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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Let’s end poverty and eat pizza. (He/Him)

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How is the right dealing with 110° heat waves, killer floods, and general climate catastrophe? Glad you asked. They’ve drafted a 950-page plan for the next Republican president to gut the EPA, halt the transition to clean energy and electric cars, and burn more fossil fuels.


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This is absolutely demented.

Texas Gov Abbott has installed circular saws between the Rio Grande border buoys to maim or kill anyone who attempts to climb over. Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier. He wants more migrants to die.



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10,000+ Israeli "reserve pilots, intelligence officers, commandos, military instructors, army medics and infantrymen" threatened to resign from volunteer duty if Netanyahu proceeded to attack judicial independence. "At least 1,000" already have resigned. nytimes.com/2023/07/29/wor…


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If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

mhdksafa's tweet image. If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

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WSJ: “Operation Lone Star, with $4.5 billion spent so far, has had little effect on migration while facing charges of civil-rights abuses.” #txlege wsj.com/articles/texas…


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Striking SAG actors in disbelief over studios' dystopian AI proposal (paying background actors a day rate to own their image forever): "It's kneecapping people from the start..." rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…


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The El Paso murderer was convicted of federal charges and will go to a federal prison. They actually do have temperature standards. Conversely, 38% of the people in TDCJ’s hot cells are there on nonviolent offenses.

Sure you want to put air conditioning in Texas prisons? #txlege



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Texas Republicans spent all of their time and effort banning books, bullying trans children, and attacking minority communities. What they didn't have time for ⤵️

special session looks nearly certain after midnight passed without final deals on property taxes, tax incentives, and electricity grid : bit.ly/45wrjI9 #txlege



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“I wanted to address my senators, Cruz and Cornyn.. I would like for them to know that what happened to me is a direct result of the policies they support. I nearly died on their watch and I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future”


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A federal judge ruled in December that free birth control for teens violates Texas law and parental rights. This is how limiting federal Title X clinics has affected young women across Texas. n.pr/3ZLwi4k


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The #TeacherStrike rally making its way up Regent Street


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Location of MLB ballparks in relation to downtown / city center

JayCuda's tweet image. Location of MLB ballparks in relation to downtown / city center

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Key word here is "Arctic" -- not a banal adjective. This is literally a river of air that in "normal times" would be circling the North Pole right now. But weather systems are totally destabilized by #ClimateChange -- the air that ought to be over Svalbard is slamming Dallas.

3PM EST Temperatures and 1PM EST Surface Weather Map. Arctic air is plunging south across the central U.S. behind a sharp cold front📉 weather.gov

NWS's tweet image. 3PM EST Temperatures and 1PM EST Surface Weather Map. Arctic air is plunging south across the central U.S. behind a sharp cold front📉 weather.gov
NWS's tweet image. 3PM EST Temperatures and 1PM EST Surface Weather Map. Arctic air is plunging south across the central U.S. behind a sharp cold front📉 weather.gov


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Today, during Supreme Court arguments on LGBTQ+ rights, Justice Samuel Alito joked about Justice Kagan being familiar with the Ashley Madison website and seeing "Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits."


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CVS is being sued for asking customers to donate to the American Diabetes Association when they check out. Those donations are in fact *not* sent to the ADA, but instead reimburse the CVS for a legally binding obligation of $10M that CVS promised earlier lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cv…


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207 House Republicans voted against a measure that would give rail workers seven days of paid sick leave per year.


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Atlanta cut homelessness by 40% through housing Houston cut homelessness by 63% through housing Finland cut homelessness by 75% through housing Tokyo cut homelessness by 80% through housing The solution to homelessness isn’t policing — it’s housing, housing, and more housing

It takes on the ground work to end the homelessness crisis. Good to spend some time with the team at District 3 doing that vital service.

NYCMayor's tweet image. It takes on the ground work to end the homelessness crisis. Good to spend some time with the team at District 3 doing that vital service.


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