Deirdre63

@deirdre63.bsky.social

Old woman who likes books, pictures of nature, #birds, and democracy. Currently reading "The Big Four." 🚫MAGATs, 🚫DMs--unless I knew you somewhere else, 🚫Go Fund Me, 🚫porn or bots.

🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Missouri blocks anti-gerrymander referendum from November ballot in attempt to silence voters

Voter advocates are expected to immediately challenge the move and ask the courts to ensure that Missouri voters have the final say on the map.

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308 members of the extended Al-Hassayna family, also known as the Abu Sharia, were killed ​on November 22, 2023 when Israeli airstrikes brought down a cluster of apartment buildings as residents slept in Sabra, one of the old neighborhoods of Gaza City.

Gazans bury nearly a whole clan found in rubble in mass funeral for 112

The decomposed remains of 112 bodies lay on stretchers shrouded in flags in the sun's heat: all that could be found of the Al-Hassaynas of Sabra, a Palestinian clan of proud Bedouin stock all but wipe...

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El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Every single campaign donor to Max Milker should be held accountable and answer for it. Every company, every individual. They are financing his career in politics despite what they know. All who write a checks going forward and donors who don’t demand a refund are complicit.

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

Worth remembering the 2023 voluntary AI commitments from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others were also framed as guardrails and had no enforcement mechanism. Voluntary here has pretty much always meant self reported and unchecked.