clarissapotter.bsky.social
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Have fun out there honey. Be home by 11 and remember to turn off the porch light.
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What I am saying is that it is a terrible mistake to underestimate people who reach his level of wealth and success. He has myriad failings, and he may be incompetent in his current job (zero argument here), but simply calling him stupid is, well, unwise.
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Repeat after me—this is not a dumb man, he just plays one for his constituents. More remarkable is that he was willing to make Lutnick (who is not dumb either, just craven) look this bad. It is a huge mistake to think these people aren’t engaged in pandering act.
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I know way more about country music than I would otherwise because I could get away with watching TV on Saturday night, but HeeHaw was the only thing on.
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Folks aren’t prepared for the fact that the surgery itself is extremely hard on the body. The heart/lung bypass machine alone causes bad short-term side effects that have to be aggressively treated with drugs(like edema, diabetes, inflammation). Knowing this helps.
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This whine is incredible. As a government worker I seldom worked that little. In my first stint I often had “all-nighters,” and so did my boss, and my boss’s boss, etc., all the way up to the Secretary (I know because he would call our offices at 3 am).
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I think he may have strabismus. But he does look perpetually surprised.
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Agree, but once had an employee who was shitty. When it was explained to him and he was given some “training” he totally turned it around and was happy about making the change. I see it as the exception that proves the rule, but I was proud of him.
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I wanna put in a word for “Bend Down The Branches.”
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No, it just means you won’t get refunds, or any of the other things The IRS does, like pay the EITC or confirm no back-taxes due for getting a mortgage.
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There is not much folks who depend on refundable credits, like the EITC, can do except try to anticipate as much as possible.
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While this might be a benefit to the rich, it could be devastating to all others. Stop over-withholding on wages so that at yearend you owe them—because a “failed filing season” is in the offing, and that means no refunds because they wont be able to process returns
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This is exactly what I have written about my two sons if I had more followers. I know I conveyed values of generosity, kindness, loyalty and integrity to them. I see it in them every day. I too told them about their grandfather, who always stood up against bullies and was an honorable, good man.
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Well, we do have a treatment for measles—it’s called a post exposure MEASLES VACCINE!
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He completely gives it away when he says, essentially, “it’s right-wing conservative because I like it.” There has always been those some who can’t see that many favorite works are deep critiques of a conservative culture (or were at the time they were created, but see “nostalgia”).
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Interestingly, she apparently later said she was no longer fully satisfied with how she handled gender issues in the book because she was coming from a place of internalized patriarchy. But I love the book too and think it stand up well, even if it creaks a little in a couple of places.
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Those are just awful. So sorry!
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Seriously, we want to promote and reward those who take morally courageous actions. Is it wrong for someone to recognize that they might be rewarded for them? Only if it is somehow fake or hypocritical.
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I too remember that day distinctly from the immediate changes in security at the agency where I worked. It was brought home to me when I learned that BOTH the parents of an acquaintance had been murdered in the bombing.
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A colleague transitioned openly in the early 2000s, and I fear I was not supportive enough. Then I met a child, born as a girl, who insisted from the start that he was a boy, and it was so clear he was. I saw that his life would have been a misery without great parents and a supportive community
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I don’t want to stand up for stupidity, but a reporter-anchor can be playing the “role” of the audience in asking questions. And you have to admit the questions were quite helpful in giving Warren a chance to give her conlaw 101 explanation, which most viewers probably needed
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EVEN if you believe the rightwing propaganda about trans women invading women’s sports, any rule to keep the minuscule number of trans athletes out ends up requiring all girls and women to prove their gender, targeting any who don’t follow strict gender norms (like bathroom bills)
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A right-ish acquaintance pulled out the “social security is going to run out of money,so we have to . . . “ card in a conversation. I said “easy solutions—lots of immigration and lift earnings ceilings.” His look said “Not like that!”
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Trump true believers that I’ve seen just say there is “something” the Admin knows about Abrego G. that we don’t—some super secret bad thing. I fear they may be right, like he is no longer alive.
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Well, it would be a lot scarier if it were a little more competent.
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They might as well have just posted it to Twitter, addressed to “to whom it may concern.”
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Point is it’s an email blast. The messages do not even have anyone’s name on them. It’s just pure incompetence and roughly the same as posting a “to whom it may concern” notice revoking parole on Zitter.
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And…make something with your hands or practice an instrument. Make bread, knit, do pottery, whittle a stick, maybe assemble a model or sculpture. Works GREAT for situational anxiety.
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I’m going to try it. “My failure to read the tax law resulted in tax structuring that caused you to lose $1billion in taxes and costs and pay a $300million penalty? My bad”. I can’t believe I ever worried for one second about being right.
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At the First Citywide Bank of Change “All the time, our customers ask us, ‘How do you make money doing this?’ The answer is simple: Volume. That’s what we do.”
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Agree. 4 generations of Miami of Ohio grads here. Can’t go back to Ohio now.
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Notice the low level of the signatory of the statement. This means that nobody at a higher level is willing to sign, and that means they are afraid.
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Great idea! Thank you.
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By the way, it’s Dane Butswinkas, not Butwinkas
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I worry about this tremendously with my mom. Bit by bit, her ability to use technology is falling away, and more and more her deficits, whether they be errant key strokes from arthritic hand to bad short-term memory, cause confusion and mistakes. And it’s very hard to cover from a distance.
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That’s gonna hurt.
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All during Covid, which I was desperate to avoid, I kept repeating “at least it isn’t measles”
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One of the things 18F worked on was IRS direct file, a program that has allowed people to file their taxes on-line directly with the government for free. This is something that tax experts have begged for for years, but was stymied by the commercial tax software preparers.
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I would guess that people being harassed when using the bathroom is a much bigger problem where there are “gender-at-birth” rules than in other places. Recent events at Capitol case in point. I.e., NOT a Trans problem, a RW policing-other’s-presentation problem.
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65-y-o white lady longtime Kendrick Lamar fan. I loved it!
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People in Chicago are talking about Lake Illinois, obviously!
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I thought water club in my government office was deranged and then I heard my colleague talk about their government office in Arizona where there was “toilet paper club”
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Same here. I’m 64 white woman attorney. Saw Kendrick Lamar live in 2016 and was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Love his music and videos. First time I heard “Not Like Us” I was like—oh yea, a winner!
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I assume all this chest thumping is daring and bullying the judiciary. He leaves out the part that it is The Judiciary that decides where the borders of this limitation are—not the e
Executive branch. I mean, the admin can disagree, but if it fails to comply it has caused a constitutional crisis.
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One irony is that the overhead limit may be motivated by the “indoctrination” lie, but it will end up really hurting the institutions and states over which the republicans already have the most control.
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Actually at treasury the guards have guns.
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We also have very long waiting periods for in-network care, although I suppose that can also be considered rationing by ability to pay, since you can always go out of network if you can afford it.
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Same same. A couple I am not sure about, so I did not give myself the benefit of the doubt.
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I signed—thanks for posting so I could know it was there
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When the new President promises to weaponize federal law enforcement against his enemies, including Biden’s family, you better believe presidential pardons are in order. I expect to see a very long list of broad pardons, and will be ver disappointed if Biden does not do this.