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If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

As an anti-vaxxer & anti-vaccine RFK Jr. is about to be INSTALLED by the spineless GOP Senate in Congress, TODAY would be a good day to get YOUR Covid and Flu vaccines, while you STILL can.

Never really wanted to use Apple Maps but turns out it would be the dumbest name change ever that made me leave Google.

That is such bullshit. People on medicaid aren't the problem. Corporate welfare and a broken taxing structure are. We need to return to the tax rates in place in the 1970's and corporations and wealthy individuals need to stop getting a pass. This has been creeping oligarchy!

What are good alternatives to Google Mail? For Mac users. And if everyone has your Gmail, how do you change all of that? One by one?

@andria.bsky.social good to see you here!

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

They’ll FIND OUT at the gas pump, at the grocery store, at the mechanic shop, at the construction site, at the computer store, at the phone store… #tariffs

If you work in healthcare and can’t (or won’t) wear a mask for your patient… you need to find another job. Wearing a mask should not be optional. If a patient makes arrangements in advance, has their chart noted as “masks required” and you still say “No”? You don’t belong in patient care

Trans Travel Ban??? Is Trump’s executive order a travel ban for trans people, in effect if not in name? This trans woman says it is. www.instagram.com/share/BAKLoX...

It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.

‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB". The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.

my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country

I needed to go to ER tonight, but I was totally incapacitated from stomach pain and vomiting. My caregiver is too elderly to drive at night + lives an hour away. An ambulance terrifies my rescue pup and she has seizures despite 3 meds for them. I was too sick to drive. #transplant

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

🛬UPDATE—Airport control tower was understaffed at time of DCA airport crash—one controller was working 2 different tower positions, normally done by 2 people—which FAA memo says was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”. ➡️We should not downsize the FAA

seeing just how much evangelical christianity is soaked into every pore of all this horseshit....... all the initatives to drive women and minorities from public life in particular..... their Obsession with hierarchy and obedience and submission -- it's everywhere, like the foulest smell

Here's a clip from 2009, when President Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash -- the LAST time we had an airline crash with fatalities in America. He didn't blame Bush. He didn't blame Reagan. He just consoled America. A REAL Commander in Chief.

You can't beat a kid into not being neurodivergent

Former Secretary of Transportation--who was not on The Real World or Road Rules--weighs in on the President's efforts to blame the fatal air traffic accident on DEI.

📍January 20: FAA director fired 📍January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen 📍January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded 📍January 28: Buyout-retirement demand sent to existing employees 📍January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

We have DEI because we have racism. DEI didn’t stop White people from getting anything. It just helped others to have a chance to get something they were qualified to have.

I will never get over RFK Jr writing *only* his name on his entire Harvard admission and getting in, and not one Congressional member asking him how his admission was merit-based.

It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe.

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

This is a terrible tragedy and it should be a headline of why we have a federal govt that spends federal dollars to keep airspace safe in America.

"Nothing says I'm a pro-life Christian quite like taking WIC formula away from infants."

On local tv, only CBS News has interrupted programming to report the plane crash. Other channels have game shows or cop shows. One channel is local news talking about weather and taxes. I don’t have cable news!

PLANE CRASH IN DC: “60 passengers, 4 crew aboard commercial jet that collided mid-air with Blackhawk military helicopter” reports CBS News. Water rescue—or recovery—is ongoing, with emergency vehicles lined up at the water’s edge on both sides of the Potomac River.

BREAKING: Plane crashes into Potomac River after collision with helicopter near Reagan National Airport