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pattykimura

@pattykimura@beige.party

Poet, writer, composer, cheerful bureaucrat. Believer in things, curious about everything. Medicare enthusiast. I'm what happens when dull meets old age. 🏳️‍🌈 #AsianAmerican #kama'aina #ukulele
Left Twitter for the fedi on Oct 31, 2022, found the party going on in April 2023. Beige-bless, it's the best .party for bright eclectic weirdos.

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pattykimura, to random
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Nikki Haley said the most important issue facing teenage girls is unfair competition from transgirl athletes.

An estimated ONE MILLION high school girls have been raped based on a 2021 (NBC) report. In 2021, 2590 children under 18 were murdered by guns (Pew). Before age 18, 3.5 Million girls have been stalked. One in 10 girls is a victim of dating violence.(Childrens Hosp of Phila).

Meanwhile, (Apr 21, 2023) Newsweek reports 15 high school transathletes competed in high school sports, of those 15, only THREE are girls.

MAGA will exaggerate and lie about victimization to justify hate and bigotry. Nazis did this, too. It's not harmless.

randahl, to random
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Screen shot from an actual campaign video, from MAGA Republican candidate for Missouri Valentina Gomez, in which she promises:

“When I’m Secretary of State, I will 🔥BURN🔥all books that are grooming, indoctrinating, and sexualizing our children. MAGA. America First🇺🇸”

I remember when the Nazis burned books. I also remember what they burned next.

pattykimura,
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@randahl Notice these Nazis never quietly burn or shred books alone at home using a regular propane weed torch on a gardening debris pile or a shredder - this is always theater, books are stand-in props for human beings they find worthy of extermination by immolation. There is no subtlety to the violence of the threat.

GottaLaff, to Zelensky
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Bluff called.

“President Volodymyr has extended an invitation to Donald to visit Kyiv, with a specific condition attached.

Speaking with U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 News, Zelensky said that Trump would be warmly received in the capital under one stipulation: the former U.S. president must demonstrate his ability to bring an end to the war with Russia within 24 hours, as he once promised.”

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-invites-trump-to-ukraine/

pattykimura,
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@kithrup @joeinwynnewood @GottaLaff

The bluff called is that Trump's "brilliant plan to end the war in 24 hours" is Complete Capitulation, the Neville Chamberlain Plan. Trump won't say that quiet part out loud because it's Hitler, er, Putin, er, Trump & his MAGA 5th columnists' plan.

Zelenskyy is a wily and nimble fellow who has no Fs left when it comes to fighting to save his nation. He's been used once by the treacherous Trump for that pathetic photo op, he'll never be used again.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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AT&T is sending out letters warning they want to kill virtually all landlines (and perhaps related data circuits where fiber is unavailable) across essentially their entire coverage area throughout California. This would have devastating effects. Related CPUC meetings will be taking place through March.

Landlines provide crucial services for individuals, businesses, and other organizations in a wide variety of situations -- not just emergencies when cellular and Internet service tends to rapidly fail, but also for vast numbers of people in areas with poor, unreliable, or in many cases (even in large sections of major cities!) NO cell service, NO fiber, etc.

Landlines often provide the only available communication in a wide variety of security and safety situations, from elevators to interior spaces of all sorts where cell service simply doesn't work.

Many disabled and other persons have crucial equipment that depends on landlines. Often they are not tech-savvy and do not have friends or relatives to help them through forced technology changes.

AT&T has been shirking its public safety responsibilities for years, while still leveraging their effective monopoly on services in so many areas.

