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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Can't believe the pandemic wasn't the worst thing to happen to us this decade...

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Still very relevant

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Trump's whole "tough on China" routine is nothing but WWE Kayfabe:

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I mean, I know everyone I know already knows this. But seriously there is only one message right now, it's not left versus right, it's not investment versus austerity, it's that the President sold us all to Elon Musk. Not just the libs, but all of us, no matter how MAGA, we have been sold.

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"Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are. - Martha Wells, "Network Effect" (Murderbot diary #6) #booksky

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Ah, four o'clock, the magical hour where I admit I'm not getting any of those things done after all, and reassure myself that tomorrow is another day...

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It's important to remember - there are so many things I like about us humans... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGV1...

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

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"Never mind, a thousand years from now we'll all be a suppressed event in a Chinese history book." -John Gardner, Freddy's Book

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I can't believe "no grifting Nazis" became a losing proposition...

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in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.

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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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I'm so old, I remember when Obama signing ONE executive order was tyranny

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I did not do nearly enough reading in January, need to stop doom scrolling and bury myself in novels... #booksky

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"Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism." Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls (frequently banned book) #BookSky #ErnestHemingway #BannedBooks #Resist #Anti-fascism

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Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky. Here is a great list of #litmags to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

“He wasn’t giving a Nazi salute” is the new 2+2=5

submitted 35 days ago • 283 comments

Word of the day….

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if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits

submitted 36 days ago • 597 comments

Bullies are cowards, episode 334934

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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 36 days ago • 1921 comments

I grew up thinking that success was for the best and brightest, so now you know exactly how disappointing the adult world was to me...

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I have to admit it, Trump pulled off the most basic grifter trick, the bait and switch, grifter 101. He had everyone so focused on fighting (or embracing) Christian Nationalism that a lot of us took our eye off the traditional oligarch smash-and-grab that has always been his reason for being…

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Someone just tried to explain racism to one of the members of Public Enemy on MLK Day. I shit you not.

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

Remind everyone that also, law enforcement doesn't care, despite their pretend to be "concerned" about "crime."

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When Democrats take the presidency, the media acts like the only Americans that exist are all right wing. When Republicans take the presidency, the media acts like the only Americans that exist are all right wing.

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to recap: — Trump was for the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

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