Trussia

#EndCitizensUnited🇺🇸 #ScienceMatters🇺🇸 #TrustWomen🇺🇸 GOP mission: privatize & funnel resources to billionaires. Find me over at Cielo Azul. I ❤️🦋

[Trussia @yogaskidogs]

This is why Trump immediately cancelled Obama’s ban on private prisons. Misery makes billionaires money.
This is why he cancelled so many infrastructure projects from Biden’s bill. Billionaires profit more from a police state than investing in our future. #GOPBetrayedAmerica

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

MAGA, your guy isn't deporting the immigrants. He's housing them indefinitely, here, without trial, while you pay to feed them.

Unregulated private prisons are like farming people. You voted for concentration camps.

[Linda Stevens 🌎 @Linda__Stevens]

@jacobsoboroff California is an example of treating voting with the utmost respect. Ballots are checked in multiple ways.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

[George @George209857420]

@steadystate2025 Head on, wall to wall Project 2025. We have arrived. It's gonna take a miracle and a lot of work to get us out.
Hard times ahead. 🙄

[Daniel Larsen @dscottlarsen]

@steadystate2025 Pretty clear with every anecdote and telling that @bariweiss is a sycophantic POS.

Boycott @CBS and @60Minutes.

#BoycottCBS

[Global Human Shame @KarenFullerton2]

@steadystate2025 Here is a free link to the full story on the New York Times. As many people as possible should see it, so please share it widely. Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes on Bari Weiss' interference with the show:
https://t.co/kJHQbM4bzH

[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

This is absolutely chilling. Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted the story shaped to match Trump’s version of events, not what the video showed. If accurate, it’s the corruption of editorial judgment to please the ruler, and a warning of what capture of the press looks like.

[Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @Msdesignerlady]

@cwebbonline

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Yeah, SCOTUS opened the door for racist gerrymandering in disguise as partisan gerrymandering. But state legislatures are the ones putting it in action to lock out Democrats.

If Democrats want fair maps, voting rights protections, and a chance to compete everywhere, we have to stop treating state legislative races like they’re an afterthought.

The road to Washington runs through state capitals.

Republicans figured that out years ago. It’s time Democrats did too.
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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

They didn’t just focus on winning elections. They focused on winning state legislatures. Once they got those supermajorities, they drew gerrymandered maps, locked in political advantages, and protected their power for years.
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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

A state legislature is basically the state version of Congress. They’re the lawmakers who draw voting maps, pass election laws, set state budgets, and decide how political power is distributed.

A supermajority is when one party controls so many seats that it can pass laws without needing support from the other side.

Republicans knew this and played the long game.
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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Want to know how Republicans kept power even when they lost votes? State legislatures.

People focus on Congress but The biggest political power grab in America didn’t happen in Congress. It happened in state capitals.
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[DrDinD🟧🇺🇲🇺🇦 He/Him @DrDinD]

Ps: he gets $228000/yr from taxpayers to do a shifty job

[DrDinD🟧🇺🇲🇺🇦 He/Him @DrDinD]

The Health and Human Services department is vast, with about twice of the Department of Defense. It is incredibly important for our nation's health safety. Apart from pushing his personal agenda about vaccines and food, RFK Jr is largely a no show who frequently is away on personal travel. When he is in town he puts in 6 hour days.

When a shooter attacked the CDC, he was fishing in Alaska. He has not visited the CDC since the shooting to boost morale. When he is in DC, he shows up once a month to weekly agency wide update meetings, delegating the running of the meeting to longtime assistant Susan Spear. Reports from HHS attendees say he seems disinterested and scrolling on his phone. Most of his time is spent in closed door meetings in his office. He distrusts scientists and civil servants in the agency.

Consider the Ebola outbreak in Africa. " In the current Ebola crisis, Mr. Kennedy has left the department’s response to Dr. Bhattacharya, a health economist with no prior experience in public health even though he is leading the C.D.C."

Out in the field in Kenya?

"The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, responsible for pandemic preparedness and for standing up field hospitals and quarantine facilities in Kenya, is currently run on an acting basis by John Knox, a former Los Angeles firefighter who founded the group Firefighters4Freedom during the pandemic to fight vaccine mandates."

That ought to work

In summary: "It’s a dynamic that could threaten the department’s ability to protect Americans in a crisis, according to public health experts and former secretaries."

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[Leia @TheSWPrincess]

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[Leia @TheSWPrincess]

Resources about domestic abuse:

https://t.co/2kdXmcCDON

[Leia @TheSWPrincess]

A lot of people don’t understand what physical abuse actually looks like.

It doesn’t have to be a punch, slap, hit, or backhand.

Blocking someone from leaving is abuse.
Cornering someone against a wall is abuse.
Confining someone in a room is abuse.
Yanking someone out of a car is abuse.
Grabbing someone hard enough to leave bruises is abuse.

And physical abuse is almost always paired with emotional and psychological abuse.

I dated someone like this in college. He was jealous and controlling. One night, he tried to block me from leaving my dorm room and backed me against a wall. A friend knocked on the door, and I called out that I was coming.

That witness changed the outcome of the situation.

He moved and let me go because someone was there. Someone could hear me. Someone could get help.

He never hit me, but make no mistake: it came really cost close. That kind of physical domination is a direct path to worse abuse.

I called campus police. He was banned from my dorm.

After that, I didn’t go anywhere alone if I could avoid it. I watched shadows. I listened for footsteps. I looked for groups of people to walk near and doorways I could duck into if I needed help.

And I kept my pepper spray close.

Once, he parked outside my dorm for no reason except to scare me. That’s what abusers do. They intimidate. They control. They make sure you know they can still get to you.

So yes - showing up drunk and uninvited isn’t “nothing.”

Talking about rape as “domination” isn’t “nothing.”

Using your body to trap, threaten, grab, restrain, or intimidate someone isn’t “nothing.”

It is dangerous. It is abuse. It is a massive red flag.

When you dismiss it, you are telling women - your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, granddaughters, and friends - that this is normal. That it’s acceptable. That they should tolerate it.

Either you have morals and stand by them, or you don’t.

I wish someone had explained this to me before college. I had to learn through experience, and I was lucky. Many women are not.

Know what abuse looks like.

Don’t minimize it.
Don’t excuse it.
Don’t look away.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

TRUMP is the one who’s “obsessed!”

If I had a dollar for every person living rent free in Trump’s head…

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Are ya’ll still pretending this is about principles and transparency?

Track AIPAC’s PAC: All of their endorsed candidates split donations with them.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Dear purity police, quick question: are we still good here?

I’m just trying to keep up with the rules, because it looks more like shady profit-sharing agreement than a red line.

[Trussia @yogaskidogs]

@AdamKinzinger Sad thing is, ocean monitoring cost taxpayers less than Trump’s vanity ballroom, yet it would have served the public interest for a generation.
It will cost more to dismantle than to let scientists learn. #RepublicansHateAmerica to let this corruption continue day after day.

[Trussia @yogaskidogs]

@AdamKinzinger Simple answer: GREED.
I highly recommend supporting Mother Jones quality, in-depth investigative journalism if you don’t already.
They don’t want us to understand why things happen so that policy can’t regulate things like deep sea mining or fishing. GREED https://t.co/CWIB78ZOOn