@laurachapin
Feminist, relentless abortion rights advocate, foodie, world traveller, music lover, childless cat lady, proud Coloradan with Texas roots. Molly Ivins & Diane Nash are my heroes. The Chicks song "The Long Away Around" pretty well covers it.
Percy sending home photos from Mars.
This is what we used to be, not privatized fragments of armed forces bombing girl’s schools by (and it’s by, dammit, not « on ») accident
Also, technology does't mean shit when you have the social skills of Evil Older Brother Chet.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Dude who tried to pass off a trust funder with a BMW as a working class populist against Jason Crow - who actually did grow up poor - has thoughts. Lots of thoughs. Deep. Thoughts.
What a life.
Read this. Whenever we make progress there are Bernard LaFayette’s doing the work.
And there are Bernard LaFayette’s today, in Los Angeles, in Chicago, in Minneapolis, & across the country.
Japan day #1: Japanese breakfast, a hotel room the size of a postage stamp, Tsukiji Outer Market, and oh my god matcha chocolate covered dried strawberries.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
This is the man who is now in charge of US Homeland Security.
Interfaith Alliance of Colorado has been key to our repro rights successes over the years. Moral agency/soul competency is absolutely a thing.
The MSM presumption is that leading with faith must mean you're trying to win over Republicans.
But lots of Democrats are religious. They just tend to focus their exercise of faith in the political realm more on the plight of the poor and oppressed rather than on abortion and anti-LGBTQ beliefs.
I have considered and rejected Ozempic because I enjoy food and am vain about my hair. Will just live with some extra junk in the trunk in middle age.
Melissa Hortman's murder and Trump's approval of it has been underreported by national media.
Not a surprise at this point, but Polis seems intent on leapfrogging the Court of Appeals - which is already weighing the length of Peters’ sentence - & intervening himself.
It should perhaps be noted that same charges =/= same facts or intent. And Peters was also convicted of seven total charges.
Gov. Polis dropping some preemptive justification for his (very likely) intervention re: Tina Peters’ prison sentence:
Likely means all the Republican fuckery in Dallas won’t be enough to make a difference in the ultimate outcome.
As I’ve said the whole time, two excellent candidates, one will win.
Time to get started flipping Texas while the Republicans eat each other’s faces for six more weeks.
BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social
Yeah, I triggered a massive troll meltdown a couple days ago by pointing out the time to fight it out is in the primaries but in the general election the enemy is on the other side.
JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.
Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.
Our full recap:
A little louder for the stompy foot folks in the back: "our reliability as voters is what makes politicians listen to us, not the other way around."
That is not true. This is what Polis said tonight: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Segregation being the operative word here.
No, it's not. It's because Republicans refused to sign an MOU allowing people to same day vote at vote centers, not by precinct, as is standard.
This is a Republican voter suppression operation.
One of my friends lost her 35 year old husband to colon cancer *a week ago*.
She is at the Denver Democratic caucus tonight, doing her part for civic participation. They met through politics, so he'd want her to be there.
We all need to bring that devotion and dedication to the midterms.
So votes in Dallas and Williamson County, Texas are literally being segregated?
1960 called, it wants its Jim Crow back.
Roy Cooper is relentlessly on message and that is a good thing.
Strongest signal yet from Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) that he'll give clemency to Tina Peters as President Trump has demanded. Polis notes a fmr Dem State Senator recently got probation on charges that drew prison time for Peters, who unrepentantly defied the judge at sentencing
I will never forgive the motherf*ckers in the national media - especially Chris Cillizza and the New York Times - who put Hillary's misuse of an email server on the same moral plane as Trump's lifetime of sexual assault.
The way Hillary Clinton reduced fascist republicans to nothing and refused to take any of their vile bullshit whilst delivering truth jabs is exactly why they didn’t allow her to testify publicly. They’ve spent over a decade trying to blame her for crimes their tyrant has done.
Good thing for Dems he's retiring because yelling at Kristi Noem about animal abuse would make for a hell of a winning campaign ad.