Their new effort must be stopped. I'll have much more to say about this as the situation progresses.

pattykimura,
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@lauren 1934 Communications Act, 1996 Telecommunications Act were the gold standard that ensured equal access to modern communication systems to all parts of the nation. Equal telecommunication access allows equal health, economic, educational, public and emergency services, access to all Americans with the cost to corporation for the more expensive maintenance and expansion included in fees spread to all users in one of those mandated fees that appear in every phone/cell bill. (When rural MAGA complain about government taxes, remind them that they are the beneficiaries of this universal tax every time they use a cell or landline.) There was a rule change lobbied by telecom to change "full coverage" to allow "95% coverage" as full coverage, and expand the coverage area to create a larger denominator to increase the 5% exclusion/unserved raw numbers as the numerator.
In the East and Southeast US, we have seen the abandonment of landlines and the refusal to maintain the remaining copper wiring, threatening our health services, educational access, and economic viability. Landlines, ironically, are a consistent profit center if you don't maintain them: the plan is to sell them off to small vendors to wring out remaining profit then abandon.

GottaLaff, to random
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Stay to the very end.

Then share like crazy.

nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff Brilliant.
I've never met Joe, but I knew a fellow, union shop steward, who had. He told a story about meeting Joe decades ago, when Joe mentioned playing football. He was asked what position he played. Biden says "Assback" The guys say "What?" Biden says, with a chuckle, "I rode the bench until I begged coach to put me in. I was sent in, and after one play, coach motioned me over. I ran up, "Yes, coach!" He yells "Biden! Get your ass back on the bench!" All those old working class guys all fell in love with Biden on that day because he's a regular guy. With a disarming self-depreciating twinkle.

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

pattykimura,
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@jonquass @StillIRise1963

By being true to our shared commitment to democracy and justice and the protection of the vulnerable, abroad and at home.

I voted for Obama in 2008 despite his opposition to marriage equity, because I believed in his core progressive principles.

Joe Biden was the reason the politician Obama became the moral human Obama and supported marriage equity.

We are all imperfect beings, who need to be reminded that while we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, we must still strive our best to do good. The starving people of Gaza deserve our best.

I, too, will vote for Joe. As an American President, the GOP alternative is catastrophic for Gazans and Americans, Joe is our (and their) best hope.

Namaste.

RickiTarr, to random
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It insane to me how often women are not given pain management for gynecological procedures, because many many years ago a male doctor who's never had a vagina, cervix, or uterus decided that there weren't enough nerve endings up there to hurt significantly. I think it's time to put this fallacy to bed. It most definitely does hurt, and people who have literally no experience with female equipment don't get to decide this for me. Trust me docs, you don't want to taste your own medicine on this.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr I knew an ED clinician who faced a tardy, indifferent male surgeon who became furious because she ordered pain meds for a patient with ovarian torsion in severe pain after she waited hours for the surgeon to come to examine her for surgery. My friend was livid because he dismissed the patient's pain as not serious and accused her of interfering with an accurate exam by him of "how serious" the condition was. She said that male docs routinely rx pain relief for men w testicular torsion. But not for people with freaking ovaries!

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: Just a member of staff at Indiana university escorting two snipers to the roof of an administration building.

pattykimura,
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@fkamiah17 This proves precisely what higher ed staff know about university executives who populate the executive offices: most have zero people management and zero leadership skills despite the proliferation of vaunted PhDs.

They are unnecessarily escalating the likelihood of violence. They will kill their own students, and then be shocked, SHOCKED, when this happens.

Everyone who is not an idiot knows you reiterate the threshold of respect, violators of policy are given internal due process, offenders punished by suspension or expulsion. You do not use Cops to wage war or enforce college policies. Unless someone commits a crime of violence; then it's a police not university matter.

Putting up a tent, drumming, making impassioned speeches, not going to class is not a crime.

This level of conscious choice to allow armed, armored uniformed forces to man-handle and punish your own students (or invite in police snipers) should result in executive terminations for incompetence. Administration KNOWS they can always wait out students to the end of term. They are choosing this escalating violent path because of fear of donors and politicians. Some kid is being beaten and sacrificed because of a lack of moral authority. Shame on them.

May 4. KENT STATE Anniversary

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Ah. A clinician who trusts you. To know your own body. To know your own life. To make and own your own choices about your own body. Hmm. To medically treat you like a competent adult with agency.

bhawthorne, to USpolitics

Here are the real results out of Iowa.

