petra de asis
@petradeasis.bsky.social
concerned citizen bearing witness. seed, scion, and crop swapper. immigrant, ph.d. #khive
Aoe: trauma, stress management, disaster preparedness/disaster mental health, adhd, gardening, carpentry
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petra de asis
@petradeasis.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Choice A: imperfect Dems who try to pass less than perfect legislation for the good of Americans
Choice B: incompetent racist/sexist GOP who weaponize cruelty & chaos to the detriment of Americans, spreading suffering while lowering taxes for the rich
Hyperfocusing on A depresses votes. Oppose B.
Choice B: incompetent racist/sexist GOP who weaponize cruelty & chaos to the detriment of Americans, spreading suffering while lowering taxes for the rich
Hyperfocusing on A depresses votes. Oppose B.
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If Democratic voters (including centrists, liberals, progressives, and even some leftists) had stuck by Democrats in 2010 and 2014, the ACA would be a lot stronger now. If they had shown up for Dems in 2016, we wouldn't be here at all and women would still have reproductive rights. But no.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If Democratic voters (including centrists, liberals, progressives, and even some leftists) had stuck by Democrats in 2010 and 2014, the ACA would be a lot stronger now. If they had shown up for Dems in 2016, we wouldn't be here at all and women would still have reproductive rights. But no.
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Seriously, the ACA that everyone is so INSISTENT must be maintained, enhanced, and expanded... are some of the same jackasses that failed to vote in 2010 and 2014 after its passage as "punishment" for it not going far enough, handing Congress to the GOP, who have attacked it non-stop.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Seriously, the ACA that everyone is so INSISTENT must be maintained, enhanced, and expanded... are some of the same jackasses that failed to vote in 2010 and 2014 after its passage as "punishment" for it not going far enough, handing Congress to the GOP, who have attacked it non-stop.
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GOP voters are a brainwashed cult bound by hatred to vote against Democrats & Liberals AT ANY COST.
Democratic voters are a herd of cats and fair-weather friends who think voting is optional and who abandon Democrats at the SLIGHTEST perceived weakness or failure (it doesn't even have to be real).
Democratic voters are a herd of cats and fair-weather friends who think voting is optional and who abandon Democrats at the SLIGHTEST perceived weakness or failure (it doesn't even have to be real).
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
GOP voters are a brainwashed cult bound by hatred to vote against Democrats & Liberals AT ANY COST.
Democratic voters are a herd of cats and fair-weather friends who think voting is optional and who abandon Democrats at the SLIGHTEST perceived weakness or failure (it doesn't even have to be real).
Democratic voters are a herd of cats and fair-weather friends who think voting is optional and who abandon Democrats at the SLIGHTEST perceived weakness or failure (it doesn't even have to be real).
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🧑🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.”
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🧑🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.”
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
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California AG Rob Bonta on the question of whether the federal government can take back SNAP benefits that have already been distributed by some states to recipients:
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
California AG Rob Bonta on the question of whether the federal government can take back SNAP benefits that have already been distributed by some states to recipients:
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That's why Dems only do a fraction of what they promised, bc they have neither the margins nor the time to do it.
We can't get FDR- or LBJ-like results out of a 50-50 Senate. It's not possible unless we're somehow only electing Senators like Warren & Sanders.
We can't get FDR- or LBJ-like results out of a 50-50 Senate. It's not possible unless we're somehow only electing Senators like Warren & Sanders.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
That's why Dems only do a fraction of what they promised, bc they have neither the margins nor the time to do it.
We can't get FDR- or LBJ-like results out of a 50-50 Senate. It's not possible unless we're somehow only electing Senators like Warren & Sanders.
We can't get FDR- or LBJ-like results out of a 50-50 Senate. It's not possible unless we're somehow only electing Senators like Warren & Sanders.
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Why didn't Dems do more w the power voters refused to give them?!
In the 45 years since Carter, Dems have had trifectas for six(!) of them, & a filibuster-proof trifecta for six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!).
In the 45 years since Carter, Dems have had trifectas for six(!) of them, & a filibuster-proof trifecta for six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!).
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Why didn't Dems do more w the power voters refused to give them?!
In the 45 years since Carter, Dems have had trifectas for six(!) of them, & a filibuster-proof trifecta for six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!).
In the 45 years since Carter, Dems have had trifectas for six(!) of them, & a filibuster-proof trifecta for six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!).
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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
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California is here for the long haul.
While the Trump Administration makes this country unrecognizable, California remains a stable, reliable partner in the fight for a clean energy future.
While the Trump Administration makes this country unrecognizable, California remains a stable, reliable partner in the fight for a clean energy future.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
California is here for the long haul.
While the Trump Administration makes this country unrecognizable, California remains a stable, reliable partner in the fight for a clean energy future.
While the Trump Administration makes this country unrecognizable, California remains a stable, reliable partner in the fight for a clean energy future.
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Okay Adrian!! Dropping knowledge with heat like napalm.
This entire exchange highlights what we're dealing with in America. Folks expect Dems to instantly fix everything the GOP breaks without giving Dems the adequate numbers to do instant fixes.
This entire exchange highlights what we're dealing with in America. Folks expect Dems to instantly fix everything the GOP breaks without giving Dems the adequate numbers to do instant fixes.
