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Democratic voter. Blue dot in a red state. Abortions are Healthcare. She/her.

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Here's the thing. If a bunch of rich people manage to bully the party into kicking out the *elected candidate* and replace him with literally anyone and we go into the election with a person chosen by a bunch of rich people that nobody had a chance to vote for our democracy is already dead.

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Presidential candidate delivers rambling, incoherent speech to national audience. Next day: incessant drumbeat for his opponent to exit the race continues.

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Agenda47 would basically outlaw gender affirming care for everyone (all ages). Any hospital or healthcare provider that offers gender affirming care would be terminated from Medicare and Medicaid. We'd lose access to HRT, surgeries, etc. Please vote!

Project 2025 just got some shiny new jackboots: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47

Agenda 47 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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This is professional malpractice, @bostonglobe.bsky.social only covering this aspect of the speech.

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Michael Hobbes

The fact that people are even talking about a completely new ticket is insane. Giving up every last shred of incumbency advantage and removing your ability to talk about the achievements of the last administration just so you can run Gavin Fucking Newsom, what are we doing here.

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Kind of ironic that TikTok is where legitimate discussion of Project 2025 is happening while the New York Times is where you go for weird screeching bullshit

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One of the greatest tricks this nation's slavers ever pulled was letting the Union believe the Civil War was over.

also if you think this isn't gonna segue from "deport" to "put to work in the fields without pay" in short order then you don't understand what you are dealing with

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The best way to encourage seven year olds to read is to question them under oath about why books are bad.

A Florida school board wants to depose 7-year-old girl about what library books she wants to check out but can’t because they are banned

School board wants to depose 7-year-old girl about library books she wants to check outlawandcrime.com While the plaintiffs and school district agree that middle and high school students can be deposed, they are at odds about whether the elementary school students should do so.

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Everyone knows the Donny Trump “nevertheless” tweet but I think this one is just as prescient.

These people really don’t get what happens if Trump takes power again.

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Okay but YOU’RE DRIVING THE CHAOS

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Also still wondering why no medical press conference. That would normally be standard.

Anybody else still curious about the cause and nature of Trump’s injury, where the three victims were seated, and why Donald was allowed to stand & pose for photos, fist pumping for nearly ten seconds while asking about his shoe when there could easily have been other shooters?

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If you ever want to understand why the privacy rationale for abortion and contraception is more important and vital than ever, this is it.

JD Vance opposes the Biden Admin rule barring law enforcement from having access to your medical records about reproductive health (menstrual cycles, endometriosis, miscarriages, pregnancy, etc.) so that state laws limiting abortion and/or contraception can be enforced against you!

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

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Will Stancil

I’m sorry we have an imperfect candidate but maybe if the party nominally opposed to Trump actually opposed Trump instead of turning on itself like a pack of hyenas we could surmount a polling deficit of a couple of points

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"Negative assumptions about behavior are a barrier to creating neuroinclusive spaces. For example, an adult may assume a child is being defiant when they are actually unable to follow a particular instruction. It is much safer to assume kids do well if they can." endseclusion.org/2024/05/18/n...

Neurodiversity, Behavior, and the Problem with PBISendseclusion.org While no two nervous systems are identical, some characteristics are more common than others. People with these more common traits are called neurotypical. People with less common configurations are c...

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Someone in San Antonio, TX reached out to me today because she has a sweet, magical boy with FIV who desperately needs a home ASAP. In fact, he's so sweet that his name is Sweet Boy. Look at that face - he obviously just wants love! 💔 (continued with more info)

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It is almost as if we need oversight over the judicial system.

An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. www.propublica.org/article/judg...

Even When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests, Many Judges Choose Not to Recusewww.propublica.org Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.

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As you know, the death of Twitter has devastated small creators. Would you please reskeet to help me get the word out about my newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch? Thanks!

When I got the news about the assassination attempt, "I knew there was no American 'unity' coming that would in any way include me as a transgender woman." The first night of the RNC certainly proved that last night, but pundits are still busy scolding Dems www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/america-th...

America the Surrealwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Assassination Attempt, Fake National Unity. and Our Fascist-Enabling Media

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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I'm the author of a history of autism called "NeuroTribes." Every voter should know that what Trump says here about vaccines is the medical equivalent of the Big Lie, which has caused endless grief for autistic people and their families. A worst-case scenario. www.threads.net/@ronaldfilip...

Ron Filipkowski (@ronaldfilipkowski) on Threadswww.threads.net The RFK Jr camp leaked a video of a phone call from Trump to RFK after the shooting where he promised him a job in his Admin if he would drop out & endorse him, disclosed details of Biden’s call to...

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I keep remembering that the official Republican solution to gun violence is just... more gun violence. "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" means the plan -- the only plan -- is that AFTER the shooting starts, there's more shooting. Prevention isn't even considered.

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I am also now Team Mongolia.

This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

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“Democrats calling Trump a threat to democracy is as dangerous and as much the cause for violence as Trump himself” is an utterly deranged and brutally disingenuous thing to say about the openly authoritarian leader of a radicalizing movement that has gleefully endorsed violence.

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The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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Why am I being implicated in GOP on GOP violence though? Who is the "we" these people are talking about? Leave me out of it.

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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Free idea for a Dem ad: a series of brief somber interviews with people who worked with classified documents explaining what the consequences would be for the most minor infraction. Then just show these photos

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Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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Listening to Biden rattle off all the incidents of violence against political leaders in recent years sorta suggests that this actually *is* who we are.

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Courtney Milan

Certain people in the center: “Our strategy to save the Supreme Court must be to win every election for the next 35 years.” The same people: “Except this one, I’m announcing we’re losing it. The clock rests to 57 years, sorry.”