Mary Kay
@marykay.bsky.social
Democrat, cat mom, nature lover #HarrisWalz2024
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Why might GOP's refusal to extend the ACA subsidies be a political loser?
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
December 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Why might GOP's refusal to extend the ACA subsidies be a political loser?
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
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It is obscene.
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It is obscene.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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The @oversightdemocrats.house.gov have done a great job on Epstein. My only suggestion to them, and to their colleagues, is that they say, instead of “we need transparency,” “we need the truth.” “We need the truth” is simple, kind of catchy…and true.
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The @oversightdemocrats.house.gov have done a great job on Epstein. My only suggestion to them, and to their colleagues, is that they say, instead of “we need transparency,” “we need the truth.” “We need the truth” is simple, kind of catchy…and true.
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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I am IN, @kerrykennedy.bsky.social. So many of us are in.
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I am IN, @kerrykennedy.bsky.social. So many of us are in.
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This wave of deportation operations has hurt workers who are just trying to do their jobs. But it’s also terrible for the contractors and construction companies that employ them. How about a little noise from the construction industry?
Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This wave of deportation operations has hurt workers who are just trying to do their jobs. But it’s also terrible for the contractors and construction companies that employ them. How about a little noise from the construction industry?
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Oh one more thing about fossil fuel; the whole idea that natural gas is so much greener/cleaner than coal is sort of true when you burn it, but so much methane is emitted when it's extracted, & methane is a potent greenhouse gas, that, well, it's not. And we've know that for a while.
Reality Check: Natural Gas’s True Climate Risk - RMI
Methane leakage as low as 0.2 percent puts gas’s climate impact on par with coal.
rmi.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Oh one more thing about fossil fuel; the whole idea that natural gas is so much greener/cleaner than coal is sort of true when you burn it, but so much methane is emitted when it's extracted, & methane is a potent greenhouse gas, that, well, it's not. And we've know that for a while.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Generative AI is a poison that kills everything it touches all so people who are already rich get to be richer while you have to be poorer
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Generative AI is a poison that kills everything it touches all so people who are already rich get to be richer while you have to be poorer
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When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
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None of this is any of our business. If someone persistently feels they’re living inside a wrongly gendered body, why shouldn’t they be able to seek the same relief as a Trump family member who’d like plastic surgery to get lizard eyes or Elon Musk to add an actual chin?
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
None of this is any of our business. If someone persistently feels they’re living inside a wrongly gendered body, why shouldn’t they be able to seek the same relief as a Trump family member who’d like plastic surgery to get lizard eyes or Elon Musk to add an actual chin?
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not only does math, truth, and statistics escape them, apparently so does spelling 🤪
the party that's defunding education 🙄
#republicans #gop #republicanparty
the party that's defunding education 🙄
#republicans #gop #republicanparty
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
not only does math, truth, and statistics escape them, apparently so does spelling 🤪
the party that's defunding education 🙄
#republicans #gop #republicanparty
the party that's defunding education 🙄
#republicans #gop #republicanparty
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
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Bullshit. Like everything else you do, you do not have the authority to change the name of The Kennedy Center. It takes an act of Congress.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Bullshit. Like everything else you do, you do not have the authority to change the name of The Kennedy Center. It takes an act of Congress.
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positively disgusting to join his name to the slain president. He has to do all this stuff while he is in office cause no one will after he goes. Dem nominee in 2028 must vow to reverse this maddness
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
positively disgusting to join his name to the slain president. He has to do all this stuff while he is in office cause no one will after he goes. Dem nominee in 2028 must vow to reverse this maddness
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I'm sure this article has been written, but I think there's something very interesting about contemprary ideas of the deep past being almost uniformly brown and bland when a lot of modern scholarship suggests quite the opposite
I'm still very interested in this film, and I like Nolan's work okay, but look: it would be really nice if movie directors remembered that human civilizations throughout time and space have generally been quite fond of things like "colored fabric"
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I'm sure this article has been written, but I think there's something very interesting about contemprary ideas of the deep past being almost uniformly brown and bland when a lot of modern scholarship suggests quite the opposite
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All of JD Vance's claims about rents are false.
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
All of JD Vance's claims about rents are false.
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This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
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Stop making DeSantis make sense.
"DeSantis argued that Big Tech cos are rushing to build data centers that ..make electricity more expensive, water more scarce and local quality of life worse — in exchange for AI products that are intrusive, unsafe for children or put people out of work." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: DeSantis calls for restricting data centers
The Florida Republican has emerged as one of few governors to criticize an industry that's investing billions in states, as local concern grows over rising electricity costs.
subscriber.politicopro.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Stop making DeSantis make sense.
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I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
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A pronouncement of the emperor about threats to the realm may not be challenged and must be accepted by courts as binding, says the doctrine of arcana imperii. It's a fundamental of Opus Dei jurisprudence. And now 24 states insist it is American, not just Holy Roman Empire, law.
JUST IN: 24 red states back Trump on Alien Enemies Act detentions, argue his declaration of an enemy 'invasion' can't be questioned by courts. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
RedStatesCA5WMMAmicus121525
www.documentcloud.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A pronouncement of the emperor about threats to the realm may not be challenged and must be accepted by courts as binding, says the doctrine of arcana imperii. It's a fundamental of Opus Dei jurisprudence. And now 24 states insist it is American, not just Holy Roman Empire, law.
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To the extent journalists have a ~moral~ obligation, it is to provide accurate information to the public in accessible formats. It is not our job to structure data so that computer models can obfuscate its origins and repackage it with introduced errors. That is… literally insane.
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social: “Journalists must address their civic, professional, even moral obligation to provide news, reporting, and information via AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/apis...
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
To the extent journalists have a ~moral~ obligation, it is to provide accurate information to the public in accessible formats. It is not our job to structure data so that computer models can obfuscate its origins and repackage it with introduced errors. That is… literally insane.