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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 22m

My dad was on my mom's insurance. Once COBRA ran out, he applied for and was denied private insurance. We were fortunate to live in MN, which had high-risk health insurance for those denied private coverage. It cost over $700/month just to cover him, at same time he was caring for my mom w/dementia.

K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 26m

We can never have nice things.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2h

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

"I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer."

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 5h

It's okay to want solitude. It's important to know how to sit with thoughts and feelings, to be creative and fulfilled by yourself. It's okay to go to the party. It's important to socialize and pour into others, to live in community.

Not everything is a binary. Most of life is a continuum.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12h

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 13h

I'm just mad in movies you have to go through a sewage tunnel and drop from a ceiling and do flips, and in real life, apparently, you just prop a ladder against a window and, like, walk on through.

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 13h

When someone lies to you in obvious ways that have no evidence other than your own desire to believe, it's not the lies that got you. And it's not the truth that's changing your mind - it's a rejection of the consequences.

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 13h

💯. I think too many people rn confuse the ability to analyze deficits with the skills needed to address deficits.

Saying, "You're all pathetic and don't know how to make social change and never will," and then imagining you are the person who understands how to build community is baffling to me.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah I’m going to keep banging the drum that rather than appearing to solely focus on calling out performativity or lack of immediate effectiveness of normie political action, people should be using it as a platform to help the newly aware & frustrated find entryways into deeper levels of engagement

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.

Yes, we are the baddies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump says he's imposing new tariffs on Colombia but won't say what the rate will be

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 14h

It's hilarious that their argument is, ordinary citizens can't call 80 million people Nazis but a president in charge of the military can call 80 million of his constituents terrorists and imagine dumping shit on them. And the media is like, gosh, what a difficult argument to refute.

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 14h

People can vote out Republicans in states across the country. Why ask that of MN specifically, a state which, quite frankly, has held on in presidential elections while every single state around us went red? Defeating MAGA isn't going to come about by just randomly demanding that 100% of seats flip.

K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I don't understand about this strategy is that as a majority, it's weird to say the minority party won't "allow" you to do something.

You want to be viewed as passive and dependent? Or you think you can play the underdog while also sending troops in to intimidate blue cities?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, 65% of the article is about parents who either agree with the changes or don't believe the changes matter.

Trump supporters may turn on him. But wish casting is not, in my opinion, helpful. Cover the impact of his policies, not a bunch of Facebook posts that change direction daily.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Lauren Gill and Bolts: No physical evidence linked Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. His conviction was based largely on the testimony of one witness who testified under threat of capital punishment. Alabama plans to execute Boyd on Thursday. https://ow.ly/NYak50XefHX

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

From LA to Chicago, LEOs have instigated violence and arrested peaceful protesters for resisting or disturbing the peace. History is filled with similar arrests, from the Silent Sentinals to MLK. The measure of success is in community built and the curbing of autocratic rule, not a lack of arrests.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

We don't know. You don't know. I don't know. We can guess. We might even guess correctly in the short term. But we don't know, and we can benefit from retaining some humility, even as we analyze and put forth recommendations for what needs to be done. /end

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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

Or new leaders may emerge, the various players may find their way to build a temporary and effective coalition, unforseen events may speed up the GOPs collapse, and we grt an opportunity to build something better for everyone, and especially those furthest from opportunity. /6

K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

The coalition needed to oppose this regime may never get its shit together, as happened in Egypt after Jan 25. We could simpy fail, and MAGA could spend 60 years rolling back whatever progress was made after the Civil Rights movement, as they did after Reconstruction. After woman's suffrage.

K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

Strategies that worked yesterday will fail. Tactics that failed yesterday may succeed in a particular and random instance. The public mood may shift based on events we can't forsee or they may remain stuck even in the face of obvious signs that change is necessary. 3/

K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

We can examine history. We can analyze previous and present movements. We can observe the dynamics of our age. And we can make recommendations for what we think will be effective.

But in the end, lots of people will try lots of things, and a variety of things will move the needle but most won't. 2/

K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 1d

I wish we lived in an age with less confidence. People spend a lot of time expounding on how dictatorships are toppled, the "right" way to protest or the correct way to persuade X or Y group.

And it's like, folks, this isn't physical chemistry. There isn't an exact way to produce social change. 1/

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