If all they do is rig maps to keep power, why do we need them?

This isn’t governance,it’s control.

Gerrymandering isn’t strategy, it’s surrender. They’ve stopped trying to earn votes. If this is their only play, the real question is: why are we still letting them?

Young boy hand feeding baby goats

Woman's hand feeding baby goats

Young boy jumping on a giant outdoor pillow in front of a tree-lined pond

Cold drinks on a patio table

Took advantage of the exceptionally cool weather last weekend to play outside all we could!

Very interesting thread.

I’m so excited to sit in a room full of adults and be talked at for days, absorbing content will be neither differentiated nor will the delivery be best practice, in hopes that it’ll inspire and prepare me to be the teacher my students need and deserve 🙃

We all hate insider trading. We all hate gerrymandering. If the United States was truly a representative democracy, there would have been laws against both a long time ago.

Trump was impeached, twice.

Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

“I did not predict the capitulation.”
-Kamala Harris

That line broke something in me. Because none of us did.
Not like this.

We believed there would be a line. That someone - many someones - would stand up.

Capitulation is judges bowing. Agencies gutted. Legislators playing dead.

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e) Asclepias Landscape Design asclepiasld.com
f) Native Plant Landscape Design www.nativeplantld.com

Some Nurseries with natives working in Northern Virginia.
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a) Watermark Woods www.watermarkwoods.com
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c) Revolutionary Gardens www.revolutionarygardens.com

Dear white ladies, this is the energy we need you to bring to these situations.

Kind of like how tortoise is just what we call turtles that live mostly on land, a slug is just what we call any shell-less gastropod.
Neither tortoise nor slug corresponds to any specific phylogenetic group.

See also- toads and berries.

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

As people continue to ignore this, I'd like to prose a question:

If you are stopped on the street, how do you intend to prove you are housed?

Don't say "well I don't look homeless", cops won't give a fuck

How do you PROVE you're not homeless?

They can arrest anyone they want with impunity now

Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.

Be the vigilante arborist you want to see in the world

And this is part of the reason why I read the foreign press.Reporting from Neue Zürcher Zeitung:

“She was transported in a prison van to the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility in NJ…conditions were harsh, with poor hygiene and no privacy. Lara had bruises and abrasions from the ankle restraints”

The American people are right to continue asking: What are they trying to hide? (8/8)

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

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Locals- prickly pear is native here in Virginia too. This could be doubly fantastic for the environment!

Trump Politics Keeping 60% of Canadians From Visiting U.S., Survey Reports Six in 10 Canadian adults say they are less likely to travel to the U.S. this year, and more than a third have canceled trip plans—due to the political climate.

Since the $250 privilege fee on Canadians traveling to the US there's a real time ~35% drop in auto travel to the US.
aviation data company OAG said that GDS passenger bookings on Canada-U.S. routes are currently down by more than 70%

www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

The media has got to stop coddling these white women who align themselves with fascism, only to cry like they had no idea fascism was happening two seconds later.

Murkowski is not a victim.
She was not cheated.

This is what she voted for. This is what she’ll vote for again and again.

A one-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of corn-based ethanol. The corn grown for ethanol in the U.S. takes up about thirty million acres. If half of that were converted to producing solar energy, it would generate enough electricity for the U.S. to decarbonize its system by 2050.

I can’t remember who pointed out, but if all these AI tools were truly worth a damn, they wouldn’t be forcing this stuff down everyone’s throats for free.

Republicans were so concerned about Bill Clinton and an of-age intern having sex that they put him on trial and impeached him.

This IS a Republican kitchen table issue.

If you or a loved one needs help, call or text 988. LGBTQ+ young people, you can text “PRIDE” to 988 to reach a counselor with LGBTQ-specific training.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better