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🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺 Father, software engineer, science fiction afficionado, podcast listener, multinational person of mystery. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BlackLivesMatter #StopAsianHate Opinions do not represent my employer.
Please write to your representatives. This is not ok.
If you want a ready-to-sign letter, search "site:resist.bot H.R. 7661", or just go here: resist.bot/petitions/PH...
“I don’t say this lightly: when we escape this Trump hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president* …”
Representative Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
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Information on the resolution, including the full text are available here:
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Please write to your congresspeople about the importance of voting FOR the the House Resolution on a Trans Bill of Rights!
resist.bot/petitions/PL...
@resist.bot - I would very much like if you could provide the option to send letters by *multiple* delivery methods, not just one.
The reason being that if something is time-sensitive, e-mail would be fastest, but fax/first class mail may be most impactful, so I'd like to select more than one.
Schools in Ireland 🇮🇪 must respect students choice of names and pronouns! 💜 🏳️⚧️
🇮🇪 💙 🏳️⚧️ 🩷 🏳️⚧️ 🤍 🏳️⚧️ 🩷 🏳️⚧️ 💙 🇮🇪
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Remember right after ICE murdered Renee Good when they shot a second person, this time in the leg? They put out an elaborate story about the man assaulting ICE agents, ramming them, etc.
Only one problem: it was all a lie, as shown by multiple videos and the transcripts of calls to 911.
ICE lies.
I hope you've all been keeping up on your mRNA COVID vaccines!
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
YouTube has destroyed queue functionality.
Before: Enqueue videos. Play. Videos I enqueued play, then stops after last one ends.
Now: Enqueue videos. Play. Plays all(?) of them, continues playing, ADDs other videos it thinks I'd like, then re-enqueues videos I had queued so that it replays them. 😠
Fantastic! Perfection. *chef kiss*
FACT: You don't destroy the CDC unless you want people to die in large numbers.
Wow, what a run. Tremendously proud of my friend and colleague for his display of courage over these 24+ hours. This is exactly what's needed to fight back against Trump's authoritarianism. We're lucky to have him on our side.
Booker has gained huge respect for it -- and deservedly so.
👏👏👏👏👏
In the words of a friend:
"Cory Booker dismantles another Confederate monument."
Senator Cory Booker was on his feet for over 25 hours, speaking for most of it ... and he stayed on topic, and dropped truth bombs left and right.
It was amazing, and I wouldn't have believed that anyone could remain eloquent, impassioned, and incisive for 25 hours, Booker did so.
Not only did he blast past that record which stood for 67 years, but where the mediocre racist phoned it in (no pun intended) by reading from the DC phone book, and reading the text of legislation to fill the time ... (cont'd)
Today, an elected representative Black man -- a Senator -- performed an astounding feat, obliterating the record of an awful racist, segregationist remnant of the civil war (set whilst trying to defeat the Civil Rights Act of 1957).
It was perfection.
A long, long time ago (early 90s?), I sat and chatted with Peter and you for ages at a tiny Star Trek con in Dublin. All the while, Peter drew many, many starships all over the paper "tablecloth". :D It was a very chill, very enjoyable afternoon. Thank you both for being so friendly and engaging.
Hi Diane! I bought the "whole store bundle". I look forward to reading them, and to letting my kids read them. :) I am happy to be able to help a little with your expenses. You and Peter are good eggs.
Good friends in Texas are having a really hard time, even without the awful human rights situations in the state (and, sadly, the nation). 😔
Anything you can chip in would be greatly appreciated, so jENN, their wife, and young child can manage the coming heat.
www.gofundme.com/f/jenn-needs...
Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
Correction: I said $1M for the EB-5. It is now $1.8M.
(It was updated as of November 21, 2019 from $1M to $1.8M.)
www.uscis.gov/working-in-t...
The EB-5 investor visa program has the same goal as the latest crass "idea". To bring money, investment, jobs, and generated economic activity to the US.
The EB-5 program is a *radically* better deal for people who want a way in to the US than cheeto's suggestion.
(i) It costs you only $1M, not $5M
(ii) You get to keep the investment from your $1M, not pay it to the government.
2. For decades (at least), the US has had a way to buy yourself and your family permanent residency. The EB-5 Investor Visa program.
1. He's not "selling citizenship"; he is proposing to sell permanent residency.
I'll be the first to criticize the felonious despot, but there's so many bad takes and so much false information floating around about the stupidly tacky "gold card" "idea" he, supposedly, had.
Holy crap! This is absolutely awful :(
Holy crap! That's awful 😢