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“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” – Sophie Scholl

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House members are back home this week and I've never see anything like the footage coming out of these in-district town halls. From Milton NY Dems, a constituent of Rep. Paul Tonko talks about the need for John Lewis-style leadership and civil disobedience and gets a standing ovation.

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This regime isn't about profit motivated grifting billionaires. If it was, they wouldn't mess with a $700 billion industry. This is lethal ideological authoritarianism. apnews.com/article/vacc...

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I may joke about my 'silly little corporate job', but at least it is a temporary bubble where I focus on tasks unrelated to *waves hands at the outside world* all of that for this moment. Not an escape, just a momentary disassociation. #doomsky

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I watched the documentary, Winter on Fire, three years ago. I sobbed the entire way through. Why? I knew my countrymen would never fight for the truth like that. I was right. #ukraine #usa

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“Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team,” an OPM email address responded to CNN’s FOIA request.

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Another right-left agreement: the government is not going to help us. We are on our own in this disaster of wealth inequality & authoritarian regime change. #authoritarianism #wealthinequality #poverty

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Things patriotic Americans have given up to #defundbillionaires now includes flying anywhere because we don't feel safe.

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Federal employee terminations will cause widespread economic damage even beyond the hardships for specific employees How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district? I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...

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the biggest thing to resist is nihilism

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Azure Standard drops: where the right & left work together for the sake of 50 pound sacks of oatmeal. #preparedness #bulkfood

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Sitrep, 2/15/25. #knitsky #catsky

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NEWS: Elon’s crew just fired many of the scientists at the USDA’s lab dedicated to preventing disease from killing the nation’s wheat crop. Major turnover had led to a lot of newer scientists and now they’re all gone. This is the lab: www.ars.usda.gov/midwest-area...

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The moral irony of the richest people in the world saying there isn't enough wealth to support parks and sick people.

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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Just practicing my apocalypse life skills - #historysky #18thcentury ##openhearthcooking

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Macklemore coming in hot - youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...

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"The combined electricity consumption of the AI and cryptocurrency industries reached 460 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2022, accounting for about 2% of the global total energy consumption." 😮 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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This is the Phoney War period, when papers are signed and before the inevitable suffering, & chaos begins for the average people.

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I have made new women friends over the past two years, which was a rare occurrence when I was in my 30s. Kids and families often made me feel cut off from my peer group during that decade. My new friends have grown children & are free to start hobbies and go places.

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Most people who say they are celebrating a return to meritocracy think that loyalty to the party is the only merit that matters.

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I baked cakey brownies with mini chocolate chips from scratch today. #bakesky

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