LiamMcGraw
@liammpm.bsky.social
Polisci/Philosophy Major, Spanish/LA minor at UA Roll Tide. editor, writer, arguer.
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And your daily reminder that @schumer.senate.gov needs to step down from leadership (and the senate?) and make way for those that want to fight.
March 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And your daily reminder that @schumer.senate.gov needs to step down from leadership (and the senate?) and make way for those that want to fight.
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Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. But the reality is far less exciting.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
I'm a historian, and I studied the fall of Rome. Here's what life is like in a dying empire.
It's the little things.
www.motherjones.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. But the reality is far less exciting.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
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“This is what is at stake in the consolidation of an opposition media bloc: the ability to coordinate on group action of any kind that challenges the regime.” www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...
Forming an Opposition Media Bloc in the Network Era
Media is a crucial tool for building solidarity among opposition to authoritarian rule.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“This is what is at stake in the consolidation of an opposition media bloc: the ability to coordinate on group action of any kind that challenges the regime.” www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...
@fetterman.senate.gov maybe you won’t burn the village down to save it, but did you ever consider that the budget bill you’re voting for cuts billions from Medicare and Medicaid? I fear these cuts will have a worse long term effect on more people than a government shutdown will on federal employees.
March 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@fetterman.senate.gov maybe you won’t burn the village down to save it, but did you ever consider that the budget bill you’re voting for cuts billions from Medicare and Medicaid? I fear these cuts will have a worse long term effect on more people than a government shutdown will on federal employees.
@rbreich.bsky.social I’ve been reading @stephaniekelton.bsky.social book and was wondering what your opinion on MMT is? It’s difficult to advocate for rhetorically, but it almost seems like common sense. Do you see federal taxes more as a way to fund the gov or as a tool for wealth redistribution?
January 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@rbreich.bsky.social I’ve been reading @stephaniekelton.bsky.social book and was wondering what your opinion on MMT is? It’s difficult to advocate for rhetorically, but it almost seems like common sense. Do you see federal taxes more as a way to fund the gov or as a tool for wealth redistribution?
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@indivisible.org
Ive been trying for 8 mos to get pple to call their Reps & Senators. Professor Richardson reposted this for me today.
Can you please repost.
Sen. Rounds can bring this Bill to Abolish Public Education into 45's Republican majority Senate.
I'm Grateful ppl are listening.
Thank you
Ive been trying for 8 mos to get pple to call their Reps & Senators. Professor Richardson reposted this for me today.
Can you please repost.
Sen. Rounds can bring this Bill to Abolish Public Education into 45's Republican majority Senate.
I'm Grateful ppl are listening.
Thank you
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
It's happening
Sen. Mike Rounds (R. SD) proposed a bill to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee to Abolish the Department of Education
Particularly alarming to disabled, & Native Americans
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...
It's happening
Sen. Mike Rounds (R. SD) proposed a bill to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee to Abolish the Department of Education
Particularly alarming to disabled, & Native Americans
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...
December 8, 2024 at 7:30 AM
@indivisible.org
Ive been trying for 8 mos to get pple to call their Reps & Senators. Professor Richardson reposted this for me today.
Can you please repost.
Sen. Rounds can bring this Bill to Abolish Public Education into 45's Republican majority Senate.
I'm Grateful ppl are listening.
Thank you
Ive been trying for 8 mos to get pple to call their Reps & Senators. Professor Richardson reposted this for me today.
Can you please repost.
Sen. Rounds can bring this Bill to Abolish Public Education into 45's Republican majority Senate.
I'm Grateful ppl are listening.
Thank you
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"’The tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled. We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,’ rebel leaders said in a statement.
Eyewitnesses told Reuters that thousands of Damascus residents had gathered in the city center, chanting ‘Freedom.’”
kyivindependent.com/breaking-syr...
Eyewitnesses told Reuters that thousands of Damascus residents had gathered in the city center, chanting ‘Freedom.’”
kyivindependent.com/breaking-syr...
BREAKING: Syrian rebels announce fall of Russia-backed Assad regime
"The tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled. We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad," rebel leaders claimed on Dec. 8.
kyivindependent.com
December 8, 2024 at 3:56 AM
"’The tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled. We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,’ rebel leaders said in a statement.
Eyewitnesses told Reuters that thousands of Damascus residents had gathered in the city center, chanting ‘Freedom.’”
kyivindependent.com/breaking-syr...
Eyewitnesses told Reuters that thousands of Damascus residents had gathered in the city center, chanting ‘Freedom.’”
kyivindependent.com/breaking-syr...
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My God. What a day
Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.
December 8, 2024 at 3:46 AM
My God. What a day
December 7, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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The statue of the dictator Hafez al-Assad has been toppled in the city of Homs.
