Charmaine

Charmaine

@charmwebb.bsky.social

Reading, Writing, Anime watching, true-crime show watching, writer, and techie

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Kyle Clark
@kylec.bsky.social

A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comOleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and waterThe BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".

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Margo Gontar
@margogontar.bsky.social

In 1930s, Soviet Russia brought Holodomor to Ukraine - to starve Ukrainians and stop the resistance. Now, a hundred years later , Russia is doing the same to Oleshky , starving people there, not letting food in and not letting people out . Please ask your politicians to urge access to Oleshky .

Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

I had a cousin that was borm with a heart defect and other medical problems because her mother had measles while pregnant with her. Get the damn vaccine.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

Love the quote. So true for me.

HuffPost@huffpost.com

"For people like me who are single at heart, the risk is not what we'll miss if we do not organize our lives around a romantic partner, but what we'll miss if we do."

huffpost.comI'm 70 And I've Lived Alone My Entire Adult Life. Here's What Everyone Gets Wrong About Single People."For people like me who are single at heart, the risk is not what we'll miss if we do not organize our lives around a romantic partner, but what we'll miss if we do."
Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

Words I wish were used more - kerfuffle, befuddle, dilly dally, diddly squat, shmancy, tomfoolery, nonsensical, and flabbergasted. Even in these tough times, we need some fantastical wordplay.

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Alt National Park Service
@altnps.bsky.social

Good news! We have more time to fight for our national forests. The Forest Service has extended the public comment period on the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The new deadline is October 6.

Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

RTD in Denver, CO should talk to the people that came up with this solution. #transportaion #denvermetro

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov

Across the nation, too many cities and states responded to challenges by cutting service or asking riders to accept less. Illinois chose to invest, modernize, and build by creating NITA — stabilizing public transit and positioning it for the future.

nita.illinois.govNorthern Illinois Transit Authority | Northern Illinois Transit Authority Begins New Era for Regional TransitNITA today officially begins operations, launching a new regional approach to how public transit is funded and coordinated across the Chicago region.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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PLUR🧡
@plurgasm2.bsky.social

Register to Vote in Texas | VoteTexas.gov share.google/bIU7lTm969XB... Please share this for the Texans! You can check and register all on the same site if they removed you! You need to do it now!

votetexas.govYour Guide to Voting in Texas | VoteTexas.govVoteTexas.gov is your go-to resource for voter registration, election dates, polling locations, and more. Get the info you need to make your vote count.
𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤@saltybitchables.bsky.social

As many as 1.2 million Texas voters have until October 5th to update their registrations and can check their status on the Texas Sec. of State’s website, at a county election office, or by mail. #ProudBlue #Texas #Talarico #TexasVoter #registertovote newrepublic.com/post/214832/...

newrepublic.comTexas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate RaceIf you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.
Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

My niece a few years ago when she was doing boot camp at the Naval Station Great Lakes told her mom that she was seeing green, black and pink mold in the shower area. Also missing tiles and lime build up.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

You know things are going well for the military reputation when the press starts publishing pictures of facilities that have been in disrepair for years, if not decades.

taskandpurpose.comMilitary officials respond to photo of grimy shower at Texas training baseThe shower had not been properly cleaned by the last unit that used it, a Joint Base San Antonio spokesperson said.

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Dan Lucero
@danlucero.bsky.social

Oklahoma. Nothing but sad casinos, illiteracy, and people who think they invented being sports fans because they lucked into a good NBA team. (Side note: you don’t hate (insert flyover state that I’ve lived/live in here), you just hated driving across it. Which, I mean, I get it.)

an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube@jesseltaylor.bsky.social

Name the U.S. state you loathe the most, I don't care what the reason is unless it's like weird or bigoted

Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.A. I am watching The American Experiment on Netflix. As the title of Episode Two says, "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered." Thomas Paine understood what the rebels would go through. Now we need to keep going to conquer our new Tyrant.

Charmaine
@charmwebb.bsky.social

Ballots are coming the Ballots are coming. I received an email today from Ballot Trax that Colorado mailed out the Primary ballots. My mailbox is getting more cardboard mailers. I could do without them.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
@repstansbury.bsky.social

$1 billion for a Ballroom, $10 billion for vanity projects in DC, $15 million for an arch in front of Arlington Cemetery. Meanwhile—they are proposing to cut over $1 billion in tribal programs, tribal housing, education, water and other basic programs, while opening sacred sites like Chaco Canyon.

youtu.beRep. Stansbury: How can the Interior DeptJustify $1 billion in cuts totribal funding? they can’t.YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social

“I need to help,” Sam said. “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying. “As Sam stood in disbelief watching the woman give chest compressions, the supervisor softly nudged Sam, tears in the manager’s eyes now, too.” Local journalism is critical:

Ryan Haas@ryanjhaas.bsky.social

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

thewesternedge.media‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon FacilityA worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121
@fightingliberal.bsky.social

Shameful ruling... Appeals court rules Trump's White House ballroom construction can temporarily move forward... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

nbcnews.comAppeals court rules Trump's White House ballroom construction can temporarily move forwardTrump's lawyers argued the ballroom is "a vital project for the safety and security of the White House and the President, his family, and his staff."

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ladydkw.bsky.social
@ladydkw.bsky.social

Tell me : Why are ICE shooting people and not being detained? Why are we not taking more attention to these prisons where people are raped and killed?? Our elected officials MUST take actions now. We do not treat humans like this. Let’s go