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Widower, father, cat-dad, musician, retired gov’t worker, cancer survivor. Opinions expressed are my own but should be yours too. I pun therefore I am. Cleveland born & raised, lived in Alaska for a while, back in Cleveland 🌊
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I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve broken something and then gamely tried to at least pretend to glue it back together.

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#waffle1134 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 17 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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Connections Puzzle #628 🟨🟦🟨🟨😜 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Strands #362 “Nautical ink” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵

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Wordle 1,350 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Meanwhile, at the scene of a murder: “The wife already confessed, lieutenant. Says she was sick of him playing with his model trains. Says he spent more time with them than with her.” “That’s crazy!” “Yeah, it’s a real loco motive.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Never give any Republicans or any other hate group any benefit of the doubt about anything ever. If they made a valid point about something no they didn’t, even if it was valid it was in pursuit of their genocidal hatred. Fuck them and fuck every point they make and everything they say and do.

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 420 comments

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

submitted 1 day ago • 4412 comments

Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

submitted 1 day ago • 1678 comments

#waffle1133 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 16 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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Connections Puzzle #627 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Strands #361 “Living large” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵

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Wordle 1,349 2/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Let’s face it. Getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to make way for less qualified white men to take positions they don’t deserve.

submitted 2 days ago • 730 comments

BREAKING — NBC celebrates Black History Month by firing its most prominent primetime Black cable news host and its most prominent weekend Black cable news host, and pushing out its Black nightly news anchor.

submitted 3 days ago • 585 comments

#waffle1132 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 15 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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Connections Puzzle #626 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Strands #360 “"Fire represents your life"” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

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Wordle 1,348 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 4 days ago • 2161 comments

Couldn’t bear to see it knocked over 😬

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Paul Krugman “It has always been a mistake to trust anyone promising to run the government like a business. Businesses and government agencies have very different objectives, and even genuinely great business leaders”

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

#waffle1131 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 14 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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Connections Puzzle #625 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟪😬 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪🙄

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Strands #359 “Life is like a box of chocolates” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

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Wordle 1,347 4/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting Paul Krugman likens DOGE to a company ripe to be shorted bc of signs of fraud. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-th...

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 5 days ago • 1050 comments

#waffle1130 4/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 13 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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Connections Puzzle #624 🟩🟩🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪✔️ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Figured out purple this time 🤓

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Strands #358 “Step to it” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

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Wordle 1,346 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Monday morning chasing yellows

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Unfortunately correct

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THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired. “I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

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#waffle1129 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 12 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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