alex-wch.bsky.social
Remorseful former lawyer, current teacher. Remorseful former conservative, current progressive. Book lover is my personality now. Book banners are never the good guys. He/they
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So, in summary: someone made a data entry error, and instead of correcting it, someone just falsified records elsewhere to agree with it. This is a crime btw, called forgery.
We just cannot trust anything from those unaccountable, unelected, ketamine-abusing weirdos and their fake agency says
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Here is a different screenshot showing the total amount of government contracts thr company has ever received is just shy of $50 million with an m.
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But then suddenly, the FPDS shows that same contract as $8 billion with a b, to jive with the DOGE number
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Here according to the Federal Procurement Data System that contract was only $8 MILLION.
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…And sovereign immunity
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Not my practice area either, but I did look up that civil contempt (meant to be coercive, though the distinction from criminal contempt is, of course, murky) has no upper limit on fines. So, say $50 Billion per day? That might be enough for him to at least pay attention?
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Taking a step back it's almost funny the immense amount of privilege I have that my back-up, fall-back, just-in-case job is lawyer 🧐
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Coup* not couple
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Depends on your patience. If you can manage it, engaging in gentle de-programming is the best long term.
If not, protect your peace and shut them out. When they try the “I just think family is more important than politics” bullshit, don’t engage. Shut them out.
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And I called it.
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He did it with Mexico
www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/w...
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I'm an American, very supportive of CA wines, but I totally understand. No notes.
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Finally, I’ll keep reading Shakespeare (non-DEI). I am not going to do something so cringe as to like read Othello for Black History Month. I’ll just take them as they come.
So, I’m trying to read more diversely, and so should you. It develops empathy and helps you combat your biases #ReadDEI
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I wanted to read Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black but the wait for either the ebook or audiobook was months on Libby. Besides this looks like it might be the about the same characters? So maybe I should read it first? Bonus! Another double DEI: black and queer!
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The next is something I’ve been wanting to read for a while now: a novel written by a Native American writer. This one is written by a Native American woman too, so double DEI!
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This one is but it isn’t a DEI selection. Yes, it’s about the mythology of Native Americans—BUT it was written by a white man in 1914. I can expect a lot of outdated and racist language (a la “primitive”) in an honest attempt to understand a culture. Why this one? It was $4 at a used bookstore.
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This month’s contemporary Black lit selection. What would the world be like if all the yt ppl just disappeared? I’m only about 1/4 through and a lot of food for thought, including noticing some of my own unconscious biases. So far, highly recommend for other melanin-deficient readers.
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I don’t know much about Native American history, and I wanted a book about it written by a Native American. This is the one (hopefully it’ll be available soon *enough*)
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Classic work of Black literature that shamefully I haven’t gotten around to. It’s time. (Fun fact: in second grade I went to Frederick Douglass Elementary).
I don’t like confining Black history to the shortest month, but I do make sure to take in some Black history/lit every Feb.
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