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Bad at writing profiles. Freelance customer experience consultant. Cat lady. Writer. Copy editor. Book reader. Traveler. Melter of metals and maker of enchanted jewels. PNW forever.
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If you are prone to suicidal ideation, or live with someone who is, keep in mind that having access to a gun dramatically increases the risk of completing suicide.
Children in the house is also a concern worth thinking about, even with a gun safe. Kids are very clever.
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Smart. I ended up working late so I was saved from stupid decisions by the universe.
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They've already been focusing on small tax issues and EITC returns for a while because those tax payers can't afford to fight back. Pursuing fraud from the wealthy costs too much and takes time.
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Not the whole country. Just a frightenly large number ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜.
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My assumption was how they force unsuspecting parents to vaccinate their kids in order to enroll in public schools.
But who knows, could be doctors um forcing schools to offer uh accomodations for disability or something.
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when Doug Ford is telling you to go fuck yourself you've really blown it
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I used to give them away too. Doesn't mean each egg didn't cost me more than the grocery store in just feed alone. Just meant when they really get going in summer you can't use eggs quickly enough despite daily omelettes, multiple 12 egg recipes a week, and even attempting to perfect mergeinge.
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And they can't choose their own curriculum unless it's even more conservative and patriotic than their upcoming standards.
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For something not currently tied to elimination it sure mentions final mission a lot :/.
RFK will prob be pissed that "medical tyranny" was removed from the final version too.
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I wanna see my reps dressed as the Statue of Liberty but instead of torches they’re carrying signs that say this 👇 as they troll the background of live GOP interviews on the White House lawn
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Completely agree. I've always considered myself rational, I'm the person who seems out primary sources for shocking news and tries to unpack what's really happening. I'm genuinely terrified.
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Hiring Daniel Penny is part of many deliberate signals being sent out. It's a signal being directed at white men who are comfortable with oppressing and harming people who aren't white men. It assures these people that if they will have the greatest advantages in the society that is being built.
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Yeah, because the Republican minority didn't jam up Congress for years at a time.
I was shocked by the fatalism and inertia of it. If you are too. Call your own reps and FIRE THEM UP. Even if they disagree with you. They need to hear it, and they need to be pushed.
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I can't do LASIK cause I have giant pupils. My optometrist said it should be 5 years til I needed reading glasses or bifocals just last year. I wish she wasn't wrong. For now at least making the font on my phone a wee bit larger helped but damn, where did my 20s go?
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Confirmed, it was the idiot wind blowing from Washington that caused this water to be wasted. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
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And disabled folks!
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(I was in senior leadership at GSA during the Biden Administration, so I've got some scars here.)
Anyway, when you hear that GSA should "simply" sell some buildings, please understand a) agencies are renting them b) GSA needs money to consolidate and c) congress won't let GSA spend its money.
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Oh and then there's the dumbest thing of all. GSA's real estate rental generates a lot of revenue. That revenue goes into a bank account. But GSA can't spend that money without congress's permission. And that's budgeted through the standard budgeting process. [hang on, this gets real dumb]
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Another hard thing: If you're going to consolidate an agency's two buildings into one, you have to do a bunch of construction to prep the new, consolidated building. But Congress will not allocate the funding for that work, so agencies have to just keep using more space than they need.
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And I'm going to be more ruthless about rationing my access to news. It is highly unlikely that there will be things I can do about something that happens in Washington the very second it happens; I'll collect the bad news in batches instead.
Will all that work? I don't know.