Thanks Orl!

Legally-operating cannabis small businesses in NV & across the country deserve full access to @SBAgov loans & resources.

That’s why I'm introducing a bill to level the playing field & lift the current restrictions that bar cannabis small businesses from accessing SBA loans.

— Senator Jacky Rosen (@SenJackyRosen) November 18, 2022

Hello all!

I 100% called this when the Roe being overturned leak happened

This story is stunning.

In short: Alito himself leaked the Dobbs decision, and not only that, he's leaked his own opinions before, to right-wing litigants, so they could wine and dine other justices, and donate to their causes, to secure their vote. https://t.co/0LobfuibNu

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) November 19, 2022

Thanks orl. A little late to the weekend. Shocked by another gay nightclub massacre.

Here’s a good overview of Bernie and the HELP committee. Republicans taking the House means nothing good will ever pass so Budget becomes less important and not as an effective perch as HELP to highlight issues Bernie considers important.

https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-seeks-role-as-senate-health-chair-with-focus-on-universal-health-care/

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced on Thursday that he is seeking to become the chair of a powerful Senate committee that has wide influence over what he is planning to prioritize in the role: Medicare for All, workers’ rights and affordable college.

The Vermont senator is likely to take the helm of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, where he has previously served as a member. From the top spot, he will be able to steer the committee’s priorities on health policy and other areas of special interest to progressives.

“As chairman of the committee, he will focus on universal healthcare, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, increasing access to higher education, and protecting workers’ rights on the job,” Sanders’s communications director Mike Casca said in a statement.

Sanders’s HELP chairmanship could lead to an advancement in priorities that he has previously advocated for but that have not necessarily taken hold among other members of Congress; he could, for instance, pursue legislation like his bipartisan proposal to safely import drugs from other countries in order to lower prices for patients.

Meanwhile, he would have a larger, more visible platform to champion Medicare for All, for which he has advocated relentlessly for years; earlier this year, he introduced legislation to establish Medicare for All in the U.S., which is the only wealthy country in the world without a universal health care system. Though the idea is far from having enough votes to pass, his advocacy could help sway senators to his side.

“I think there’s a caricature out there of Bernie Sanders that doesn’t take note of the fact that the guy is a politician who has been doing this for a really long time,” Social Security Works executive director Alex Lawson told The Washington Post. “He knows how to work with his colleagues.”

In lieu of Medicare for All, for instance, Sanders has spent the last couple of years relentlessly advocating for the lowering of prescription drug prices, introducing bills to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices and commissioning reports to highlight the issue.

He has also pushed for the expansion of Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing — a measure that has support among a wide set of Democrats in the Senate, but that has been rejected by pharma-funded conservative Democrats Senators Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona) and Joe Manchin (West Virginia).

Sanders’s chairmanship could be a headache for the pharmaceutical industry, which is notorious for being the most powerful lobby in Washington. As one pharmaceutical lobbyist told The Washington Post, “He’ll go after [the drug companies] at every turn, and they only have a couple friends left in the caucus any more so it’s going to be tough.”

The HELP Committee also has wide jurisdiction over federal labor regulations on issues like wages and working conditions, meaning that Sanders’s chairmanship could advance his agenda to expand workers’ rights in a pivotal time for the labor movement. Sanders has tried to get the federal minimum wage raised to $15 an hour — an issue that falls under the purview of the HELP Committee — but was shot down by Sinema and Manchin in 2021.

Other issues like the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would massively increase workers’ union and collective bargaining rights, also fall under the HELP Committee’s jurisdiction, and could see movement under Sanders. The bill passed the House last year but never came to a vote in the Senate, where it only went as far as being referred to the HELP committee. Sanders could direct the committee to take a vote on the bill or hold hearings on the proposal and on workers’ rights at large.

The shooter in the Colorado shooting at the LGBTQ club was Anderson Lee Aldrich. This man was previously responsible for bomb threats and was arrested with explosives and weapons in June of last year. Why was he out and how did he get access to an AR-15?
https://t.co/o3oYo0B3TS pic.twitter.com/gVPK2vjjAt

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) November 20, 2022

According to this story, "no formal charges were pursued" and the case "has since been sealed." That's really suspicious to me. Why would a DA's office do that? Sincere question, in case anyone reading this would know.https://t.co/ZWCBBBgy6e

— cuppatea (@lady_pistons) November 20, 2022

https://twitter.com/lorileistorm/status/1594371811868692480?s=20&t=hlaG04tmL6NOBTBOu6pqUQ

this isn't just "drag queens are groomers" or "somebody needs to stop the pedophiles wink wink" it's like "here is a date and time and place" and then waiting for the network to act- if this model was adopted by salafi-jihadists it would be considered a groundbreaking innovation.

— A-100 gecs (@PinstripeBungle) November 20, 2022