
Slower Kid: I’ll give you money!
Max does not reply. Max’s compliance cannot be bought with rocks or cold hard cash.
Am I the only one who didn’t know that my HS yearbook photo, shown with my full name, birth year and city of residence in 2001 (the yearbook in question) was publicly available to anyone with an Ancestry account? Apparently there have already been lawsuits about it, but Ancestry has won them all. 😕
November 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Am I the only one who didn’t know that my HS yearbook photo, shown with my full name, birth year and city of residence in 2001 (the yearbook in question) was publicly available to anyone with an Ancestry account? Apparently there have already been lawsuits about it, but Ancestry has won them all. 😕
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okay, we're starting with this
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 AM
okay, we're starting with this
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
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The world’s weirdest stylist-esthetician-CPAs, they also do microneedling whether you think your skin needs it or not. They will eat your hair if you let them. Extremely powerful and feared in Hollywood, they can make or break your image. They want snacks.
November 23, 2024 at 8:54 PM
The world’s weirdest stylist-esthetician-CPAs, they also do microneedling whether you think your skin needs it or not. They will eat your hair if you let them. Extremely powerful and feared in Hollywood, they can make or break your image. They want snacks.
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Today is a good day to donate to Portland’s Trans Wardrobe Project, which provides free capsule wardrobes to low-income trans folks and is struggling to find funding
Trans Wardrobe Project
Support access to clothing as free Gender Affirming Care for the Trans Community Imagine needing to design, and shop for an entirely new wardrobe of items that you have likely never worn before, while...
equi-institute.networkforgood.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Today is a good day to donate to Portland’s Trans Wardrobe Project, which provides free capsule wardrobes to low-income trans folks and is struggling to find funding
A tiny angel baby for your timeline. Aka Cricket.
November 19, 2024 at 12:56 AM
A tiny angel baby for your timeline. Aka Cricket.
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I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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lowkey it would be such a coup if we proved comprehensively that bluesky sells books
if 1/7 of you buys one (cool snake on cover, good politics, tasty prose) we would fuckin blow this out of the water
also i will post a video of myself destroying a pumpkin with a sword
if 1/7 of you buys one (cool snake on cover, good politics, tasty prose) we would fuckin blow this out of the water
also i will post a video of myself destroying a pumpkin with a sword
honestly i'd really like to sell out my first printing of 11,600 copies
not sure how viable that is! but! i do think religion (and the threat of christian nationalism) has been consistently downplayed by media assessments of this election -- both in the runup and after
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
not sure how viable that is! but! i do think religion (and the threat of christian nationalism) has been consistently downplayed by media assessments of this election -- both in the runup and after
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin
The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. All across ...
bookshop.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:01 PM
lowkey it would be such a coup if we proved comprehensively that bluesky sells books
if 1/7 of you buys one (cool snake on cover, good politics, tasty prose) we would fuckin blow this out of the water
also i will post a video of myself destroying a pumpkin with a sword
if 1/7 of you buys one (cool snake on cover, good politics, tasty prose) we would fuckin blow this out of the water
also i will post a video of myself destroying a pumpkin with a sword