JD

JD

@dawnwaters.bsky.social

(she/her) dog lover, nazi hater. Physician based in California. Opinions shared here are my own.

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🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

Perfect example of Canadian humor 🤩

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

I'm told there's a move afoot to rename Ontario's Welland Canal—a ship canal that's part of the St. Lawrence Seaway—as "the Strait of Our Moose."

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I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.

washingtonpost.comPostal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower saysAn anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.

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This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

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We had an unprecedented shift toward absentee balloting during the pandemic and we should have a far more precedented shift to in person voting now that Trump's fucking with the mail

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🚨NEW: Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina has been RECALLED after entering the U.S. without required import reinspection. The recall comes after Trump ordered increased Argentine beef imports in a desperate effort to drive down prices before the midterms.

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Trump: tariffs don’t raise prices MAGA: yeah! tariffs don’t raise prices, dumb libs Trump: I’m going to suspend tariffs on imported beef to lower prices MAGA: suspending tariffs will lower prices, dumb libs

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Replying to @lachevron.bsky.social

I miss when they did their election denying at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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honestly having the biggest lol at jeanine pirro filing a twenty-page memo on a friday afternoon in july explaining how badly the trump administration fucked up "fixing" the reflecting pool

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FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

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NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

nytimes.comTrump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for HimFederal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/6: Male giraffes mostly have sex with each other. bi.org/en/resource/...

bi.orgGiraffes Take Bisexuality to New HeightsResearch shows that giraffe bisexuality is real and, even more so, very significant.

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 Behold the lesbian Laysan albatross. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

nationalgeographic.comSame-Sex Mothers: Letting Albatrosses Be AlbatrossesThere was a time when the Laysan albatross might seem a perfect icon for the virtues of marriage. When naturalists visited the bird’s nesting grounds in the Pacific, they’d find males and females bond...

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/5: Clownfish populations are led by trans females.

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology’s been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/4: Bats hang upside down together. Things happen. 🫣 (Gay sex documented in >20 bat species):

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/3: The guy who figured out climate change? Gay www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica-2...

antarcticglaciers.orgNot so humbly Humboldt: the queer relationships of a German explorer - AntarcticGlaciers.orgThe true identity of Many queer scientists hide away their true identity still today. As did Alexander von Humboldt, a global explorer

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🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m reprising last year’s daily series of queer, biologically themed posts. 6/1: Please enjoy these bi bison. friendsafforestation.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/b...

friendsafforestation.wordpress.comBison Same-Sex Behavior and DominanceThe Old Bone Trail runs through Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area reminiscent of the bison which once roamed the North American Plains. Bison on the Plains The American bison, a majestic c…

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Replying to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Just a reminder that the IRS leak of almost half a million returns happened under the Trump administration. To summarize, Trump sued the second Trump administration for something that happened under the first Trump administration.

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Trump one month before the 2024 election: “Think of it - within one year you’re gonna have electric bills and energy bills and gasoline for your cars is going to be 50% cheaper than it is right now. That’s a big thing.”