Meggan

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Neurodivergent public defender and mom

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I don’t like to be indirect. So I’m telling you that I have active cancer and the health care workers refuse to mask. So for the fourth time in a cow I have come home SICK from CHEMOTHERAPY. You can’t tell by looking who is sick. It feels like I’m paying them to kill me. Please wear a mask.

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We need to rescue that dog!

Exhibit #528,634 that cops don't keep anyone safe.

Members of local law enforcement were stationed in the same complex of buildings that a gunman used to shoot at Donald Trump at a rally, according to an account from the Secret Service that suggests that the gunman was literally on top of them.

At Trump Rally, Local Police and Gunman Were in Same Warehouse Complexwww.nytimes.com The Secret Service left local law enforcement to secure the building, which was within rifle range of the podium where the former president spoke.

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I do absolutely think that Americans have been successfully trauma-conditioned into just kinda shrugging at gun violence events that most other, healthier countries would see mass public freak horror over.

I wonder if this is at least in part due to the degree to which gun violence in general has been normalized as well as the miasma of violence and violent rhetoric that follow him everywhere now?

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The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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two suggestions: 1) focus on the things you can actually control. 2) what you can actually control is bigger than you ever imagined, if you organize with other smart, dedicated people.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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You will see many people saying "Vance isn't from Appalachia, he's from suburban Cincinnati" and as someone from that area I would just like to set the record straight, Middletown is a desolate hellscape neither Cincinnati nor Dayton are willing to claim

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about a quarter million right now. today's high was 95F and fairly humid.

How many people still without power in Texas?

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And read Appalachian Reckoning if you want what is perhaps the best rejoinder to Vance's "book."

Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

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Tour de France and Olympic athletes are wearing masks because they understand that catching COVID could undo years of hard work and sacrifices.

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Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Every time a story comes out that a violent boy or man was bullied in school, I really wish they’d talk to the girls and women who had to be around that guy. Killings are rarely a first act of violence.

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just watched a presser with Milwaukee cops explaining that Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR

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::lolsob:: h/t @beebrookshire.bsky.social

Tour de France Reinstates COVID-19 Measures as More Cases Emerge in the Pelotonwww.bicycling.com The ASO has mandated masks for organizers, media, and guests when interacting with riders and team staff.

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My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

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At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said.

At least 4 people killed, 9 others injured in shooting at Birmingham nightclub, police say | CNNwww.cnn.com At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said.

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Again, qualified immunity is one of those things that if you describe it to someone who has never heard of it in simple factual terms they will think you are entirely full of shit

are you fucking kidding me

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Whitmire is really dedicated to being the absolute worst. THE ASTROS SOLD $5 TICKETS AND DOLLAR HOT DOGS, SO PEOPLE COULD GET AIR CONDITIONING AND FOOD AND WATCH A GAME. www.chron.com/sports/astro...

Whitmire questions whether Astros should be playing during outageswww.chron.com Houston Mayor John Whitmire clarified his comments about the Astros' game following Hurricane Beryl on social media late Wednesday night.

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The ongoing #Beryl disaster in Houston: still 1M folks w/out power after 4 days, in miserable heat/humidity, after another big outage just weeks ago. "Houston’s electricity distribution system is not working. It is failing us." spacecityweather.com/houston-dese...

Houston deserves a much better electricity distribution systemspacecityweather.com In brief: Today’s post offers some thoughts about the need for a reckoning with power distribution in the greater Houston area, and greater resiliency given the conditions we regularly experi…

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Some of y'all need to eat grass. Not just touch it, eat it. I know you can't digest it. I think it would be good to spend a couple days in the bathroom wondering why you're like this.

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It’s definitely a pattern, and one everyone on this app needs to think long and hard about before it’s too late.

Wait, the same people who bullied Tressie off of this site have now set their sights on Jamelle Bouie?? As ever, they are so much closer to MAGA than they realize.

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The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

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A friend in Milwaukee texted me today to ask if I heard about Dvontaye Mitchell. I hadn’t, and I want to know why the whole country isn’t talking about him. Dvontaye was murdered by Hyatt Hotel SECURITY GUARDS on June 30th. They pinned him to the ground until he died, despite his pleas for help.

A Black man died after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Milwaukee hotel. Now his family wants answers | CNNwww.cnn.com The death of a Black man after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Wisconsin hotel last month is being investigated as a homicide, as members of his family and their attorneys on Wedne...

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Just wait until the first school shooting that has kids barricaded in classrooms, unable to text their parents because their phones are in their lockers — or at home. Virginia governor issues executive order that will limit or ban cell phone use - CNN apple.news/ApjVQFNvYRCe...

Virginia governor issues executive order that will limit or ban cell phone useapple.news Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a new executive order Tuesday that will limit or ban cell phone use in public schools – the latest in a string of efforts by officials to crack down on what many se...

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Milwaukee police are looking into the death of a Black man in an incident drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, after footage emerged that appears to show hotel guards pinning the man to the ground as he called for help.

Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video showswapo.st The videos of the incident drew comparisons to George Floyd. Dvontaye Mitchell’s mother said she believed her son was suffering from poor mental health.