Barb Draa

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Can We Actually Save America?

This is important for us all to watch, absorb, save, and rewatch. I trust Marc Elias and others at Democracy Docket. They have been winning in the courts throughout Trumps many assaults.
The video is 49 mins.
Please repost.
youtube.com/watch?v=_GUg...

Things just keep getting more unhinged. The rhetoric coming out of the MAGA is fueling dangerous escalation. Democratic state lawmakers who left Texas to block the GOP’s redistricting scheme had to be evacuated from their suburban Chicago hotel due to a potential bomb threat, according to police.

Beautiful 🖤

Prayer for Werewolves Written by Stephanie Burt Someone will probably love you for who you are.    If not, you’ll still find friends, friends who, given time, or given warning,    will probably gather around you, hold your hands, and wrap you in soft coats and blankets till the violence    inside your body ends. Someone will probably love you for who you are,    not just for who you labor to be. Maybe you’re lost in your skin today. Maybe you’re burning    and wish you could tear it all off. Please don’t. You are variously a marvel, an athlete, a wilderness, a source of warmth    and a way to learn from fear. When you have claws, your claws are yours, your ears    bristle and are yours; your irises are citrine, pure, and yours. They let you see    through smog and pine thickets and into the future, where you need no chains to feel secure,    and someone will probably love you for who you are: then you will know each other’s scents    and nuzzle or lope together. But for now, you have friends,    who are not going anywhere. Please stay here.

"Prayer for Werewolves" by Stephanie Burt
(found via @jaymarose.bsky.social)
Read or listen here:
onbeing.org/poetry/praye...

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Bwaaahahahaha! 😄🥰

This

:::chef's kiss:::

They did that the last time he was in the White House, too. But at least it's consistent with his hatred of beautiful things

Do these task forces ever include doctors who work in hospitals, or just the laptop class YouTube doctors?

Oh, you know it! {♡}

Boy, he surely did. Prescient.

Bwaaahahahaha!!!

I had seen that info too. Maybe bad or incomplete information? I had such hopes... for about a day.

So, the current state of social media sandboxes:

BlueSky users: Building homes, castles, families, animals and cities connecting them. Everyone is sharing their snacks.

X users: Shouting at BlueSky users to come back, so Xers can break their cities and eat their snacks.

Public Health Is Dead New podcast in production

Wow every day there is a new reason to tell you we are going to have to do this ourselves so here’s a new podcast called Public Health is Dead full of people who know things giving us more guidance about how to stay alive than the government has or will! Coming Nov 29 www.publichealthisdead.com

Hey Bill!

That's adorable!

Covid is no laughing matter when it continues to hurt so many | Letters Letters: Dr Elke Hausmann and Sue Hewison respond to Tim Dowling’s column about his sons testing positive

Covid is no laughing matter.

"The scale of the problem that Covid is posing for individuals and society appears to be on a par with climate change: too big to tackle, so we look away"

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Bwaaahahahaha

Hey you! ♡

I know nothing about prescriptions for hrt for trans folks. Have pharmacists asked for ID for these? I am VERY worried for my friends. Will they be able to get their scripts? 😬 Will the scope of P2025 remove these meds? If Healthcare goes away, will any of us be able to afford... anything?

I have that one too. Yep, not small but lightweight enough for this old granny.

Was there little push back or was there just no reporting on pushback?

Hey, darlin. Okay, but my heart is grim. Chatted with my sister today and it took everything I had to be civil. I know she voted for TFG. 👀 How're you? {♡}

What on earth!? 10!? That is crazy.

Our family got it last week after visiting a customer who just returned from Sweden

Does not reflect well on her.

More here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/lucy-mcbride...