Because there have only been six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!) since Carter(!) when the GOP couldn't obstruct everything!
Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.
And building is always harder than destroying.
Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.
And building is always harder than destroying.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Okay Adrian!! Dropping knowledge with heat like napalm.
This entire exchange highlights what we're dealing with in America. Folks expect Dems to instantly fix everything the GOP breaks without giving Dems the adequate numbers to do instant fixes.
This entire exchange highlights what we're dealing with in America. Folks expect Dems to instantly fix everything the GOP breaks without giving Dems the adequate numbers to do instant fixes.
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The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...
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Uncomfortable truth about US politics is we’ve been in a constitutional crisis this whole century, and there is no way out short of a revolution. Kind of a midwit thing where the super low-info voters get that and the polisci professors get that and everybody else is like, Dems gotta try harder!!
The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system.
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Uncomfortable truth about US politics is we’ve been in a constitutional crisis this whole century, and there is no way out short of a revolution. Kind of a midwit thing where the super low-info voters get that and the polisci professors get that and everybody else is like, Dems gotta try harder!!
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
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The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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This.
Folks are pissed off that Republicans made Democrats make a hard decision…after giving republicans power of all 3 branches in November of 2024.
Only 5 or 6 states fully funded SNAP for November and those same states are going to shore up ACA tax credits when lost. All those states are blue.
Folks are pissed off that Republicans made Democrats make a hard decision…after giving republicans power of all 3 branches in November of 2024.
Only 5 or 6 states fully funded SNAP for November and those same states are going to shore up ACA tax credits when lost. All those states are blue.
When people say most white people in america don't understand why racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia is bad in america? This is what we mean. Those things doesn't just hurt the people targeted by it. It fucks up people's ability to think logically and morally.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This.
Folks are pissed off that Republicans made Democrats make a hard decision…after giving republicans power of all 3 branches in November of 2024.
Only 5 or 6 states fully funded SNAP for November and those same states are going to shore up ACA tax credits when lost. All those states are blue.
Folks are pissed off that Republicans made Democrats make a hard decision…after giving republicans power of all 3 branches in November of 2024.
Only 5 or 6 states fully funded SNAP for November and those same states are going to shore up ACA tax credits when lost. All those states are blue.
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This gets at the nature of political power. Right now at the federal level Republicans have the vast majority of it. Not all, but much, much more than Democrats. And when you have that advantage you can put the other party in lose-lose situations & force them to make unpopular choices.
I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This gets at the nature of political power. Right now at the federal level Republicans have the vast majority of it. Not all, but much, much more than Democrats. And when you have that advantage you can put the other party in lose-lose situations & force them to make unpopular choices.
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I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
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The collapse of civilian air travel means the collapse of civilian air freight and the collapse of medical supply chains which involve flying medicine to where it needs to go, along with a bunch of other things that are less immediately relevant to people's lives.
But Senators might have had *their* flights canceled, Paul! You know, people who actually *matter*. People who make *donations* to *campaigns*.
Not SNAP recipients.
Not SNAP recipients.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The collapse of civilian air travel means the collapse of civilian air freight and the collapse of medical supply chains which involve flying medicine to where it needs to go, along with a bunch of other things that are less immediately relevant to people's lives.
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The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
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I think some of you have not taken a single moment to consider that the people who’ve been out of work for the last 40 days and who are presently staring down the prospect of going into the holiday season without a paycheck are *also* calling their congresspeople.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I think some of you have not taken a single moment to consider that the people who’ve been out of work for the last 40 days and who are presently staring down the prospect of going into the holiday season without a paycheck are *also* calling their congresspeople.
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Read this statement.
Do you see how Jeffries opposes the Senate CR, but is able to correctly put the blame on the Republicans who are in power and control everything the Senate does?
Read it again if you have to, but fucking LEARN FROM HIM and DO THIS if you actually oppose Republicans.
Do you see how Jeffries opposes the Senate CR, but is able to correctly put the blame on the Republicans who are in power and control everything the Senate does?
Read it again if you have to, but fucking LEARN FROM HIM and DO THIS if you actually oppose Republicans.
My statement on the spending legislation and Republican healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Read this statement.
Do you see how Jeffries opposes the Senate CR, but is able to correctly put the blame on the Republicans who are in power and control everything the Senate does?
Read it again if you have to, but fucking LEARN FROM HIM and DO THIS if you actually oppose Republicans.
Do you see how Jeffries opposes the Senate CR, but is able to correctly put the blame on the Republicans who are in power and control everything the Senate does?
Read it again if you have to, but fucking LEARN FROM HIM and DO THIS if you actually oppose Republicans.
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You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?
A prominent far-right German activist has applied for political asylum in the U.S., as the Trump administration has signaled plans to prioritize protections for White refugees and Europeans who claim they are being targeted for their populist views.
German far-right activist seeks asylum in U.S. as Trump ties deepen
Social media influencer Naomi Seibt, a supporter of the nationalist AfD party, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?
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The U.S. is far ahead of its nuclear adversaries in research and data about nuclear warheads, and experts believe explosive testing is not only strategically unnecessary, but, as several put it, “insane.”
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The U.S. is far ahead of its nuclear adversaries in research and data about nuclear warheads, and experts believe explosive testing is not only strategically unnecessary, but, as several put it, “insane.”
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...