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MUSICat architect and founder at Rabble LLC
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CFPB's leadership has offered *no other defense* in this case but Martinez's declarations, which they just admitted were false.
They're restarting agency functions and claiming they never stopped, falsely.
Vought's going to lose big.
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It's really a pretty incredible walkback.
The defendants let them absolutely have it.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Then Martinez says the same day employees demonstrated that the (statutory) Consumer Complaint Database wasn't functioning, leadership "activated" it.
So they illegally shut down a statutory function, & they're likely lying about it restarting.
He also admits he lied about the CFPB Ombudsman Office.
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At the same time, Adam Martinez (CFPB's COO) submitted a "supplemental declaration" in the legal case that, no joke, completely contradicted his initial declaration, which was, admittedly now, full of lies.
He admits that he was working to illegally winding down the agency.
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@Dseitz All that and more. Most of the people close to me I've had to watch die, get killed, or get wrecked weren't even assholes. I've mostly watched great caring socially active helpful kind people who were susceptible to the wrong bit of cooky bullshit or pseudoscience, or the helpers who […]
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#Politics #Vermont
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Some people have asked what "masculine discrepancy stress" means (and don't want to click to Substack). It's basically a man's fear of not living up to the standards of "patriarchal masculinity" (more jargon, but it's useful) that requires men & boys to be aggressively masculine and shun femininity
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Personally, I think rage between logical allies is a (bad) way of processing the moral injury created by action or inaction in an electoral system that was for all practical purposes designed to maximize moral injury. So no matter what people did, they are partly angry about having doing it […]
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Broadly successful social and economic violence creates, among other things, thousands of hairs to potentially shave a bit off of, and infinity dollars to buy razors to do it.
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Anyway, one difference between me and say the regretful IVF lady or even the far closer to home genocide is actually unforgivable folks or kamala is a cop set is that it was cheaper to find something that could trick a few percent of people that included her.
And the difference between who […]
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Protest is happening, people are beginning to mobilize.
I believe it will snowball, but for that to happen, people need to know that they are part of a growing movement.
The media should be holding up that mirror. And since they aren't, we need to embarrass them.
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Most establishment media outlets are run by people who hate covering protest. But they hate being last ones to the scene even more.
Our job is to make it clear that they are already running late to the party.
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Just returned from the read-out protest against #NorthDakota #SB2307. This was my little corner of the protest. About 100 people overall circled the Fargo Public Library downtown, braving 20 degree cold and icy sidewalks to quietly make their collective voice heard […]
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7. Rep Zephyr: “this is the 6th bill I have had to speak on in 24 hours… You have 2 indecent exposure laws. One, in our where someone is trying to abuse a person, where someone is trying to get sexual gratification… and you have another indecent exposure law where the crime is being trans.”
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@skinnylatte Indeed. In a sense they're killing the "public option" (again)
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There's this game where you add "in bed" to phrases. And it's reliably funny.
Here's one for things nice liberal people say about how society should work.
First take a phrase and make it a command to do what it says. So "they worked hard and played by the rules" or "paid into social security […]