Est. Population: 3,207,004 (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/DIS010222)
Est. Adult population: 2,482,221 (same source)
Registered voters 2024-01: 1,518,210 (https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/VRStatsArchive/2024/CoJan24.pdf)
Registered Republican voters 2024-01: 594,533 (same source)
Voters participating in 2024 caucuses with 99% counted: 109,405 (https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/primaries-and-caucuses/results/iowa/republican-presidential-primary)
Votes case for Trump: 57,260 (same source)

That means that in the Iowa caucuses:
2.3% of the adults in Iowa voted for Trump.
3.8% of the registered voters in Iowa voted for Trump
9.6% of registered Republicans voters in Iowa voted for Trump

Over 90% of registered republican voters in Iowa chose not to show up and vote for Trump.

That is the real story.

pattykimura,
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@dangoodin @bhawthorne Trumpism is a cult, the MSM fuels the invincibility of its adherents in their single-minded goal to prove loyalty to their God Trump by routing out the MINOs and voting "even if sick" despite the subzero temps and blizzard conditions.

But, truth is, they're neither invincible nor have all Republicans lost their minds in blind fealty to Trump.

He got just over half the votes. 51%. That's barely a majority. He's the only former President running.

What happened his magnificent majority? His relentlessly reported 82% favorability among GOP (YouGov Jan 9, 2024)?

The peril is in both ridiculing his core support and in over-estimating Trump's inevitability.

He's neither as weak as we'd like, or as strong as we fear. He's beatable.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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"Blood bath at " 1/...

"Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the RNC began the process of pushing out dozens of officials.

All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff, though the names were not made public. Additionally, some vendor contracts are expected to be cut" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/bloodbath-at-rnc-trump-team-slashes-staff-at-committee-00146368

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff If your goal is for the Republican Party to elect Republicans, you've just been fired. The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to exist solely to elect, fund, and swear total fealty to one man, der Fuhrer Herr Trump.
If you've missed the Nazification of the GOP, you haven't been paying attention.

gutenberg_org, to books
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American marine biologist, conservationist, and writer Rachel Carson died in 1964.

She is best known for her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring," published in 1962, which brought attention to the environmental impact of pesticides, particularly DDT, and sparked a global environmental movement. The book is often credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement and the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

pattykimura,
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@gutenberg_org My mother read Carson's book in 1962 and with that forbade all of her children from the popular game of running into the DDT fog that Town trucks would regularly spray to reduce mosquitoes at dusk. We watched instead, from inside behind closed windows, all the other kids and teens happily running through the poisoned mists.

GottaLaff, to Ukraine
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👏🏻

Via Olivia Beavers:

: aid pass 311-112

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff Good news for democracy!
A defeat for Fifth Column Putin Republicans, the enemy of the US.

DeliaChristina, to random
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I swear, having a Black president literally made America go insane.

When I think about how utterly wiiiiild everything is, I think, Hm, what was the catalyst? What was the thing that made half this country go completely bonkers?

Barack Obama.

pattykimura,
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@DeliaChristina Crazy racist people insisted Barack was a wild dangerous Black urban radical from Kenya. He is literally a mild, thoughtful, polite local boogie boarder from Hawai'i who went to a prep school and Harvard.
Biden is more radical than Barack.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE. 1/…

👀Via Katie Phang:

Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff NFL lol. Michael Cohen takes out a line of credit in his name AND HIS WIFE'S NAME. If he was using this to payoff a porn star to hide his own vulnerability to adultery, why would he spill the tea by having his wife sign for the $130,000 payoff line of credit?

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff NFL
Trump got played by dragging Eric (who?) to Court. It damages whichever one is stupid enough to show up.
Don Jr cheated on his wife, so he can't come.
Melania refuses to be "like Hillary" "standing by her man".
Ivanka is laying low, bec Jared wants to survive Daddy.

Well Done Lawrence O'Donnell wherever you are!

pattykimura, to random
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The irony of the Nikki Haley "states rights" Civil War cause of "freedom" from the "tyranny of a federal government" "denying the rights of individual states to self-determination on slavery" is that those modern human enslavement apologists have clearly NEVER read the Constitution of the Confederacy which enshrined its federal right to deny and overrule the "states right" of any confederated state to abolish human slavery.

