Karen M. Poremski

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Writer, reader, knitter, spinner, spouse, parent, bossed around by cats. Fan of bike races. Haver of chronic illnesses. Living in a place named for the Delaware people.

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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If you don’t watch cycling I want to share the joy of Eritrean Biniam Girmay, who is the first Black person to win a stage in the Tour de France and now won his second! In the first week! And he’s in green, which means he’s winning the most sprints (and beating Jasper Phillipsen, which is great.)

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I guess Bidens age doesn't matter that much to me cause I don't think US Presidents do nearly as much as the myth likes to tell. Reagan spent the back end of his run with Alzheimers, last guy played golf & shitposted for 4 years, idc if Bidens an ent who speaks once a yr, taking it over Project 2025

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Today's the last day to sign up for Incan Andean Philosophy Classes! Deadline is 11:59pm tonight (local time). My work's independent so share this even if you're not attending, it supports a small Indigenous educator (linkin.bio/newamauta)

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1/n Since we are talking about project 2025, here are some things a Trump administration plans to do with higher education policy, in no particular order

static.project2025.org

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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robjackel.bsky.social

That undercounts it! He spent NINE HOURS A DAY "tweeting, phoning friends and watching television. Official meetings, policy briefings and public appearances — typically the daily work of being president — consumed barely more than three hours of his day." www.politico.com/story/2018/1...

9 hours of ‘Executive Time’: Trump’s unstructured days define his presidencywww.politico.com The president’s schedule shows huge swaths of his day unplanned, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business.

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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i want to add: if you’ve stopped masking for whatever reason, you can start again. it makes spaces more accessible, it helps preserve your health and the health of the people around you. it’s a tiny action you can take to make the world safer.

"If only I could do something that would have a positive impact on the world-" You can. Mask up.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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If you haven’t read the rice truck saga, what are you even doing with your life? If you have read the rice truck saga, you can’t read it too many times. Go forth and read.

I suppose it's obligatory to do this on every social media site I'm on, isn't it. Here ya go. Happy 4th.

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Katharine Hayhoe

It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

WHAT.

Bear in mind that Brett Kavanaugh BROUGHT HIS PARENTS to watch the decision being handed down.

That Tour de France sprint finish was SO EXCITING!! (no spoilers) I yelled so much I scared the cat. 🙀😹 #TourDeFrance

I know this is the most ridiculous question and so trivial in the light of everything happening right now, but... has anyone watching the Tour de France seen Didi the Devil yet? #TourDeFrance2024 #TourDeFrance

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“The drug manufacturer Merck now lists Covid as the third most common cause of lymphocytopenia, right behind HIV. What's lymphocytopenia? It's immunodeficiency. …A pharmaceutical giant like Merck doesn't say something like that unless it's definitive.” COVID IS NOT MILD. Avoid infection, N95😷

Every Covid surge brings a surge in denial. So I wrote one big article summing up the mess we're in: www.okdoomer.io/everything-t...

Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About Covidwww.okdoomer.io We're scratching the surface.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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BINIAM is BACK!!!!🥰🥳✊🏿 #TourDeFrance www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-d... cc @seismatters.bsky.social

Tour de France stage 3: Biniam Girmay wins bunch sprint in Turin as Richard Carapaz takes yellowwww.cyclingnews.com Fernando Gaviria second and Arnaud De Lie third

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You need this today. For morale.

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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.

Trump, who tried to overthrow an election, campaigned persistently for his fellow party members to grant him absolute immunity for his misdeeds in office. And they did. If you can't distinguish between "energy in the executive" and a constitutional crime spree, you've given up on US democracy.

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The New York Times

perhaps I missed the recent New York Times editorial calling for Donald Trump to step aside for the good of the country in the wake of his 34 felony convictions. could you share a link here please?

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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.

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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”

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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop

look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

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25-year old Michele Gazzoli abandoned the Tour de France due to heatstroke. Welcome to our climate changed future. #TDF2024 www.rouleur.cc/blogs...#TDF2024 www.rouleur.cc/blogs...

Blood, sweat and tears: Inside the Tour de France peloton’s hottest daywww.rouleur.cc Emotions ran high and states of exhaustion were reached in the opening stage of the Tour under the blazing Italian sun