Dr. Tamar E. Granor
@tamargranor.bsky.social
Software developer, writer, activist, volunteer. She/her
Today's #ActsOfConscience: Submitted comment on this, pointing out that it would put young children and cancer patients, among others, at risk
Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 2d ago📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
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This has been my consistent ask and no one is interested in it
🏳️⚧️ ⛧ Nɯvꝡɩɛl ⛧ 🏳️⚧️@nuvy-iel.northsky.social · 2d ago🦇 You want a real compromise from trans people? Promise to restore all the rights we had in 2014 that we don't today. That's it. Just bring us back to where we were. That's the bare fucking minimum. You know what I don't see any libs offering us? The rights that have been taken from us restored.
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
If you're not starting from the position that civil rights are inviolable, as a baseline, In what way are you avoiding fascism? If *anyone* can be un-personed, everyone can. That's it. That's the ballgame.
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Which means—the nation. The entire nation. He can’t own or control it. So he’s destroying it. And destroying it is “owning” it…
Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈@beingliberal.bsky.social · 3d agoGeorge Conway of the Bulwark on Trump: “To destroy things he can’t possess or control is his essential nature.”
Hubble Sees Galaxies Spiraling around Leo - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/nbxsKE
They are obsessed with knowing what’s going on in everyone’s pants. Tim Walz was right. They’re weird. This is weird stuff.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d agoNEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.
Helping men get away with abusing children is so important to the GOP that they had to replace a guy who was probably going to win easily with this guy. They really lead with their values (exploiting children).
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago🚨 NEWS: Ken Paxton kept taking money from a longtime political ally accused by at least eight men of sexual abuse, even after the allegations became public. The disturbing ties span more than a decade. Receipts below.
It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
They really should be explicit in the headline that the rise in South Asian hate rhetoric is stemming directly from the united states government.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoA Punjabi Sikh truck driver in Wyoming said he was followed into a bathroom and stabbed repeatedly in an attack that has stoked fear across the greater South Asian community.
We're aiming to knock 5,000 doors across 70 canvasses. All in one weekend. Are you in? Join us by visiting www.swingleft.org/canvass to sign up for a local Ground Truth canvass this Saturday for our Weekend of Action!
📢 HAPPENING TOMORROW at 12 PM ET! L4GG, Promote the Vote Fund, & @acluofmichigan.bsky.social are recruiting licensed attorneys (any state) to serve as poll challengers and affidavit collectors on the ground in #Michigan during early voting and election Day. Register: L4GG.org/MichiganEP
Postcards are an effective way to increase voter turnout, and they're easy to do in your spare time
Postcards to Voters@tovoters.bsky.social · 4d agoWe're organizing volunteers across the U.S. to mail handwritten election reminder #PostcardsToVoters for 9 Democrats in 6 states: Cooper (NC) • DeFranco (GA) • Earls (NC) • Lacore (SC) • Ossoff (GA) • Powell (NE) • Pulido (TX) • Shah (AZ) • Talarico (TX) Email: Join@TonyTheDemocrat.org Write on!
54% of EU's electricity came from renewables in Q2 2026. Solar was the leading source and also the fastest grower vs 2025. Countries with the highest shares were Latvia 97.7% Denmark 94.3% and Croatia 92.2%. Estonia solid 5th place. #Renewables ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 5d agoNick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
We're organizing volunteers across the U.S. to mail handwritten election reminder #PostcardsToVoters for 9 Democrats in 6 states: Cooper (NC) • DeFranco (GA) • Earls (NC) • Lacore (SC) • Ossoff (GA) • Powell (NE) • Pulido (TX) • Shah (AZ) • Talarico (TX) Email: Join@TonyTheDemocrat.org Write on!
Can the media please stop using the word “skeptic” to describe cult members and science deniers?
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d agoMy mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 4d ago“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
I do my best not to use LLMs because I think it is unethical to do so. Nice to see that the companies themselves agree
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 4d agoEye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Our music and our memories are being wiped out. AMERICA built this city. Not a president. Join us!
