If rights like free speech and due process only apply to some people, then they arenβt really rights, and we are no longer a nation of laws.
15.04.2025 22:42 β π 436 π 109 π¬ 17 π 2@medussa.bsky.social
Angry, I'm angry. Feminist, white BLM ally, atheist, anchor baby, queer AF ciswoman, estranged from my MAGA family, and a believer in democracy. Retired first responder, RN, aspiring artist. If we don't start working as a team, we will all fail.
If rights like free speech and due process only apply to some people, then they arenβt really rights, and we are no longer a nation of laws.
15.04.2025 22:42 β π 436 π 109 π¬ 17 π 2A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.
16.04.2025 20:32 β π 12278 π 2781 π¬ 183 π 107Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.
If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prisonβaccused of no crime, with no trialβthey can do it to anyone.
Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
Here's Kshama Sawant introducing Jill Stein and admitting "we can't win the election but we can stop Kamala Harris from winning Michigan and she needs it to win the WH."
So. There you have it.
You can have your Whiskeyleaks memes in Lord of the Rings flavor, or Hogwarts flavor, or Star Wars flavor...
I like the Tolkien versions...
Zelenskyy: "It's not just that the war began somewhere between our countries. The war began when Russia brought this war to our country. They're not right. They didn't respect our territorial integrity. They brought the war to our families. Ukrainians want to hear a position of the US on our side"
28.02.2025 23:30 β π 26948 π 5362 π¬ 564 π 205Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in Californiaβs Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day. As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutlerβs job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. Sheβd typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.
When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.
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21.02.2025 21:02 β π 190 π 38 π¬ 1 π 1In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
20.02.2025 23:37 β π 48591 π 13229 π¬ 1209 π 728Infectious Disease Specialist/Epidemiologist, Global Health & Care and Treatment Technical Advisor, Dr. Neuro, has been let go from the CDC.
None of this is ok... None. π₯Ή
Really American @ReallyAmerican1 BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Sen. Van Hollen has scathing criticism on Trump's Ukraine aid conditions, "Can you imagine FDR saying to Churchill, 'we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.'"
Can you imagine FDR saying to Churchill? This is exactly what tRumpβs doingβ¦
Thanks, @reallyamerican.bsky.social
βRussia fought for that land in Ukraine and lost a lot of soldiers doing it, so Russia should keep it.β ~ so says the self annointed king.
π€ I worked hard to steal that car! I broke a few nails doing it. The car should be mine!
Right?
Texas cases of Measles came from a Mennonite community. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea....
I wrote about why we will see a lot more here:
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
cc @kkjetelina.bsky.social
Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.
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13.02.2025 20:44 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0House Republicans plan to cut $880 billion from the Medicaid budget.
That is the entire Medicaid budget.
You think they wonβt strip the sick, elderly and disabled of their healthcare?
Exhibit A: USAID
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
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2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER:
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At work, I am the only medical "expert", and some of the guys are trying to be as healthy as they can. So they've decided raw milk is the way to go. I tell them it's dangerous, but I'm compromised by "Big Pharma"...
And now the CDC will be agreeing with them.
Back to the Stone Ages.
βYou need to think this stuff through, dumbass,β the 4-year-old said.
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12.02.2025 23:49 β π 364 π 49 π¬ 10 π 3Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."
12.02.2025 19:19 β π 14603 π 3406 π¬ 431 π 189Of all people to complain about a performanceβ¦
10.02.2025 05:49 β π 17317 π 1640 π¬ 668 π 105thatβs right.
10.02.2025 02:15 β π 43503 π 3364 π¬ 418 π 72Pete Buttigieg speaks out.
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I remember my back killing me after every day of research for any research paper. And that was just getting through the card catalog, never mind sitting for ours staring at the microfiche screen.
I do ot have nostalgic memories of these...
Iβm sorry but Elmo announcing heβs looking for and finding fraud is hard to take when he is literally busted for paying gamers to play games for him to make him number 1 gamer in the world.
10.02.2025 10:21 β π 259 π 72 π¬ 9 π 5Imagine Ontario switching the power off after game time begins, and blaming it on a glitch!
I know, itβs so petty! πππ