Middle-Aged-Tween

Eastern Bluebird raises wings to form the classic crescent silhouette of the rebel alliance starbird emblem

Bright suns, NEW YORK RESISTANCE! Adaptable, bold and fearless, the Eastern Bluebird has arrived to represent New York State in the growing #RebelBirds movement. Rise! Resist! Rebel! #newyork #riseresistrebel

Feels like we all need to add as much pro-social, Mr Rogers like activity as possible just as a homeostatic response to all the ambient evil floating around right now.

Anyway I just signed up to read with little kids on Wednesday mornings before work.

Leeja Miller shares a more comprehensive list of those working within DOGE.
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This is how they cover it up. Make sure you are following @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

WTAF is wrong with people? Are you really gonna threaten my life because you don’t like what I tweet? Really?

They don’t know me, and I don’t owe them shit, but I will do them this one little favor, I’ll give them this one teeny tidbit of advice - if you underestimate me, you’ll do so at your own peril.

Believe me.
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Anthem plans to put time limits on anesthesia coverage, alarming doctors and patients Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says it will put time limits on anesthesia care starting next year. Doctors and elected officials, including in New York and Connecticut, are asking it to change course.

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During Trump’s last term, he made over 30,000 false or misleading claims. It’s always important to verify facts. For instance, he once stated that ‘raking the forest’ could help prevent forest fires.

This is how it’s done.

Happy #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities to anyone dealing with any disability, visible or not.

Reminders:
Being able-bodied is never guaranteed in perpetuity.
Disability benefits can be lost simply for getting married.
Accessibility benefits EVERYONE.

No, no, by all means, let's keep admonishing poor people if spend a little extra money and buy something like an iPhone or a flat screen but say nothing to a billionaire who's just bought his 4th yacht. 🙄

It is absurd and obscene to suggest the only way our military can project strength is to appoint as its leader a guy whose own mother called an abusive POS.

And you can't explain it away as "boys be wild."

Trump crying “TRUE!!!” in response to post by Judicial Watch saying, GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.

Beware the Day One dictator.

I quit watching Morning Joe in 2016. They suppressed the excitement for Hillary Clinton. I see they have never quit working for Trump.

These two have a lot to gain with the Trump presidency. They will be relevant every day talking about the shit coming from the Trump administration. Fool me once..

From my friend Ashley Mack:

35 states have a state constitutional amendment or statutes prohibiting same-sex marriage.

Chances are your state has a ban. SCOTUS justices as well as members of Trump’s incoming admin have suggested same-sex marriage should be a state issue.

Local elections matter!

They’re letting women who are miscarrying die from sepsis and forcing rape survivors to carry their rapist’s babies to term.
They’re promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act with nothing to replace it.
If anyone is teaching a fear of pregnancy, it’s them.

Empathy and compassion are free.

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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

“Girls mature faster”

You’d mature faster too if you hard to start fending off advances from grown men in middle school.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.