Kay Thomas
@kaythomas187678.bsky.social
burgeoning interest in public policy and social justice. tired of those in charge being partisan, gridlocked, and greedy while innocent people suffer. would like to leave the world better than I found it.
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"The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious… garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them." - Frederick Douglass
How did it become unpatriotic to bring up ill-advised or downright awful things the U.S. did? (Japanese camps in WWII, overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy, Trail of Tears, slavery, on and on) How are we going to fix and heal from these wrongs if we can't even talk about them in the first place?
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South Carolina legislators introduced a bill to charge women receiving abortion with homicide, which, in South Carolina, is subject to the death penalty.
You heard that right: the “pro-life” folks want to execute women. For seeking healthcare.
You heard that right: the “pro-life” folks want to execute women. For seeking healthcare.
December 18, 2024 at 1:16 AM
South Carolina legislators introduced a bill to charge women receiving abortion with homicide, which, in South Carolina, is subject to the death penalty.
You heard that right: the “pro-life” folks want to execute women. For seeking healthcare.
You heard that right: the “pro-life” folks want to execute women. For seeking healthcare.
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“No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday. No people of color were selected, either.”
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No women will lead House committees for first time in 2 decades
The 17 standing committees will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated on Jan. 3. No people of color were selected, either.
abcnews.go.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:15 AM
“No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday. No people of color were selected, either.”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
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YES! This is exactly why I co-founded the No PAC Caucus and proposed a ban against all PAC, super PAC, and lobbyist money. We need to unrig Washington.
The solution to the NRA buying politicians isn’t to stop the NRA itself, it’s to stop allowing ALL groups that at dark money groups from being able to buy politicians.
This is bigger than red v. blue, campaign finance is an issue within both major political parties.
This is bigger than red v. blue, campaign finance is an issue within both major political parties.
December 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
YES! This is exactly why I co-founded the No PAC Caucus and proposed a ban against all PAC, super PAC, and lobbyist money. We need to unrig Washington.
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This The Guardian article from 2019 is still one of the best takes: "Why are we still pretending 'trickle-down' economics work? "
READ: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
READ: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM
This The Guardian article from 2019 is still one of the best takes: "Why are we still pretending 'trickle-down' economics work? "
READ: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
READ: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As a physiotherapy student, I trained in a neuro rehabilitation clinic. I met ppl with post-polio syndrome (decades after the original infection, the muscles affected by polio started to lose strength). There is no cure for polio or PPS.
Why we would risk more ppl getting polio is unfathomable.
Why we would risk more ppl getting polio is unfathomable.
December 14, 2024 at 5:26 PM
As a physiotherapy student, I trained in a neuro rehabilitation clinic. I met ppl with post-polio syndrome (decades after the original infection, the muscles affected by polio started to lose strength). There is no cure for polio or PPS.
Why we would risk more ppl getting polio is unfathomable.
Why we would risk more ppl getting polio is unfathomable.
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Reposted by Kay Thomas
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
This song is both right on the money and chilling.
#corporategreed #capitalism
youtube.com/watch?v=_NVf...
#corporategreed #capitalism
youtube.com/watch?v=_NVf...
youtube.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:55 PM
This song is both right on the money and chilling.
#corporategreed #capitalism
youtube.com/watch?v=_NVf...
#corporategreed #capitalism
youtube.com/watch?v=_NVf...
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Conservatives: Free market! Cut the govt regulations and there will be tons of companies popping up to compete! It will be a race for keeping prices low and quality high!
Me: But what if a company gets so big it buys up all its rivals? It won't...
Conservatives: Free market! Cut the govt regulations and there will be tons of companies popping up to compete! It will be a race for keeping prices low and quality high!
Me: But what if a company gets so big it buys up all its rivals? It won't...
December 10, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Conservatives: Free market! Cut the govt regulations and there will be tons of companies popping up to compete! It will be a race for keeping prices low and quality high!
Me: But what if a company gets so big it buys up all its rivals? It won't...
Conservatives: Free market! Cut the govt regulations and there will be tons of companies popping up to compete! It will be a race for keeping prices low and quality high!
Me: But what if a company gets so big it buys up all its rivals? It won't...
Good partners talk + share the load.
Men, don't leave every house- and childcare-related task to women and then wonder why she's too tired for s*x.
Women, don't turn down men's offers to help or criticize how they did a task wrong (or differently from you) and then wonder why they don't pitch in.
Men, don't leave every house- and childcare-related task to women and then wonder why she's too tired for s*x.
Women, don't turn down men's offers to help or criticize how they did a task wrong (or differently from you) and then wonder why they don't pitch in.
December 10, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Good partners talk + share the load.
Men, don't leave every house- and childcare-related task to women and then wonder why she's too tired for s*x.
Women, don't turn down men's offers to help or criticize how they did a task wrong (or differently from you) and then wonder why they don't pitch in.
Men, don't leave every house- and childcare-related task to women and then wonder why she's too tired for s*x.
Women, don't turn down men's offers to help or criticize how they did a task wrong (or differently from you) and then wonder why they don't pitch in.
Hot Take: from childhood, both girls AND boys should be taught how to and expected to "help around the house"--laundry, cooking, cleaning, pet/babycare, etc. No domestic task is beneath or outside the ability of either sex. Doing them isn't the woman's job, it's an ADULT'S job.
December 10, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Hot Take: from childhood, both girls AND boys should be taught how to and expected to "help around the house"--laundry, cooking, cleaning, pet/babycare, etc. No domestic task is beneath or outside the ability of either sex. Doing them isn't the woman's job, it's an ADULT'S job.
