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Former COTH alum. Booted for speaking truth to hate.badge of honor. No I did not learn to play sax. For longest time I thought lyrics said " we called our Pamela" well no. Those were not the lyrics.
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Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

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www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

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The week in review:

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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This is metal www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

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US Rep Gabe Amo speaks to over 2000 people outside the RI State House. “We have seen the complete abdication of responsibility from our Republican colleagues.”

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It seems like I should say something pithy, but really I just want to scream "Ha ha, eat shit you murderers." apnews.com/article/unit...

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Website run by Federal Workers fired by DOGE (pronounced as "Douche). www.wethebuilders.org

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In the 9 pm CST hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, pianist Cedar Walton & tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley from 1972. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

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A big bonus of this bind off is that it is fully reversible and looks great with any stitch pattern Even though the i-cord bind off looks quite fancy, it is not difficult to make www.10rowsaday.com/icord-bindof... #knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #handmade

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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“The chickens have been treating me very unfairly.”

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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Big Ballotov

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The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

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"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

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More & more headlines like this emerging here in Germany. “Without America?” The tie between the USA & Europe is loosening & it could scarcely be nicer for Putin. What does it mean for Germany & its neighbours?”

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The Art Institute of Chicago has mosaics that are much older than Chicago itself.

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When visiting the sacred Deer of Nara Park, if you bow to the Deer you will be surprised to see that the Deer bow back! If a Deer bows to you, be sure to only feed them Shika-senbei or Deer crackers which can be purchased in the Park. 🎦 Credit: Visit Japan 🇯🇵.

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@jamestaylor-com.bsky.social’s self-titled debut album was released in the USA in February, 1969. He was one of the guiding voices of my generation. He generally stays silent on politics, but, he could hold it in no longer. Thank you, once again, Sweet Baby James. #StandWithUkraine

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Anyone creating a new GREEN BOOK under trump? Where can one buy?

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David Brooks,conservative on PBS news hour now. Really speaking out. Attributed by him to F Scott Fitzgerald." Rich people are careless. The break things."

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If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

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📉📉📉

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Good news everyone!

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“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

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The fugly Tesla Cybertruck is now illegal to drive on public roads in Great Britain not meeting required safety standards... Good show, Brits!

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Shoutout to the Norwich city workers who got all those swastikas covered up this morning. That's an important service to the community.

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Now that Amazon has the rights to James Bond the next villain will be a Amazon warehouse worker who tries to organize a union.

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Day by day it looks more and more likely that we might be able to reverse tea-party these fuckers. people are getting angry.

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Seminal American photographer Lee Friedlander John Coltrane recording Giant Steps, 1959 #JohnColtrane #Photography

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."  —FDR, 1936

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Late winter is the best time to ramp up our knitting skills. To help you with that, I created eight big e-books, each hosting a mix of dozens of detailed knitting tutorials These PDFs are fully interactive, with convenient internal navigation. www.10rowsaday.com/tutorials #knitting #knit #crochet

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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"Male intellectuals were deeply disturbed by the familiar social, cultural, class, and gender boundaries becoming blurred, transgressed, and nullified. Their familiar indexical order—and social order—seemed no longer to work." --Miyako Inoue (2004:49), on Japan in the 1880s-1910s #anthropology

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Yup. I was one of the review bombers. Resistance IS NOT futile www.forbes.com/sites/dimita...

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