An Jam
Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. Retired librarian & educator; SP. • photography • books • fountain pens • fitness • genealogy •
Joined Mar 2023
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Tristan Snell @TristanSnell
URGENT — we all need to stand up and keep fighting
There are 25 House seats still up for grabs — and we need boots on the ground ensuring EVERY ballot gets counted
EVERY seat we win helps stop Trump and MAGA from killing the ACA — or passing a national abortion ban 🧵
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What a positive take!
Turning an intended insult on its head is the ultimate clap-back.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Detroit/comments/1g1e9bt/i_am_detroit_and_i_endorse_this_message/
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On the underlying motive for the animosity toward the Haitians:
". . . issue is that by working overtime and investing in the community, they have made life more challenging for a reliable Trump-voting constituency: marginally employed white people on the dole."
If you read nothing else today, make it this. Kevin D. Williamson, a committed conservative, offers incisive thoughts about the debacle that is unfolding in Springfield, Ohio. Two snippets:
On JD:
"You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich, and you can send him to the Senate to make him powerful, but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll."
The Republican plan to "help" new parents hides a bombshell for them at retirement.
D'ya think they'd use Michigan roads as test sites?
https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106
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...and then just leave it there, with all avenues for change and development being stifled, because who can improve on perfection?
Against this is the idea that we're *always* changing, that progress doesn't have a terminal point, that there's never going to be a perfect society; we can only hope to be a little more perfect than we were before.
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Harris for President has released its first ad and it is fantastic. Please share!
The law and order party in action.
Will we give a private, foreign-owned company access to our irreplaceable natural resources and freedom to pollute our environment, or will we protect our own interests?
Some of our fellow citizens are supporting a presidential candidate who would be unable to enter 12 countries on their behalf.
https://visaguide.world/tips/countries-you-cant-travel-to-with-a-criminal-record/
I guess reversal of the Bill of Rights rights and any amendments that benefit PoC will be next, huh?
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/23/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-racial-segregation
Characterizing criticism of Israel as antisemitism is a step too far.
An Jam
Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. Retired librarian & educator; SP. • photography • books • fountain pens • fitness • genealogy •
Joined Mar 2023