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Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is law. What happens next is unclear To come into effect, the constitutional amendment would need to be formally published or certified by the National Archivist who has declined to do so in the past. What happens now is unclear.

President Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land" but there's still another step -- and a legal fight -- ahead.

Like honestly the definition of positive masculinity is Bobby on 911. He always gives his wife played by Angela Bassett her flowers. He is NEVER threatened by her excellence. He just knows she’s always the hero.

I mean I guess TY Ryan Murphy, you’re wild but you gave us Athena

Angela Basset serves an Oscar worthy performance every episode of 911. They need to pay her more because no one could make these situations believable but her

Ma’am, I kinda love this for you

Every Day, All Day

YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal L.A. Fires: Why Did the Fire Hydrants Run Dry? What We Know | WSJ

Anyone who says there wasn’t enough water in the reservoirs to fight the California wildfires NEEDS to watch this & help stop misinformation. Can we please get back to uniting as a country when there are catastrophic disasters? Lying only disrupts efforts to help people in need.
youtu.be/OsuBmAVqR7I

If the premium support was working the amount of medical debt for those under 400pct FPL would be declining rapidly

2. Even with Silver CSR/94 plans with full premium tax credit , the rates for the ER is going to $500+.

How is that supposed to work when half the country doesn’t have $500

1. The Insurance industry has learned how to game the ACA to its financial benefit

They game the Medical Loss Ratios. They contract networks and use Denials to reduce costs

They set co-insurance at levels that they know patients can’t pay

Court Cases Learn about the lawsuits that Democracy Docket is keeping an eye on.

There are currently 195 active voting and election cases pending in 41 states. These are a fraction of the nearly 1000 cases in Democracy Docket's comprehensive cases database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/

Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82 Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.

Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.

With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

I love with the ACA has done for people with pre-existing conditions. But.

Let's face reality, ACA 2013 was a different world. Since then Insurance Companies have learned how to game the system.

For the subsidized silver/94 and /87 plans, around ~15 % of taxpayer $ stays with ins comps!

I’m having a moment where my brain cannot compute Bannon using racism as an argument against someone

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

Laken Riley Act has just passed the house. We know why this was put into place, but my question is this...

Where is the Tamir Rice Act, The Ahmaud Arbery Act, The George Floyd Act...
I could list more, but I would need at least a 5 Million character limit increase.

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She is an Equity in Education warrior who has been fighting terrible education bills from our Republican Supermajority in Missouri.

Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics.

Spot on.

Activists????

Surprisingly bad framing from Pro Publica.

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

Kurtis Watkins asks federal court to free him from prison, citing revelations about St. Louis cop • Missouri Independent A St. Louis man sentenced to 25 years in prison based on the testimony of a police officer is asking a federal court to vacate his conviction.

The Missouri jury that convicted Watkins in 2016 was never informed that the white officer, whose testimony was the only evidence at trial, had a history of racist social media posts. missouriindependent.com/2025/01/09/k...

i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!

An incredible opportunity for the right person:

The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels

For me, this has been the best possible job ever.

More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

Obligatory pic of my dogs not causing chaos for a few moments

a red chair sits in front of a wall that has a sign that says new amsterdam on it ALT: a red chair sits in front of a wall that has a sign that says new amsterdam on it

Sharing here a long thread I just shared on Threads about Zuckerberg. Yes, I encouraged folks to come to Bluesky. Anyway, pull up a chair.

The GOP is mounting the largest, most brazen post-election disenfranchisement effort since Trump's frivolous litigation in 2020. This time, however, they may get away with it and the legacy media is largely asleep.

Follow @democracydocket.com to stay up to date.

Same, trying it out but I miss my people

Also - please spend time deciding how you are going to engage with the content this administration and the complicit media are going to be putting out from here on out.

Our nervous systems are precious resources and keeping them in a hyper-reactive state is BAD-real bad. We need to be intentional.

My message to Zuck

You have two incredible accomplishments in your post, sober over a year AND you’re a writer? I’m impressed and I am rooting for you