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Associate General Counsel at the National Treasury Employees Union. Skeets are my opinions and not NTEU’s. W&_ Law, Dartmouth he/him profile image from Openclipart banner from Grumpy Monkey
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"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

I think a move to hardwritten is good, with the awareness that some people need accommodations. That said, we need to be teaching kids then to handwrite. It's shocking how bad kids' handwriting is today. This will be a real problem if we don't stress handwriting (because right now we don't)

Hortman was a catholic who ensured children got fed and her killer was in a psycho church that demanded violent prayer and guess which one is getting the"Christian" coverage

Gull Dukat. Another one of those mental images I had to exorcise by drawing it. #art #StarTrek #DS9

Hey who owns the company? What…what’s that? It’s not the employees? This isn’t syndicalism? It’s…what even is this?

It’s basically this

This is just speedrunning enshittification in the federal government

This is the last thing I should be thinking about, but no one in this picture can afford a tailor?

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

We live in dark times so we need to take some pleasure in the small things

OSINT accounts on here (one in particular) were like 18 hours ahead of Reuters on this

ppl are getting angry at Amy Klobuchar for things she did not say but are attributed to her in this skeet and the article headline. she never said anything about "civility" or "peers" & what she actually said is pretty clearly about inflammatory Republicans in Washington

BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Perhaps this is because we as a society dismissed sending bomb threats to children's hospitals who offer care for trans youth as normal and we excused decades of anti-abortion violence as just the cost of doing business as usual in American politics. www.startribune.com/suspect-show...

Pretty important context here

Well, I guess it’s going to get harder to lie about what his politics are

I read "atheists" and not "athletes" and was like . . . whoa, shots fired

good

Go further back - the GOP's movement to re-assert control over people's bodies involved: 1) a well-funded effort to shift federal courts to the far right, and constantly pushing legislative boundaries; and 2) approval of a violent movement to terrorize health care providers and the populace.