Just an old woman in Appalachia

@kaine.senate.gov I am a constituent here in Virginia. DO NOT sign off on reopening the government if there are no concessions to protect the ACA.

Just so we're clear: The President is contesting a ruling saying he has to FEED HIS PEOPLE. He would rather hold that money hostage so that he can REMOVE PEOPLE'S HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS. Not ONCE has any of the money he claims he is "saving" been given to the people. Not then, not now, not ever.

ALWAYS follow black women! Unless it's Winsome Earle-Sears. Then follow ALL the OTHER black women to vote for Abigail Spanberger. Congratulations, governor!!

There’s just 6 days left to make your voice heard in this election. 🇺🇲

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Thinking about it this morning... If someone from the right needs help, who do they expect to help them? Their own "pull yourselves up by your bootstraps" "WOKE is a derogatory term" completely un-compassionate political peers? It's pretty clear they didn't think this through.

Maybe we need to start only referring to him as the shitter in chief.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Things I don't want: A $250 million ballroom. To send military arms to other countries to the tune of $16.3 Billion. To send $40 Billion to Argentina. Things I DO want? Free healthcare. Free education. Food for anyone who's hungry. Shelter for anyone who's houseless.

Ah, you should have said "invented" versus "released", then. 🤔

1970. What video game was released to the public in 1958?

I was born a year before the first videogame ever came out.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Freedom of speech is an American value and a constitutional right.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

It shouldn't surprise me so much that when a person's life stoked so much hatred, their death would stoke even more hatred. Their rhetoric is a weapon and everyone who drinks it up becomes a tool of the side wielding that weapon.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

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PBS needs you, y'all. Become a member. Get Passport. mainline documentaries until your eyes bulge cuz your brain is too stuffed.

RIP Andrea Gibson 💔https://andreagibson.substack.com/p/benefits-of-befriending-our-mortality

MAGA influencers are calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s resignation after she failed to produce “truckload” of documents about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/3U73lP6

I have little empathy for Trump voters / supporters (and yet likely still so much more empathy than they they have for others), but I can also maintain my humanity in feeling that no one deserves to die due to a climate disaster. Never dance on someone else's grave, especially if it is a child's.

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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

This Is Ethnic Cleansing. Dear Humans,

If the bill passes, it will make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for prison camps than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers than the entire FBI.

"Books are an interesting technology. Because they force you to focus and concentrate your attention over a certain period of time, and that encourages you to consider a bunch of factors and to think about complexity and to reason things out. It creates certain habits of the mind." - Barack Obama

@bsky.app PLEASE could you have the web app remember my dark mode settings so it doesn't cauterize my eyeballs with light mode every time I close and reopen the tab / web app? Thank you.