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I feel like some evangelical group is missing out on a "Sign from God" opportunity here.

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I liked that they closed Pennsylvania Ave down so that protests could happen right there in front of the White House. You could fill the street with people!

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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It's proving to be a terrible cocktail party.

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Huh. How can it not be sarcasm at this point?

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I believe most incarcerated people are in the county jail system - approx 70% are awaiting trial. I think that's about 400-500,000 people. Misdemeanor convictions longer than one year may be served in state or federal prisons. I don't have a percentage on that population.

This is a reasonable concern. It's an argument for prison reform. It's not an argument to deny the franchise. We acknowledge the right and then use the tools we have to ensure that the right is upheld. The rights come first.

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?? Basic election fact: not all people who are incarcerated lose their voting rights. In all three locations, people serving felony convictions cannot vote. People serving non felony convictions can vote.

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Which is information that the public should know! Here's an intersection with a large number of crashes - let's adjust the design to increase safety.

I agree. This is 100% targeted at stopping women's independence.

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What about Illinois or Colorado or Los Angeles?

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Several states have in-person voting in prisons already. Maybe we should check to see if there are the problems you imagine.

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This isn't a problem yet to solve because we currently have prisoners in jails with the right to vote. Most vote absentee but some prisons have in-person voting within the prisons (see Colorado, Illinois, and Los Angeles). We build on what works.

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I am in the middle of mystery novel and the bed is perfectly warm and cozy. If someone would deliver donuts and coffee, my Sunday morning would be perfect. 🫶

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So they can send you ads to get your own subscription.

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm confused. Has there ever been a military without supply lines that wins the war?

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, I understand the law exists. Nonetheless, the hospital charged specifically for the rape kit. As a line item in the hospital bill. Her insurance paid then agreed to pay for about a third of it.

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw the same or a similar video. Over $5,000. Imagine getting a bill for fingerprinting your home during a criminal investigation. I'm so damn furious.

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is not the kind of power one country should have.

Canadians know how it feels to be hit by U.S. tariffs. But Canada hasn't been subjected to Washington's more aggressive tactics such as trade sanctions and asset freezes.

Or rather, most Canadians haven't.

Judge Kimberly Prost, a Canadian jurist who serves on the International Criminal Court, is the exception. She found her credit cards cancelled, her Google accounts closed and was effectively "de-banked" after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the court "an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel."

The most drastic tool a U.S. president could use might amount to a "kill switch" on a large part of Canadian commerce, says Vass Bednar, managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute think-tank.

"If Visa or Mastercard were to be compelled by the Trump administration to turn off our access or geographically restrict service so that the province of Ontario just can't process transactions anymore, it would effectively halt a huge part of our economy," Bednar said.v

Visa and Mastercard are central to the U.S. government's ability to shut down other countries' economies, handling about $32 trillion US of transactions annually — 90 per cent of all card transactions outside China.

In Britain, where Visa and Mastercard control about 95 per cent of card transactions, banks are co-operating with the government to create DeliveryCo, a system that can handle payments if the credit card companies ever hit the kill switch.

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a good reminder why we need diversity in the media (and everywhere else).

I have degrees in history and architecture and I can't imagine one without the other. They are both, in fact, more interesting together.

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Yep. Its a logical approach to the transition and the US could be doing the same thing but I guess we've chosen the gas guzzler and thrown away the catalytic converter.

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They have been using the income from their oil and gas revenue to pay for a fossil fuel future. Cynical and farsighted.

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While women are discussing the Cornell 7 and campus sexual assault , we also got the story of Slutcon which is apparently a work related thing? I don't know anything anymore.

This is just chaos in the making. As usual, I'm not surprised but I am horrified.

Many small businesses use ICHRA or QSHERA to reimburse employees for health insurance purchased through the ACA. It's one of the easiest ways for a small business to cover health insurance and is now built into employee benefit programs nationwide.

They call it Obamacare because not all Americans understand that their ACA plan is Obamacare. Implying Obamacare is a free handout and has worked in the past. The question is, will it still work today?

This is so stupid. I pay almost $1300 for insurance through the ACA. And I will admit that I'm not as great at going to the doctor as I should be. The only fraud here is the cost of insurance.

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This is ridiculous. No one would honestly choose to not be in the same room as Olivia Coleman in real life.

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I'm reading a book about the neuroscience of navigation and the author discussed how our brain oriented us in space. He also discusses how various situations affect our ability to do this including our reliance on GPS. Dark and Magical Spaces by Christopher Kemp. It's a fascinating read.

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We're really not angry enough.

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Finally read the article about the Cornell gang rape and feeling horrified, defeated, and furious. I'm grateful that media is (finally) covering some of the sexual assault stories out there. At the same time there have been so many stories over the past couple years and each one creates a scar.

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🤷‍♀️. Honestly just hoping it's a 24 hr thing.

Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A sign of the season: is it allergies or is it the flu? Or maybe it will go away tomorrow?

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Isn't it odd how easily we get angry when behind a wheel? You need a stealth anger management class disguised as something she'd really enjoy.

Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am so grateful my mom voluntarily stopped driving. For my dad, we simply took away his car keys. Anything he asked for them back I couldn't remember where I'd placed them.