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Displaced Southerner in a Blue state. Nature lover, horticulturist, educator, proud liberal ✡️

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Massachusetts' House must act and pass a bold climate bill. The Senate has already sent over a strong package. It's time for the MA House to step up on climate. What's at stake? Clean buildings, electricity, cars + more. SHORT THREAD! apnews.com/article/m...

Massachusetts Senate approves bill to expand reliance on renewable energyapnews.com The Massachusetts Senate approved a bill Tuesday aimed at expanding the adoption of renewable energy.

“The Court’s decision in Trump vs. United States represents the undoing of America.“ — Former Judge J. Michael Luttig

FED UP Judge Luttig RIPS the Supreme Court’s ABOMINATIONyoutu.be In a special Legal AF interview, conservative icon and defender of the Constitution, former Judge J. Michael Luttig joins Michael Popok for a candid and hard...

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New US genomic surveillance for #SARSCoV2 The KP.3/KP.2 variants on the road to US dominance, accounting for nearly half of Covid cases, while LB.1 fades. Underpinning of the summer wavelet, along with immunity waning and lack of mitigation

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"New research links eviction with premature death, stress-related disease, and other health consequences. In Massachusetts, displaced individuals feel that impact." www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/03/r...

Eviction takes its toll on more than one’s finances - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Researchers have only begun to uncover the big picture of what happens to the human body when experiencing displacement.

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I spoke to a friend I knew in high school who told me he "doesn't follow politics." I asked him what he thought about the election. He said, "I hear Biden's a senile wreck." He also said he hadn't heard of SCOTUS granting Trump immunity and has never heard of Project 2025. Media's doing a great job.

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Here's the announcement from Heritage that they've hired McEntee for their PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT. They note that McEntee headed up the Presidential Personnel Office for Trump at the end of his last administration. This is not complicated people. www.heritage.org/press/former...

Former PPO Director John McEntee Joins Project 2025; Personnel Database Launches | The Heritage Foundationwww.heritage.org WASHINGTON—John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump administration, is joining the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025) as a senior ad...

On the 4th of July, Facebook is censoring the website of the premiere voting rights attorney in the United States. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Why is FB removing links to Marc Elias/Democracy Docket on July 4?www.dailykos.com Most everyone here is familiar with Marc Elias, the premier attorney litigator of voting rights in the U.S., and his website Democracy Docket link here. Today, I got a notice from Facebook that someth...

A trio of federal court rulings this week have blocked Biden administration efforts to protect LGBTQ people in getting healthcare and going to school without discrimination. www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

Trans healthcare anti-discrimination rule blocked nationwide as other LGBTQ rule challenges proceedwww.lawdork.com Some aspects of the rule enforcing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act go into effect on Friday. Also: Another Title IX rule injunction.

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"An economy that requires 40 workers per year to die from heat exposure is not (at least in that respect) strong. It is recognizably backward and weak." newrepublic.com/article/1834...

The Supreme Court’s War on Regulation Is Going to Tank the Economynewrepublic.com The right-wing justices declared open season on regulations which don't just protect the environment, health, and safety but the economy, too.

“We cannot let Project 2025 write the next chapter of our nation’s story.“

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 - Democracy Forwarddemocracyforward.org

“Essentially, the Court in Trump v. United States is declaring the Constitution itself unconstitutional. Instead of properly starting with the Constitution’s text and structure, the Court has ended up repealing them.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

Noel Casler: “MSM can taste what Biden dropping out will do for ratings…it will be a circular firing squad & exploited endlessly by our opponents…” OTOH, Biden isn’t up to press conf’s/answering questions, let alone vigorous campaigning. Is the answer just GOTV or changing horses midstream?

Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the American coup and what you can do. fb.watch/t3axBv74TY/

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Anyone else love the delicious irony that the Supreme Court has elevated the president to the status of an absolute monarch three days before the celebration of our independence from the last absolute monarch who ruled us? Come on, that’s funny.

He lied every 3.9 seconds he was speaking.

(📢) You’ve never seen anything like this: it’s the first *real* fact-check of Donald Trump ever done. CNN saw 30 debate lies—this NYT-bestselling author found 602. Please share this free report. PROOF: Trump's Shocking Box Score: 602 Lies in 40 Minutes 🔗: sethabramson.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump's Shocking Box Score: 602 Lies in Just 40 Minutes, An Unprecedented Tsunami of Deceit That Is Disqualifyingsethabramson.substack.com The debate performance Trump just turned in was the most shameful in U.S. political history. It doesn’t matter who’s running against him because he’s nonviable. And now some breaking news confirms it.

It’s expected that all main vaccine manufacturers will have an updated shot available in the fall that will likely target KP.2. “There’s really no wrong time to get a booster shot,” Dr. Nikhil Bhayani said. www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...

COVID Is Surging Right Now. Here's What Alarms Doctors The Most.www.huffpost.com Infectious disease experts share what's different about this latest wave and what to know about the new variants.

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How to Beat Trump in a Debatewww.theatlantic.com Unprepared and weak-willed opponents continue to play right into his hands.

This is what happens when judges decide they know more than scientists. And his mother used to work for the EPA. In this case, nitrous oxide is no laughing matter. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

Listening to Democracy Now! interview two men calling for Biden to step down. During the interlude, Goodman played The Gambler by Don Schlitz, who hails from my hometown of Durham, NC. At such a frightening moment in U.S. history, it gave me a chuckle.

Here is the headline of the email I just received from MassDems: “Joe Biden held Trump accountable last night..” Obviously, neither he nor the so-called moderators did that. A better appeal would have been, “GOTV to help save our democracy.”

While the two men’s performances are certain to draw the most attention, the debate moderators’ failure to do their jobs is also drawing scrutiny, as CNN hosts Tapper and Bash provided zero real-time fact checking on 90 minutes of lies, mischaracterizations, and at some points, conspiracy theories.

A stream of lies: 5 of Trump’s biggest lies in the presidential debatekeystonenewsroom.com Donald Trump delivered 90 minutes of lie after lie after lie on Thursday, spreading crazy conspiracy theories about babies being aborted after birth, lies about his felony conviction, and brazen false...

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Oh, well, my heart goes out to... ...THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HE KILLED THROUGH AGGRESSIVE, GLEEFUL NEGLECT.

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