In an internal VA memo seen by NPR, the VA says it's rescinding a directive that contains detailed guidance on the kind of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.
Thank you so much for this ship! My friends in our Esper Genesis game love it so much! 🤩
An image of an original spaceship design inspired by the Star Wars universe. The ship has a hammerhead shape with large engines in the back. It is dark orange with yellow and silver highlights. It is named the "Waterwalker." It was designed by Thomas Marrone using kitbashed pieces from Rasmus Poulsen and bigmediumsmall.com
Sometimes we design a #StarWars ship, as a treat.
WIP of a thing I've been working on. I made this using @technouveau.bsky.social's awesome "Modelshop Greebles" kit. It has been a good excuse to get more comfortable in blender and step outside the Trek comfort zone a bit. Couple more images in 🧵
If you follow me back then we can message each other.
@hotmessdrea.bsky.social ta da I found you lol 💖
For those claiming Gaetz was nominated as a sacrificial pawn, a calculated chess move to test the resolve of the Senate...by the guy who stared directly at a solar eclipse...it's time to put down the glue and go touch some grass.
if you don't see trans people as a "real issue" you don't see trans people as people with lives to live.
full fucking stop.
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
We will suffer losses. We might lose many battles.
All of us might not get to see victory in the end.
But without us, victory is impossible
Fascism is here.
We face a demented dictator emboldened by the American oligarchy.
We are the Spartans. The first wave on the beaches of Normandy.
Our job is to slow them down. To resist at every turn. To fight for every inch, while our reinforcements gather
In strength.
...
In the Battle of Thermopylae (480BC), a small force of Greek soldiers fought valiantly against a mighty Persian army, knowing they could never win.
Their task was to slow down the Persian advance until reinforcements across Greece could be mustered.
...🧵
If you're in NY/DC, please take pics of these while they're still up and tag/send them to us! People have been snagging the front pages for their houses and leaving the big green ads. (Trust me, I get it.)
Something I really appreciated about this piece was learning about the pivotal roles women (particularly younger ones) play in Bluesky’s leadership. Nice.
Bonus! Bluesky’s CEO happens to be a woman. Meet Jay Graber
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...
The key to surviving online is innoculating yourself with the correct amount of anime. Too little, and you will feel endlessly lost. Too much, and you will lose yourself to endlessness.
Morning, friends. Time to dig back in to all of this.
Democracy matters.
HHS has routinely imposed the "death penalty" on small businesses, barring them from participating in Medicare.
But it has never barred a national Medicare supplier -- even when that company has repeatedly committed fraud.
Some companies, it seems, are too big to ban.
Over the past week, the social media site Bluesky's growth has exploded, more than doubling to 15 million-plus users, as people seek alternatives to X, Facebook and Threads.
If we didn’t believe the US was worth saving we’d simply move on and ignore you. Believe in the you that we believe you can be, not the you they are telling you to be. Being brave doesn’t mean not being afraid, it means standing up to evil and injustice even when you are afraid.
BRENNAN: Do you think experience is necessary?
JIM HIMES: How far we have come that on a major news show the question we're examining is, 'is experience necessary for one of the most powerful positions in the land?' Of course it's necessary!...how is this what we're focusing on?
“In 2023, my sister Victoria spent more than 24 hours hemorrhaging into three diapers when Dallas-area hospitals declined to help her. “I know you’re not supposed to have regrets, but I do,” she said, about supporting Trump. “Look what’s happened.”
🧵I wrote my thesis on how Ireland repealed their constitutional ban on abortion.
What I found, is that the testimonies of women who nearly died - or stories of women who did die - or were otherwise traumatized were the most effective on changing anti-healthcare people’s minds.
Moonshine says Hi
It was never about “free speech” over in the bad place.
Trump's longest-serving chief of staff says "Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law." www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/u...
Could take power again in 90 days. A democratic emergency.
Again: Jan. 6 was not done by poor hicks. Stop saying that. It was funded and carried out by corporate fortune heirs, suburban millionaires. People who larp as blue collar guys with clean expensive new trucks flew from out of state, with coordinated plans and money. It was a coup attempt by the rich
The main threat if Trump loses isn't another January 6, but Trump's allies using these sorts of lawless procedural maneuvers to carry out what would still be, as @rickhasen.bsky.social says, a coup www.politico.com/news/magazin...
🚨3 DAYS TO GO!
Pirate, Science Officer, lower decker, Tendi has many facets. She's come a long way, but how will she find her way back to Starfleet again? We don't have long to find out!
Helen Irwin explores Tendi as we countdown to Season 5!
LINK: trekcentral.net/star-trek-lo...
Cracking open the #RomulanAle tonight
