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Occupational Therapist, Democrat, blacksmith. Juice glass enthusiast, Georgian in Ohio, podcast junkie. Mom. Protect gay and trans kids, or kick rocks. There’s a fair chance you once knew me as guppy.
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yeah, I don’t think we give Vanto pass on this. Unless it’s because it’s not realistic to expect him to be smart enough to know better.
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Why are we giving Vance a pass? Unless because maybe it’s not realistic to think he was smart enough to know better.
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I just mean the deal predates tariffs. But also, that union busting in the South is serious business. (Note: I’m a GA native living in union-heavy northeast OH)
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Cool, cool . . . except NOT in response to tariffs, and GA/AL selected in order to hire non-unionized workers. 👎
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Not to mention thousands upon thousands of jobs will be lost - from nurses and OT/PT/SLP to home care aides and xray techs and nonemergency med transport, draining enormous amounts of money from local economies, bankrupting restaurants, stores, daycares…trickling all the way down.
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Welp. Guess I wasted that 80 bucks on TSA Precheck bc obviously I’m never flying again.
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To me the tell is that Schumer responded to the ongoing crisis in the exact same Senatese he would have used in 2017 or 2012 or whatever. www.offmessage.net/p/out-with-t...
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Imagining an alternative: obviously it wouldn’t make much sense for Dems to go out and brag about how they’re gonna shut down the government. But there’s a ton of rhetorical ground between that and “we look forward to bipartisanship.” www.offmessage.net/p/out-with-t...
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2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
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(3/3) and time to decide whether and when to sign whatever documents are involved. But the plan to get the baby today is still being referred to as the “surrender,” and that feels uncomfortable to say. Is there such a thing as a *relatively* OK adoption, and does it sound like this could be it?
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(2/3) and this agency emphasizes ongoing support for birth parents long after the adoption itself. Birth mom was working with another agency and switched to this one for that reason. I am happy for my friends who have wanted to expand their family, and they have really emphasized birth mom’s space
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I don’t know much about adoption, but the issuing of a new birth certificate has always struck me as absolutely bizarre. I’m thinking about adoption because a friend is expected to have new baby girl handed over to him by birth mom today. She seems to have received a lot of support and (1/3ish)