Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialDan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 22/07/2024 212747972
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 07/08/2024If triangulating were a cheat code to politics, Walz would be a bad pick. He recently said “one person’s socialism is another[’s] neighborliness,” instead of running away from everything Rs tar as socialism. In full context, his view is clearly superior. www.offmessage.net/p/moderates-... 1495
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/08/2024A weird thing about Donald's fake debate and the Emhoff not-news is that we just found out that Trump took a $10 million bribe from the president of Egypt just before the 2016 election. 121300456
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024I tell people a lot that we already live under Project 2025 here in Alabama. Despite the perception, AL is NOT a poor state, it is just a state full of poor people, with a power structure that uses legislature and policing to make sure those on top keep the profit and control. 733190
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024A state where our governor tried to take money from the education fund to help build a waterpark. www.al.com/news/2023/03...al.comAlabama governor sends education dollars to water parkMontgomery whitewater development behind schedule, over budget. 110517
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024We are a state with an infrastructure so bad that our city shuts down schools if it is likely to have a hard rain, because our streets flood and the buses can't run because our storm water system is overwhelmed. 110710
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024It's how the fifth biggest city in the state and the home of its pride and joy University is crumbling to pieces once you get more than two miles off the campus. But no one cares because of who it harms. www.al.com/news/2023/10...al.comTuscaloosa’s rampant sewage overflows harming Black communities, groups sayThe Southern Environmental Law Center says it found "a disproportionate amount of chronic sewage overflows in predominantly Black communities." 110417
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024In Alabama, prisons exist to profit the state. That is why they took the COVID emergency funds meant for healthcare and built a new prison. inthesetimes.com/article/alab...inthesetimes.comLawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonaldsNo parole if you’re still profitable. 116336
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024The goal of API is to eliminate government except as an apparatus of power to promote traditional, Christian values, and to eliminate taxes and whatever taxes are obtained must be funneled to Christian organizations. Legislature exists only to enforce these goals. 315831
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 18/07/2024I accidentally read this op ed and it brought up something I've been meaning to say for a while: If you want to understand - REALLY understand - what Project 2025 will do, take a look at Alabama. (Buckle in, this is going to take a few) www.al.com/politics/202...al.comSmith: Project 2025 is better than what we're currently doingConservatives putting forth conservative policy ideas isn’t a threat to America. It is a clear and vital challenge to progressive liberalism and the federal bureaucracy. 19453289
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/09/2023Absolutely terrifying: state-funded researchers in Poland have developed the first-ever lab tests that can detect if a person has taken abortion pills, and prosecutors have used them to investigate pregnancy outcomes. The tests work for both mifepristone and misoprostol.jezebel.comThere Are Now Tests That Can Detect If Someone Took Abortion PillsThe chilling development comes out of Poland, where prosecutors have already used the tests to investigate pregnancy outcomes. 45969678
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail? 5432641293
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/09/2023I feel like the definition of being at “high risk” from covid really needs to include “high probability of messing up your health and life for months or years” not just “likely to immediately kill you.” A 9% chance that I’m gonna be sick for at least three months is a pretty high risk! 541408527
Reposted by @dawnc.bsky.socialAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/09/2023The Paxton impeachment trial is on another break. They're taking them every 90 minutes or so, plus lunch. Worth noting that this year, Texas's Republican-dominated Legislature outlawed local city mandates requiring that construction workers get 10-minute water breaks every four hours.texastribune.orgAs Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for constructio…Gov. Greg Abbott approved a law this week that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin’s and Dallas’ mandated water breaks. 39450