“A study by the Baker Institute at Rice University found that about 18% of nursing home staff are immigrants. Imagine what would happen if nursing homes, already desperately short-staffed, lost nearly one in five of their remaining workers?”
Have written over 200 postcards to voters in Nebraska, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan! And I’m gonna write more.
I have no connection to the Middle East, and I know terrible things are always happening all over the world, but it still feels profoundly weird for all of us Americans to just be going about our daily lives while Israel is using weapons *we* provided/paid for to murder thousands of civilians
My wife is from Arizona (a huge Mormon state), I’m from Brooklyn. We have been having this conversation for a full decade, 60% earnestly
Imagine the turn out if the theater kids organize for Harris
Also notable that Harris and Walz are picking up a lot of endorsements from Republican Mormons, especially in Arizona. The Mormon vote could be the AZ blue wave.
I dunno what timeline we are in but watching Helene return North Carolina & TN to the sea get almost entirely ignored while Harris & Trump do more border theatrics & Biden signs on to a regional war in the Middle East is making for some absolutely rancid failed state vibes
Shoutout to everyone else who, despite the world seemingly falling apart in so many ways, still have body image issues and have to do a little selfish cry sometimes ✨
This is a after/before picture of Chimney Rock, NC. The rainwaters of Hurricane Helene caused the Broad River Dam to overflow and flooded the town, taking it out. My family (inc. parents) in the area are okay but cut off. They are nervous that the dam is about to break, taking Lake Lure with it
