Laura Dickson

Mother, wife, history teacher, golfer, wine-drinker, and dancer.

[DrDinD🟧🇺🇲🇺🇦 He/Him @DrDinD]

Mike Krukow was a 20 game winner for the @sfgiants and has been a longtime color analyst for the team with his former teammate Duane Kuiper. He has thoughts about the four Giants pitchers who hijacked Pride night last week.

“I would just hope they would understand the demographic of San Francisco and respect people for who they are. What you do to your uniform, that has weight to it. You can offend people. And why would you do that?���

Mike's son Wes is a dancer, is gay, and is married to his partner, Ted.

"“I’m so proud of him,” Krukow said. “I’ve seen gay life through my son’s eyes. The culture and the community is so beautiful.”"

I hope Landon Roupp, Ryan Walker, JT Brubaker, and Sam Hentges hold a conversation with Mike Krukow. Their choice has irritated and potentially alienated lot of the Giants fan base needlessly.

Regarding the verse, State Senator and Congressional Candidate for CA11 @Scott_Wiener had this to say:

"“To be clear, these players could have cited the rainbow bible verse on any of the other 364 days of the year. Instead, they chose to cite it only on Pride Night & only in connection with the rainbow Giants logo celebrating our LGBTQ community. There’s only one explanation for that choice — a choice the Giants tolerated,” Wiener wrote on social media. “It’s hard to envision the Giants tolerating this kind of behavior directed at any other community. The Giants can & must do better.”"

While the words of the Genesis verse sound inclusive, the Biblical and social contexts are not. God "gave" the rainbow in "mercy" after an apocalyptic flood wiped out most life on earth presumably to cleanse the earth of "sin" which reads like a threat to those these pitchers "morally" disagree with.

The "Reclaim the Rainbow" movement is curious- why does a natural phenomenon witnessed by all faiths and used metaphorically by the LGBTQ+ community need to be "reclaimed" as though it belongs only to Christians? And the "Reclaim the Rainbow" song makes it clear in homophobic lyrics what the "movement" is about- like these:

"What do you mean? They turned the rainbow to sin
But they don't know what it means
It is a promise, it isn't pride
God said He would no longer flood the Earth (flood the Earth)
Now it's for abominations
When they put their flags outside those churches..."

The @sfgiants need to do better, on and off the field. Their on field struggles might be more tolerable if they showed more tolerance.

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[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

#NoKings

[Aaron D. Ford @AaronDFordNV]

Washoe County parents are suffering from more than $100,000 in school lunch debt. Yet Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed school meals.

When I’m Governor, we’re going to guarantee school meals for Nevada students. No child should have to be hungry in the classroom.

[Laura Dickson @Lo_Dickson13]

@MarkAmodeiNV2 @HouseGOP @POTUS Shame on you

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Senate Democrats need to put a blanket holds on these nominees and use every weapon at their disposal to delay or block them.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.

The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

[Congressman Greg Landsman @RepGregLandsman]

In the last 48 hours, congressional Republicans have done so much damage to Americans.

Here are the 5 truly harmful things they passed. 📽���🧵👇🏼

[Justin Mares @jwmares]

Singapore created the world's most efficient healthcare system from scratch in one generation.

They spend $4,000 per person on healthcare. We spend $15,000.

Their secret?

The exact opposite of what American "experts" recommend: 🧵

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Biden capped insulin at $35/mo -- Republicans are now undoing it

Biden capped inhaler at $35/mo -- Republicans are now undoing it

Biden stopped banks from hurting you with overdraft fees -- Republicans are now undoing it

Trump, Musk, and the GOP are RAISING your costs

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Warren Buffett, "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
I am asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
*Congressional Reform Act of 2019*
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 7/1/19. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term's), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it on.

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

One of the paradoxes of Trump's conception of the presidency: he somehow requires absolute and unchecked power, but also seems to think of himself as a passive, tut-tutting observer when the government over which he has that absolute power fails in any way.

[anabella 🕸️ @yelenasrvgers]

please look at this list, he’s already done so many of these things two days into his term. he’s tried to deny it, but he’s literally invoking project 2025

[Ben Margiott @BenMargiott]

NEW: There is over $62k in lunch debt so far this school year at Washoe County & Carson City school districts after Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a universal free lunch bill in 2023.

One mom started a GoFundMe to pay off debt at her child's school in Sparks.
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[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

One of the most evil men in modern history. If anything, this election made 2016 seem quaint in the realms of disinformation.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Senator John Thune, soon to be Senate Majority Leader. talks about how they're gonna reimplement the tax credits for billionaires and slash regulations that keep people safe, to once again line the pockets of billionaires.

Shameful people.

[James Walker @jwalkermobile]

#truth

[Palmer Report @PalmerReport]

We’re in Hell

I’ve spent all morning trying to think of more meaningful and graceful words to write, but I’m at a loss so I’ll just say it: this sucks. We woke up today and found out that Americans are a lot worse people than we always hoped they were. And a psychotic senile extremist criminal is going to be President of the United States (again).

Like the rest of you, I have no explanation for why 2024 saw record high turnout, yet something like twenty million fewer votes than in 2020. There will be abundant theories about this, and there will be a temptation to chase them, but I’m not sure it matters. The bottom line is that a stunning, jarring number of people were willing to vote for a monster, even after they knew full well that it was a monster. These people are never to be forgiven.

It also needs to be pointed out that the media once again screwed us royally. With a hundred days to go the major media outlets (on both sides) suddenly decided to use dishonest pretenses to force President Biden out of the race, at a time when he was still within the margin of error and was in far better cognitive condition than Trump, simply because the media felt it could get better ratings by forcing Biden out. It forced Kamala Harris to enter the race very late, and while she ran a historically inspiring and incredibly competent campaign, winning on such short notice proved to be unrealistic. The media’s dishonest last minute railroading of Biden was a criminal level of election interference on the part of the major media outlets, and they are never to be forgiven either.

If I can offer you one piece of advice right now, it’s to try to take this one day at a time. If you start thinking too far ahead about the worst case scenarios… let’s just say that in times like this it’s vital to keep yourself sane. One day at a time. One fight at a time.

It’s okay to feel sick to your stomach. I know I do. Right now I’m thinking in particular of women, minorities, immigrants, and the LGBT community, all of whom are in danger. All I can tell you is that it’s been an honor to fight alongside all of you – and I’m going to keep fighting. Whether I want to keep fighting is irrelevant. I have to keep fighting. I have to try. Much hope is lost, but not all hope is lost, and that matters. This is too important to simply give up because things have gotten harder. And I hope you’ll ultimately be willing to keep fighting alongside me.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

This is real.
This is the GOP plan.
This will affect you and people you love.
Please vote to prevent Project 2025.
Please vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and Democrats up and down the ballot.