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former high school English teacher, lover of books, SF Giants, movies, beach sand, & democracy. #GunSafetyNow #BansOffOurBodies

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

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[ProPublica @propublica]

New: New records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital. https://t.co/dXbsrDsH2W

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Michelle Obama: We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent, to wring our hands in despair, or to wait for someone else to fix the problem. Hope is all we have, because hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change. But hope is a choice. Whether or not we use our voices to speak up is a choice. Voting is a choice. Being a decent human being is a choice. Believing that we still hold the power to build a country that reflects us all is a choice.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Mike Johnson just told you the quiet part out loud: Republicans have a plan to gut Social Security next year.

They’re waiting until after the midterms so you can’t vote against it.

Make this the only issue that matters in November. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

A 1-year-old baby, Kohen Kartier Wiley, is dead because police opened fire over an alleged shoplifting incident in a Walmart parking lot. We are treating items on a shelf as more valuable than a child. That is not just bad policing; it is a moral collapse. We need officers who honor the sacredness of life more than the thrill of power and control. A badge is not a license to shoot first and ask questions later.

Reports indicate that officers were called to a Walmart on a shoplifting complaint, encountered a family as they went to their car, and then opened fire on the vehicle with a 1-year-old child inside. A mother says she tried to tell them her baby was in the car before shots were fired. In the name of “law and order,” a child was killed and a family was shattered over items that could be restocked, written off, and replaced.

This is what happens in a “shoot first, ask questions later” culture of policing. When those entrusted with public safety reach for a gun faster than they reach for their conscience, they are declaring that property is more precious than people. That is not public safety. It is a spiritual crisis.

No item in any store is worth the life of a child. Kohen should be alive today. We cannot simply grieve and move on. We must raise our voices, demand accountability, insist on policies and training that put the preservation of life above the protection of property, and refuse to accept a culture where it is thinkable to fire into a car with a baby inside. Our charge is clear: until the sacredness of human life is the starting point of every police encounter, we must demand changes in training and work unrelentingly to reform policies around police accountability.

#KohenKartierWiley #HumanityFirst

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Funny how every Trump "solution" to Social Security defunding asks MORE from workers and seniors:

Raise the retirement age.
Cut benefits.
Means-test retirees.

But ask billionaires to pay more?

Suddenly that's impossible.

#HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Reminder as you're traveling this summer:

Trump reversed a rule that required airlines to automatically refund you with CASH—not vouchers, not points—for canceled or severely delayed flights.

United Airlines and Delta Airlines each gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr: "Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we've ever seen

The reality

It's SO GOOD that no one vaccinated in England has died from cervical cancer.

In fact it's on the way to eliminating it.

Yes - ELIMINATE CERVICAL CANCER

Don't listen to RFK Jr

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Our 193 million acres of national forests are under direct threat. Don't let them steal our public lands. Demand Congress stop it: 👇 https://t.co/V9HjOIeFGQ #HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

No Chinese baby was ever born speaking Chinese. No German baby was ever born speaking German. No English baby was ever born speaking English. They had to listen to their parents to learn the language. No one is born racist, they're taught racism, stop teaching it. WE ARE ALL ONE.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Senator Jim Banks of Indiana calls mifepristone dangerous and says the FDA study is a good first step.

Here is what the documented record says. Mifepristone has been approved by the FDA since 2000 and is widely considered by health professionals to be safe and effective. More than 100 studies published over the past few decades have confirmed this. The FDA's own medication label lists a serious adverse event rate of 0.5 percent. Medical abortion accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. abortions and is used within the first ten weeks of pregnancy.

The study being cited by abortion opponents to claim danger reported an 11 percent serious adverse event rate - far above the 0.5 percent found in clinical studies. That study was not peer-reviewed and was not published in a scientific journal.

The FDA study now underway has the White House's backing and is intended to withstand legal criticism. A Bloomberg report cited individuals familiar with the matter saying FDA Commissioner Marty Makary had been told to slow-walk the review until after the 2026 midterms. Makary denied it.

Interim results are expected in July. The study will be used to determine whether to change the REMS - the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy governing how the drug is distributed. Louisiana has sued the FDA to reinstate in-person dispensing requirements. The Supreme Court last month extended a stay blocking that ruling.

Banks says he wants to protect women. The 25 years of peer-reviewed literature says the drug is safe. Those two things are not in conflict. The senator is.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Erin Brockovich is sounding the alarm on the impact data centers are having on rural communities' water supply.

“These big data centers are coming into rural areas of farmland where a lot of people are on their own well water.”

“They report a reduction in water pressure. Their water is just dripping into a bucket.”

“They’re very concerned that they could lose their aquifers, and they could literally be out of water.”

As AI drives a massive data center boom, many rural communities are raising concerns about depleted aquifers, falling water pressure, and growing strain on local water supplies.

Rural families should not be forced to compete with massive corporations for access to clean water and other essential resources.

@ErinBrockovich

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had aging pipes, cracked concrete and filtration problems. Trump’s administration spent over $14 million but didn't fix the infrastructure. Now it’s covered in algae and they're dumping 12% hydrogen peroxide in it.

That’s the most perfect metaphor for modern Republican governance we've seen all year. Paint the surface. Ignore the problem. Try to fix the fuckup and blame somebody else.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

A woman dies every two hours of cervical cancer in the US -- and these deaths are utterly unnecessary. HPV vaccines prevent it, and screenings catch it early when it's treatable. But we're dismantling federal support for reproductive health care programs like Title X.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1963, law enforcement officers in Gadsden, Alabama, used electric cattle prods on and arrested over 450 Black protesters who were holding a sit-in to oppose segregation.
https://t.co/XQgNuOHpLf

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Walk outside and look at the base of your trees. If the mulch is piled up against the bark in a cone, pull it back.

That volcano holds moisture against living tissue. Bark is a tree's skin, the barrier keeping disease and rot out of the living wood underneath. Pack mulch against it and you're keeping it chronically wet, which invites fungal disease and insect damage. Do it long enough and it kills the tree, slowly, from the base up.

The fix takes 2 minutes. Rake the mulch back so there's a clear gap between the pile and the trunk, a flat donut instead of a cone. No mulch touching bark.

Once you see it, you'll notice it on every street in your neighborhood.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Social Security isn’t going to run dry by accident.

Income inequality is draining it.

Once someone makes more than $182,000, they stop paying into Social Security. Lift the cap. Make billionaires pay their fair share. Protect Social Security.
#HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 If you believe Social Security should be 100% off-limits for Trump and Republicans, smash LIKE and RETWEET right now!

Protect our seniors! #HandsOffSocialSecurity