chicating

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Occasional wordsmith, activist, sitcom junkie, GenX, disabled from birth. luftmensch, she/her
Likes bread AND Roses and was followed by a MacArthur fellow once...given the right inducement, I might never shut up about that!
TOMORROW: The Senate is expected to vote on a crypto bill that would enable Trump to keep accepting bribes from billionaires, corporations, and foreign governments. We can block S.394 if every Democrat votes no but that’s not a sure thing right now, so your senators need to hear from you. https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-stop-trumps-crypto-corruption?source=mastodon&medium=directpost
CALL NOW: Stop Trump’s Crypto Corruption

Indivisible
Yes please: “They must encourage Democratic representatives to speak louder than they do today. And they must convince their fellow Americans to restore the values that made their nation the freest, richest, and most powerful in the world.” #USpol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jpvse5d5p5hdcu3rouohlbpx/post/3lommecgtk22n
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New blog post:
Seth McFarlane is fucking annoying. Again.
https://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2025/05/you-never-see-grey-haired-one.html
"You Never See A Grey-Haired One,"

 There are times that I'm more proud than this about the things that stick in my head and make me want to write things. Kind of not feeling ...

“Attorneys seek an emergency order blocking a class of certain immigrants "from being removed to Libya," amid "alarming" reports that the country is next destination.

They also want to block removals to other third party countries.”

🚨”A federal judge quickly confirms that any such action by the Trump administration "would clearly violate" his prior order.

That was quick.”
-A Klasfeld

#Courts #Deportations #USPol

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.91.0_4.pdf

Reading about old crime cases from the 90s and even into the early 00s and police *really* believed that polygraph tests worked. Even in cases in tiny little towns they'd whip that thing out and make all kinds of wild inferences based on what amounts to noise.

Now and then you hear about one of them being used to this day.

Absolutely wild and terrifying.

There are still "experts" running around who claim they can teach cops about "body language" that will tell them who is lying.

Democrats make long-shot effort to stop Trump cuts to Medicaid and Snap - The Guardian https://apple.news/ALB-1MEC3TwGlGGV2GFsZfw
Democrats make long-shot effort to stop Trump cuts to Medicaid and Snap — Guardian US

Four Republicans needed to sign on to discharge petition to force vote on legislation preventing cuts to safety net

Just spoke with my CDC sources:

They said the Trump administration is cutting funding for H5N1 bird flu vaccines during a time of growing global risk.

We are facing a virus with pandemic potential. Cutting vaccine funding now delays preparedness, leaves frontline workers vulnerable, and risks mass exposure if human-to-human transmission increases.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/emily-feiner-mike-lawler-town-hall/ Elected officials are supposed to listen to their constituents—not silence and remove them. This is not democracy.
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #GOP #Authoritarianism
Meet the 64-year-old social worker who was dragged out of a Republican town hall

Her offense? Asking Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) what it would take for him to stand up to Trump.

Mother Jones
Cartoonist who quit Washington Post in protest wins Pulitzer

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary on Monday, shortly after she resigned from The Washington Post over it reportedly censoring a cartoon critical ...

Daily Kos