Jodi
@jmills1.bsky.social
Midwesterner. Big fan of books, tennis, hiking, women’s sports. Pro: democracy.
Circulate human kindness. ✌🏻
Circulate human kindness. ✌🏻
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.
ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Minnesota Reformer
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January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
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keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
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The federal government said Monday that Tennessee has not opted into a summer food program for low income kids that brought more than $84 million in funding to avert childhood hunger in previous years.
via @tennesseelookout.com
via @tennesseelookout.com
Gov. Bill Lee declines to secure millions in federal funds to feed Tennessee kids during summer
Despite the urging of county mayors, child advocates, clergy and educators, Gov. Bill Lee has declined to secure millions of dollars in federal funding to provide food to low-income kids by the…
www.newsfromthestates.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The federal government said Monday that Tennessee has not opted into a summer food program for low income kids that brought more than $84 million in funding to avert childhood hunger in previous years.
via @tennesseelookout.com
via @tennesseelookout.com
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This brilliant defense flips the script on the "Mary problem," arguing her single life without George reflects her own extraordinary choice and agency, revealing the film's profound truth about being seen and chosen.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
www.thebulwark.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This brilliant defense flips the script on the "Mary problem," arguing her single life without George reflects her own extraordinary choice and agency, revealing the film's profound truth about being seen and chosen.
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I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Thursday for unfettered access to the states’ voter registration records. The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C.
This is a developing story...
This is a developing story...
DOJ Sues Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and DC, Expanding Campaign of Voter Data Lawsuits to 22
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.
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SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
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Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
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It’s stunning that an entire political party is willing to live with this and, worse, exploits efforts to prevent gun violence to hang on to power.
December 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s stunning that an entire political party is willing to live with this and, worse, exploits efforts to prevent gun violence to hang on to power.
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Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
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A doctor in Alaska once watched the hepatis B virus take children’s lives, until the vaccine for newborns made those tragedies preventable. Now a CDC panel is weighing changes that could limit access to the shot and fuel misinformation. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
RFK Jr. Wants To Delay the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Here’s What Parents Need To Know. - KFF Health News
A CDC panel is reconsidering the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Renewed doubt could lead to fewer kids getting vaccinated, leaving them vulnerable to an incurable, preventable virus that can b...
kffhealthnews.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A doctor in Alaska once watched the hepatis B virus take children’s lives, until the vaccine for newborns made those tragedies preventable. Now a CDC panel is weighing changes that could limit access to the shot and fuel misinformation. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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Andrea has been planning her after-Trump piece for weeks.
It coming out last Thursday, right as Vance was bragging that 200 days as VP prepared him to succeed Trump, was a wild coincidence.
But if you want to give some meaning to the "Is the dictator dead yet?!" game, I hope you'll watch this.
It coming out last Thursday, right as Vance was bragging that 200 days as VP prepared him to succeed Trump, was a wild coincidence.
But if you want to give some meaning to the "Is the dictator dead yet?!" game, I hope you'll watch this.
September 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Andrea has been planning her after-Trump piece for weeks.
It coming out last Thursday, right as Vance was bragging that 200 days as VP prepared him to succeed Trump, was a wild coincidence.
But if you want to give some meaning to the "Is the dictator dead yet?!" game, I hope you'll watch this.
It coming out last Thursday, right as Vance was bragging that 200 days as VP prepared him to succeed Trump, was a wild coincidence.
But if you want to give some meaning to the "Is the dictator dead yet?!" game, I hope you'll watch this.
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Aid groups say a “worst case for famine” is playing out in Gaza.
"The starvation, truly, is a hundred percent," says Dr. Tarek Loubani from Gaza, "I saw a little girl... she was sticks and bones and she was dead. And her father had brought her for resuscitation."
"The starvation, truly, is a hundred percent," says Dr. Tarek Loubani from Gaza, "I saw a little girl... she was sticks and bones and she was dead. And her father had brought her for resuscitation."
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
"I remember the first time that I saw a little girl, she was eight months old, brought to me—she was sticks and bones and she was dead."
www.motherjones.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Aid groups say a “worst case for famine” is playing out in Gaza.
"The starvation, truly, is a hundred percent," says Dr. Tarek Loubani from Gaza, "I saw a little girl... she was sticks and bones and she was dead. And her father had brought her for resuscitation."
"The starvation, truly, is a hundred percent," says Dr. Tarek Loubani from Gaza, "I saw a little girl... she was sticks and bones and she was dead. And her father had brought her for resuscitation."
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@zekeemanuel.bsky.social: “The other thing that I'm really worried about is we canceled the contract for developing an mRNA vaccine against flu, H5N1, that could cause a pandemic. $600 million, $2 per American as an insurance policy against the future…RFK Jr. canceled that contract.”
July 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@zekeemanuel.bsky.social: “The other thing that I'm really worried about is we canceled the contract for developing an mRNA vaccine against flu, H5N1, that could cause a pandemic. $600 million, $2 per American as an insurance policy against the future…RFK Jr. canceled that contract.”
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Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
www.politico.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
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This is your daily reminder that Republicans are planning to gut Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP to hand tax breaks to billionaires. Don’t get distracted. Help me spread the word.
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is your daily reminder that Republicans are planning to gut Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP to hand tax breaks to billionaires. Don’t get distracted. Help me spread the word.
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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
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Trump's' Big Ugly bill will:
-Kick 16 million people off their health care
-Force hospitals to shutter
-Push seniors out of nursing homes
-Increase health care costs for everyone.
Why? To cut taxes for billionaires.
Republicans need to know the country is paying attention.
-Kick 16 million people off their health care
-Force hospitals to shutter
-Push seniors out of nursing homes
-Increase health care costs for everyone.
Why? To cut taxes for billionaires.
Republicans need to know the country is paying attention.
June 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump's' Big Ugly bill will:
-Kick 16 million people off their health care
-Force hospitals to shutter
-Push seniors out of nursing homes
-Increase health care costs for everyone.
Why? To cut taxes for billionaires.
Republicans need to know the country is paying attention.
-Kick 16 million people off their health care
-Force hospitals to shutter
-Push seniors out of nursing homes
-Increase health care costs for everyone.
Why? To cut taxes for billionaires.
Republicans need to know the country is paying attention.