Alden Conner
@aldenc.bsky.social
Don’t post a lot but I’m here for politics, photography, books, etc Oakland, CA she/her
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD
Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
someday surely I will have unsubscribed from literally every fundraising text in the country there has to be a limit
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov why aren’t you a signatory? California should stand up for trans youth!
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 10mo agoOn Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law. 916-445-2841
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 10mo agoA bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently. It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
Come out to the Emergency Rally To Save Bay Area Transit Monday at 9am to help Governor Newsom get the message and fulfill his promise to save our communities' transit service! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit
Alert alert! The transit agencies the Bay Area depends on – BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain – face massive service cuts unless Governor Gavin Newsom follows through on his promise of a $750M emer...
actionnetwork.org
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 11mo agoIf Newsom goes back on his promise here it may end up being one of the defining moments of his time as governor. Just an unmitigated disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
The federal government’s $1B demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend University of California —America’s greatest public university system—and support its life-saving work.
Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
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This Prime Day (& every day): ➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference ➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms ➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy ➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
In a few hours the comments are due on the proposed harmful CMS ruling. Comment. Repost. Spread the word. Together let’s protect trans healthcare. action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
Protect Our Healthcare – Make Your Voice Heard
action.transequality.org
Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)@transequality.bsky.social · last yr.First, the CMS ruling. This is bad folks. CMS has proposed a rule that would prohibit states from requiring coverage for gender-affirming care as part of their Essential Health Benefits (EHB) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Comments due this Friday! action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · last yr.If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Yes to all this, from a fellow Williams College alum 🐮
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
nytimes.com
Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
This is a long read but you just HAVE to hear about the tiny little town of Springfield, Maine drove a Nazi out of town. I have a theory that bullying is not a problem, it’s just that most of the time the wrong people get bullied. magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...
The "blue shift" is not getting nearly the attention it needs to from news media. I cannot stress enough importance of explaining when a race is "too early to call" rather than mistakenly saying one candidate is "in the lead" as ballots are tabulated. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten Might Be More Dangerous This Time
People are exhausted by politics. I don’t blame them.
slate.com
Dear mail-in voters, If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29). Sincerely, The reporter who wrote this: www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns
Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.
npr.org
Tressie McMillan Cottom with the #SpeculativeResistance: "In many ways, only a Black woman could have done that. Because we never imagined her, she can reimagine what the future of power will look like for all of us."
Opinion | How Kamala Harris Is Already Changing the Face of Presidential Power
She has a unique challenge about what her race and gender mean together, which could reshape how Americans think about presidential power.
nytimes.com
