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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it only bends toward justice if we grab it and bend until it gets fucking bent. Friend of Andre, friend of Samantha. she/her. The only constant is change.
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Do we intro? I'm a game designer, photographer, potter, sewist, pretty good cook & middlin' Fortnite player. I live with my spouse and two teenage boys in the place where we failed us the most and I did my best to avert that. I am striving to contribute to a community of action.
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This is the argument for "pre-existing conditions." Like being a woman.
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is the argument for "pre-existing conditions." Like being a woman.
This was seriously worth the read if you like to keep up with the news but certain things make you go ew.
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This was seriously worth the read if you like to keep up with the news but certain things make you go ew.
Shouldn't the parties have agreed on basically everything before the land is cleared?
There's a disagreement between the president and the White House ballroom architect over how big the ballroom should be. You'll have to click here to figure out which one is taking which side. wapo.st/4prs3HI
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Shouldn't the parties have agreed on basically everything before the land is cleared?
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"The negotiations were enabled by a law enacted during the Biden administration without any Republican votes." Wow. Something Trump didn't get repealed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
U.S. Announces Negotiated Prices for 15 Drugs Under Medicare
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"The negotiations were enabled by a law enacted during the Biden administration without any Republican votes." Wow. Something Trump didn't get repealed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Today I discovered that @jayapal.house.gov's #6 campaign contributor is people who work at @valvesoftware.com
Love the bsky.app/profile/us-g... campaign contributions labeler so much. It makes everything clearer.
Love the bsky.app/profile/us-g... campaign contributions labeler so much. It makes everything clearer.
bsky.app
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Today I discovered that @jayapal.house.gov's #6 campaign contributor is people who work at @valvesoftware.com
Love the bsky.app/profile/us-g... campaign contributions labeler so much. It makes everything clearer.
Love the bsky.app/profile/us-g... campaign contributions labeler so much. It makes everything clearer.
Alcohol poisoning before Leviticus.
New biblical drinking game—read the Hebrew Bible and take a shot every time someone really needs therapy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Alcohol poisoning before Leviticus.
Chronic ketamine usage suppresses empathy.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Chronic ketamine usage suppresses empathy.
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Many are struggling to understand what “illegal orders” the members of Congress could be referring to. But we’ve already seen examples. During his first term, Trump asked, “Can’t you just shoot them? Shoot them in the legs,” referring to protesters. #holdfast
www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...
www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...
Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Esper about his forthcoming book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times."
www.npr.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Many are struggling to understand what “illegal orders” the members of Congress could be referring to. But we’ve already seen examples. During his first term, Trump asked, “Can’t you just shoot them? Shoot them in the legs,” referring to protesters. #holdfast
www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...
www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...
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Trump’s reference to “military courts” and the SECDEF “looking into it” is alarming because he is broadly hinting at subjecting members of Congress to military tribunals — something with no legal basis — and even floating that idea is an unmistakable authoritarian signal
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November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Trump’s reference to “military courts” and the SECDEF “looking into it” is alarming because he is broadly hinting at subjecting members of Congress to military tribunals — something with no legal basis — and even floating that idea is an unmistakable authoritarian signal
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Look! A government agency still doing its job!
(If you're gonna deep fry a turkey, don't. But if you must, do it outside on concrete away from house & vegetation. And have a fire extinguisher nearby. But just don't.)
Props to the social media people at @cpsc.gov
(If you're gonna deep fry a turkey, don't. But if you must, do it outside on concrete away from house & vegetation. And have a fire extinguisher nearby. But just don't.)
Props to the social media people at @cpsc.gov
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Look! A government agency still doing its job!
(If you're gonna deep fry a turkey, don't. But if you must, do it outside on concrete away from house & vegetation. And have a fire extinguisher nearby. But just don't.)
Props to the social media people at @cpsc.gov
(If you're gonna deep fry a turkey, don't. But if you must, do it outside on concrete away from house & vegetation. And have a fire extinguisher nearby. But just don't.)
Props to the social media people at @cpsc.gov
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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crouching in a dark parking lot with a group of the worst human beings who have ever lived eating garbage is the limit of these people's imaginings
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
crouching in a dark parking lot with a group of the worst human beings who have ever lived eating garbage is the limit of these people's imaginings
Highly recommend reading this. It's just a laundry list of things they will try to stay in power.
Foundational deceit and hatred of the American franchise to vote
Missouri AG Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Highly recommend reading this. It's just a laundry list of things they will try to stay in power.
Move fast! Break things! Go to prison!
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Move fast! Break things! Go to prison!
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New #sciart! Watercolor brains expressing different states of mind. Original paintings, not prints; one of each. artologica.etsy.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New #sciart! Watercolor brains expressing different states of mind. Original paintings, not prints; one of each. artologica.etsy.com
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look at this.
Utterly depraved
Utterly depraved
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
look at this.
Utterly depraved
Utterly depraved
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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why is everybody using grok today. i think we shoudnt
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
why is everybody using grok today. i think we shoudnt
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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Political violence is on the rise and the president is calling for the death of Members of Congress.
This is the same person who has already incited a violent insurrection on the Capitol because of his rhetoric and lies. We cannot accept or normalize this.
This is the same person who has already incited a violent insurrection on the Capitol because of his rhetoric and lies. We cannot accept or normalize this.
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Political violence is on the rise and the president is calling for the death of Members of Congress.
This is the same person who has already incited a violent insurrection on the Capitol because of his rhetoric and lies. We cannot accept or normalize this.
This is the same person who has already incited a violent insurrection on the Capitol because of his rhetoric and lies. We cannot accept or normalize this.
In the wake of the Hortman / Hoffman shootings, this is an order to his crackpot followers. Not good.
The President is calling for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged. This is deplorable, un-American, & an open invitation to political violence.
Servicemembers take their oath to the Constitution, not to any president. I stand with my colleagues who have honorably served this nation.
Servicemembers take their oath to the Constitution, not to any president. I stand with my colleagues who have honorably served this nation.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In the wake of the Hortman / Hoffman shootings, this is an order to his crackpot followers. Not good.
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When we have a state legislature that can legally take bribes from corporate lobbyists, we wind up with a system that works for those with $$ and not for the working class. Our democracy should not be pay to play.
ALICE households are those with income levels above the Federal Poverty Level but not enough to afford basic expenses where they live.
40% of households in PA were below the ALICE threshold in 2023.
40% of households in PA were below the ALICE threshold in 2023.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
When we have a state legislature that can legally take bribes from corporate lobbyists, we wind up with a system that works for those with $$ and not for the working class. Our democracy should not be pay to play.
Were you though?
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Were you though?
That's where the rub is - the justice department & the white house can classify any old documents they want.
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That's where the rub is - the justice department & the white house can classify any old documents they want.
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Today was supposed to be about dialogue and solutions. Instead, state leaders hid from their own constituents to avoid discussing corruption bills. There is no rest for the corrupt and the wicked. We are not going anywhere and we are building a stronger movement!
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Today was supposed to be about dialogue and solutions. Instead, state leaders hid from their own constituents to avoid discussing corruption bills. There is no rest for the corrupt and the wicked. We are not going anywhere and we are building a stronger movement!