hi, cis folks!
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
Graphic with a light blue background and bold text: “Job Loss Penalties: Misleading Medicaid Cuts.” A yellow arrow icon points to the right. Footer includes “CRDJustice.org” and the hashtag “#SaveMedicaid.” Top left reads “Center for Racial & Disability Justice.”
Call them what they are: job loss penalties.
So-called “work requirements” don’t help people find jobs. They punish poverty, strip Medicaid from those who lose work or miss paperwork, and disproportionately harm disabled people, caregivers, and low-wage workers. (1/10)
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. grist.org/indigenous/i...
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party
I mean I didn't see the previous context and it holds out on its own to me.
public comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit & strip care from DACA recipients ends at 23:59pm EDT tonite
if you haven't commented, it won't take long & is worth doing. context & guidance in-thread ⬇️
if you have commented, thank you💜🏳️⚧️
Honestly what a time to try to do literally anything for any reason.
Didn't Katie fuckin H3rz0g (I'm sure she googles herself so obfuscating the name) say something almost exactly like that on Twitter a couple years ago? Katie finally shut the fuck up in public because she's got a podcast for all her bad takes now, so I guess this lady had to fill the garbage-void.
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
A small dog is asleep on the couch with its face squished into a blanket/against the back of the couch. It has both the pinscher/doberman black with tan-point markings and blue merle coloration.
My 10-lb aussie-mix terror scruffed a full-grown possum last night. 😅 I wish there had been time for a photo because her widdle mouth around an entire possum neck was honestly hilarious. Both dog and wildlife seem to be uninjured.
I wrote about this!
The immigrant-obsessed, “Signal app” administration gaining access to confidential data in order to hunt down _suspected_ undocumented workers, what could go wrong?
Ahead of this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility, @angiejaime.bsky.social spoke with Angelica Christina, Board Director of the official nonprofit of The Stonewall Inn, Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative to get a sense of the current atmosphere in turmoil for transgender Americans. ⤵️
My coworker just said, "Sorry, I have too many tabs open in my brain right now," and I have never related to anything harder.
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
My gender does not recognize the United States
Have you tried chimayo peppers yet? They've replaced guajillo as my favorite for dried powder *and* for sriracha or other medium-heat sauce.
I'm really trying to step up the garden this year and this is inspirational!
Sent some folks your way from the mainstage line yesterday. I plan to stop by today. I'm not really Lemmy from Motorhead, sorry. 😂
