Alito’s Vantablack heart

private flights are 12% of flights in the us. cancel those.

and a president who seems to somehow control all three branches of government, himself

now i’m picturing lowly worm driving around his apple car in the richard scarry cartoons, which is adorable. but nothing about rfk jr is adorable. damn it.

the one check on democracy is even more imperiled by people who are sadly not up to the task. again, I wish a speedy recovery to all the sick members, but please also think of the entire country.

against doctor's advice, because it was that important. the CA rep who'd just had surgery, infections, & complications, showed up to vote attached to an IV pole and using a walker to get around. we don't have the margins to lose one single vote. it's infuriating that the one push back we have...

for political offices you cannot perform the duties for. these politicians are putting their ambitions ahead of the lives and livelihoods of all americans. the gop has the slimmest of majorities, we can't cede one vote to them. the CO rep showed up to vote last week with her 4 week old baby...

of his previous term. we are in bonkers cuckoo bird bananas times. we cannot afford for these people to treat these seats as placeholders. I don't know their motivations, and I'm empathetic to their health concerns, but we need healthy people to be able to show up to do the job. stop running...

he would do the rest of his job from his AZ office. with all due...the job is also voting, showing up in DC. he's been in office for over 20 years. he has a pension and health insurance to continue his cancer care after retiring. he should not have run for his seat again in '24 after missing half...

turner announced he had bone cancer in 2022. why did he run for congress 2024. we lost the defunding bill last week by 1 vote. the one nonvoting dem is AZ rep raul grijalva, he has cancer. he missed 88% of the house votes in 2024, yet still ran for another term. he said his vote didn't matter and...

I’ve been saying for years that they are trying to take away women’s right to vote by creating felons out of as many women as possible via criminalizing abortions, miscarriages, and maternity care. As we advance in these laws, it will be women who help other women access the healthcare they need.

his constant use of the term warfighter. it was certainly evocative. and new to me. scary.

trapper keeper girls stand on business.

thought this was going to be an LBJ/haggar president taped convo post...

yes. and the worst kind of blackmail. your safety, income, immigration status, and life are all so wrapped up in being employed by these kinds of companies. the companies are unconscionably powerful in their lives.

those meat processing companies. The system is so rigged against them and their children. I’m imagining a lot of the kids we read about come from very vulnerable situations with parents who have little choice. It’s heartbreaking. It’s worse than predatory.

immigration appointments, their own doctor’s appts, providing childcare and financial support, acting as a go-between with their landlord, etc. They became citizens, were eventually able to change employment, but looking back it was an almost Herculean task for them to extricate themselves from…

helped save them from a similar fate. Taking the children to doctor’s appointments and translating for the parents, finding a pediatrician in town who speaks Swahili, coordinating with their teachers and school staff, taking them to summer camps, after school activities, taking the parents to…

I can only imagine the compromised position they were in and the pressure they would have been under to also send their children to work. I became much, much closer to two subsequent families who moved to our town and small elementary school. The support I, and other friends, were able to give them…

are the only industry consistently willing to sponsor immigrants, it is a problem. In 2013/2014, the first family we became acquainted with abruptly left to move many states away…to Iowa. I still worry about them, and their fate in a colder, whiter, republican, small town away from the East Coast..

working 6 days per week, long hours, no time to secure other employment. The meat processing industry seems to prey on these vulnerable communities who have precarious immigration credentials. It seems like indentured servitude, to me…i’m being cautious in my language. If meat processing plants…

all contingent upon their employment at these meat processing plants. The companies were their sponsors. If they didn’t stay at the company, they needed to find another sponsor. An almost impossible task. They were collected and rode buses together for the long commute to a far away plant…

My 18 year-old daughter and I became friends with several refugee families beginning 11-12 years ago. The parents all worked for meat packing companies on the east coast, many counties away from where we all live. The parents’ immigration statuses, arriving from several African countries, were…

i think i added new stages of grief. and the order is all jumbled. and i've been living in denial too long since the election. reality is going to hit hard.