cpfromma.bsky.social
Mom, foster parent, Grandma, pantomath, unapologetic liberal, supporter of human rights, data geek.
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They did. It was mostly small engines and military but it's been an issue. Trump will make it worse but please don't spread false information.
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We lived in the city until I was 8 but moved because my Mom was worried about stabbings at the HS. Moved to a working class town next and at 10, we were allowed to ride our bikes to the center, which was 7 miles away. We had chores but mostly free rein all the time. I started babysitting at 11.
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My experience: Born Dec. 1977. My brother was Nov 1975. We walked a mile to school, give or take, without adults in 1st grade but before 1st grade we were told to stay on the block and be home before the lights went on. Week nights we at TV dinner almost exclusively but weekends we had home cooked.
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The idea that the people who wrote and signed the 14th Amendment didn't believe it should apply to the children of new migrants is so absurd. The potato famine, ended in 1852. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Did they all immediately forget about the mass migration after 14 years?
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People who don't understand the economy, civics and lack a basic history education.
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The first real failure lands on Mitch McConnell and his efforts to ensure Trump wasn't impeached for J6. He thought Trump was done. He clearly didn't study up on Hitler.
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Yes, it's still a privately held company too. Abby owns 49% of the company, employees own 51%. The Johnson family still owns a controlling interest in the company.
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Abby started taking over more and more in the mid-2000s if I remember correctly. I have 2 brothers working there still. Ned's father started the business. Ned built it to the point that you could hardly walk down a Boston street without tripping over one of their buildings.
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My Mom worked there for 20 years with a high school diploma and strong work ethic. She rose to director level there. You can't find a company like that anymore.
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True. One of the people I will always respect the most was Ned Johnson, former head of Fidelity Investments. When the market struggled, bonuses would be cut from the top, the pay cuts started at the top and when there was no other choice, layoffs began with upper management.
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So insane. A local farm has been selling raw milk since I moved 18 years ago. Obviously, people have been buying it, but I will never understand. I absolutely understand wanting less processed foods, but drinking raw milk is like eating berries without washing them knowing your cat shits in them.
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I stopped watching MSM when so much of it centered on entertainment. That and I'm an empath, and the weight of the world is far too much to bear. I listen to a plethora of podcasts to get my news. From what may be called the far left with It Could Happen Here to center right Politicology.
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Not all people with mental health illnesses are addicts but all addicts have a mental health illness. Not all addicts are douchebags but all of these ones most certainly are.
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Please don't forget food service workers.
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Seriously. When I was in 8th grade, my teacher's 23 month old daughter passed away from complications of the flu. I would never want anyone to see or experience that again. When I had kids, I made sure they got their flu shot every year.
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I haven't shared a bathroom with Sarah McBride but if I did, I probably wouldn't even notice. I'm intelligent enough to know that a man who wants to assault a woman won't bother to worry dressing like a woman to enter the bathroom undetected, he would just go in.
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If the House says they are going on recess, the president can force the Senate to go on recess too.
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He hated it long before the Justice Department even blinked at him. He has never thought that laws should apply to him or that people like him should pay for taxes outside of defense spending.
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Not if the House and Senate agree to shut down for a little while and he can do recess appointments. That's what he's trying for.
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Yup and buy the frozen broccoli. If you get the fresh stuff, it will go bad before you use it. It's called the ADHD tax.
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It sucks but outsourcing sucks even more. They can pay people in other countries far less and half the time, it's the contractors who are training the offshore people to take over their jobs.
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I wish they would talk more about the contract/temp and outsourcing in the white collar world. I've been contracting for the majority of the past 20 years. I would prefer a perm position but they keep getting harder to get. I don't get PTO, the insurance is unaffordable and few benefits.
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We're talking two heads of the same snake. You can blame undocumented people but I will continue to blame the people hiring them. The business owners are the root cause. They are the ones who are taking advantage of people. They are the one's who don't care about their employees.
