Roberta Horrocks 🇺🇦 🐺 🌙

In Whitestown, no less.

Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.

Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.

We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Nov. 13, 1957 | Texas Officials Threaten and Jail NAACP Officers for Not Disclosing Members Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

Authoritarian governments are not new to this country. If you want to know what comes next should resistance fail, look to the history of Black resistance in the South.
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They do have lovely views from there. We are getting that snow globe effect right now. Our view of the mountain is socked in right now but here’s one from another winter.

@stevehorrocks.bsky.social

Don't worry. Things will get worse before they get much much worse.

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I’m in that 90%. Been there awhile now.

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Getting our first bit of snow in southwestern Vermont.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Even if you think there are benefits to AI it’s impossible not to see this as complete madness

I live in a small town in the mountains of Vermont. Population 754. ICE showed up today and took some of our neighbors. 3 families torn apart for no reason other than cruelty.
#f-ice

Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.

"Rousseau or Locke would be aghast at the idea that individuals have no obligation to work on behalf of the common good. If there is an inalienable right to life, it should follow that I have an obligation to take reasonable steps to minimize disease that could harm or kill my peers."

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Sandy Hook didn’t move them either. We’ve been out of sight of the horizon for well over a decade now with no signs of changing course.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

this is literally never not accurate

Felony vandalism? They were hanging a cardboard bug on a wall.

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease - Pediatric Research Pediatric Research - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease

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Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!

Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

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I’m not the only who drew parallels

"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.

Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...

Today was my 3rd CoViD-related surgery in my 2-year CoViD journey. Rib cartilage to recreate the nasal septum that CoViD destroyed, and muscles from my temple to replace the lining of my nose.

So to the next person that says CoViD is fake or just a cold: fuck the fuck off, for real, forever.

The human community is being consumed by uncontrolled Covid-19, but most people do not care. In spite of the harsh evidence provided by repeated infections, mass illness, and excess mortality, most people deny the extreme harm of Covid-19, even as they increasingly fall prey to that harm.

#COVID19

Yeah, I was thinking the same. Then it occurred to me, these politicians have had us over a barrel for a long time now. Look at our choices-we either vote for evil lawmakers or just plain awful ones. I’m starting to believe they’re just controlled opposition.

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Time to admit our education system in America has failed Americans miserably in providing the proper education for the average individual to be able to know how to think & use proper critical thinking and scientific deductive reasoning in decision making!Absolute failure to discern myth from reality