Michele

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Trailing spouse, art person, cat mattress, Japanese language student, writer, baker, quilter, other duties as assigned. She/her. From the US, living in Nagoya

https://www.votefromabroad.org

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if harris was chosen because of optics, consider the optics of passing over the first black female vice president as the heir apparent. and optics aside, it’s simply fucked up. you don’t have to be a harris fan to see that.

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Apparently defending democracy means never having to learn about the Twenty-fifth Amendment

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I am losing my mind "stick with Biden or go with Harris" is the open question, anything else is absolute guaranteed disaster what do any of these people think they're doing

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If for no other reason, turn out to vote to spite the “men who have never done anything but sniff their own farts” club.

Someone in our apartment building ordered one of those chef kits and it was delivered on July 3 and she hasn’t picked it up yet

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The most important lesson for political communications is to remember how much you're trying to reach people who think about politics about 10 seconds a day. There's a lot we don't think of as insider jargon that needs to be broken down to real human terms.

As Faine notes here, the specifics help! Part of the message here has to be making Project 2025 synonymous with the elements of it that people absolutely will understand and care about!

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As Faine notes here, the specifics help! Part of the message here has to be making Project 2025 synonymous with the elements of it that people absolutely will understand and care about!

Yes, I absolutely do think over half the country cares about having their basic human rights taken away by a bunch of authoritarian freaks. For Christ’s sake, Project 2025 calls for banning PORN. We can get voters mad about this.

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Ever wondered where the first ever stars came from? www.sciencefocus.com/comment/jame... 🔭🧪

Here’s how we're understanding the origins of the first stars in the Universewww.sciencefocus.com The James Webb Space Telescope is helping us learn more about the formation of the earliest stars in the Universe.

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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🎶 Easy like Sunday morning

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I’m just trying to figure out if y’all think the 90% of Black women who vote for Democrats do so because we’re stupid, or because we’re part of the “liberal elite”?

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Scorpio: Fragments of memory will come back to you at unexpected moments, detailing your previous life as some sort of pet to an intergalactic traveller. You will miss this time of no responsibilities intensely but they are gone forever.

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A joke doesn't become a dad joke until it's full-groan.

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Of course, we’ve missed the most important news, which is that West Japan Railway has deployed a colossal robot.

Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lineswww.theguardian.com The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes

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it’s almost like teaching is a real profession

According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."

Texas kids lose up to 4 months of learning with new uncertified teachers, study findswww.dallasnews.com Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math, the Texas Tech study found.

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Honest question: who is in charge of making sure abortion access is on the ballot in every single state? Who is running point on this?

Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

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In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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It’s bad out there!

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I can’t believe the New York Post called her the DEI President when she’s not even running for President. And yes I realize I’m saying that about the New York Post

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Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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Instead of being scared of it - we should campaign on it. There’s no good reason why Brockway PA in 2024 sends fewer proportion of kids to Penn State than it did in 1975. We need to do a better job bridging the access gap.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Army corp of engineers dredging keeps market access. Highways and school funds, 5G rollout, J waivers for medically underserved communities, etc. There’s only one party that believes in the power of government to make people’s lives better.

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Jose loaf

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"Happy Caturdaaaaaaaay!!!!!"

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The salad is this. It’s incredible. We like it with less dill (even though I love dill) than it calls for. All the other ingredients already shine so hard and it doesn’t want to play nice as much as it should, IMO. I love how chill your evening sounds!

Avocado Salad (+ Basil Feta Dressing)thewoodenskillet.com The BEST Avocado Salad ever! So much flavor is packed into this salad you are going to have it on repeat all summer long!

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Sammie wanted to sit in the hammock. But she does not understand the physics of hammock.

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This is something that's hard to grasp in retrospect. I was sexually harassed as an undergrad, by which I mean things from a prof grabbing my breast at a party to another asking me to spend the summer with him. I was repulsed by this, but *we had no concept of 'sexual harassment at the time.*

The news coverage of the scandal was literally introducing the concept of “sexual harassment” to Americans and Biden and the rest of the Democrats were scrambling to get a grasp on it

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anyway, bluesky is absolutely not ready and not prepared for the flood of authoritarian-funded trolls that are already beginning to flood it, so, you know, block early, block often.