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@vervevida.bsky.social
Mother of invention, cool humans, & clingy cresteds. Lover of democracy, justice for all, & minds at work
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IATSE Local 80 in Burbank has emergency supplies….
January 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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January 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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In 1979, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed at the White House.

Ronald Reagan had them removed.

We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.
December 30, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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I’m saddened by the death of Jimmy Carter. But I’m grateful his death has provided fresh reason to reflect on the value of & need for compassion & humility. Especially as we are facing Jan 6, Jan 20 & four years of Trump’s selfish depravity, cruelty & idiocy. www.americaamerica.news/p/reflecting...
Reflecting On Cruelty, Kindness and Idiots
Revisiting the useful insights for the new year from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
www.americaamerica.news
December 31, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.
December 30, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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President Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age of 100. He was a symbol of what is best about America: kindness, compassion, duty and service. He will be missed, most of all by those who long for a return of that kind of country, led by a man with such strength of character.
December 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
December 23, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
December 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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NEW: They’re already trying to cut social security. Dems in the senate saved it.
December 21, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame.

You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.

If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
December 19, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Our rescue hound Quinn. She's extroverted and loves people and attention; she's more or less the mayor of our neighborhood. She has great comic timing but also a strong sense of responsibility. She can smell my emotions and acts as a default therapy dog—throwing herself on me whenever I smell upset.
December 20, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.
December 19, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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December 19, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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ONLY AN ABSOLUTE HORROR OF A HUMAN BEING WOULD DO THIS…

Republicans slashed $200 million for childhood cancer research—a program created with bipartisan support under Obama—from the CR bill.

Why? Because Elon Musk told them to.
December 20, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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Tax the churches.
Big things are happening in Texas mega churches
December 18, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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On an AA flight that landed at JFK waiting for a gate. Two littles were crying because of their ear pain on landing. After a couple minutes the flight attendant started singing *Twinkle Twinkle little star’, the entire plane joined in, the kids stopped crying, and this is the world I wanna live in.
December 7, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud

Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.

Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
December 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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"I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. "

Read Masha Gessen's 6 Rules.

www.nybooks.com/online/2016/...
December 15, 2024 at 5:58 PM