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…and hanging around. Hoping for something to change for the better.
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Want to raise awareness this Black Maternal Health Week for the health disparities experienced by Black Americans, who are 3-4x more likely to die because of childbirth-related causes.
Cutting Medicaid will only make this worse. We need to improve and expand care, not cut it.
Cutting Medicaid will only make this worse. We need to improve and expand care, not cut it.
April 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Want to raise awareness this Black Maternal Health Week for the health disparities experienced by Black Americans, who are 3-4x more likely to die because of childbirth-related causes.
Cutting Medicaid will only make this worse. We need to improve and expand care, not cut it.
Cutting Medicaid will only make this worse. We need to improve and expand care, not cut it.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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Our March was a great success! Over 2,000 people showed, including Martin Sheen
March 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Our March was a great success! Over 2,000 people showed, including Martin Sheen
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It really is one of the definitive posts of all time. @ndrew.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It really is one of the definitive posts of all time. @ndrew.bsky.social
This is completely wrong and backwards. You will regret this vote, but the rest of us will have to live through the dire negative consequences.
A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, state, and country.
Musk has said he wants a shutdown, and reporting has shown he is already making plans to use the shutdown to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services.
Musk has said he wants a shutdown, and reporting has shown he is already making plans to use the shutdown to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services.
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is completely wrong and backwards. You will regret this vote, but the rest of us will have to live through the dire negative consequences.
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If he’s not going to fight, then he should quit. This is just surrender and facilitating the coup.
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If he’s not going to fight, then he should quit. This is just surrender and facilitating the coup.
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1/ Kevin Drum, who wrote and blogged for Mother Jones for more than a decade, passed on Friday. We knew it was coming, but it still hit hard. @monikab.bsky.social and I wrote something to honor him: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/0...
Goodbye, Kevin Drum
"Take care of Donald Trump for me."
www.motherjones.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
1/ Kevin Drum, who wrote and blogged for Mother Jones for more than a decade, passed on Friday. We knew it was coming, but it still hit hard. @monikab.bsky.social and I wrote something to honor him: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/0...
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The Trump Justice Department is declining to prosecute a sitting Republican Congressman who was referred to them by the DC police for beating a woman.
BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...
Big Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office
There’s a big, big scandal brewing beneath the already big scandal of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The Trump Justice Department is declining to prosecute a sitting Republican Congressman who was referred to them by the DC police for beating a woman.
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Know Your Rights trainings work. Don’t even open the door. Really, to anyone. If it’s someone important and they know you, they have a cellphone, they’ll call.
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
February 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Know Your Rights trainings work. Don’t even open the door. Really, to anyone. If it’s someone important and they know you, they have a cellphone, they’ll call.
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I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it
If you told me "an extremely senile Trump was re elected after being convicted of a felony but the real president is Elon Musk, who's a Nazi now, and he's employing his drug dealer and nazi child pornographers to tear down the entire US government" in 2020 I'd have thought you were on crack
ten years ago telling most people we would end up like this would get you locked up in an nuthouse. all of this makes me less convinced about the ability to project out political outcomes, especially ones that feel immutable in a moment we can't see past
February 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it
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This all makes sense, with Trumps crazy South Africa tweet and musk’s targeting of USAid.
February 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This all makes sense, with Trumps crazy South Africa tweet and musk’s targeting of USAid.
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Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.
February 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.
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DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
January 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
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the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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If Dems flip #CA45 & #CA13, then the U.S. House majority will have literally come down to the 3 NC the GOP flipped thanks to its new gerrymander.
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
If Dems flip #CA45 & #CA13, then the U.S. House majority will have literally come down to the 3 NC the GOP flipped thanks to its new gerrymander.
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
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Looks like Democrats will end up ~7500 votes short of winning the House majority across three districts. That's the difference between having the power of the purse, subpoenas etc — or not — in a nation of 330+ million.
November 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Looks like Democrats will end up ~7500 votes short of winning the House majority across three districts. That's the difference between having the power of the purse, subpoenas etc — or not — in a nation of 330+ million.
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This is obvious. Taiwan understands it, but its remarkable how many Americans, who claim to be worried about China, don't.
⚡️Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritize aiding Ukraine over Taiwan, Politico reports.
"A Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression," former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said during the Halifax International Security Forum.
"A Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression," former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said during the Halifax International Security Forum.
Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritize aiding Ukraine over Taiwan, Politico reports
"A Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression," former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said during the Halifax International Security Forum on Nov. 23.
kyivindependent.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:39 PM
This is obvious. Taiwan understands it, but its remarkable how many Americans, who claim to be worried about China, don't.
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To be fair she does look like a chicken.
November 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
To be fair she does look like a chicken.