Sofia Wren

Wuht???

There is a special place in hell for lawmakers who cut benefits and safety net programs designed to help poor people while protecting the interests of the rich.

Assuming estimates are correct that 6 million died in the halocaust, this is 2x that. But hey individual Americans saved an average of $6 a year

seems like this should be a big deal.

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The next Democratic president can just impound the billions of extra ICE funding on day one, right? Withhold it without any explanation? Since that’s a thing presidents can do now?

Wow

If they didn’t help a lady before she miscarried, I highly doubt they helped a cannibal before he ate all of himself 🙄 like they want to put a hand into that mess

It all goes back to some tangled ancient history: When Cuomo was running for governor in 2010, he pledged to end “hyper-partisan” redistricting. Two years later he used the census-mandated redrawing of district lines as a chit in state budget negotiations. Cuomo got a new pension tier that lowered payments for some unionized state employees; in exchange, incumbent state legislators got the ability to create districts that would favor their reelection. The drawing of new congressional districts was punted 10 years down the road and placed in the hands of an unwieldy, supposedly “independent” commission. This year, when New York Republicans stalled the commission’s work, they essentially pushed redistricting into the state’s courts.

Cuomo made strenuous efforts to steer the state down the ideological middle, which he claimed was a necessity early on—when Republicans controlled a majority of the state senate—but which also enhanced his own power. One byproduct was Cuomo’s nominating of the four relatively conservative judges, including one Republican, who in April voted to tear up the proposed congressional redistricting maps. “What Democrats did to our majority on the highest court would never happen in a Republican-controlled state,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says, which is as close as he will get to blaming Cuomo. “That court made a mess of this, and it put the project in the hands of a Republican in Steuben County. And we got a crappy result.”

A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...

“𝘕𝘰 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧.”
- 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘍. 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺

Now, more than ever, it's important to remember that the majority of humankind is decent. The horrors being inflicted on all of us are being done by a fraction of a fraction. They have to work overtime to convince us that their fucked up views are popular. Don't fall for it.

But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right?

A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸

Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.

Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.

I wonder why we aren’t seeing this?

Yeah that seems like the implication. That or Iran

And who exactly are we saving these weapons for?

Like I think that would only pay for one tent city and then a few Rolexes for Noam. Sigh this is all I got guys

The only saving grace I fear is that they are really good at pissing money away

If you've tuned into CSPAN anytime in the last 2 hours and found yourself slapping the side of the TV, wondering why the screen isn't changing, here's what's happening...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes urged #women to reconnect with their inner Wild Woman; C.G. Jung, our Shadow; & Lisa Marchiano, Lillith’s #feminine fire. In her 2024 #book, “The Vital Spark”, she explores how we may access our “outlaw energies”, sharing personal experience, themes

Climate change adds extra month of extreme heat for 4bn people: Report The study found that without the phasing out of fossil fuels, temperatures will continue to soar.

New research shows that 4 billion people experienced an additional month of extreme heat over the past year. This, while the fossil fuel industry prospers in profits. It’s time to #MakePollutersPay

We’ve discussed the systemic economic risks, from a fear-based mass deportation campaign, for a while.

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The Reconciliation Timeline Is Slipping as Trump Struggles to Flip Votes The president told one group of House Republicans Wednesday that Congress shouldn’t touch three things if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

Trump told Republicans at this meeting that there are three things Congress shouldn’t touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

“But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,” one member responded to Trump
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He doesn’t read

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Democracies use government as an instrument for the common good. Using a tax bill to destroy and deny health care for 17 million of our people is a sign of authoritarianism.

Worked imo:

Ok Boomer
They’re weird
Will you shut up, man
There you go again

Does not work imo:

He’s dangerous
He’s a felon
Most important election ever
Rules don’t apply to him

Stop building up fascists into cool strong outlaws for scared idiots to hide behind. Deflate them. It’s not that hard

Disgusting

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

No concentration camp should be built in the heart of this important ecosystem.

The Everglades is a vital ecosystem to the entire state of Florida. It is extremely sensitive and is already facing a huge set of problems.

Keep the Everglades wild, natural and free.