... the teachings of the Anishinaabeg, who've lived among the Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin (Great Lakes) longest. Also, #manoomin grows best in clean, fresh water, and we must now work to restore and protect it here in Michigan 🌾 #ShutDownLine5 #WorldWaterDay

💧🌊🌾 Happy #WorldWaterDay! My daughter and I ran into one of the fiercest water protectors I know, Andrea Pierce, today at the Ann Arbor Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, and she was wearing her #WaterIsLife skirt 💧😍 With 1/5 of the world's fresh water in the Great Lakes, we should be following...

Today! Get your tickets, or just chip in if you can't make it: secure.actblue.com/donate/march...

We're excited to announce special guest @jocelynbenson.bsky.social will be joining us Thurs. We secured licensed childcare providers from Little Angels, where my daughter went, to provide free childcare for kiddos (who get in free, of course)! Tix: secure.actblue.com/donate/march... #Rheingans4Rep

Happy Women's History Month! Help me honor our many elected women in Washtenaw and find ways to plug in to protect immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ+, and women's reproductive freedom at my first re-elelction fundraiser of the term 💖 secure.actblue.com/donate/march... #Rheingans4Rep 1/2

This is a disgrace and an embarrassing retreat from a critical global leadership role. This will harm our national security, in case any commander-in-chief gives a crap about the US' national security. Some of the very deadly infectious diseases abroad will be on our doorstep that much sooner

🇺🇸🙏🏻 President Biden, thank you for your over 5️⃣0️⃣ years of service to our country, for being kind, and believing in the promise of America. It was an honor to host you in our district this year, announcing an executive order for the federal government to use union labor whenever possible ...

Uh, relatable? 🤷🏻‍♀️ #NotRelatable

We introduced our first bill today, HB 4009, to repeal Michigan's preemption on local governments establishing rent stabilization policies. Cities across the state are asking for this because #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh ! #Rent #RentIsTooDamnHigh #A2Renters #MILeg #Michigan

Actions speak louder than words! 😤 Blocking teachers' healthcare and corrections officers' pensions shows your anti-worker true colors, no matter what words you say #MiLeg #Michigan #Solidarity #SolidarityForever #1u #SupportWorkingPeople @aftunion.bsky.social @seiu.org @aflcio.org

💙🇺🇸✋🏻 Today was the official start of the 103rd Legislature, and I was sworn in by Justice Bolden, accompanied by my Legislative Director, Ryan Bartholomew, and Constituent Services Director, Sean Rositano. We're already working on bills ... 1/2

The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating among commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

My statement on this week: "To truly deliver for working people, it is going to take all of us standing up and rejecting the politics of the status quo. In the years to come, we can elect candidates who will stand with working people and refuse to be bought by corporations. ..."

If you are a federal employee or you know one, I STRONGLY urge you to make sure you are a member of your union and that your dues are current before January 20th.

Who supports a simple law requiring insurance companies to pay for medicines or treatment prescribed by a doctor? Something we could do now while we fight for #medicareforall.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture Department orders testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu.

Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

People always need reminders than the COVID vaccines work. In the world is misinformation, good data is king.

Whooping cough cases up almost 5x in 2024 versus 2023. And 2024 isn’t even over yet thehill.com/homenews/nex...

Trump won a clear and convincing victory. But he and his allies are trying to pump it up into a "landslide," which it was not. With 49.997% of the vote, he fell short of a majority and his 1.6-point margin of victory is the third smallest since the 19th century. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

Dr. Oz Pushes Medicare Privatization—the infamous TV doctor wants to privatize Medicare — and tax workers to boost the profits of insurance giants whose stock he owns & can profit. ➡️Dr Oz is to be Trump’s new head of Medicare and Medicaid. www.levernews.com/dr-oz-pushes...

☕️ Join us on Monday morning at the Napoleon Twp offices for our last coffee hour of the year and term (we'll have a happy hour next month in Ann Arbor) ☕️ 🗓 Mon, Nov 25 🕘 9:00-10:30am 📍Napoleon Twp offices (6755 Brooklyn Rd., Napoleon, MI 49261)

In another major fuck you to Elon Musk, I'd love it if Bluesky took ALL of the good ideas from there, and implemented them here -- bookmarking posts and edit button, longer videos, something similar to Spaces. All the good shit. None of the toxicity. Drop your ideas, too. Please and thank you. 🙏💙

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Let’s talk about Donald Trump and his new Attorney General pick Pam Bondi, because boy do we have a story to tell

Note: there were 32 members of the board. They fired all of them \to install a new, compliant board\ because they couldn't figure out who the leaker was.

⚠️Worried—California reports HUMAN H5N1 bird-flu in a child with no known contact with infected animals. This is at least the 3rd COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION incidence of H5N1 without any animal contact. Same with the ICU hospitalized case. This is maybe human-to-human, long distance airborne, or milk?