School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy.
Michaele Sommerville
@msommerville.bsky.social
GenX, mother, ally, Indigenous. School librarian, crafter, crocheter. I 💕 my children, pets Tish-Tish & Charlie, coffee, antique malls, picture books, music, & #bookfairies. https://linktr.ee/mkoweluksommerville
US data centers directly consumed about 66 billion liters (17.4 billion gallons) of water in 2023, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with indirect water use from electricity generation adding nearly 800 billion liters more. Source: gpusmith.com/articles/en/...
Americans don't want to work more hours. They simply want to be fairly paid for the hours they do work. Stop calling us lazy. Start calling the business owners greedy. They want something for nothing. We just want to afford a place to live and food on the table for the hours that we work.
We spend a lot of time asking: “Did you vote?” Maybe we should also be asking: Do you know who represents you? Do you know what they voted on? Do you know how to contact them? Do you know when the next election is? Do you know what's on your ballot? That's political participation too.
There are lots of alternatives. The best ones protect your privacy, and your data. Brave.com is consistently rated safe and reliable. #cdnpoli #boycottgoogle @mapquest.com is your replacement for Google Maps.
CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION. IF NECESSARY, BE PREPARED TO VOTE IN PERSON. HAND DELIVER YOUR BALLOTS! Election officials: USPS may be ill-equipped to deliver ballots in the fall midterms. Mail in ballot data obtained from CA, CO, ME, MD, MI, NE, NJ, PA L, UT, VA, WI & WA. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Year, and They’re Getting Tossed (Gift Article)
State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall. They are urging voters to mail their ballots early or use drop boxes so their votes count.
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We don’t know what we don’t know but what we do know is that they #PlanToCheat. Find out what you can do about it. Marc Elias will need people on the streets recording, observing and taking notes as future evidence. Grab your free guide at plantocheat.com #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
How They Plan to Cheat | Before the Courthouse
A field guide to the ground-game fight for the 2026 midterms.
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Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
If you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
Dear Americans, Exactly how many shit sandwiches are you prepared to eat before you do something? Your tolerance for embarrassment and punishment is shocking. "Don't tread on me" turned out to be a T shirt.
Five decades of watching Hollywood movies did not at all prepare me for the pervasiveness of cowardice in the face of tyranny in America. To be fair, it did prepare me for the stupidity.
Remember when mass surveillance of the populace by the state was supposed to be a BAD thing that only America's enemies did? Yeah, I remember that too
Pass term limits. Ban congressional stock trading. Overturn Citizens United. Get foreign influence out of our politics. It won't fix everything, but it's a start. We need leaders who are willing to fight to fix the broken system that’s shutting down Alaska.
The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing preservation. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... 🧵
This week I've realized that Death is just another #DOGEBros.
And now, Blunt Michaele needs to just let it out: Death, that was a dick move, man. A dick move. #Dolly
the brainwashing is mind boggling 🤦 #DrFauci #AnthonyFauci #covid #vaccines #science #vaccinessavelives #pandemic #vaccineswork #healthcare
Dear Pizza Hut, I’d like to order 2 million pizzas, 8 million wings, breadsticks and soda to match. Deliver to the Navy and bill the DoD. Thanks!
Criminal slumlord Jared Kushner’s corrupt $5B resort plan in Albania has all but effectively collapsed after the country froze all of his assets that are tied with his money laundering project. Good. Well done to the Albanian people who refused to see this happen.
Scientists discover things. Engineers design things. Workers build things. Millions of us make all of this possible. Then one bloke owns it all, so apparently he created the wealth, and gets to take a share of EVERYTHING. Amazing system. Tear it down. Seize the stuff.
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Research Contradicts “Science of Reading” Media Story Being Sold
"[TikTok] videos become situated as the credible source around a public discourse where misinformation is often communicated." (Rowe, et al., RRQ, 2025)
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Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
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