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Today i learned!
Have you heard about courtesy stops on Metro Bus? 🚍
Between 9 PM and 5 AM, you can request to be dropped off at a safe location between regular bus stops along your route.
Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Give the operator a heads up when boarding
2️⃣ Pull the Stop Requested cord near the desired drop-off spot
3️⃣ Head to the front to let your Bus Operator know exactly where to drop you off
Learn more 🚌: wmata.com/initiatives/safety…
Lauren Milord retweeted
Despicable: the House just passed a farm bill that includes the SOB Act to keep pigs imprisoned in crates.
Our last hope is to keep this out of the Senate farm bill. Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them NO farm bill bill with the Save Our Bacon Act in it.
This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.
The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.
We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.
Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.
The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.
Our hyper-industrialized food system allows us to turn a blind eye to massive suffering - and beyond endangering the animals’ health, it dangers human health. Fighting this cruelty is something even Tomi Lahren had gotten behind. Call your senators to oppose the farm bill.
Lauren Milord retweeted
This is a pivotal moment not only for sparing millions of pigs from torture, but also for testing whether any meaningful regulation of industrial animal agriculture—an industry that devastates animal welfare, public health, and the environment—will be possible in our country in the near future.
Please call your representatives today, and ask them to kill the Farm Bill.
This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.
The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.
We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.
Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.
The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.
Lauren Milord retweeted
Congress about to remove most state animal welfare protections for factory farms.
This is what the GOP prioritizes.
I suggest calling your member of Congress.
These are Afghans who served with US troops at great risk. Who this country plans to ship to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Unconscionable.
DC’s highly qualified workers can’t find jobs: ‘What is happening?’
Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US
From 4/7
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Lauren Milord retweeted
Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.
Lauren Milord retweeted
"We will always choose each other."
Mission control has reacquired signal with the Artemis II crew after the mission’s planned loss of signal. Our astronauts are once again using the Deep Space Network to keep conversation and science data flowing between space and Earth.
Astronauts, they’re just like us fr
The Artemis 2 crew is officially awake onboard Orion ‘Integrity.’ Their song of choice this morning? “Pink Pony Club” by @ChappellRoan.
However, the DJ at Mission Control Center Houston didn’t quite let it get to the crew’s favorite part of the song.
Watch/listen:
Lauren Milord retweeted
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
Lauren Milord retweeted
Whatever your feelings on events in the Middle East
If it was your children lining those graves, the Babylon Bee wouldn't hesitate to joke about it and minimise it, just as they did when three Christians were killed at Holy Family Church last summer and they accused the Catholic community there of being Hamas supporters
The pope, however, would undoubtedly mourn and pray for your family
Lauren Milord retweeted
🚨 Cardinal Blase J. Cupich condemns the video posted by the White House.
The cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, denounced in very clear and forceful terms the decision to post on social media a video splicing scenes from popular action films with actual footage of the strikes on Iran, captioned: “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.”
@CardinalBCupich
#Cupich #Iran #WhiteHouse #War #Church #MiddleEast #Conscience #SilereNonPossum
Lauren Milord retweeted
Under headline “The Face of War”, Vatican newspaper shows picture of coffins of 180 Iranian schoolgirls (probably) killed by United States forces in violation of international humanitarian law.
Improving civil-military relations was such a key focus when I was an International Relations major at Tufts. This does nothing but harm both communities who have much to learn from one another. Shameful.
Left: Canceled DoD fellowships (including Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins)
Right: “Potential” new DoD partner institutions (including Liberty U and Hillsdale). media.defense.gov/2026/Feb/2…
Lauren Milord retweeted
Want to know the craziest part about insurance company Pre Authorization Denials ?
The insurance company defines the network of providers the patient can use
When they deny care, they are effectively saying "we don't trust the judgement of the doctors we require you to use" 🤯🤯🤯