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Responsibility to do what? Conform to “norms”? This is a society of laws. The way we remind people of their responsibility to follow the law is by charging them when they violate one.
🎼 DagDahlo - 🐍DumpTrump2024@DagDahlo
@mtaibbi I'm ok with that people who have immense power is being told that with great power comes great responsibility,and that they act that way. It shouldn't be a big surprise. We learn that as kids.
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The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act capped the size of the House at 435. Till then it grew with each decennial census, as it was designed to do. Its failure to grow is the source of much of the system’s dysfunction and democratic deficit. Congress should at least double in size.
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If it wasn’t for Gen-Z, there would have been a red wave.
The polling shows that OUR generation voted for Democrats more than any other age group. WE are the reason Democracy will stand.
We now have a seat at the table. Time to start listening.
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Young voters are breaking 3-1 for Dems. No generation has been this progressive or politically engaged in American history.
A look at what youth voter turnout has gotten us:
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One thing I know already.
If not for voters under 30 ... tonight WOULD have been a Red Wave.
CNN National House Exit Poll
R+ 13 65+
R+ 11 45-64
D +2 30-44
D +28 18-29
#GenZ did their job.
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Two Herdman lads…two FIFA World Cups! Congratulations on qualifying Jay Herdman 🙌oceaniafootball.com/new-zealand-ad…
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The clever people at @NASA have created this deceptively simple yet highly effective data visualisation showing monthly global temperatures between 1880-2021. Watch until the end...
Learn more here - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4975
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #climate
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We’re the only developed nation where workers aren’t guaranteed paid family leave. RT if you agree it’s time Republicans finally support paid leave and help us get it passed.
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@ShaunaSylvester @Infosec_Taylor My numbers, for public consumption: $150/pp ($3900/y) for me plus 1 dependent (the worst pricing case for this insurer), $1300 deductible offset by employer-pumped HSA (so most non-covered expenses are pre-tax to me), stop-loss $10k. Out-of-network makes this worse of course.
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@ShaunaSylvester (It probably also doesn't help to point out a few hyperboles in @Infosec_Taylor's account, maybe overstating some average costs by >2x and failing to distinguish HMOs from PPOs, with or without HSAs.)
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As I contemplate moving to the US this scares me @swork
Ashley - Serious Security Scientist@Infosec_Taylor
I just realized my non-US friends probably don't know how US insurance works. So lets say your employer offers insurance. They pay a portion and then you pay a portion. For a family, the employee pays on average about $400 per pay cycle, or $10,400 per year.
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If you’re so afraid of what a dictator might do if he loses that you’re letting him win, it’s time to reevaluate both your strategy and your character.
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@imillhiser Legit question: Does the same effect show when the legislation is bad? Rephrased: Does the shining light bring public-minded opposition to private-interest legislation the same way it brings small-minded opposition to public-interest legislation?
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@FPWellman I hope we're approaching the day most of us recognize the stench coming from the very notion of talking points. Let's please discuss issues, not package them.
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You can smell the desperation wafting off another dying talking point.
The Recount@therecount
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) claims President Biden is “literally gaslighting” Americans to believe rising gas prices are Putin’s fault.
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Here’s a jarring chart from Zignal Labs.
The “bioweapons” were an English-language (green) conspiracy theory until last week.
Now, most posts about it are in Russian (blue).
Russia finally found a pretext—well, posttext—for the Ukraine war, a gift from the American far-right.
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