I get it. This was a baaaaad discovery for me.
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Anytime I see Erik Prince connected to a project I know it's bad news.
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Trust me, none of the middle and lower income retirees I know are closing our eyes. We are not wealthy enough for that foolishness. We are seeing attacks on SSA and VA and now they are saying another leg off the stool that supports us.
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Tell Your Senator: Vote NO on the SAVE Act!
The SAVE Act is a direct attack on voting rights, and we must stop it from passing!
π¨ The SAVE Act is a dangerous attack on voting rightsβrequiring in-person proof of citizenship to register or update info. It could disenfranchise millions, especially rural, low-income, and working-class Americans. Congress votes soon. We must speak out! #ProtectTheVote #StopSAVEAct
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The tragedy is that it took a couple of decades to build a robust high quality system for treating veterans. What veterans came home to in the 1970s and even the early 1980s was a travesty.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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We're a Seattle-area climate-focused NVDA group dedicated to training, supporting, and activating folks working for climate justice and aligned movements....
Because business as usual is trouble for us all.
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Olympia Indivisible, founded on January 3, 2017, is a Washington chapter of the national Indivisible movement.β We are a 100% volunteer grassrootsβ organization located in Congressional District 6 &10.
Has a lot of empathy yet very little patience
Artist, art teacher, art activist and organizer located in Portland, Oregon - and sometimes Santa Fe, NM
Progressive grassroots activist group and part of the national Indivisible movement. We are all-volunteer! seattleindivisible.com
These are mainly my spicy political takes about left-wing organization and how Americans should consider themselves as labor. I look for efficiency, but that is always subordinate to effectiveness.
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Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
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Writer, one of the Alphabet people, X refugee. No human is illegal. Trans women are women. Black Lives Matter.
Writer, artist, expat journalist, mom, Java lover, love dogs, cats, horses. Live in very blue state of WA. Mom.
Big 'ol nerd, here for community. Evaluating AI tools is part of my dayjob, so your bullshit take on AI is probably why I blocked you. Other takes I won't waste energy on: racist, fascist, TERF, homophobic, xenophobic, Wrong About a Book.
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butterfly seeker
Only time will tell what December will be.
What am I doing? My best.
1. US politics
2. Cat pictures to pay for trauma of above
3. Arcane bits of ancient history/archaeology/religion that make me happy
4. Snark
Mundus sine Caesaribus. MAGA delenda est.
Painter, photographer, lover of the high Arctic and all places north.
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
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