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Abortion advocate, researcher, utility infielder for bodily autonomy. Roots in Ohio, branches where the sagebrush grows. We're going to get the government out of your doctor’s office, because freedom is for every body.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 7d

The bargain is with GOP legislators, not Trump: weekly CR votes. If the admin breaks the law, the House can either do its duty (impeachment) to enforce the law, per their oaths to uphold the Constitution against all enemies, or the shutdown happens.

This ties corruption & lawlessness to the money.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 9m

this is good policy & certain states already do it, to demonstrate how:

a DINK high income couple in California, MA, NJ or MD pays property taxes that will educate the workforce they aren't raising AND confiscatory income taxes to support social programs directing cash to broke parents & likes it

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 13m

having 1 kid is pretty cool, once they outnumber you it's tough

but we'd need immigration policy encouraging people from cultures in which one child is a tragedy to start families here to get to replacement level

in conclusion we need public grocery stores, daycare & labor laws to have Moar Babies

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 17m

New Mexico now has public daycare for infants too young for New Mexico's public preschools, staffed by people who were already doing home daycare but now they're paid adequately, inspected & have a credential in child development delivered through our community colleges...let's see how it goes.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 28m

it's funny until the middling soybean operations that have to get their 2026 fertilizer & seed orders in fail to do so, and we all get to think about where our calories come from and perhaps what causes famine while that anvil floats toward the grocery store like a Wile E Coyote ACME kit

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 37m

who here is remembering the creaking sound of underinsured losses that was emitted first at a pitch only mice can hear then as a booming bass, shortly before the housing bubble burst

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 40m

OpenAI and Anthropic “have traditional business insurance coverage in place, but insurance professionals said AI model providers will struggle to secure protection for the full scale of damages they may need to pay out in the future.”

Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic

Companies struggle to assess scale of financial risks emerging from artificial intelligence

www.ft.com

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 57m

Every word in this headline unfolded a new level of mystery

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1h

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

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

www.yahoo.com

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 1d

From what I've seen reported his 'nuanced vision of the military's purpose' was the same one that Arlo Guthrie reportedly said to the military psychologist at his physical when he was called up for the draft.

Four paragraphs of the lyrics of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (1967), from a Google search, including typos copied below with a couple of the typos fixed:

Came to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. 'Cause I wanted to look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York, and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I walked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good about it.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 9h

That was kinda weird maybe log off for today

I said it the first time: governors can use state power in crucial ways right now; senators are in a fancy club with a swimming pool & elevator operators, with the purpose of slowing down progress until its inevitable

Different jobs, different skills

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

OK, what if she was a good governor and these are two very different skill sets and we need people who understand the promise of state power against federal power to exercise all of their expertise on how you do that

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

OK! The Senate is a seniority power institution. Putting someone on the ballot who cannot be expected to go on to win a 3rd 6 year term, due to physical infirmity, in a wave election, is tactically stupid.
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You’ll never get Planter out of there alive, though, so kick them tires hard.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

Also, not to be indelicate, but unless we believe this is going to be the last election for United States Senate we ever get, putting somebody under the age of 80 in that seat so that the advantages of seniority are held for longer seems like an obvious tactical advantage

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

I didn’t know the fashion guy had a terminal diagnosis, sad to read

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

What if…libs playing dress up ARE Auntie Fa Super Soldiers

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Three👁️ Eyed👁️ Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 11h

People know she’s here to get pictures of scary antifa guys so a very small group gathered and played twister with a guy in a chicken costume so all the propaganda would make her look stupid.

Portland is capable of being a war zone, but what we excel at is being the goofiest city in America

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

Also consider 2024: people who rarely vote (and frankly based on their airing of ignorance in interviews might consider sitting one out) turned out for Trump also voted for this House. They vote every 4 years at most. Midterms are always waves. 2018 was the record. You think 2026 anti Trump is less?

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

I’ll revise down if California Prop 50 doesn’t pass, but it’s hardly insane. The jungle primary + not protecting GOP candidates by drawing districts that promise them a representative number of seats reflecting their share of CA voter registration suggest you think again about optimism vs lunacy.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

The Baileys are scandalized so yes

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

What if it’s 7 people and they just have a lot of costumes each

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

No one who’s organized a pickleball league, let alone a union, is calling for a general strike

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not that it’s a crazy idea, it’s that the people suggesting It have never registered 1000 voters in their lives, among them!

It’s like suggesting that it’s plausible to walk on stage and play Mozart when you’ve never taken a piano lesson. Or spent an hour inside practicing on a nice day.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

You made me laugh, thank you

We tried nothing & we’re all out of ideas!

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

AllTrails rocks for anything unpaved but is only fair to middling on asphalt. RideWithGPS is pretty good. I wonder if you can use Apple Maps on your android? You probably thought of that already.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

I stopped using Google right around the time I found out how they are storing and selling my destinations, so I can’t compare, but:

Apple Maps bike directions are great. I can use settings to choose my own adventure: least steep, fewest miles on roadway, prefer bikeways, etc. Highly recommend.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

So if this prediction sounds plausible to you: what are you doing this year and next spring to help Democrats build the strength to resist it? I call my Rep a lot. Just to keep in touch. And make sure she knows I’m expecting her to act as if this country is her only home, even when it gets hotter.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

I’m predicting not making a wish, but:
-Tucson hasn’t had a rep in this Congress for most of it *and they won’t swear in the winner of the election*
-The power (investigation & indictment) of gavels in the House is a risk to Republicans
-Trump looks poorly & Vance gets 12pts for not being Trump

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