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Unapologetic liberal, dog dad, housing preservationist, practicing Christian, active community member, fan of the Milwaukee Bucks and St. Louis Cardinals, looking for friends at the end of the world.
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Jazzy is my DQ quality control assistant.

Highly recommend Falastin, a Palestinian deli in Duluth!

Bobby Portis official suspension for taking Tramadol (allegedly by mistake): 25 games Miles Bridges official suspension for domestic abuse, including “strangulation, brain concussion, closed fracture of nasal bone, contusion of rib, multiple bruises, and a neck muscle strain”: 10 games

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

Here's one example of how these unconstitutional federal cuts and freezes are already having an impact. As a high point hiker, I'm trying to make it to the peak of as many state high points as possible.

"If we tax billionaires too much, they will just leave." "You mean it's THAT easy?"

there's a kind of protest these days. you do a thing and then after everyone starts staring you explain what it meant. the civil rights movement understood that you don't throw soup at paintings: you arrange confrontations where the act itself is the message. www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Spider-Dog, Spider-Dog, doing whatever a Spider-Dog can...

I think they missed me.