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@margie_parsley @equalityAlec @dave_winx It is stated "non-violent" felonies. But do YOU want a rich person rapist to be running around? There should be no bail for *ANYONE* accused of a violent crime.

@equalityAlec @dave_winx Do you support pedophiles and rapist being out on bail? How about men who state clearly they intending to murder their ex. I agree cash bail bonds should not mean certain economic groups end up staying in jail. I just hope you oppose any bail for certain crimes

As many of you know, we've been fighting for years to challenge the grotesque cash bail and pretrial detention policies around the U.S. that keep 100,000s of human beings in cages and separated from their families every single night, mostly because they lack cash. Tomorrow, the California Supreme Court will issue the most important court decision ever decided on this question--and probably the most important decision in U.S. history in terms of the number of people in jail. At stake is essentially whether several hundred thousand presumed innocent people every year in misdemeanors and non-violent felonies can be detained in cages prior to trial. It's the most important issue we've ever worked on.

Wow. The Pope was just asked his stance on migration. His answer is amazing: “I would change the question: what is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate.”

@hell_line0 Maybe it isn’t the generations, but instead the owner class & rich people we should go after. Just a thought. Cuz all the boomers, Gen X, millennials, & Gen Z people I know of are all just hanging on, trying to survive the system we were dealt with. Maybe it is the SYSTEM?

This whole Gen Z going after millenials to give us “millennial boot camp” is so wild to me because millennials never ever went after Gen X. Ever. We looked up to Gen X. We respected the previous generation. We did go after boomers though, for speedrunning economic collapse and then asking why we weren’t buying houses. Different vibe entirely.

In this experiment, Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding.

Sung to the tune of “Jesus Christ Superstar”. Cheeto Christ, Cheeto Christ, he’s like if Jesus were pumpkin-spice. Cheeto Christ, stupid-czar, mad tangerine colored commissar. Thanks Randy Rainbow!

@gorgepulse @drseanmullen Regarding air traffic control: I’m not going to say NOT Covid, but you have to add in that they are all REQUIRED to work overtime EVERY WEEK. 60 hours a week in a high stress job. I’d be *exhausted* even if I were perfectly healthy. 🫤

@drseanmullen Inattention and inability to focus, leading to a rise in accidents. See air traffic controller close calls and not-so-close calls, pilot errors, train accidents, etc.

Serious question: What’s the biggest change you’ve noticed in people’s health since 2020 that nobody is openly talking about?

@drseanmullen @MarloVanMarck I feel like (because I have no evidence one way or another) is a lack of empathy. A lack of compassion. Yes, it was always there, but it just seems more ubiquitous now. Sigh.

@MarloVanMarck It’s a frustrating situation that’s for sure

@LongTimeHistory @rjcrock2003 So if, for instance, ICE was to deploy at Kansas polling places, they could arrest people waiting in line to vote by simply lurking within 25 feet of the waiting line.

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

@Mukhtar77000 @luxemiaa You do know too that some girls can be as old as 14 or 15 or as young as 9 or 10, right? They are not ALL 12 or 13. It is a range. And obviously mom is watching out for her kids.

@luxemiaa How come your son is dating a minor girl friend who is probably 13 years old?

This woman said: Y’all my sons’ best girl friend came over to hang today and the minute she walked in the door she hugged me and said into my ear: I need to talk to you in private. Ok girly. Y’all, she started her period this morning for the first time and her Mom is out of town with the military and she told her older sister, but she didn’t want to ask her Dad for pads. I only have boys. And they knew something was up, and she kind of danced around it for a bit then told them. Y’all when I tell you we ---

@LazarusLong13 Yes. 100% masking, testing, using air purifiers, opening windows and not staying in risky situations.

I'm curious - any other LongHauler advocates like myself who do NOT have LongCovid? (But, my advocacy is born out of self-interest/survival, because I recognize I am advocating also for a possible future me who could have LongCovid.)

@1goodtern I’ll add that I am furious they had an opportunity to enact public space clean indoor air standards (CO2 levels not to exceed 1,000 ppm and HEPA air filtration) and chose not to do so.

15 I am furious that ventilation and air filtration have been treated as whack science.

6 ... and I am furious that the defective protective equipment then caused deaths and disability.

@GregArena3 @MrMatthewTodd Not 8 feet of water over 3 days.

@MrMatthewTodd Rains every day in Hawaii

Flooding in Hawaii where even the evacuation centres had to be evacuated. This is climate change. Rainfall intensity is increasing across the planet. It’s going to get worse. We are in deep, deep trouble.

@chaitrovert @scott_squires My sister is now 100% masking, but only because she is now "vulnerable/immune compromised" (cancer), so while we NOW both mask religiously, she didn't before her diagnosis. So it sucked before she masked but now it sucks more.😭

this year i will either make 1 irl covid cautious friend or lose my fkg mind, what are the odds idk

@ggirl1968 @kprather88 @lyndsycarleton The German word for this is “Luften”, and we do the same for 5 minutes.

@AnnOssinger @kprather88 @lyndsycarleton Oh and we “burp” our house every morning 😁 sciencealert.com/burping-your-h… Didn’t know it had a name, been doing this for almost forever.

1/ If I hear one more public official call indoor air filters a "band-aid," I'm going to explode! It's so logical, yet so readily dismissed. Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop. 🧵

@kprather88 @lyndsycarleton @ggirl1968 I have three in my house (and cracked windows), plus I use exhaust fans cooking/bathrooms. And today, one in a dental office for my routine dental appointment. I see the dirt in the filters and think “better than my lungs!”

@lyndsycarleton @ggirl1968 and most of those are turned off (based on surveys)....

@RepThomasMassie @HasanKhxnx Stay away from windows in tall buildings.

@HasanKhxnx I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?” Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks. The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp. Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept! The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote. Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this. Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic. The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package. There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next. This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL. The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced. The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act. The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along. If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

@bennyzhu84 @gotrice2024 No. She should be able to call security to go with the guest. Her job is to be at the desk for the next guest.

First, customer support is the duty and responsibility of the hotel receptionist. The fact that she refuses to help customers out of fear of being alone is completely unacceptable. She assumed the other guest had bad intentions toward her based purely on her imagination, not on anything that actually happened. If she continues working in this field, she will encounter similar situations no matter where she transfers.

This young lady works up front by herself at this hotel. A customer comes up and claims his room card isn’t working and he wants her to go see it herself. Being by herself most of the time she’s had had some scary experiences so she refuses to put her in any position where she’s alone with anyone. He makes ridiculous demands of her including attempting to put her in charge of administering his diabetic medication. She called her manager and the manager said since this man’s business group spends a lot of money at the hotel, that she should just comply with what he wants. She ended up quitting her job and moving on because of this interaction. Was she overreacting or was the guest being reasonable?

@myrddinman @Suzierizzo1 Ding, ding, ding, ding!!

@Suzierizzo1 Wait...Does this mean they're detaining legal folks; stealing everything that makes them legal; releasing them in a park in freezing weather; just so they can arrest them later (if they're still alive), and deport them b/c they have no documentation, b/c it was stolen?!

This immigration attorney is confirming everything that we’ve been hearing about how ICE agents are keeping all the Immigrants money,jewelry,Social Security cards, Work Visas & any other Documentation they had on them when detained! They’re also dumping them in parks alone!