When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
29.03.2025 16:44 β π 34307 π 10902 π¬ 653 π 457
Federal Cuts to Medicaid Will Harm Older Californians on Medi-Cal - Justice in Aging
This fact sheet explains how Medicaid βreformsβ being considered are all cuts that would harm older adults in California.
justiceinaging.org/federal-cuts...
A must read. Most people think Medicaid is just health insurance for poor people. Itβs so much more than that! My daughter has a host of special needs and relies on Medicaid for many programs. #magahatesthedisabled.
20.02.2025 22:20 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
So soft, so cozy, so safe. May we all feel like this. #fucktrump #theemperorwearsnoclothes #cat
19.02.2025 14:56 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Heβs targeting the disabled next. Itβs starting.
19.02.2025 03:10 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Image of seven of my books with Haymarket, Hope in the Dark (black), Whose Story Is This (violet), Men Explain Things to Me (blue), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, coedited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua and including 20 amazing writers from around the world (green), No Straight Road Takes You There (yellow), The Mother of All Questions (orange), and Call Them By Their True Names (red).
Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.
14.02.2025 16:31 β π 11253 π 1484 π¬ 7 π 70
Made friends with a cacti couple. They always have their arms up in glee and excitement when I walk by - like yay! Theyβre a little prickly but itβs cool. #sonder #delightinallthings #littlethings #plants #joyisfree
14.02.2025 15:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Passage from Carl Saganβs The Demon-Haunted World
Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.
10.02.2025 17:37 β π 8329 π 2247 π¬ 191 π 129
A cross stitch image of a gravestone with the words "Audiobooks count as reading'
Regular reminder.
Audiobooks count as reading. A hill I would always die on π€
Need to get this cross stitch π€£
#libraries #books #reading #audiobooks
09.02.2025 14:37 β π 1365 π 100 π¬ 66 π 15
Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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Someone call the girl police⦠thank you @anidifranco.bsky.social for the amazing reminder of who we be. #anidifranco #littleplasticcastle #resist
04.02.2025 20:37 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Where is the coffee in the Palm Springs airport beyond the gate⦠someone could make billions with a simple cart. #entrepreneurial #needcaffeine #palmsprings
04.02.2025 14:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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