Notices by James Bazán (jamesbazan@mastodon.coffee)

@kims I had one of those "Social Choice" accounts. I called TIAA to find out if they were invested in those for profit prisons. The guy on the phone didn't know, but "the investment team is meeting on Thursday, " he said. "I'll foward them your question."
He called me back on Friday and said, "They aren't, and they thank you for asking."
Investent is a moral transaction. It's always worth pushing back.

Griffin refuses to be the last Republican to accept the outcome of an election.

200 former NC justices, judges, and current attorneys call on losing NC Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin to end his baseless lawsuit to overturn the 2024 election - Common Cause North Carolina

https://www.commoncause.org/north-carolina/press/letter-to-griffin/

"Thom Tillis gives a good speech." He tells the truth. Then, he enacts the lie.
"Tillis was supposed to be different, a possible pox on Trump’s most outrageous nominees for key administration positions. But he has voted for them all — the good, the bad, the unfathomable, Robert F. Kennedy Jr."

‘He Has to Shrink Away From Greatness’: The Poignant Surrender of a Republican Under Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/thom-tillis-trump-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U4.KypN._s7bKsv6d3hO&smid=nytcore-android-share

President Zelenskyy has dealt with bullies far more murderous than Trump & Vance. They made it clear to the world that the United States is led by cowards.

@ProPublica my step daughter is a first grade teacher. Her daughter has cystic fibrosis. Under our new Republican state treasurer, the new insurance company covering state employees has increased the copay for her life-saving medication to $5,800 a month. That medication doubled her life expectancy.
We got the notification last night. We are still assessing mobilization needs.

@ChrisWere @SharonCrockett She is Constitutionally bound to certify this election. We don't discard the Constitution in advance.

No room in any inn, if the properity gospels of mammon replace the Good News for the poor.
https://www.propublica.org/article/scott-turner-hud-nominee-trump-public-housing-texas

"You go back to your coffee. Making the bed will keep." It's #Caturday

@pluralistic I didn't have time to read that this afternoon, but oonce i started, everything else could wait. It's a timely story, compellingly told.

@HistoPol @VeroniqueB99 we came together that time. Sure, it was exploited and misdirected, but we united.
This time we are riven.

460,567 people voted early in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. That's 81% of the total vote in 2020. That's what happens when you knock on a quarter million doors.
#NoBrakes
#NCPol

Today in black-robed death panels: the US Supreme Court rejected the idea that pregnant women and girls are covered by a federal law guaranteeing emergency medical care in life-threatening situations.
#GiftLink

[The Washington Post]

https://wapo.st/3Bu0R7u

The GOP is about to find out the American people don't hate teachers as much as educorporate privateers do.

@mattsheffield those, "I'm Voting for the Felon" shirts were never the flex they thought they were. Now, with Vice President Harris zeroing in on that, they are amplifying her message, not his.

@Pineywoozle @galad @TonyStark @saunders @flyhigh But heaven forbid any policy-oriented Democrat running in a primary in a seat they primaried themselves into: "Shill!" "Rigged!" "Workable policies are betrayal!"

@WarnerCrocker Advocating for the slaughter of children was okay, it seems, but Wayne LaPierre's grift was just too much.

@StillIRise1963 No monstrosity happens without the collaboration and complicity of those who would count themselves as "not monsters."

@clacke in the '50s & '60s it was colloquially called a "Duck's Ass." I'm actually not quite old enough to remember that first hand, but my sister was 15 years older than I. She told that story every time she saw a picture of Trump.

@VisualStuart My sister Sylvia always said that in the 1950s our dad warned her, "Any man vain enough to style his hair in a ducktail is too self-absorbed to treat you well."