Kat Murti

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Join us on November 12 at Per Ankh Entheogenic Church in Detroit, MI for an evening fundraiser supporting Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

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Reps. Nadler, Titus, Omar, and Velázquez Reintroduce Comprehensive Marijuana Reform Legislation Today, Representative Jerrold Nadler (NY-12), along with Cannabis Caucus Co-Chairs Dina Titus (NV-01) and Ilhan Omar (MN-05), and House Committee on Small Business Ranking Member Nydia Velázquez…

“Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) applauds the re-introduction of the MORE Act as a critical step toward dismantling the failed War on Drugs,” said @katmurti.bsky.social, Executive Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).

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Democratic Lawmakers File Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana As Trump Weighs Rescheduling - Marijuana Moment As the Trump administration considers rescheduling marijuana, Congressional Democrats have filed a bill to federally legalize cannabis by descheduling it altogether. In addition to removing the drug…

"Young people deserve a future free from the lifelong harms of prohibition, and we urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this legislation and begin repairing the injustices caused by decades of criminalization,” said SSDP's Kat Murti (@katmurti.bsky.social)

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Education and legislation is crucial for reform.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy Executive Director Kat Murti was featured on a National Cannabis Policy Summit panel discussion of "Bipartisan Solutions to Federal Cannabis Policy Challenges".

SSDP's “Anchored In Altered States” is next Thursday, AUG 14th at The Nave in Anchorage. Free drinks. Big ideas. Legendary guests. Connect with your community & join the fight to end the War on Drugs. Don’t just watch history — help make it. Get your tix here: buff.ly/k7EcvuM

Starved in Jail Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

Happy Tax Day. This is what your tax dollars pay for: thousands of people starved and dehydrated to painful deaths, eaten alive by insects, for “crimes” as heinous as falling asleep on a bus bench.

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The HALT Fentanyl Act won’t prevent overdose or stop the distribution of fentanyl, but it will tear families apart and block crucial research.

Take action with SSDP and tell your senator to vote NO on the HALT Fentanyl Act today!

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I genuinely can’t comprehend how bad the murder must have been for the UNION to say:

“What we witnessed is incomprehensible to say the least and is certainly not reflective of the great work that the vast majority of our membership conducts every day… We cannot and will not condone this behavior.”

Already posted this, but adding to your good caution—many common Christmas candle & diffuser scents (which often include essential oils) are highly toxic to cats. Here’s the list

Safety note: tinsel can be deadly for cats. If they eat even one strand it can form a GI blockage or even slice their intestines from the inside, requiring risky (and very expensive) emergency surgery. Keep it out of your house (as well as keeping any thin Christmas ribbon out of reach).

Oh no. Am I going to have to use Bluesky now?

1) Deschedule Marijuana
2) Release all Cannabis Prisoners
3) Clear Cannabis-Related Charges from Records

Let’s do this!!!! #420WeekOfUnity

Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the equivalent of one sun per day With a mass 17 billion times larger than our sun, this black hole is the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, Australian National University said.

Big Boi 🙀

Definitely - nothing motivates young voters more than the “no-sex-unless-God-said-make-babies” platform

When they’re right, they’re right, I completely agree that conservatives should make “ending recreational sex” their central issue

the graphic design aside, this is very 1933

Secretary Mayorkas Is Being Impeached for Following the Law on Border Enforcement Republicans are the ones making unconstitutional demands

Mayorkas has detained and forcibly removed more immigrants than any administration since 2001—yes, including Trump—and that’s still not enough?!?

Amazon ‘censored’ COVID-19 vaccine books after ‘feeling pressure’ from Biden White House: docs The Biden administration pressured Amazon to censor books related to COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021 citing concerns that the material contained “propaganda” and “misinformation,” internal company …

It’s not about vaccines. It’s about the fact that the government pressured a private company to hide certain books that went against their political goals from search results—and they did it.

The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

NYT is suing OpenAI, arguing that the company used their articles to train ChatGPT, which spits out near-verbatim excerpts from Times articles that would otherwise require a paid subscription to view and otherwise competes with the news giant

Frasier Still Wants to Look Rich. Does He? A popular sitcom from the ’90s has returned with an updated wardrobe that reflects shifts in American elitism.

Clothing is culture — and the wealthiest Americans now wear expensive versions of the same things worn by the middle class.

A brilliant write up of Frasier Crane’s new wardrobe…

A local politician lost his election by one vote after he decided not to vote for himself A Washington State council candidate lost by 246 votes to 247 after deciding not to vote for himself because he felt it was "kind of narcissistic."

Sometimes, your vote really does count! 🗳️ 🇺🇸

Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians.

Henry Kissinger bears significant responsibility for attacks in Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians — six times more noncombatants than the United States has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.

House Republicans’ campaign arm reports drop in fundraising after... The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $5 million in October, far less than previous months, as GOP lawmakers struggled to elect a House speaker.

They’re cannibalizing their own party 🐘

Planet where it rains sand revealed by Nasa telescope Planet Wasp-107b also has scorching temperatures, raging winds and the burnt-matches scent of sulphur dioxide

The “fluffy” planet’s atmosphere features something akin to Earth’s water cycle, but with sand cycling between solid and gaseous states instead ☄️🔭

Pentagon unveils UFO reporting portal for service members, government... The website also encourages civilian pilots to report unidentified objects to air traffic control, which submits UAP-related sightings to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (ARRO) says it has investigated nearly 300 UFO sightings over the past year 👽 🛸

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant si...

Beware tiny robots narcs bearing UberEats 🤖🚨

Is chaos the natural state of Congress? The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.

There’s a huge difference between a government shutdown and actually shutting the government down

500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media. Guess how that went. Scientists built a fake Twitter and filled it with 500 bots. Then they sat back and watched.

KEY FINDING: If people are interacting on an issue that cuts across the partisan divide, where 50% of the people you agree with vote for a different party than you do, that reduces polarization

Here’s Why a New York City Lobster Roll (With Fries!) Costs $32 The pandemic upended everything at the Red Hook Lobster Pound. By mid-2022, the co-founder felt she had no choice but to raise the price of her signature item, a lobster roll and fries.

It’s not just lobster rolls. These unaffordable prices are killing us all…and it can seem like there’s nothing left to give 🦞💸

Inside the Missouri Tribe That Has Made White People Millions Before the $300 million national scandal, the civil rights lawsuit and the accusations of fraud, the Northern Cherokee Nation meant something in St. Louis. It...

Tens of millions of dollars of contracts set aside for Native Americans are going to white people with no proof of Native American ancestry at all