Sage

Sage

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Outdoor enthusiast, dog-lover, USian, feminist, anti-racist. Interested in sustainability, biology, psychology, travel and other cultures, and avoiding infectious diseases.

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Important to remember risks to democracy are complex - for instance, state-level backsliding can be aided or accelerated by what happens at the federal level

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

So let's see. They took over Q with Qanon. Emerald clown took X. W was stolen decades ago. K sorta problematic for over a century. Now they're taking J and D? Screw these guys, stealing the alphabet!

None of this would have happened if everyone at the rally had been armed, right? I mean, that's what the gun nuts say: the more arms, the safer everyone is.

Exactly. The Dems could be putting R's in the position to be in an awkward spot, but they likely won't. And if a few do (AOC comes to mind and a few others), Dems are more likely to push those folks to tamp down criticism.

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The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices. Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs: www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.www.propublica.org Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...

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Why do you think they're so rabid to make abortion (and by collary, essentially miscarriage) and birth control illegal, yet child labor legal? Jail lots of women, seize their kids to put into "foster care", and force both to work.

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dear yt people leave Black people alone re: the election. 98% of Black women voters vote Dem and in spite of recent poles that number is 90% for Black men. we aren't your problem it's your OWN demographic there's plenty of their posts and your own family to harangue.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH

Also bsky.app/profile/numb...

This is insane.

One hopes

I feel like I need to go listen to a Ted Talk by the woman who came up with Crispr-cas9 gene editing to cleanse my brain after reading that stupid headline from The Atlantic. (Dr. Jennifer Doudna is the scientist and bioethicist, if you really want to dig in)

what the fuck are they even doing over there at this point

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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.

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Who was hosting Clarence Thomas + Harlan Crow during their visit to Putin's hometown (St. Petersburg, Russia)?

Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse ask Garland to appoint Special Counsel to investigate Clarence THomas' graft. www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

www.whitehouse.senate.gov

scott⚡️mccloud

I should get a second copy of this to give away, thanks for the reminder!

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

Never mind that if Trump wins then he could just...nuke places. Or get that country's leader to acquiesce to his demands in order to avoid being nuked. The dude is uninterested in upholding alliances and agreements but very interested in power and retribution.

I don't understand the immunity case. Can Biden just, like, nationalize Twitter (or whatever other social media site) under the guise of "national security"? Seize Mar-A-Lago? Throw certain members of Congress who visited Moscow on a July 4 a few years ago in Gitmo? Etc.

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Kelsey Atherton

Definitely had a vision of Biden arranging a meeting with John Roberts, holding a knife to Roberts' neck, and saying "this is totally legal thanks to you, assh*le! What fun!"

Aaron Sofaer 🏳️‍⚧️

Yeah there was a lot of chaos for a long time. Eventually they got to democracy which was lost here and there. Versus, say, the Bolshevik Revolution which basically had some form of dictator for over a century since with no end in sight.

She appears unaware the giant uptick post-Roe in people, especially those with uteruses, getting permanently sterilized on purpose and often at great personal expense. Not every protest is people with handcrafted signs yelling for 2 hours in a carefully corralled area.

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

One of the big problems with western society, especially the USA, is that doing the right thing ethically and making a lot of money usually involve opposite actions. And this week SCOTUS made that even more true.

As a non-historian, I kind of wonder how likely eg North Korea or Turkmenistan is, versus French Revolution. In fact, a revolution with a decent outcome seems more of a fluke than many many examples of authoritarian dictatorships lasting decades or even centuries.

Yeah, unfortunately.

Also can't use infrared at night if it stays near or above body temperature, or dogs if it's too hot because dogs are more sensitive to heat than human beings.

I totally agree! I just wish the responsibility were shared more equally and hope that more people who can get pregnant will insist that the people who can make them pregnant step up.

A reminder that people who can get pregnant having the type of intercourse that can make them so should be asking for funds from their partners that can make them pregnant. It really isn't fair for one person to shoulder this when the other person is the one adding risk.

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59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control. Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling. And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act. Republicans are coming for birth control.

Put a little baking soda (not powder) in yours and you have yourself a Spindrift clone!