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Biblioholic, fiber enthusiast, and gardening novice. Hoarder of books, yarns, and (apparently) Bluesky accounts. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Working on Act III. She/her
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If the little Likes Gremlin in you thinks maybe if you’re the only one who screenshots and reposts his garbage then you’ll get a following of people snarling at him thru your platform I beg of you: drown that gremlin in a butt of malmsey wine
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Yeah, soft power can do a lot of good, feeding people and saving lives.
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There are people who are loath to acknowledge the death toll from USAID and PEPFAR cuts, because it would mean acknowledging that the US government can be a source of good in the world.
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yeah, my career focused on "using drone data to help people survive disasters" has also been vaporized as a result of USAID and academic and government cuts and i'm kinda bummed about it
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my friend whose career vaporized fastest was mostly USAID-funded to go all over the world in the aftermath of war & natural disaster and make sure people had clean water, which honestly seems like an unalloyed good
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We’re seeing the rise of secret police — masked, no identifying info, even wearing army fatigues — grabbing & disappearing people.
It’s antithetical to democracy & deeply harms communities.
The No Secret Police Act will help put a stop to the fear & chaos this behavior creates in communities.
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"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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7/ “Information obtained through investigation has revealed that” the Salvadorans were “heavily engaged with MS-13 and are laundering funds from illicit business where MS-13 are involved,” said the documents that we reviewed.
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