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People say I have an "NPR accent" and that when I say f*ck you can hear the "c" and the "k." I write grants, stories, reports, essays, and scripts. I will show you fear in a handful of deadlines. Development Manager with Escape Artists Foundation. He/Him
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One has to ask, if you were trying to identify a Kremlin-compromised asset, what would they be doing differently from Trump?

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Given today’s events, I’m just going to observe that — in most myths & religions — being inhospitable to guests is about the surest way to invite divine wrath. For all my disgust & heartache over it, I pity the fools that cheer this on… They’re offending very deep & ancient forces.

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In terms of international relations, the US will never recover from this administration.

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Ukraine and the rest of Europe: Many of us are very sorry and deeply embarrassed.

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"Well, he hasn't ordered the military to shoot protestors, so stop freaking out." He hasn't YET. Everything he's doing right now to break the Defense Department is so when he gives those orders they will be followed.

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Since November, it has felt like playing a game of chess, realizing you're going to be check mated in four moves and you can't do anything about it.

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Breaking: Trump nominates the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as acting director of OSHA.

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That moment when you realize that your toddler, who you thought was enthusiastically eating what you served them, was in fact just squirreling them away underneath a cushion.

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Stop this story at once! I want to speak with the Narrator!

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It's corruption and it always was. I think Democrats are too timid to accuse Republicans of corruption for fear that it will trigger an immediate, "What about White Water? The Clinton Foundation?" Seriously, though, the only evidence that there was ever corruption is Fox and Gingrich saying so.

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There's an old saying, "Everyone hates lawyers until they need one." Well, we all need them now.

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The real-world impact on Trump voters who trusted him and are now victims of his policies: Life plans left in ruins. The question going forward is: How do we work together to make them whole? Is it even possible?

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Why nonprofits matter and why it is so dangerous for this administration to cut funding to this sector.

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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

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SSA employee to me re: 50% staff reduction: "Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed."

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This speaks to me.

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I think a big part of what's happening with billionaires like Bezos is that they saw that Elon Musk became a mask-off fascist and paid virtually no price for it, leading them to (probably correctly) think they could do the same.

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Bezos does not care if the WaPo goes under, so I guess he has just decided to use it as a propaganda organ until it's ultimate demise.

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Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of Bezos' move, the WashPo was a liberal paper and its readers identified as such. It's always a bold move to sack your readers. Ordinarily I'd assume Bezos worked off the data but this feels different

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Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans newrepublic.com/article/1918... via @newrepublic.com

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Useful summation of the Ukrainian perspective on the past few days: Betrayal.

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Hero

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“These simple things we do to support one another, build community, and protect what’s good in the world, are just as important as the major actions”

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A good point: Macron's correcting Trump in their White House press conference was a signal that our allies are running out of patience and probably pivoting to a hostile attitude and/or marginalizing the US. Who can blame them? @newrepublic.com

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@sarahstarnes.bsky.social (Nudge) How are you doing? (I'm trying to recreate some semblance of community that existed on FB. Sorry for this ham-handed post.)

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Rand makes more sense, now. Her philosophy and attitude about the human condition is still abhorrent.

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Useful analysis. Setting aside everything else, Democrats need to lean into the message that this is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is. That's not an exaggeration. Say so!

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"By 2019, Wright and her colleagues had pulled off what is now known as the “Mississippi Miracle,” with students in this deep red state making greater literacy gains than in any other. Fourth-graders in Mississippi rose from 49th in the nation to 29th." Thanks to the REL SE.

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An enlightening analysis of the tensions in American Christianity and how Jim Crow, white supremacy, fascism, and MAGA are completely consistent with American white Christianity, despite how much white semi-secular liberals don’t want to admit it.

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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It seems plausible that the global political turmoil exploding right as Climate Change requires international unity is, in fact, an alien intelligence operation to exterminate humanity to seize whatever’s leftover. Or maybe it’s just billionaires.

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Kiddo chewed a hole in my copy of John Gardner’s Grendel. This somehow feels appropriate.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Re German elections: The important thing is that the neo-Nazi AfD can still be easily marginalized. Well done everyone else.

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They're coming for trans people. Will you speak out? www.ourlibertiesweprize.com/p/theyre-com...

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Fascinating. The average amount students pay has actually dropped over the past several years.

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