Nurse, Democrat, reformed academic. Happily married to Tim. Guncle of 5 in 3 generations. Fierce LGBTQIA+ advocate. Buddhistic. Will never give up on universal human rights! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๏ธ Formerly @billcody on twitter 'til...you know. (Photo is me in 1974.)
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If you enjoyโฆ Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays โฆ then youโre part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
This oneโs for the generous souls who keep pouring from an empty cup while the takers bring straws.
#Spineless #GOP bsky.app/profile/bonk...
Not a smart post. There are good, intelligent, talented, and accomplished people everywhere there are people.
RFK, Jr., Secretary of Health & Human Services,is the epitome of mentally ill. His behavior is completely out of control along with 47. These 2 need a hospital, real doctors and good medication. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #VoteBlueforOurFuture
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At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.
RFKJr is a danger to the public health of the United States. He should be removed from office immediately and a qualified public health expert put in office to replace him.
In Florida, the GOP is actually paying to remove and replace colored bricks so there is no Pride walkway. They are trying to erase #LGBT people.
RFK Jr. ๐๐คฃ ๐๐
I learned it in HS 50+ yrs ago. It is really not specialized jargon. It is an American political & legal concept in common use since the '40s that all citizens who work for pay ought to know. I bemoan the fact this is not so. If it were, we'd have higher union membership.
I am a nurse & I love my fellow nurses as comrades-in-arms, incl. those w/ whom I don't always agree. The 4 million US RNs are the most trusted profession & are people who genuinely deeply care about public health. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
What am I missing here? Abigail is clearly saying that the white colonialists lied and stole the land from the indigenous people immorally. She's explaining the white colonialists' purported philosophical basis of these immoral acts, while clearly totally disagreeing with them.
The truth about Red States
The US buyer has to pay the tariff for the goods to leave the port. That's cut-&-dried. Merchants obvsly pass the cost along to consumers. Our journalists have failed us on this. It literally can be explained in a tweet or sound-byte, but Trump admin has gotten away w/ lying about it for 6 months.
We agree, @robhuebel โ seems Dems should be talking about this: โState Dept denied Trump intervened on Alexandrovichโs behalf, but that appears implausible. Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruptionโฆ a gift unicorn grazing in Demsโ backyard โ And yet?โ zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknananโs clerks this Labor Day weekend
Only unions ever made the. shares going to the richest 10% and the poorest 90% roughly equal - the most "equal" we've ever been. That's sad. Oligarchy is socially medieval. Only the lies we tell ourselves have changed.
Sad that the population is that semi-literate. Even google gives the right answer which takes like 5 seconds.
Trump admin kidnapped 600 minors & had them on the runway ready to go to Guatemala. One (1) single brave jurist stood in their way. This is so bad. When the hell are people from the disaffected/apathetic middle &/or the Republican Party going to wake up & re-join humanity by protesting this shit?
Annie Leibovitz, the iconic photographer who has done multiple sessions with Trump, said in 2018: โYou do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just donโt.โ #Pink www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
No sane HS grad believes that Trump's unnecessary & unConstitutional actions had any positive effect on the 470 sq. mi. & 4 MIL people that constitute Los Angeles. Who are they producing this shit for? No intelligent adult believes them. #Idiocracy
And yet Faux "News" is telling people that "everything is better than EVER." But they're beginning to figure out the reality....
Yep. Sad for them. Sad for us.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, itโs not criminals theyโre targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: โYouโve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 โฆ and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.โ
๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐. ๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ." - ๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ . ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐๐ฒ, ๐๐ซ
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Are they actually sleeping on the job now? Spotted near a police station in the southeast. Washington, DC
๐จChildren๐จKilled by๐จICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
Trump's America, 2025. ICE goons drag away a priest kneeling in front of ICE vehicles to try to stop them. Trump & MAGA despise Christians who love instead of hate.
Forget the haters: DEI & pro-LGBTQ+ policies are good for business, new study shows www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/forg...
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
Unbelievably bad. โThe CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.โ www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
{๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฟ}: Ornstein blasted Trumpโs chaos machine for numbing Americans with daily scandal โ and gave Dems a plan: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐., ๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐ . ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ท ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐รง๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐. โคธ www.rawstory.com/impeachment-...
Heโs on another QAnon posting spree tonight.
Triple Crown winner: Pastor, Predator and Not a Drag Queen
Everything is your post is a complete lie. You are tripping. Please seek help. You may be a danger to yourself as well as others. Hopefully you read quick b/c I'm about to block you.
