If you're in or near Leipzig and you're a US absentee voter with questions, go visit the voter assistants today! @votefromabroad.bsky.social www.democratsabroad.org/oliviabrown/...

US citizens in Munich looking for an Oktoberfest booking, look no further! We still have some tickets remaining, but time is running out, so visit www.democratsabroad.org/oktoberfest for details! @demsabroad.bsky.social @votefromabroad.bsky.social

US voters in or around Darmstadt on Saturday afternoon can get help with registration and ballot request on Ernst-Ludwig-Platz from noon-16:00. Get more details here: www.democratsabroad.org/melindahargr...

These three have been holding a sit in on the Missouri house floor for over 48 hours to stop the redistricting vote. This should be the biggest story of the weekend. This should’ve been the biggest story of the last two days, but we can’t go back in time. www.threads.com/@jeremydean4...

Early Bird rates end July 20! Get your tickets now at www.democratsabroad.org/oktoberfest

This queen. Sledding in that hair. Werk.

#CSD #Regensburg today with @demsabroad.bsky.social! Stop by, say hi, and learn how you can #DefendDemocracy and support human rights in the #USA. You're not in Regensburg today? Kein Thema - we've got more in store all over #Germany! www.democratsabroad.org/csd_events Please repost!

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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This is a good question and it's one I'm getting a lot. The answer is going to depend, in part, on your risk tolerance and the role you plan to play I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes 🧵

guys it’s the weekend

If this article doesn’t suggest you send it back to Ted Cruz, it’s biological father, then I don’t want to read it.

There's a # NoKings March in Munich tomorrow at 16:00 across from the American embassy.

Excited to see that black people performing country music are only eligible for 3/5ths of a Grammy

Just when you think the Germans can't possible german any harder, they just keep germaning

Rogue nation that had 18,000 murders last year and is struggling to maintain the rule of law, warns its people about travel overseas. eu.usatoday.com/story/travel....

old ads used to be so cool. baffling lie. four kinds of typesetting. ends in a demand

Just a reminder to California folks, healthcare providers CANNOT charge a fee for filling out medical forms for benefits. This just happened to me this morning through cedars and I have to remind them. Please don’t let them charge you. See: mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/news/33190

Congress plans to cut programs like SNAP and Medicaid to pay for permanent tax cuts for the rich. SNAP and Medicaid provide food and health for citizens in need. Tax cuts for the rich DO NOT. We elect Congress. Ultimately, we will decide. It’s that simple. @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

Habeas corpus. The constitutional right that keeps you from disappearing—and why Trump wants to suspend it.

Imagining a huge chiropractor that just does this to people

If you only let us drive the Big Flaming Crime Bus through that school zone we would've saved all those children.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

I think a lot about the fact that the guy who coined the term "wellness" was a biostatistician who founded the Office of Vital Statistics. His 1961 book was basically like "stuff outside of actual illness, like stress and a bad environment, are its precursors, and should be avoided if possible"

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

We are approaching 50K followers here on Bluesky! Thank you!! Please contact your Senators before the SAVE Act comes to the floor and tell them to VOTE NO. If this passes, it will require in-person voter registration, disenfranchising everyone living outside the US, including the military. #SAVEAct

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hell yeah brother

genuinely what is wrong with these people

braviolis. thanks

if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean

"I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I'm wearing my Nissin Cup Noodles Gaming Headset With Folding Mic."

the asteroid headed to earth in 2032 was really like, ew david

There’s an Icelandic way of saying of “I’m gonna kick your arse” that translates to “I will take you to the bakery.” A Hungarian version is “you’re prying open the lid of the slap-crate.” And the most colourful threat I’ve come across in Urdu… “my foot is in your butt’s destiny”

this probably carries a non-zero amount of actual personal risk to van hollen, which is why he should take some of his colleagues with him

It passed in the House. Now it's time to call your Senators! They will be voting on this in a few weeks. In-person voter registration will disenfranchise Americans abroad, including the military. It will also have a dire impact on the elderly and disabled in the United States. #SAVEAct

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

The SAVE Act passed the House today

Targeting trans people is particularly grotesque. The SAVE Act makes registering to vote harder (if not impossible) for: - anyone who's changed their name - military members - civilians abroad - disabled voters - elderly voters - students - voters who can't get time off work to register in person

This bill is hot garbage and it has 107 co-sponsors. I've lucked out with a Rep. that opposes it. Does yours? If you're a US citizen, call and ask, no matter where in the world you live: cliff.omg.lol/stopsave @demsabroad.bsky.social @votefromabroad.bsky.social

NC Voters, check this list! ASAP!! Make sure you're not one of 60,000 ballots the NC GOP wants to eliminate. Update your voter records as necessary. Overseas & Military voters this affects you!! @demsabroad.bsky.social #NC #NCpol #ProtectYoyrVote

Showing off my Hands off sign this weekend ♡

The SAVE Act is straight-up voter suppression. Military ID? Doesn’t count. Driver’s license? Not enough. Overseas? Too bad—go find your birth certificate. It targets Troops, spouses, and women—on purpose. And they know it.

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.