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You sure are making a whole lot of assumptions about me. Unless it's my furnace or water heater, I don't hire anyone because I won't F with gas but I'm a broke single mom who has learned how to fix and install most things myself. Not because I'm cheap but because my children like to be fed.
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Contract and temp workers undercut permanent employees and outsourced work to India, Bangladesh, Singapore etc... undercuts them all. Businesses will pay as little as they possibly can even if they need to break the law to do so. That's where we are right now.
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Yes. Undocumented labor under cuts legal workers. Do you think that if undocumented workers could work legally, they would work for as little as they do? Of course they wouldn't. Employers would need to pay them fair wages.
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Don't get me wrong, I think both are wrong. I guess I just have more faith that the people who are just selfish might come to see how wrong they are in time.
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I totally get it. There are a whole lot who are just so far down the rabbit hole that if Trump said the sky is the color of a pickle, you would never convince them otherwise. Others just thought "What we have now isn't working and I don't think he'll hurt me".
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🙄 Yeah. Pretty sure that was my point in saying that undocumented laborers are just trying to feed their families LIKE THE REST OF US. Not sure how that would imply anything else. Are you okay?
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I don't think blue collar workers should pay any price. 78% of consumers are living paycheck to paycheck. Those who aren't share some of the responsibility but, on average, business owners rarely pass savings onto consumers unless forced to by competitors who do.
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We've had a few frosts in central MA already but it was 75 here last week!
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I've always found it gross and disturbing that people will scapegoat undocumented labor, who are just trying to feed their families like the rest of us, rather than the businesses who are taking advantage of their undocumented status to pay lower wages.
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Concern that "others" are going to get what they worked hard for without putting in effort.
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We should be thankful that we live in a world that is so full of complexity and diversity. Anything else might be easier to understand and predict but it sure would be boring.
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DSD exists and people living with it don't fall into the binary male or female. Beyond that no one has the same chemistry, personality and physical attributes. I understand that binaries are much easier to understand but we don't live in a binary world.
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Of course it's complicit and it's wrong. That said, most of us can probably agree that the status quo isn't working for us either and we need politicians who are going to offer an optimistic alternative to the status quo that is inclusive.
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Max the kitty lounging with his best friend Felix.
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If we write them all off as evil or racist to the core, why even bother trying to continue building a more perfect union? Why care about politics if half the people we share this nation with aren't worth fighting for?
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I think that is right for some but I think most are like the average citizen in Weirmar Germany who turned their eyes away when they saw the atrocities that the Brown Shirts were perpetuating. They voted against the status quo that they believe isn't working for them.
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It hasn't worked terribly well for many because there is no absolute female or absolute male. Everyone falls along a spectrum. That's why we all will define others in comparison to the average. There are tons of people who fall outside of those averages. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
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I will definitely have trouble having any empathy for anyone who ends up being hurt if they voted for him.
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It's crazy. Our collective memory is so short. I would also like to point out that anyone who decides that they prefer not to vaccinate because they're worried about autism, may as well say that they would prefer a dead child over an autistic one. Sick.
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Yup. It's unfettered corporate greed. We unlearned all of the lessons learned in the depression. FDR said "We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics"
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I'm not sure my eyes could roll any further back into my head after reading that headline. Ffs. 🙄
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If possible, remove all rugs from your home if you have them. My oldest had severe allergies that caused monthly ear and sinus infections. We moved to a house with no carpets, and she didn't have another infection. Dander and dust mites can be an asthma trigger and love to hide in your carpets.
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Some combination of muscle mass, bone mass, height, weight and whatever else makes sense. After listening to the Gonads episodes from Radiolab, I realized how much gender is on a spectrum rather than two defined and distinct categories.
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I'm in MA and also a foster parent. Mine were 14 and 16 when they joined me. I got permanent guardianship rather than adopt because they are older kids. Now they are 17 and 19. The older one stayed back a year, so they are seniors with my 17 y/o bio daughter. I have loved fostering.
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That's not how it works. Just like boys aren't dressing up like females so they can assault girls in the girls' room.