Bottom line: VOTE. Help your neighbors to vote. Educate voters on the issues. Volunteer as an election judge. Participate in the preservation of our democracy and trust its wisdom. Elevate those who put the institution among themselves. And be wary of those who don’t. /fin

Florida’s very own Senator Rick Scott is an expert on Medicare fraud.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Right-wing populists perpetuate the myth that refugees threaten Western democracies, and that we should therefore close the borders. Their true motive for doing so is xenophobia. This article provides an overview of facts and myths about that issue; this is especially important at election time.

People often point to Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" speech as an example of such snobbery. But I think it's hard to read the heart of the speech--empathy for "people who feel the government has them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them"--as exhibiting snobbery./4

My number one complaint about home births is that Americans think they're highly regulated and attended by certified nurse-midwives with advanced degrees and emergency medications but a huge number of "midwives" in the US are lay midwives with no degrees, no meds, and very little oversight.

Combined with a federally funded, locally administered, Job Guarantee to eliminate racial job discrimination, produce public goods & services, act as automatic stabilizer, and set minimum wage & labor standards 👍🏻 www.google.com/search?q=job...

So, I was bored so created a sock account on Truth Social. What the actual f*ck! 1. Other than Trump barely anyone gets any likes 2. There are some seriously thick people 3. Alt-right humour *really* isn’t remotely funny 4. One of the most popular groups is “God’s Ultimate Warrior Church” 🤦🏻‍♂️