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Filmmaker/Documentarian. Once & Forever Journalist. Raised on Murphy Brown, Julia Sugarbaker and the Golden Girls so yeah…
Used the #5CallsApp on my lunch break to call my congressional representatives/senators. I hate talking on the phone but this makes it easy and quick.
28.02.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I thought WTH am I listening to when I turned it on and his rambling about Hunter Biden. Shameful and embarrassing.
28.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
28.02.2025 03:35 — 👍 37657 🔁 11672 💬 1080 📌 827
Gutting Alzheimer's research.
First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
27.02.2025 12:42 — 👍 14757 🔁 6396 💬 764 📌 387
5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)
1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card
The word for this is "coup."
02.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 5127 🔁 1815 💬 154 📌 89
the point is not that it's fast -- the point it that it's systematic.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
I posted about how tariffs will hurt Mississippians (our biggest trade partners are on the list) on Facebook. I got lots of interesting comments. But the one I paid attention to was a friend who owns a company. He is very worried: The NY Times wrote about how he survived covid shipping disruptions.
03.02.2025 01:43 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
02.02.2025 21:27 — 👍 50772 🔁 17771 💬 1909 📌 1394
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
02.02.2025 14:44 — 👍 857 🔁 490 💬 42 📌 116Please remember not everyone in Red states voted for the FA of this FO. We’re not all able to “just move” but we do what we can with what we have to fight for our freedoms and keep our families safe.
03.02.2025 06:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.
01.02.2025 00:53 — 👍 49719 🔁 9488 💬 914 📌 358Women, especially ones who have skin tones similar to my own, if you want to be housewives, that’s fantastic. Go for it. But if you continue to support this current admin & the states following lock-step w/ them, you will take that choice away from ALL of us who fall into DEI categories.
01.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Abolishing DEI policies will result in one thing: eliminating jobs for anyone not a white male. Think I’m overreacting, look at Iran.
States are already following the Project 25 agenda and introducing legislation to eliminate DEI policies in any place they can. 🧵
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CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...
The truth about Trump's tariffs is that the only people who will end up paying for them are you and me.
He's eagerly awaiting the opportunity to dole out exceptions to anyone who gives him favors in return.
Also look at the Republicans who may be flipped to vote No with Dems to stop RFK Jr from being appointed. Call/text/email those senators. I get that not everyone wants to call, me neither. Weekend means voicemail. But email or text works too.
01.02.2025 00:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Call your congressional representatives. You demand they do something. Shout on socials but call/email/text your reps - Dems and GOP.
31.01.2025 05:53 — 👍 45 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Updated list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
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