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I am once again begging people with power within the Democratic Party to devise a better strategy for dealing with the right-wing death grip on the courts than "win every election for 30 years and hopefully appoint their replacements."

In 30 years of this there won't be anything left to salvage.

Somehow it never occurred to me that a major campaign issue for one of the national parties of the United States in 2024 would be general opposition to a triumph of modern medicine that saves something like 4 million lives worldwide every year and dramatically reduces childhood mortality.

“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

1/Cory Doctorow has a piece about private equity (PE) and community hospitals - pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5.... Everyone that sees this post, I'm asking you PLEASE repost and tell people about this. When do we - as a supposedly free society - stand up and say ENOUGH?!

has he tried cutting out avocado toast

So everyone knows, ALL 50 STATES require vaccines for school. All of them. Trump is basically promising to end all federal support for American schools.

Good chart showing requirements here: www.reuters.com/graphics/HEA...

Nice show at sunset!

Amazing gathering last night for Ramblin Jack Elliott

Excited to meet with nurse leadership this morning to brief on the CNA legislative package for this year. Looking for wins like last year!

Happy new year 2024😎

There’s no take backs on fascism. There’s no easy undo button. You don’t get a do-over on both-sidesing the big ol whoopsie of mass suppression and cruelty. Not adequately portraying the threat is both awfully short sighted and almost always viewed as complicity in the eyes of history.

Wrote about Elon. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Fun night out at Harlows seeing Dave Alvin and the Guilty ones!

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2023 General Elections - Bolts Explore our guide to dozens of elections to watch this fall, from governors and lawmakers to DAs and mayors.

Did you miss anything tonight? Our cheat sheet has dozens of results already.

For instance:
1. Dems sweep 4 judicial elections in Pennsylvania.
2. Ohio legalizes weed.
3. MAGA sheriff ousted in Virginia.
4. Mayors elected in Tucson, Manchester, & a lot more.
And sooo much more:

Fall colors coming in

Pro-tip: If a candidate or a Supreme Court justice has accepted money from Harlan Crow, they’re dirty. Don’t trust them. Don’t vote for them. Get them out.

Turns out Moms for Liberty are a bunch of Nazis, there was no way to know except for literally every single thing that hate group has ever done.

Harlan Crow and a few billionaires have provided Clarence Thomas with:
-38 destination vacations
-26 private jet flights
-6 helicopter flights
-Yacht voyages
And we're going to let Thomas rule on Moore v. US, which could permanently shield billionaires from a wealth tax?

Leaving twitter after more than 16 years, let’s make a place we can enjoy & organize!