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dickeyx2.bsky.social
Mom, Dem, Californian, former teacher, trying to remain an optimist
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Oh it's hellish you have to treat it like a quest The actual reward is the two to four weeks you spend realizing that actually you barely have to pick up anything at the grocery store, now

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Something that wasn't brought to my attention until after publication is that GlomarResponder also made a lot of posts that appear to praise and defend Adolf Hitler.

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 7 hours ago • 130 comments

MUST WATCH: Imagine being so much of a global joke that the UK has to step in and flame you for America. Trump is humiliating us, and Jonathan Pie is handing him the public execution he deserves.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

'Nightmare for all of us': Anxiety mounts as DOGE troops circle Social Security www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules that government watchdog fired by Trump may remain on the job www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Says the guy who won't even respond to the mothers of his own children

submitted 6 hours ago • 2140 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 6 hours ago • 114 comments

The 'find out' phase is here.

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submitted 11 hours ago • 130 comments

Elon’s evil munchkins sent this ridiculous email out to all 2 million or so Federal employees demanding they reply by midnight Monday. If you want to let them know what you did last week I’m bet they’d love to hear from you at [email protected]! I can’t wait to tell them about my norovirus symptoms!

submitted 3 hours ago • 350 comments

We’re facing acute labor shortages in construction, but to bring down the cost of housing we need to build more housing. Our bipartisan bill will invest in pathways in the trades, so we can pick up the pace of residential construction and support fulfilling, family-wage careers.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 4 hours ago • 100 comments

Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."

submitted 5 hours ago • 1156 comments

This. Is. Insane.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1368 comments

DOGE staffer Gavin Kliger has amplified Nick Fuentes & called for a pardon of Derek Chauvin. As of 2/7/25, Kliger was still employed by Databricks—backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen’s VC firm, which has hired Daniel Penny (recently acquitted of manslaughter re: a Black man’s death) 2/7/25 1/

submitted 4 hours ago • 63 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 231 comments

📰 Viral TIME Cover Resurfaces: The Kremlin Engulfing the White House A "new" TIME magazine cover depicting the Kremlin consuming the White House is circulating online.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1292 comments

Cooper River Indivisible organized this amazing protest today in Cherry Hill, NJ at Cherry Hill Tesla The protest had over 300 people! No one likes Elon Musk or his co-president. Way to show up South Jersey! #BoycottTesla #teslatakedown www.facebook.com/share/v/18NL...

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 8 hours ago • 362 comments

General CQ Brown is a patriot and hero. Firing him makes America less safe, but it will help bring about a Golden Age. For Putin.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1155 comments

Minnesota is leading the way on combatting climate change, and we’re creating clean energy jobs in the process. www.startribune.com/xcel-says-it...

submitted 4 hours ago • 189 comments