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Thank you @poetrydaily.bsky.social for featuring my poem!
January 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Bonks is the softest pillow.
January 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Snow day on a bus with a book and a cat: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. It’s just the book I needed this week. I got it in a free library box this summer, and it wasn’t moldy at all.
December 5, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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…And please protect their ability to work remotely where applicable.
Subminimum wage is a Depression-era program that allows employers to pay disabled workers far less than minimum wage. Thirteen U.S. states & D.C. have already eliminated it entirely. Now the Federal government wants to end the practice on a national level:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Biden moves to end subminimum wages for people with disabilities
The Biden administration is moving to phase out a Depression-era program that allows some employers to pay disabled workers far less than minimum wage.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Opinion - The right way for companies to take out the trash: Tilt the incentives for waste disposal so that landfills are no longer the cheapest option
The right way for companies to take out the trash
Tilt the incentives for waste disposal so that landfills are no longer the cheapest option
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Cozy winter bus night with my best guy.
December 3, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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It's one of the biggest cases of the term and the first major trans-rights case to be heard by the court since far-right lawmakers and policy groups launched a coordinated campaign inundating statehouses with hundreds of anti-trans bills.

More on that here:
Inside the secret working group that helped push anti-trans laws across the country
Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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This week, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in US v. Skrmetti, a landmark case that will shape the landscape for trans rights for years to come, while also testing how far the court is willing to extend its 2022 Dobbs decision.
This Supreme Court case could change everything for trans rights.
US v. Skrmetti could slow the wave of anti-trans laws—or tell policymakers it's "open season."
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Today's poem is "Martyrs"
by Claudine Toutoungi
from Emotional Support Horse
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December 1, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Lunch on the couch. Why not?
December 1, 2024 at 10:12 PM