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My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.

:)

#smilingfriends #vargfren

Judith Wishnia, a retired professor of history and women's studies in New York says: "I'm 94, and I told my doctor I hope I live to see him in jail."

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

lol. LOL

is it good when a government official declares a religious affiliation to be fake because he doesn't like it

even Ingraham, who is professionally obligated to treat Trump's every utterance as both true and fascinating, looks 1/2 gobsmacked, 1/2 bored

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

stylized 3d render of a morning fish market

fish market

A brown bunny is mid-air while hopping across a grassy field, its ears alert and upright.

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

Trump administration says states must "immediately undo any steps" to send full SNAP benefits The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a late-night Saturday memo, also threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not comply with the government's new orders.

I don’t think they understand just how rapidly this is radicalizing an entire population of anyone with a soul

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

I'm pissed off tonight so I made a donation to my local food bank just now, and it did make me feel a tiny bit better, recommended

thank god woke is coming back

Giving Trump whatever he wants but shaking my head so people know I'm not happy about it bsky.app/profile/atru...

“We’ll see.”

We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.

i can’t quite explain it but “standing up as opposition doesn’t work” doesn’t seem like good optics for an opposition party to have

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger

And the reality is that this has barely started....

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

every “zohran mamdani isn’t the future of the democratic party” post always ends with “the future of the party is actually this guy who sucks that only 80 year olds who are about to die think is dope”

We are going on 15 straight years of Republicans chipping away at Obamacare and offering literally nothing to make it better

Ah well, just roll over and show your belly then, I guess.

It's cool when a member of Congress says there's no point in standing up to the bully who is literally taking our tax money.

We do not have a federal government.

Supreme Court Rejects Call To Overturn Its Decision Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Nationwide The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

damn it, i was gonna do that!! fuck!!!!

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.

The eight Senate Democrats who caved tonight (including the indie who caucuses with them):

Jeanne Shaheen
Maggie Hassan
Tim Kaine
Jacky Rosen
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Angus King www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...