nancyaverett.bsky.social

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.

Apple of Putin’s eye

Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats

Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own.

We stand our ground.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Jimmy Kimmel returns with unfinished business over Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein

Oversight Democrats have one message for Speaker Johnson: Stop the Shutdown, Release the Files!

“If there’s one person who can wrangle an alpha male, it’s Jane Goodall,” Kara Swisher said of the primatologist, who has died at 91. In 2020, the two talked on Swisher’s Times Opinion podcast “Sway” about Goodall’s work, celebrity status and influence on world leaders.

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

I know, I know.
Just my way of pushing back.

Yes, though it does make crossing the street a bit hazardous for pedestrians!

Pathetic and no one uses cash—certainly not dollar coins

I live in Ohio and I have often said that I don’t live in a democracy.

Partisan gerrymanders may be legal, but only because SCOTUS said so. They are anti-democratic measures used by a party that fears losing power to hold onto control, a mechanism that lets parties choose their voters instead of letting voters choose who will represent them.

The right has figured out that it can cause harm, destroy things, even defy the law, and its actions will not be straightforwardly reported, because it the truth feels too partisan. And it has responded by increasing its willingness to break rules and hurt people

Plus most of the people making those decisions are men

U deserve workers comp

I think @gavinnewsom.bsky.social needs to stage a social media intervention here.

Just a complete fool, make your readers angry, that’s a brilliant idea, really smart business sense. Just pathetic

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid

"In its brief order, the court’s conservative majority said the president’s ability to conduct foreign affairs appeared “to outweigh the potential harm” faced by foreign aid recipients."

Dying due to lack of food and medicine is, apparently, only potential harm.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

September 26, 2025 Today Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that twenty men who were awarded the Medal of Honor for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre would keep their medals, despite more than ...

September 26, 2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

A good read that gives important background as to what Signalgate clown is saying.

I WOULD like to include the official Oglala Sioux Tribe response to this.

I shared before, separately, but I feel this piece should be here as well.

Standing at the gravesite with descendants of those victims brought home to me how the trauma of that day still lingers in the community. I have and will always fight to ensure every community across the state is respected and has the opportunity to thrive. (2/2🧵)

So grateful for your work

New report reveals surprising truth about where US is getting its electricity: 'We are on the board' — The Cool Down

Don’t be fooled, fossil fuels are yesterday’s answer. "renewables as a whole hit nearly 28%" of the country's electricity generation in the first half of 2025”

apple.news/Ap8BbfBbYRFy...

I just read @billmckibben.bsky.social's "Here Comes the Sun", and am feeling inspired to try putting off-grid solar + battery on my balcony in sunny NC. Ideally I could run my plant lights, small appliances, and TV off a battery pack.

Does this make sense to do?

www.costco.com/ecoflow-rive...

Linking of oil giants to major heatwaves marks ‘leap forward’ for legal liability cases Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

Linking of oil giants to major heatwaves marks ‘leap forward’ for legal liability cases

- Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and might have to pay compensation

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yeah and also his assumption that there are no brown people in those states

Cash In On Clean Tech Incentives (Before It's Too Late) — A Matter of Degrees

Want to get solar on your roof, an EV in your driveway + a heat pump in your garage? Or want your family + friends to go electric? There's still time to get federal incentives before they expire. Tune in to A Matter of Degrees to get all the details + share!
www.degreespod.com/episodes/cas...