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he/him. likes taking long walks and not getting hit by cars. occasionally funny.
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Klicker's bill does need to make it out of House Appropriations by this upcoming Friday.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/09/s...
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The *big* question in coming hours: Do the BSW & FDP reach the 5% threshold nationally? If they do, they get dozens of seats. If they don't, 0 seats.
At stake is what the governing coalition will be: whether a CDU-SPD 'grand coalition' has enough seats alone, or ends up needing a 3rd partner.
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Takeaways:
1. Likely outcome: Conservatives (CDU) take back the chancellorship. They'll need a partner for a majority; likely a 'grand coalition' with the SPD.
2. AfD at highest level. But also underperforming polls + down from when Vance + Musk intervened.
3. Die Linke surged in final weeks.
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And then just after 2:00 am, Seattle Fire responded to a driver hitting someone walking at Aurora Ave N and N 46th Street, in Aurora's northbound lanes. The person who was hit was also transported to the hospital, with significant injuries.
This was a hit-and-run.
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Approximately an hour later, Seattle Fire responded to another driver hitting someone walking at 5th Ave and James Street. The person who was hit was transported to the hospital.
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Caught up in the purge was Dustin Brace, a social scientist at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, who spent his days scrutinizing new e-cigarette products, making sure they did not appeal to kids.
“More mistakes may be made because the workload is so much higher," he said.
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Amy Paris was hired to help modernize the nation's donor organ network, which ensures critically-ill people get the organs they need.
She was also let go.
"We had alignment from Democrats and Republicans on the Hill, we had funding, and they were hiring more of us.”
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Arielle Kane was hired to work on a program at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid that was trying to reduce maternal deaths.
Last weekend, she was let go.
“This model that has a lot of potential is just being gutted. What does that mean for all of the potential impacts we could have had?"
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Evergreen sentiment, really
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The next SCORE board meeting, which is open to the public and I believe has an audience comment period, is 9:30 am Feb. 26: Public Call-In Line: 206-257-6317 Meeting ID: 4001#
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Start assembling a general strike with the public, be very public about potentially shutting down what’s left of the federal government by refusing to pass the debt ceiling, publicly call their Republican colleagues craven shitweasels, the list goes on and on and on and on and on and
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Hold press conferences with federal employees who have been fired speaking, go on national shows and give their time to federal employees who have been fired so they can speak, lead daily protests outside the White House and associated buildings, stop pretending you can collaborate with fascists
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Documenting actual disparities isn’t “woke” or “DEI.”
The longstanding disparities are, in fact, what led to efforts that are now casually dismissed as “woke” and “DEI.”
Not documenting disparities won’t make them disappear.
But it does mean it’s time to double down on efforts to fight them.
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This is what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps!
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Very "Emmett Brown killed over a matter of $80" vibes
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If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally.