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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 2h

If you're pregnant and you show up in an ER, it better be in a state that isn't threatening doctors with criminal charges for anything abortion-related.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 2h

Elwood, IL is also home to the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, a beautiful final haven for military veterans.

Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 2h

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

www.yahoo.com

Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 4h

Wishing you peace and quiet at least once per day. Wishing you chances to breathe and clear your head. Thank you for your work to stop evil and witness this time.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 4h

"We are trying to hold our ground against an intractable enemy. We are trying to out-think brute force. We are moving in opposition to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, without the infrastructure or resources that our efforts require. We are stretched. And there is no end in sight."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 18h

Adding in all the ice creameries and bakeries and taquerias and breweries.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 18h

Hegseth said no beardos but I guess mustachoes are ok.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 1d

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 1d

Eh

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!!

Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 2d

a group of people are dancing in front of a wall with the word boom on it

Alt: a group of people are dancing in front of a wall with the word boom on it

media.tenor.com

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 2d

Want to see a "virgin on screen?" Any actor who has not given birth could be a virgin. Unless you really believe in immaculate conception -- which AI is.

Whoa, Ok, that's a lot for a Monday morning. 🫨

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Paramount just paid $150 million for this

Article from The Free Press

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

“Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen.

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.
By Tyler Cowen
10.02.25

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 2d

"But why should we sit by while you take our money, defund our priorities, and shit on our values?"

Some interesting ideas here.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

“California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required.”

My piece exploring "soft secession": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Angry Buni @angrybuni.bsky.social · 3d

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 5d

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 5d

"Outside the federal government, ICE is recruiting municipal police officers and sheriffs’ deputies at a fast clip—even offering to pay their salaries and hand out bonuses to departments that round up a high percentage of the undocumented immigrants ICE has tipped them off about."

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents.

Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs.

Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

$A pie chart entitled "ICE, ICE, Maybe?" with a dek that says "a fraction of deportation personnel are employed by ICE's primary deportation unit." 13% percent of the graph is shaded in orange, with ICE ERO written in white, while the remaining 87% of the graph is shaded in gray and labelled Other$

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 6d

Stevie Ray Vaughn. I missed seeing him at the Chicago Blues Fest and he died before I could see him live.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal.

I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t.

Watch all the way through.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown - video

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename 'Operation Midway Blitz', has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests

www.theguardian.com

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 6d

Very true. Thanks for adding that.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 7d

I also think allowing comedians to joke about trans people was a huge mistake. Comedy was how Gen X got much of its own ideology.

Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 7d

Yes! Ross Perot got 13 percent of the vote in 1992 -- huge for a third party candidate -- and many of those voters were my peers.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 7d

"We need a serious left project with all of its material underpinnings about what type of energy system we would like to build or what type of green ecological society we would like to build."

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 8d

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition

thebaffler.com

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 7d

I am so disappointed in us. I think we inherited too much ideology from our Boomer parents. Also, I believe watching Bill Clinton's impeachment messed us up even more. We did not trust government to begin with, as many of us grew up with Nixon, Reagan, and watching adults ridicule Jimmy Carter.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 8d

He voted for Kavanaugh.
www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

How Jeff Flake's turnaround on Kavanaugh went down

The Republican went from announcing his support for Kavanaugh this morning to demanding the FBI investigate the nominee hours later

www.msnbc.com