"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.
โFor the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.โ Must be nice! abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
Philadelphiaโs District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbookโ We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
WTAF?
JD Vance: โTrump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.โ { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
CHICAGOโฆ
The philosophy of Olympism states explicitly that sport is a human right. stillmed.olympics.com/media/Docume...
Same. Seriously.
Trusting the experts gave us the modern world, common lifespans of 80 years, surviving cancer and major trauma, & organ transplants, along with 100-story buildings, mile-long bridges, & global info in our cellphones. It's actually just about the only reliable base principle of modern life we have.
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The Rev took attendanceโฆ
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster heโs created.
Why do we do the research? Because policy should be based on evidence, not bias. In a new paper Gollish et al. 2025 which shows that WA's DSD regulations arenโt backed by performance data. Caster Semenya Runs like a girl. open.substack.com/pub/rogerpie...
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...just another reminder of the idiot occupying the People's House...
OH LOOK. THE NEW CDC HEAD, JIM O'NEILL IS A LUNATIC. Why can't we have Ed O'Neill, the fine actor from Married With Children?
Thereโs a word for that: corruption.
Keep the Epstein story alive.
#SayFascism
Good.
...which was also on another continent..... I am confounded as to why more Americans aren't taking to the streets. Many of our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents died so there would not be a Trump, and there he is. #SayFascism
I reiterate that immigrants should NOT go to immigration court. They can comply by setting up a Zoom meeting. Call 888-462-5211 for help completing and submitting a Motion to Change Hearing Format form. Please pass on this information!
Didn't I call it? JUST like Lex Luthor's monkeys!! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Case. In. Point. Thank you for illustrating my post. Sincerely, Bill
Roberts' net worth is $25mil (Forbes); he has a $317K/yr job w/ platinum benefits FOR LIFE (he's 70 so will pull in +$3 MIL easy) +unlimited access to side gigs like speeches & teaching at even higher rates. These people are just sooo fucking GREEDY! It's incomprehensible to those of us who aren't.
They donโt care if 1/3 of us die. The sooner people, accept that, the more their actions make sense. We are not dealing with people who have empathy. We are dealing with collective sociopathy.
"When you pray, Move your feet." I like that.
No words.
The RW is lost to madness. Utterly lost.
On May 6, 1933, Nazi troops and youth burned 20,000 books from world's first trans clinic. It was one of the first and largest of the Nazi book burnings.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can โsee in kids faces that they have inflammationโ Thatโs NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
The inclusive era for trans athletes was the last 14 to 21 yrs for 2 huge authorities (NCAA & Olympics). Nothing in sports or sport science has happened to press a change to that. But now US & UK laws & reg's are overriding the judgment of sport authorities, so supporting the latter doesn't matter.
If a person had to stand before a qualified board of decision-makers and give an *accurate* 100-word-or-so synopsis of a work of literature in their own words, without notes, in order to get a hearing on banning the book, the banned book list would drop by 99%.
๐จ50 shades of fucked up. No fear but much loathing these โpeopleโ in 2025.
โKennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?โ Dr Bill Foege
I tell you what you are saying is offensive, so you just double down. Well, at least I can eliminate your bigoted rants from my timeline by blocking you. Bye-bye.
You've missed the point. There was a long inclusive era for trans athletes involving most of the world & all US colleges & universities - millions of athletes. NONE of what you are imagining happened. Your fevered imagination, leading you into hatred & bigotry, is no match for the facts.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : โFacts are stubborn thingsโฆ Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansasโฆ. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? โ He isnโt focused on crime & violence. Itโs about an expression of authoritarianism.โ (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
You're sitting round picturing 1 of the largest, most famous cis male athletes going on estrogen therapy & you're saying "What if...??" And you think trans advocates are "insane"! The Olympics was trans inclusive x20yrs, NCAA x14 yrs -- many millions of athletes. Nothing remotely like that happened.
THIS FROM THE HERO WHO WAS DENIED ABILITY TO FEED STARVING PEOPLE IN GAZA BY WAR CRIMINAL GENOCIDE-IST NETANYAHU
RFK Jr is a death sentence for millions. Children first. Pharmacist are refusing to give patients the Covid boosters already. CDC has been decimated. Cancer research has been ended . All because Republicans who knew better were too afraid of Donald Trump to vote โNoโ on Kennedy. #ProudBlue
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