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Proud Californian (#BLM, Fierce Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ & abortion rights/gun sense/environmental/civil rights voter.) Views my own. She/Her.
How to kill your tourism industry 101
Semafor@semafor.com · 10h agoVisitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
The evidence mounts that Trump picked Hegseth because he knew he was mentally disturbed enough to order American troops to fire on American citizens.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoHegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
"About 5.2 million Americans like Covelli have lost SNAP benefits since the OBBBA was enacted..."
Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Five people- including two babies- have now died from measles in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 11h agoThe Pennsylvania Department of Health said an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County tested positive for measles and has died.
Governor JB Pritzker: We are under siege now by a petty, corrupt narcissist who is rigging the system to enrich himself.
No matter where you are in California, there's always a way to join California Labor to get out the vote in your community! THIS THURSDAY: Labor is holding a die-in in Roseville to demand that Kevin Kiley answer for his votes to cut $100 billion from our health care to give tax breaks to the rich!
After yesterday’s Senate hearing, it’s crystal clear that Jack Smith should be the next Attorney General.
A new poll from The 19th News shows faltering Republican support for gender-affirming care bans for trans youth. It also shows that anti-trans ads might be backfiring, with respondents increasingly saying Republicans are talking about trans people too much. Subscribe to support our journalism.
New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdaySCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
Fuck John Roberts, and the Shadow Docket. This emergency review method needs stricter rules, and there needs to be a set of rules around when it can be utilized. Also we need to have Supreme court term limits, and we need an enforceable code of ethics.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdaySCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
Terry Schilling, a main architect of Republicans’ transphobic campaign messaging, has talked about the "magic" in spreading hate-driven propaganda. "How do win, how do we replicate this on other issues?” he asked on a right-wing podcast. What might those issues be?
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2d agoDemocrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
"The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price" It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given... It has failed on every count. From Zeteo UK:
The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price
It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given; and an International Stabilisation Force set up. It has failed on every count.
zeteo.uk
I asked America.gov whether Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist and it responded: basically, yes so that clears that up at least
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
PACK THE COURT.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d ago#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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Kathleen Crawford wanted to deliver her neighbors’ concerns to their representative. Instead, she and other senior women were turned away. Watch Kathleen’s story. Have you ever felt shut out by your elected officials? #CA06 #DrPanforCongress #YourVoiceMatters #ConstituentVoices #Roseville
Trump wants prisons to cut off medical care for trans people, and wants the Supreme Court to let him do it. Withholding necessary medical care from prisoners is cruel. Politics shouldn't interfere with care. SCOTUS must reject this effort.
Please please please make this so, my fellow CA-06 voters. Kevin Kiley is soulless M*GA grifter, now pretending to be ‘independent’ in hopes of conning voters once again. Vote for Dr. Richard Pan!!!
VoteHub@votehub.com · 3d agoRACE RATING CHANGE: CA-06 Likely D → Solid D Richard Pan’s chances of defeating Kevin Kiley in the redrawn Sacramento-area CA-06 have risen above 95% in our forecast.
Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter launches awareness campaign for potential victims of drugging and sexual assault
Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter launches awareness campaign for potential victims of drugging and sexual assault
Campaign broadcast across France encourages people to come forward even if they have little to no memory of attack Gisèle Pelicot is the figurehead of a new campaign run by her daughter to encourage people who suspect they have been drugged and sexually assaulted to come forward, even if they have little to no memory of the attack. Caroline Darian, 47, who believes she was also drugged and assaulted by her father, Dominique Pelicot – her mother’s ex-husband – launched a primetime public information push on Monday across France’s television network, on social media, in the press and on posters. Continue reading...
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This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
turns out this is also a major way that shadow docket abuse pisses off Ketanji Brown Jackson ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last mo.Steve is specifically talking about administrative stays here but this critique also gets at one of the major ways that shadow docket abuse pisses me off more generally equitable jurisdiction wielded by motherfuckers who loathe the concept of equity keeps producing wildly indefensible orders