It was never about states rights. It was always about the cause of human enslavement. That's their Lost Cause.

pattykimura, to random
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Dream last night: I am surrounded by sweet happy dogs who all want a boop. I am booping this nose and that nose, happy wiggling dogs all rushing up for a boop. I realize slipped in among the dogs are a porpoise, an alien, and a lizard, each happy and wiggly, all wanting a boop. I happily oblige. Boop!

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm time traveling to the future, I'm just doing it the slow way, because I don't take shortcuts.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr My sister knew a group of middle aged men who used to meet once a month on the weekend in somebody's garage with whiteboards, to work on time travel. They were engineers and mathematicians during the week who had this monthly time travel club. One day, one says to her, excitedly, "We're close!"

pattykimura, to random
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Fascists used disruption, chaos, intimidation, and the threat of violence to take over a nation to institute an authoritarian state.
So did Nazis.
Remember the Tea Party?
J6 MAGA?
Proud Boys?
Moms for Liberty?
Screamers about groomers?1

This is classic fascist playbook.

Why are we always surprised and unprepared for the deliberate use of disruption and screamed lies?

Why are they always unfazed by our righteous indignation and why are they disrespectful of norms? Because it's an "on purpose."

I still remember a hearing when impotent polite Jerry Nadler was unwilling to immediately gavel Jim Jordan down and unprepared to shut off his microphone as Jordan deliberately continued to disrupt as a means to control the narrative and neuter Nadler. Jordan deliberately exploited Nadler's decorum as a weakness.

Marge. Boebert. Gaetz. Tuberville. Cruz.

The crossing lights are flashing. The horns are blaring. The crossing bar is coming down.

pattykimura, to random
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Just read the excellent Mother Jones article on Dr Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist whose career is studying repeat violent criminal behavior and who publicly exercised her "Duty to Warn" in 2016 about the national violence threat posed by Trump, and was then sanctioned, censored, and then fired: Dr Lee warns, again, that while we will face an uptick in violence in holding Trump accountable, not to do so would damage our nation in the longterm.

She likens Trump's behavior to a gang leader, a man whose currency is fear - wielded for or against him, an emotionally impaired weak man unempathetic and self-focused, who gets away with it. Once a gang leader is incarcerated, his followers rethink their trust and delusion.

His campaign appearances directly corrolate to hate crime increases per capita in counties that host.

I thought DOJ might agree to a plea deal where he elocutes his guilt in exchange for no prison. I now believe he has to serve time to break the contagion of violence he sows.

@MotherJones

I subscribed to Mother Jones as a consequence of the article.

pattykimura, to random
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Why in the world would Trump think if he demanded each side take a drug test, that Joe would refuse, and would give Trump an out from the debate? The only thing Joe's blood test would show was elevated a1c from all that ice cream. Let's see Trump's jacked up adderall drug test.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: Rudy 's creditor's are seeking to force him to sell his Florida condo to pay off part of his debts.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.148.0.pdf

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff Harold Giuliani served time in Sing Sing for felonies, and upon release became a mob loan shark enforcer. Rudy claimed his father's criminality caused him to be Uniquely Qualified to fight evil as a moral hero DA and crime busting Mayor. It's part of his former election bio narrative.

Yup. His dad was a convicted NY criminal like Fred Trump.

pattykimura, to random
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To our friends in the Midwest and Plains states: Be safe. Thinking about you. 🙏

pattykimura, to random
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Trying to find a Samoan song I was taught as a child, includes the lyrics " kua fiafia". If anyone has a link, that would be great. Google doesn't recognize it as a song.

It's a delightful simple tune I have sung now for decades to the confusion of my New England neighbors. My grade school class sang it at our school's May Day celebration which, in Hawai'i was a celebration of all the different cultures in our state. We learned Bon dancing, square dancing, hula (of course), Filipino stick dancing (tinikling), the Kamehameha waltz, etc, and songs from around the Pacific.

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