Periwinkle Pachyderm

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I like dogs. I think everyone should have health care and a place to live.

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Baltimore leaders sued to block a proposal that would let voters decide whether to give new parents a one-time $1,000 “baby bonus” City leaders argue that the proposal gives voters too much say over legislative decisions

Baltimore officials sue to block 'baby bonus' initiative that would give new parents $1,000apnews.com Baltimore’s mayor and city council are trying to stop a proposed ballot measure that would give all new parents a $1,000 “baby bonus” meant to help reduce childhood poverty from birth.

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Hillary Monahan

I agree. I know I'm on the edge and I assume many people are. I'm grateful for the pets and wildflowers and mending posts, those are good refuges when things get agressive

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so the dude with full AK-47, ski mask, ammo, etc., gets arrested after approaching the RNC, but an unhoused Black man well away from even the vehicle perimeter for the RNC, all the way across a major highway, gets shot to death by five cops. got it.

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Texas has been under GOP control for 25 years. Every single statewide office held by Republicans. Texas ranks last in quality of life, worst in health insurance. Power goes out often; people die of heat or cold. The infant death rate is rising; women die giving birth. These are features, not bugs.

Anger grows as some senior facilities left without power for days: ‘It’s horrible what the state of Texas is doing’ | CNNwww.cnn.com As Tina Kitzmiller sat inside her sweltering apartment, windows and doors open in the hope of catching even the slightest breeze, she was frustrated and worried for her dog and her neighbors.

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Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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As you know, the death of Twitter has devastated small creators. Would you please reskeet to help me get the word out about my newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch? Thanks!

When I got the news about the assassination attempt, "I knew there was no American 'unity' coming that would in any way include me as a transgender woman." The first night of the RNC certainly proved that last night, but pundits are still busy scolding Dems www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/america-th...

America the Surrealwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Assassination Attempt, Fake National Unity. and Our Fascist-Enabling Media

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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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It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

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.

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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I'm not letting this go. We need to do this and we can do this. But we have to do it together. If you can't contribute financially, please at least share.

[JULY 16 UPDATE] Disabled Blk Trans Enby 🚨NOW PAST DUE 🚨 $1,800 needed as of 7/15 18 ppl donating $100 36 ppl donating $50 72 ppl donating $25 DONATE 👉🏿 gofund.me/426e9e1c / linktr.ee/jskylerinc #DisabilityPrideMonth #HelpSky #BlackSky #MutualAidRequest 💕💸 🆙💰

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“He was a person. He was human. This is more trauma on top of trauma for those who knew him and still live here.” — Shelly Sarasin, cofounder and director of the Street Angels outreach group

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now says that FIVE Columbus police officers shot and killed the homeless Black man well outside the RNC security perimeter. Columbus Police say the shooting took place within the officers' assigned "operational zone."

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.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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So people are talking about the fake version of the JD Vance sparkling water. Here’s the real one. And you know, as someone who had kind of a crash-course introduction to the world of the American elite, let me tell my very similar and extremely different story.

J. D. Vance: What I didn’t know how the world of the American elite workswww.foxnews.com I went to Yale to earn a law degree. But that first year at Yale taught me most of all that I didn’t know how the world of the American elite works.

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it's my absolute favorite holiday of the year when the entire U.S. news industry turns itself into a giant blogspam affiliate for a single massive billionaire-owned retailer with absolutely nobody in any position of editorial authority thinking that's in any way unethical or gross

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I'm busy today, so here's my 2000+ word response to everything that happened on this anti-Black platform yesterday. You can read it, or not. www.patreon.com/posts/racism...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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Amazon Prime day is peak injury time for Amazon employees. Gift link: wapo.st/3WntNGb

Amazon Prime Day causes workplace injuries, Senate probe findswapo.st The Senate HELP Committee probe found that the company’s annual Prime Day sales event, which takes place this week, is “a major cause of injuries” for the workers.

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

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

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?

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It’s finally here! For years, @roseveleth.com has been working on an epic series about elite runners who’ve been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. TESTED is their story, & the story of sport’s history of dubious sex testing. Ep 1 is now online! link.chtbl.com/Rose_

Testedlink.chtbl.com <p>Who gets to compete?&nbsp;Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female ...

Some pictures from the yard this morning. #NativePlants #Pollinators

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Rita, antifascist🏴

Absolutely! You're welcome. The link if anyone else should read this far: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-h...

How We Get Freewww.haymarketbooks.org "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

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Peter Thiel, Planatir, Cambridge Analytica, JD Vance, Project 2025, and more - it’s an ecosystem of theft, profiteering, misogyny, racism, transphobia, capture of government, undermining rule of law, genocidal glee, and more. Look these up, learn about them, this is what’s now center stage

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🚨EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance recently pressed regulators to let police in anti-abortion states access women’s private medical records in order to hunt down & prosecute those seeking legal abortions in other states, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

J.D. Vance Wants Police To Track People Who Have Abortionswww.levernews.com Trump’s vice presidential pick pressured regulators to let police access the records of people who cross state lines for abortions.

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I hope you can get somewhere safe!

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Coach Jerry (referee 🟥)

Yikes. I hope everyone can get to a safe place 🙏

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If you want to know why J.D. Vance's national bestseller rang false with many who know Appalachian history and culture, I highly recommend the lively "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to 'Hillbilly Elegy'" from WVU Press, edited by Anthony Harkins & Meredith McCarroll.

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Don Moynihan

Why??? Why would anyone do this?

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Arkancrow

Like, boons farm had different wine flavors, it wasn't all strawberry hill. What kind of fake ass poor redneck is this mother fucker.

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JD Vance 2016: Trump is America's Hitler (pejorative) JD Vance 2024: Trump is America's Hitler (complimentary)

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From America's hardest-hitting investigative journalists at @teenvogue.bsky.social, a BEAUTY of an introductory piece (I've gifted annual subscriptions to random small-town libraries; you can, too!) www.teenvogue.com/story/everyt...

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”