We paid ONE TRILLION on interest alone last year for our national debt. Trump and co's decided the answer is to cut the 1.6 trillion we gave to 70 million people as Social Security, but not the 12 BILLION we spent just on nuclear weapons? www.usaspending.gov/explorer/age...
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
December 10, 2024 at 5:59 AM
We paid ONE TRILLION on interest alone last year for our national debt. Trump and co's decided the answer is to cut the 1.6 trillion we gave to 70 million people as Social Security, but not the 12 BILLION we spent just on nuclear weapons? www.usaspending.gov/explorer/age...
GOP Grand Plan:
1. Claim that "See, the govt is unreliable and inefficient. Private corp.s are doing it better."
2. Pass bills that shrink the budget for govt agencies.
3. Govt agencies struggle from lack of staff and $.
4. Private corp.s raise $ and offer rival services.
5. Go back to Step One.
1. Claim that "See, the govt is unreliable and inefficient. Private corp.s are doing it better."
2. Pass bills that shrink the budget for govt agencies.
3. Govt agencies struggle from lack of staff and $.
4. Private corp.s raise $ and offer rival services.
5. Go back to Step One.
December 10, 2024 at 5:45 AM
GOP Grand Plan:
1. Claim that "See, the govt is unreliable and inefficient. Private corp.s are doing it better."
2. Pass bills that shrink the budget for govt agencies.
3. Govt agencies struggle from lack of staff and $.
4. Private corp.s raise $ and offer rival services.
5. Go back to Step One.
1. Claim that "See, the govt is unreliable and inefficient. Private corp.s are doing it better."
2. Pass bills that shrink the budget for govt agencies.
3. Govt agencies struggle from lack of staff and $.
4. Private corp.s raise $ and offer rival services.
5. Go back to Step One.
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Most (56%) Black people in the United States live in “the South.” With all we know of the racism built into America’s justice system (“War on Drugs,” policing, prosecution, incarceration, etc), it’s no surprise a map of INCARCERATION RATES BY STATE looks like this.
Caging Black people is the point.
Caging Black people is the point.
December 10, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Most (56%) Black people in the United States live in “the South.” With all we know of the racism built into America’s justice system (“War on Drugs,” policing, prosecution, incarceration, etc), it’s no surprise a map of INCARCERATION RATES BY STATE looks like this.
Caging Black people is the point.
Caging Black people is the point.
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Supreme Court 18-year term limit bill should be just the beginning:
— 13 justices
— 7 clerks per justice
— single 18-year term
— binding code of ethics with punishments all the way up to impeachment
— full investigation of corrupt gifts to Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, et al.
— 13 justices
— 7 clerks per justice
— single 18-year term
— binding code of ethics with punishments all the way up to impeachment
— full investigation of corrupt gifts to Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, et al.
December 10, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Supreme Court 18-year term limit bill should be just the beginning:
— 13 justices
— 7 clerks per justice
— single 18-year term
— binding code of ethics with punishments all the way up to impeachment
— full investigation of corrupt gifts to Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, et al.
— 13 justices
— 7 clerks per justice
— single 18-year term
— binding code of ethics with punishments all the way up to impeachment
— full investigation of corrupt gifts to Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, et al.
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Reposted by Kay Thomas
On PBS @lbarronlopez.bsky.social said Donald J. Trump has picked at least six people who were involved in the creation of Project 2025. Fox News promoted the falsehood that Trump had nothing to do with it - they even said Trump WOULDN'T hire anyone affiliated with P2025 youtu.be/VorNVj-Nk4k?...
Fox Lied about Trump and Project 2025 for Months
YouTube video by Juliet Jeske - Decoding Fox News
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December 2, 2024 at 9:10 PM
On PBS @lbarronlopez.bsky.social said Donald J. Trump has picked at least six people who were involved in the creation of Project 2025. Fox News promoted the falsehood that Trump had nothing to do with it - they even said Trump WOULDN'T hire anyone affiliated with P2025 youtu.be/VorNVj-Nk4k?...
How did it become unpatriotic to bring up ill-advised or downright awful things the U.S. did? (Japanese camps in WWII, overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy, Trail of Tears, slavery, on and on) How are we going to fix and heal from these wrongs if we can't even talk about them in the first place?
"The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious… garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them." - Frederick Douglass
December 8, 2024 at 4:13 PM
How did it become unpatriotic to bring up ill-advised or downright awful things the U.S. did? (Japanese camps in WWII, overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy, Trail of Tears, slavery, on and on) How are we going to fix and heal from these wrongs if we can't even talk about them in the first place?
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Reposted by Kay Thomas
Reposted by Kay Thomas
Amid the backdrop that more than a dozen members of Trump's Cabinet are billionaires, a reminder that this is what happened to income inequality in this country once the tax rate for top earners was slashed after 1980. Trickle down does not work and top earners' priority is themselves.
December 8, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Amid the backdrop that more than a dozen members of Trump's Cabinet are billionaires, a reminder that this is what happened to income inequality in this country once the tax rate for top earners was slashed after 1980. Trickle down does not work and top earners' priority is themselves.
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Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on MLK Day, a white supremacist, son of a klansman, convicted felon, endorsed by the KKK’s official newspaper, ‘The Crusader,’ will be sworn in as president of the U.S.
Tell me again how there’s no racism in America.
Tell me again how there’s no racism in America.
November 27, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on MLK Day, a white supremacist, son of a klansman, convicted felon, endorsed by the KKK’s official newspaper, ‘The Crusader,’ will be sworn in as president of the U.S.
Tell me again how there’s no racism in America.
Tell me again how there’s no racism in America.