December 7, 2024 at 11:07 PM
The statue of the dictator Hafez al-Assad has been toppled in the city of Homs.
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Healthcare bills are now the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the US. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says about 100 million Americans owe medical debt of more than $US220 billion ($345 billion).
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
US insurers respond as death of a CEO sparks ghoulish online glee
Police say the motive for Brian Thompson's killing is unknown. But it has highlighted threats to those who run America's health insurers, and sparked a conversation about widespread anger at the indus...
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Healthcare bills are now the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the US. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says about 100 million Americans owe medical debt of more than $US220 billion ($345 billion).
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
A democratic, liberal international order is favorable to American nat’l sec. Free trade, international rules and law, and humanitarian aid is beneficial to everyone involved. I think Hal Brands should be mandatory reading for high school.
They are so simple.
conservative whining about foreign aid is great because they think we’re just handing money out like a charity when in reality most of this money is strategically propping up American interests across the globe
December 7, 2024 at 9:29 PM
A democratic, liberal international order is favorable to American nat’l sec. Free trade, international rules and law, and humanitarian aid is beneficial to everyone involved. I think Hal Brands should be mandatory reading for high school.
Reminder that the #newdeal was the catalyst for #greatdepression recovery. By the time we entered WWII, unemployment had already nearly reached pre-depression levels. #economics
December 7, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Reminder that the #newdeal was the catalyst for #greatdepression recovery. By the time we entered WWII, unemployment had already nearly reached pre-depression levels. #economics
I thought backbone could only be found in #TheWestWing
Factory shutdowns would be a wrong move by Volkswagen, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, adding that Europe's largest carmaker had a responsibility to its employees reut.rs/3D4wPYW
Volkswagen plant closures 'not the right way', Germany's Scholz says
Volkswagen is in a dispute with staff over pay cuts and possible plant closures.
reut.rs
December 7, 2024 at 8:32 PM
I thought backbone could only be found in #TheWestWing
Before the election, I sat down with the AL GOP chair. Each time I pinned his positions to Trump, he backed off. At the end of the conversation, I asked him if he wants his son looking up to him and this look of sorrow flashed across his face. They don’t want him either. #resist #vote
December 7, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Han venido mucho lejos de Franco
Time to move to Spain?
December 7, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Han venido mucho lejos de Franco
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God i love @propublica.org so much
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2024 at 2:36 AM
God i love @propublica.org so much
We not longer live in a world where the greatest threats are military; we collectively need to start treating climate change, pandemics, and nuclear proliferation (no matter by whom) as national security threats.
MI5 forced to ‘pare back’ counter-terrorism work due to rogue states, says chief
MI5 forced to ‘pare back’ counter-terrorism work due to rogue states, says chief
Ken McCallum says service must make ‘uncomfortable choices’ as it faces more aggression from Russia, China and Iran
MI5 has had to “pare back” its counter-terrorism focus because of the growing threat from Russia and other hostile states, the security…
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:48 AM
We not longer live in a world where the greatest threats are military; we collectively need to start treating climate change, pandemics, and nuclear proliferation (no matter by whom) as national security threats.
“Leave it to the states”
One month ago, Missouri voters enshrined abortion rights. GOP lawmakers are already working to roll them back.
Read the full story by @jeremykohler.bsky.social: https://propub.li/4f05C6Y
Read the full story by @jeremykohler.bsky.social: https://propub.li/4f05C6Y
December 7, 2024 at 12:46 AM
“Leave it to the states”
Diversity, on one hand, increased unit cohesion and efficiency by integrating different solutions and opinions. On the other hand, it’s a solution to a symptom of an endemic problem where non-white non-male individuals have been denied equal opportunities. Either way, it’s a good deal. #walmart
December 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Diversity, on one hand, increased unit cohesion and efficiency by integrating different solutions and opinions. On the other hand, it’s a solution to a symptom of an endemic problem where non-white non-male individuals have been denied equal opportunities. Either way, it’s a good deal. #walmart
I think that at the same time we defend intellectualism in America, we have to defend the under educated; people without much of an education didn’t choose it, nobody ever let them choose. Red states aren’t evil, they’ve just been left behind, and stereotyping them isn’t going to help change anyone.
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
I think that at the same time we defend intellectualism in America, we have to defend the under educated; people without much of an education didn’t choose it, nobody ever let them choose. Red states aren’t evil, they’ve just been left behind, and stereotyping them isn’t going to help change anyone.
I hope he has good healthcare…
December 5, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I hope he has good healthcare…
I just finished watching the West Wing, where do I go from here? #WestWing #Aaronsorkin
December 5, 2024 at 1:42 AM
I just finished watching the West Wing, where do I go from here? #WestWing #Aaronsorkin