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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

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I picked up an old Navaho woman who needed a ride. She saw a brown bag on the seat and asked what was in it. I answered, “a bottle of wine for my husband.” She replied, “Nice trade.”

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

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A thread of curious animals interrupting wildlife photographers 😍 1.Thread 🧵

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose. Other signs of his alcoholism included dizziness and chronic reckless behavior.

I wrote about the disaster that is billionaire-run mainstream journalism for @niemanlab.org.

Tip for the holidays. If you're culpable for anything that goes wrong, immediately castigate everyone else for your mistake, claim you are the only one who can fix it and then sub out the repair job to the most incompetent member of the family. Then demand everyone call you sir

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🚨 WAKE UP 4 Stages Happening Now: DEMORALIZATION: Divided communities, distrust, truth becomes relative DESTABILIZATION: Economic chaos, institutions crumbling CRISIS: Manufactured emergencies, rights eroded NORMALIZATION: Accepting extreme as normal Don't let them win. Stay alert. Build community.

So do we have this right: Trump accidentally exposed a bunch of Republicans as alleged sexual assaulters and child sex traffickers, and then when they faced opposition in the Senate, Marjorie Taylor Greene implied their whole party was filled with pedophiles connected to Jeffrey Epstein. 4D chess!

“When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” – Thomas Paine