JOANI TAYLOR

@joanitaylor.bsky.social

CANADIAN RECORDING ARTIST.🎧 JUNO NOMINATED, BC HALL OF FAME 🏅MENTOR/VOCAL AND PERFORMANCE COACH, DOG LOVER,🦮 NEVER CONSERVATIVE. LOVE FILMS🎬 MAKE MUSIC🎶NOT WAR🍁🇨🇦🇺🇸 .

But more than three months after the election, the recalled officials still won’t leave, claiming the process was unlawful. At a meeting in June, they made it official, voting 3 to 0 to ignore the results. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

They Were Voted Out. They Refuse to Leave. Now What? (Gift Article)

Avenal, Calif., a city in the rural Central Valley, has become an unlikely example of election denialism months after a recall election.

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A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

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Frances Perkins was the patron saint of American workers and an inspiration for me during my time as labor secretary. She was the guiding light behind the creation of Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the National Labor Relations Act, and much more.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins. She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member. prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

🇷🇺💀 Russians don't like math. Too bad for them.😈 “1,429 Russian occupiers killed or wounded for every square kilometer of Ukrainian territory captured in July.” — Ukrainian political strategist Borys Tiesenhausen

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."