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I've had a bad gut feeling about #ActBlue for a decade.

Creating a donation monopoly with a 'pay ourselves first' (and well connected folks, *we choose* who) model was a top-down idea only folks *already with power* could like.

I'm ambivalent to Don the Con's threats, as we should have never put all our eggs in one basket.

Let's actually democratize it.

https://www.aclu-or.org/en/news/leading-advocates-oregon-announce-historic-ballot-measure-campaign-affirm-equal-rights-and
@PPAdvocatesOR @BasicRights OR, and @ACLU _OR launch #EqualRightsForAll #ballotmeasure campaign for a constitutional amendment to affirm and protect equal rights in Oregon by making sure that the current equality language in our Constitution explicitly covers #gender, #genderidentity, sexual orientation, and the right to make our own decisions about our #reproductivehealth and gender-related health care, including #abortion and gender-affirming care, and marriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law=

Still questioning #electionIntegrity around #election2020 or even #election2022? #Antiscience Hooey.

To all at #FoxNews and all the other Trumpian #socialmedia acolytes still using doubt and fear for political or financial advantage, while pushing us toward civil war: show us the #dataforensics #electionforensics' #datascience or stfu.

Here a blurb on #electiondata from wikipedia on #BenfordsLaw to tell you where you need to look.

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-alphafault-high-schoolers-fabled-ai.html

#highschool #bioinformatics boot camp for #Skoltech turned into contest between humans and #AI; having earlier resolved a key 50-year-old problem of structural bioinformatics, the breakthrough program #AlphaFold proved inapplicable to another…

https://www.oregon.gov/deq/rulemaking/Pages/Recycling2023.aspx

"#DEQ is undertaking rulemaking to clarify and implement the #PlasticPollution and #Recycling Modernization Act of 2021. The Act requires producers of #packaging, paper products and food service ware to support and expand recycling services in #Oregon for their products"

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-chemicals-disrupt-key-biological.html
#polyfluoroalkyl substances, or #PFAS, man-made chemicals sometimes called "forever chemicals," alter several critical biological processes, including the metabolism of fats and amino acids, in both children and young adults. The disruption of these biological processes is connected to an increased risk of a very broad range of diseases, including developmental disorders, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease and many types of cancer.