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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 3d

Are you a deaf person (18+ in the USA), who has lived through a disaster?

I'm conducting research interviews, and want to learn from you - your story is important!

Interested? Fill out the eligibility form at: gu.live/WJfeC

More information can be found in the attached flyer.

Flyer and QR code, which includes the following text:

Join a Research Study on
Disaster Preparedness & Deaf People!

Are you a deaf person who has lived through a disaster?
Your story is important! We want to learn from you!

Who Can Participate?
Deaf people 18+ who have experienced disaster - natural, or human-made

What’s Involved?
Share your experiences in one Zoom recorded interview, about 45 minutes

Why Join?
Your experience can help us improve disaster responses!
You will receive a $25 gift card for your time.

Interested?
Fill out the eligibility form at: https://gu.live/WJfeC or use the QR code to the right for the link!
Email the researcher, Sean Maiwald at Sean.maiwald@gallaudet.edu
Concerns?
Contact Gallaudet University’s Institutional
Review Board at IRB@Gallaudet.edu
for study #IRB-FY25-114.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6d

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

OPB @opb.org · 6d

Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.

Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants

Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.

www.opb.org

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 6d

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

wikipedia screen grab showing hoover won 39.6% of the popular vote in the 1932 presidential election

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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 6d

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

matprotocol @mmatt.net · 6d

WHAT THE FUCK

@ConnorEatsPants tweet,

"💥 Fortnite Friday is BACK 💥

🚨 Governor of California, @GavinNewsom hops on the Battle Bus to talk all things gaming, politics, and more 🚨

🇺🇸 2:30 PM PST / 5:30 EST 🇺🇸"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 8d

Training the military to “quell civil disturbances” is another step toward authoritarianism.

Linking it to “the enemy from within” is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable.

He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 13d

Not a bad idea! I'm a huge fan of what they did in Nevada City & Grass Valley with the National Exchange and Holbrooke hotels so something similar would be very cool

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19d

If Democrats ever get power again there needs to be a proper reckoning. Criminals need to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted for trying to subvert our democracy and rights for Trump.

There is no room for Merrick Garlands and milquetoast centrists anymore.

You need accountability.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20d

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 20d

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 25d

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25d

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.

Van Hollen Criticizes Democratic Leaders for Delay in Endorsing Mamdani

At an annual fund-raiser in Iowa, the Maryland Democrat said he supported Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City and said people were sick of “spineless politics.”

nyti.ms

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 25d

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25d

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25d

But don’t call them Nazis.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 26d

Move over Tokyo, the Bay Area is coming for you

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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 26d

Me @ the legislature

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 27d

Completely agreed. I am referring specifically to the diesel fleet and the San Jose - Gilroy segment (and Salinas if it happens) though.

IMO Blossom Hill or somewhere around Metcalf is the logical end point for electrified service at least until HSR arrives. Move CEMOF to the quarry at Capitol too

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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 27d

Same with Caltrain. Run DMUs, sell off the older diesel fleet, save $$$

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27d

Multiple things can be true:

Political violence is toxic & Charlie Kirk’s assassination must be condemned.

Kirk was exceptionally talented & helped build a movement.

That movement brainwashed many young men with bigoted, violent poison.

Condemn his murder, but do not lionize him.

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Sean Maiwald @seanmaiwald.bsky.social · 29d

Yup. It’s almost like politics is basically marketing lol

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29d

Democrats have completely abandoned the idea they can affect public opinion of Trump’s abuses by fighting against them.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29d

Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · Sep 7

To put this loan amount in perspective:

California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).

But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit.

This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

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