Let’s make sure it is. Vote, get active, get involved
More so helps motivate people to vote who otherwise migh not have done so
Note that the congressional maps don’t impact senate and presidential races* - only house and local races
See a lot of people claim it as a reason for apathy, but it’s worth remembering there’s still a lot of potentially winnable fights even in gerrymandered districts
* maine and nebraska are exceptions for presidential races due to splitting some of their electoral votes
Republicans want the entire department of education gone. It’s in project 2025, and they keep repeating it as she did right now
She then proceeded to say she was open to the idea “only if it was with the goal of phasing out the Department of Education as we tried to do through budgetary process in the first administration
They want to gut public education at the expense of anyone living in the US
Let’s make sure the ballot box reflects that. Vote, get active, and get involved. Even if you don’t live in a swing state, the down ballot races matter far more than you think
Reminder to make sure to vote in primaries and other lower turnout elections as they are more important than people realize
Primary challenges like this can determine what’s considered acceptable or not within a party. Vote in them to ensure transphobia is career ending within the democratic party
Reminder to always keep up the fight. Even when things seem inevitable, fights can be won. That goes both ways: don’t get complacent and don’t get despaired
Get active, and get involved
Raising the wage of 1 million contractors is not just words. Yes, we do need more, but don’t think it’s nothing
Part of the goal is to encourage their campaign to get more of a mastodon presence
Most of those claims about treatment of trans people are just false. They are primarily based on misattributed actions of other people which harris has denounced
Here’s a good article looking at just that
Not saying she’s perfect, but consider with the two party system in the US, the alternative is far far worse
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
August 08, 2023
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-presidential-election-6a566fe8785a4ae5aa7963fd3bc5166f
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
That’s what people claim, but the research on it suggests it does not do any better for tear gas or pepper spray. Here’s one study looking at pepper spray for instance:
In this study, there was no significant difference in pain relief provided by five different treatment regimens. [Water vs milk vs 3 other solutions] Time after exposure appeared to be the best predictor for decrease in pain.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18924005/
EDIT: Also worth noting that in terms of infection risk, bird flu is now in a large number of dairy samples and it appears like it transmit to humans through the eyes in particular (or at least be one of its transmission pathways).
The workers were most likely exposed to the virus in contaminated milk—by getting it on their hands and then touching their eyes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-bird-flu-is-causing-eye-infections-in-dairy-workers/
Some types of pasteurization (flash pasteurization) might not fully get rid of all of the virus. So for even just bird flu alone, its likely more of a risk than it probably was in the past
From what I’ve been told, it takes large amounts of any fluid to get it to go away. One difference you may have observed with milk was that it was cooled vs room temperature water. Cooled water can have similar effects compared to cool milk
Or the time factor itself since it was the second thing used
Don’t use dairy milk for tear gas. Comes with infection risks. Water or saline is generally recommended instead. Plant-milks might be ok (but I’m not 100% sure)
That means bacteria can contaminate the milk and potentially cause infection if applied to eyes or skin wounds. Jordt says it’s better to use water or saline solutions to wash out eyes after a tear-gas attack.
EDIT: accidentally pasted the wrong link earlier somehow, fixed now
Never is a strong word when that’s just not true
An animal model of spontaneous exclusive homosexuality has however been described in sheep. About 8% of the males in a population studied in the western United States were shown to mate exclusively with other males, even when the choice was given between a male or female partner (Perkins and Roselli, 2007; Roselli et al., 2011b).
Trump has already turned it down now
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyejk91d2qo