The reliance on the Republican Party is one of the U.S. emergency management systems greatest vulnerabilities.

🚀👀 Ukrainian Air Defence shot down 28/119 Kinzhals during the full-scale war. Most of the objects hit were civilian: 68 civilians and 15 military, - UaWarInfographics

This is because of some sort of proto-Bene Gesserit thing, right?

We treat voting as a matter of consumption, a buy-in to a candidate and their entire platform, a reflection of our personal values. This is not what voting is or how it was meant to function! Yet, capitalism is gonna capitalism. It’s a category error that convinces people to opt out of voting.

There is no path — nor has there ever been a path on any issue — to changing things through disengagement. Opting out just makes the existing pool of voters more conservative. You cannot name one progressive achievement made by not voting. Boycotting power only transfers it to your opponents.

Helene’s Cat 4 landfall gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017-2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years.

Yeah, like Seattle burned to the ground in 2020... Pathetic

Mmaks23.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 8:09am

🤔 "There is no more Ukraine. Almost everything was destroyed. Millions and millions of people died", - Trump. ▪️Any worst deal with Putin is better than no deal at all. Ukraine should have agreed earlier and given up something;

🚩This is a great example of a significant error that could easily slip through clinician review. Catching it requires knowledge of data the tool has access to and/or cross-checking the vaccination record (which defeats the intended purpose of the AI draft). www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/h...

Did you know that if you text “Check” to @resistbot (50409), they not only check your voter registration, but will continue to check it monthly to make sure you aren’t purged off the voter rolls, and will notify you if something changes? Take 30 seconds. It’s worth it.

I said this last election: speaking as a white person: WTF white people?

ZPchadstanton.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 7:38pm

“The gender divide in the poll is also more concentrated among White voters (White men break 58% Trump to 35% Harris, while White women split 50% Trump to 47% Harris), with very little gender divide among Black or Latino voters.” www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/p...

CNN Poll: Harris and Trump locked in exceedingly close presidential race | CNN Politics

The race for president between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is exceedingly close, with Harris’ support resting on stronger personal appeal, while Trump draws on a die...