Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

I just checked my dogs' water outside. One of the bowls of drinking water and the wading pool were both about 90°F, the metal bowl of drinking water was about 110°F. Go outside when your dogs do, check the ground, check the drinking #water, make sure they are okay. Then come back in and play inside. #cawx

Doc: This could improve his quality of life.

Husband: How? He'll still need glasses. And now he'll *have* to wear them even though his Rx is so minimal.

Doc: But it could reduce his Rx progression later on.

Husband: How does your Rx affect your quality of life? It's glasses or no glasses. Do most people even notice a point or two difference in Rx?

Doc: ...

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Seriously this sounded interesting until I learned the drastic difference in price beyond insurance coverage.

I must have this fire pit.
It's an obsession.
(Gollum! Gollum!)
#LOTR
#LordOfTheRings
#TheHobbit

Headline: #Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs | WIRED

Subtitle: Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.

https://www.wired.com/story/proton-docs-end-to-end-encryption-google-docs/

#Privacy

The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/supreme-court-trump-coup-attempt

The simplest one-sentence explanation to what’s been happening politically in this country since Reagan.

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I'll Be There
#Jackson5
https://youtu.be/PPTSvPVf6Pg

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#CatsOfMastodon

My main point at this juncture: when Reagan and the Heritage Foundation embraced one another both of them were committed to, and knew the other was committed to, the full package of modern American conservatism, a package dating back to the 1950s. Continuity of commitment on both sides. 17/

Weyrich on Schlafly: She “dressed up the conservative movement for success at a time when absolutely no one thought we could win.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/obituaries/phyllis-schlafly-conservative-leader-and-foe-of-era-dies-at-92.html. 16/

Here’s Phyllis Schlafly on Weyrich: “Paul Weyrich made the conservative pro-family movement into a fighting brigade instead of just a collection of naysayers. We are grateful to him for his extraordinary vision and leadership, and he never disappointed us. Paul was a man of integrity, courage, perseverance and political smarts. We are proud to have stood by his side for so many years.” https://eagleforum.org/pr/2008/12-18-08.html 15/

Here’s a good article on how Weyrich used white supremacist reactions to school desegregation to bring white Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals to political activism. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133 14/

Meanwhile, in 1973 Paul Weyrich co-founded the Heritage Foundation. The other founders were Joseph Coors and Edwin Feulner. From inception, the mission was to unite the push for a pro-business unregulated market and promotion of white Christian patriarchal social policies. 13/

The Chamber of Commerce responded wholeheartedly, with internal reorganization, increased contributions to BIPAC, and the funding of “affiliated organizations” dedicated to using the courts and state governments to eliminate regulation of businesses. 12/

In 1971, the Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee recruited Lewis Powell to write a memorandum intended to rally the business community to political action. The Powell Memo argued that an overall attack on capitalisms was responsible for regulatory laws, public spending, labor laws, and higher taxes. The solution, according to Powell, was concerted political action spearheaded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 11/

Starting in the 1970s the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce decided to “modernize” — that is to organize as lobbying outfits dedicated to rolling back OSHA, environmental protection, and product liability law. In 1973, NAM moved headquarters from NYC to DC and created a "Government Affairs Division.” 10/

Meanwhile, business interests were coalescing around political action to rollback environmental and workplace safety regulations. The American Medical Association, fighting legislation that ultimately formed Medicare and Medicaid, created PAC in 1961 to raise money for candidates who opposed programs like these. Copying that example, board members from the National Association of Manufacturers started the first corporate PAC, the Business-Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) in 1963. 8/

By the early 1960s and 1970s, modern American conservatism fueled resistance to racially integrated schools, led by Jerry Falwell, and to resistance to the Equal Rights Amendment and insistence on patriarchal heterosexual marriage, led by Phyllis Schlafley. 7/

In 1960, Buckley’s brother-in-law ghost-wrote a book published under Barry Goldwater’s name, titled The Conscience of a Conservative. This was the first popular statement of the tenets of modern American conservativism and how they should be operationalized. 6/