Deborah Rose ❌
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Nursing & Law, RN, JD. I've worked in healthcare for many years. I believe that healthcare is a basic human right and I have fought for access to quality healthcare for ALL. UW-Madison alumna.
Army Brat. Avid reader & teller of stories. Burner of sage. Artist. Mom of two daughters. Currently living in Southern California. Let’s do fika.
Joined Mastodon April 2022
Manish VijWyoming and 2 Dakotas: 2.3M people, 6 senators
California: 40M, 2 senators
States are fake, dissolve the Senate
Deborah Rose ❌👑@vij@sfba.social It's a recurring idea in political discourse and would require a difficult constitutional amendment.
A House Member Introduced Resolution to Abolish the Senate in 1911.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/House_Member_Introduces_Resolution_To_Abolish_the_Senate.htm
Deborah Rose ❌👑"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
Deborah Rose ❌👑Mood
Deborah Rose ❌👑Voting is not a love letter to a candidate. It is a chess move for the world you want to live in.
Deborah Rose ❌👑Supreme Court opinions: Clarence Thomas legalizing bump stocks is indefensible.
There was nothing abstract about the 6-to-3 decision issued Friday morning by the Supreme Court to permit bump stocks to be used on semiautomatic rifles. It is one of the most astonishingly dangerous decisions ever issued by the court, and it will almost surely result in a loss of American lives in another mass shooting. #GunControl #BumpStocks
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/supreme-court-opinions-clarence-thomas-bump-stocks-gun-fetishist.html
Deborah Rose ❌👑The #CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. And since when is shooting up multiple occupied federal buildings not framed as a terrorist attack?
Deborah Rose ❌👑I knew they would come after birth control.
Trump administration is walking back access to birth control for some people — including withholding funding from a Nixon-era program that guarantees access to contraception for low income people. #WarOnWomen
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5494710/trump-birth-control-contraception
Deborah Rose ❌👑We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. #TrumpCorruptionTour
Deborah Rose ❌👑"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
Deborah Rose ❌👑Mood
Deborah Rose ❌👑Voting is not a love letter to a candidate. It is a chess move for the world you want to live in.
Deborah Rose ❌👑Supreme Court opinions: Clarence Thomas legalizing bump stocks is indefensible.
There was nothing abstract about the 6-to-3 decision issued Friday morning by the Supreme Court to permit bump stocks to be used on semiautomatic rifles. It is one of the most astonishingly dangerous decisions ever issued by the court, and it will almost surely result in a loss of American lives in another mass shooting. #GunControl #BumpStocks
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/supreme-court-opinions-clarence-thomas-bump-stocks-gun-fetishist.html