Life long repro advocate. Here for social Justice, science, and pet picts. Officially tired. **Wear a mask- everywhere.** LC, EDS. Love a good debate, but won’t tolerate fools. I live for fresh air, the slow crawl to health, & my dog, and cats.
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A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
August 2025. USA. This is who we’ve always been. We could be better. If we stop this. If white people had courage, morals, empathy, eyes that see and ears that hear??
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
I just had a cocktail with those on top- yummy!
"I'm a big believer that Maryland will be, can be, and should be the state that serves, and I believe that service is the thing that's gonna end up saving us all." @iamwesmoore.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social in the latest episode of How To Fix It:
Medicare for all. Paid leave. Universal childcare. Break up corporate monopolies. Take on Wall Street greed. Get big money out of politics. Support unions. Raise wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda.
❗️The plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen made an emergency landing in Bulgaria - due to the action of Russian electronic warfare, navigation was disabled and specialists were forced to use paper maps
If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
I guess if you're in a major city in a blue state, you have to start thinking about how you're going to successfully vote with the actual military attempting to prevent you. Because that's why the military is being moved into cities right now. They're being pre-mobilized to prevent voting.
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.
Heads Up!
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
As Marco Rubio shuts down USAID, CNN find clips and a letter of him praising USAID
Did someone need a baby goat video?? 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
This is what is happening in Gaza. I thought running over an American woman would help us care. Nope. Don’t look away.
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
In approximately 60 days, several major elections are going to take place across the country. I think SOMEONE at the DNC should be responsible for INFORMING all of the Dems in America how we can help our team members win. SOMEONE should be sending out links to sign up for letter writing, call &
I had a popular, award-winning podcast called Democracy in Danger that ran from 2020 through 2024. Then UVA canceled it because I guess democracy was no longer in danger.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Illness is not a moral failure.
Football used to be deadly before we had vaccines. Here's the story of 29 players died from tetanus—a bacteria found everywhere—before vaccines. There is no immunity to tetanus except through vaccines. Even tetanus survivors -saved by antitoxin, antibiotics & critical care - don’t gain protection
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
That and his attack on homeless encampments! If you don’t care to protect the marginalized, you have no business in power. We must protect our trans members, we must find ways to rebuild the economy and straighten up the housing hording crisis.
Ok, @jaimeharrison.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social drumroll please… waiting on a response?
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
🚨Children🚨Killed by🚨ICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
Imagine if Dems could take back the senate. (Long odds, I know.) Just the effect on the judiciary alone would be huge. Susan Collins has never been a moderate, and Trump has her vote anytime he really needs it. Maine has a better choice in @grahamformaine.bsky.social. Give him a follow.
This might be a better plan than Vance-Thiel running the show. Esp if you thought Trump-Musk-DOGE was bad…
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
❗️A video from a 🇨🇳Chinese factory where it was being tested was found in the camera of a downed 🇷🇺Russian drone, the Gerbera.
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
"Another picture emerged: that of small businesses being harmed by a president who was elected because of his purported business acumen; of a man whose obsession with appearing tough on crime now threatens to sabotage urban economies across the country."
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
After Rep Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse, injuring his wife & assaulting his teenage daughter, it's unclear whether OK GOP & House Speaker Kyle Hilbert will take action. They even kept the case against Burns secret until Thursday, Aug. 28. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO & THIS IS WHO THEY ARE!
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
When your ‘President’ is a low-functioning middle school bully.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Oklahoma!!
And @jaimeharrison.bsky.social response? @kaine.senate.gov ? @markwarner.bsky.social ? Do we have solution sets? I know Warner will post another ‘DC statehood’ post- bc that is protective?? If you are tired of criticisms, then please stand up!
I'm Dutch and watching this with horror. I'm crying and I am speechless. I hope Americans realize this is only the beginning, it will get worse. Within a few years you will be no different than Russia and North Korea. People will disappear and never return. One day it's going to be your kid too.
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
People with stronger malevolent traits may be more comfortable with aggression, dominance, or cruelty and less likely to value fairness or kindness. These tendencies are associated with lower levels of empathy and higher levels of dissonant empathy (enjoyment of others’ pain).
How is this legal?
Not so sure the day after ‘Good News Day’ will be better….
"You're so resilient" ME: Not on purpose or anything
Then we need to stop running candidates who throw marginalized groups under the fucking bus.
I’m confused. Are we allowed to call out leaders, and elected officials who line their pockets with AIPAC funds, listen to pollsters and consultants b/4 constituents, hoard and protect their own power over lifting, supporting, and nurturing younger rising leaders? Or is this your toe the line tweet?
a person offering teens free advice on how to take their own life: a monster, immediate jail for life at best a person who owns a company that makes money off giving teens advice on how to take their own life: a genius, this will save civilization, we must give you all the money
Vous ne verrez rien de plus beau aujourd'hui .... 🤩 Andrew Scott #Art #Talent
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But but he tweets good about Trump We have to deal with good enough ( and this is heinous on its own but I’m real blown on homie fighting Trump then using the exact reasoning that is why DC is under military rule)
Pritzker’s health department in Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers, and a coalition of mostly-blue states led by MA Governor Maura Healey is planning to coordinate on the purchase and distribution of pediatric vaccines.
Now add a list under of each Dem who helped vote them in by approving their nominations!
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Here's something I think a lot of folks don't yet understand, but 16 states' worth of CVSes refusing to give out Covid shots *is* actually preventing people from accessing them. They are the biggest pharmacy chain in the country and they own Aetna insurance, often forcing those clients to use CVS.
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain. All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.
Do It
Yes, but are we hoping Bance-Thiel will be better?
Massive.
As a single parent, that is what I used to do for almost 20 years… still paying it down. Was expecting better days… they aren’t.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Hey Mark- Told one of my chiropractic patients about Cost Plus Drugs last week and your mission after he complained a skin cancer medicine was going to cost him $1700- He found it on your website for under $20- for real. Best project ever. @costplusdrugs.com
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into… something.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Don’t look away
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Your periodic reminder that water companies do not produce water, they produce plastic bottles, in a similar way as they enclosed & cordoned off the natural world from us, only to sell it back to us a piece at a time. See also: HOAs prohibit gardening because corps & oil barons want you spending.
Why can’t people see that the level of incompetence in this administration has lead to irreparable harm & more is to come?!
His buddy Epstein said that Trump was functionally illiterate. First round Pentagon had to make him picture books. All he knows is how to be a racists/ sexist grifter.