Tonya

@tbailey1976.bsky.social

I’m just here so I won’t get fined. IYKYK 😉 History nerd who loves to read. Music is life. I freaking love dogs. Same handle on Twitter since 2011. Seattle sports fan. #Seahawks #Mariners #Storm Oh, and I have stage 4 NH T-cell lymphoma. Cancer sucks. 🏳️‍🌈💙💚

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent ruling

The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.

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For years, Hungary's Viktor Orban gerrymandered his opposition out of power. But in the end, all the dirty tricks in the world couldn't save him from sinking approval ratings and massive voter turnout. There's a lesson here for us.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

This man needs more attention. He’s talking like someone ready to run the state. Focused on actual solutions for California while the federal government fumbled the basics. Pay attention to Xavier Becerra.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

There are now 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East.  FIFTY THOUSAND And Iran is warning that American universities with campuses in the Middle East will be considered legitimate targets. JFC!

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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For anyone interested, I posted this cancer update a couple weeks ago, but forgot to share it here. My last PET scan showed progressive disease, meaning that the cancer has advanced despite treatment. I’ve since started a new salvage chemo (gemcitabine) and my 2nd infusion of this cycle is Wed.

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“The 12’s are here. The Patriots fans are here and there, but the Seahawks are gonna have home field advantage, that’s for sure” (basically the message).