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This moment from the new Steve Martin documentary where he’s remembering John Candy…damn man.

We’re back-back-back again 🥳 From announcing the American Climate Corps and supporting historic labor strikes, to responding to 1000s of neighborhood requests and getting school supplies to kids, it’s been a packed year. Time for a recap! 🔁 Check out our 23 wins from 2023:

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how many more times is this going to happen before it is widely understood that police do not prevent (or solve) crime

After a British gunman killed 16 people in 1987, the country banned semiautomatic weapons like those he had used. It did the same with most handguns after a 1996 school shooting. It now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world. They have mental health issues there too. In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks The rate of mass shootings went from once every 18 months to only one in the 26 years since. They have mental health issues there too. Canada also tightened gun laws after a 1989 mass shooting. So did Germany in 2002, New Zealand in 2019 and Norway in 2021. They have mental health issues in all of those places too. There have been 389 school shootings in the United States since Columbine. Since Sandy Hook — mass shootings here have nearly tripled. 103 people have been killed and 281 people injured from school shootings since Parkland. And there have been well over 100 incidents of gunfire at K-12 schools since the Uvalde school shooting. This. Is. An. American. Problem. Yes, we have mental health issues here at home, but the difference… is the guns. There are more civilian owned guns in this country than there are civilians. It’s the guns.

It's been a few days, BG is just $802 away from the emergency funding he needs to move when he gets unhoused at the end of the month. Please help.

BG is getting closer, under $900 to go, but only to the end of the month. Any help for a friend in an untenable situation would be great!

BG is on a REALLY short time table for this, it's an emergency and he has to be out by the end of the month. Please show him some love if you are able to. Small amounts add up!

I need all disabled people & folks who love us to note the growing list of states that have proposed legislation to designate autistic people on their driver’s license. 5 states (NY, NV, RH, NC, WV) have introduced a version of this biocertifying registry in 2023. It’s alarming.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) slams Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for bringing “somebody that he met at a gun club” to the first House Judiciary Committee hearing to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Turns out, Gaetz’s honored guest was charged with killing a family member in April 2019.

This sounds interesting. thepopverse.com/bill-watterson…

Like with crypto and NFT ponzi schemes the push to pawn “AI” “healthcare” “treatment” will be couched in accessibility and inclusion rhetoric. But just remember this is a false austerity created by the same forces pushing automation to gut labor and profit from the savings

Code Lifespan xkcd.com/2730

“All labor has dignity … it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages.” Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday

Still isn't showing up on search results as of this morning. That must mean Twitter REALLY doesn't want you to see this. You should ABSOLUTELY NOT amplify this tweet.

The truth about the "87,000 IRS agents": - Over 10 years - It's NOT 87,000 new hires - Replacing 50,000 folks expected to retire - Then many of the additional 37,000 new hires are in areas like customer service and IT, so the IRS website works better and you can reach a human

Fentanyl's war on cops: the epidemic that isn't

Obama: Mr. Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia like if it’s better to be a vampire or a werewolf.. This is a debate that I must confess I once had myself.. when I was 7