my elderly Egyptian Uber driver happily informed me that he “supports the gays now” because he lives with a lesbian couple and “the husband lesbian is a better husband than I was”, happy pride everyone
"#Ohio's Senate Republicans ultimately passed a bill that would both allow #Biden to appear on their general election ballot in November, but also bar foreign contributions to ballot issue campaigns."
"In the last Congress, two Democratic senators stood in the way of filibuster reform: Joe #Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten #Sinema of Arizona...[none of the excuses] holds water when you look at the history of the filibuster. Thanks to Sinema and Manchin, Democrats had to leave many wins on the table, including subsidized child care for struggling parents, codifying Roe v. Wade and much-needed protections for voting rights."
"Top U.S. labor unions are saying they’ve had enough of the Trump tax cuts and want them repealed.
"Unions including the United Auto Workers, the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union, the Screen Actors Guild and the National Education Association joined dozens of progressive groups in sending a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday that blasted the Trump cuts as unfairly designed and fiscally irresponsible."
Story from The Hill https://finance.yahoo.com/news/labor-unions-call-repeal-trump-090000325.html
"#Trump supporters swiftly replied to his post with a blitz of attacks on Merchan. The comments soon turned ugly. Some called for Merchan and other judges hearing cases against Trump to be killed....The April 23 post by Trump and the menacing responses from his followers illustrate the incendiary impact of his broadsides against the judges handling the criminal and civil suits against him."
"The calorie gave the public its first penetrating view inside the foods they ate, providing an elementary understanding of #nutrition. But it would also go on to torment millions, enrich corporations, inspire generations of advertising campaigns, provoke widespread guilt and pride, and even, some argue today, ...instructing the masses to focus on calories rather than on nutrients and steering them toward highly processed carbohydrates."
story from Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/doctor-pioneered-counting-calories-century-ago-were-still-dealing-with-consequences-180984282/
Speaker "#Johnson is not just some rising GOP lawmaker – although he may owe #Trump his job after fighting off an attempt to unseat him .... The speaker’s appearance is different, given the constitutional heft of his office...#Trump is hardly a victim. He is fully availing himself of the protections of the legal system he frequently lambasts. ...And his charges in this case were not just dreamed up – they emerged from a grand jury" \
