Kathleen Matz

Having recently fled an adjacent town in deep red southeast NH, all the flowers 💐 to stalwart NH progressives. Your voices mean so much. I couldn't hack New England, but I'm so glad you all are there and showing up. 💜 Thank you!

I’m proud to be a boomerang Oaklander, casting my first vote back in The Town for Barbara Lee as our next mayor

LFG Oakland!

#BarbaraLeeSpeaksForMe

Selfie of smiling, middle-aged woman with silver/gray long hair and her smiling Golden Retriever, with Mohave Desert hills in the background

I'm officially back in CA after 2 1/2 years in NH. I just wasn't cut out to be a New Englander, but I leave there with a better understanding of how to use the word "wicked", a greater appreciation for all things maple, a deep love of autumn leaves, and a renewed love/hate relationship with snow.

Whaaat? I’m in a starter pack. How did that happen?

💙

"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights

Republican women keep voting for this. Their complicity will not save them from their own husbands and fathers.
#Republicanregime
#MAGAfascists

👏🏻our👏🏻country 👏🏻is👏🏻not👏🏻a👏🏻business 👏🏻

Just say no to the swasticar and the wankpanzer

Right? 😆 Or maybe..... it's real!

👀

It’s a country, not a business.

What to Know About Maine Gov. Janet Mills Amid Clash With Trump The state’s first female governor and first female district attorney, the longtime Democratic politician has a history of supporting law enforcement.

“You must ask yourself: Who and what will he target next, and what will he do,” she said. “Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end?”
(Because in this country, we don’t bother unless it impacts us)

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Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told agency employees that a commission formed by President Donald Trump will investigate the childhood vaccine schedule.

F*#k this f*#@ing asswipe. Just try coming for my flu and Covid vaccines, my anti-depressant, and my semaglutide. You will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.

(I figure that expression works for the gun nuts, why not me?)

I’m probably going to read this every day for a while to keep me going

ALL of this
(I 💜Amanda Marcotte, the things she writes just click in my brain and heart)

So stay weird, stay woke, keep infuriating the MAGA fascists

We got this, we have to 🫶🏻

Claim Your Free COVID-19 Tests Now in Case the USPS Program Gets Shut Down The US government may destroy more than 160 million COVID-19 tests. Here's how to claim your free at-home kits before they're gone.

Speaking of government waste… They are going to throw away perfectly good tests??

Make sure to claim yours ASAP

Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami Victims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges

This story is so crazy. When hatred runs amok, this is what we get.

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.

It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wild That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

Well this is terrifying and horrifying

This is how it’s done!
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Redoing this 🧵 Looks like Bluesky broke it.

ICE is contracting for an online monitor. The hire will scan for past online activity, explicitly including social media, that speaks about ICE "negatively", then look for "signs of violence" including pictures of weapons, threatening language or
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“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law.”

Thank you for joining the fight, ACLU of Maine, Mass, and NH

Good folks in northern New England 💪🏻

This is why I was saying I don't think they thought this out very well. They will be hurting their "own women" more than progressive women who more often don't change their names.
Quite possibly they don't even care because women are women and when it comes down to it, they hate us all.

"...the two groups of women most likely to take their spouse’s name were conservative Republican women and Republican/Republican-leaning women, while the two least-likely groups were liberal Democratic women and Democratic/Democratic-leaning women..."

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

This legislation would disproportionately impact Republican voters, poor and working class folks, voters in red states, and married Republican women.... Have they thought this through?

And I'm wondering if this will wake up some conservative, white women who don't care until it affects them.

I keep noticing that’s how it feels. It’s like watching Jan 6 happen, the same fear and dread, except it’s in slow motion, lasting for days and days. Minus the pepper spray, and minus the knowledge that anyone who can do anything about it actually cares to try. No one is coming to save us.