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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 8h

What's the statute of limitations on being upset about sleaze, corruption and overt, shameless election interference that has had devastating knock-on effects for decades?

brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 9h

They are changing the "law" out from under people, asshole.

brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 9h

Pathetic.

brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is "just enforcing the law" the way you would "just" be enforcing the law if you went out with a bunch of your buddies and shot jaywalkers in the kneecaps. You'd sure be cleaning up crime in the streets, but your neighbors might have something to say about it.

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 9h

"Left wing" killers come from right wing backgrounds. Look it up. Violence is the solution they were trained on.

ICE came out of the gate with masks on to avoid accountability for criminal actions taken to "enforce" administrative policy.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

What most people outside of what passes for a safety net in the US don’t understand is that the late fall and early winter are the busiest, hardest moments for new crises. This couldn’t happen at a worse time as clinics, shelters, and food pantries are already bursting at the seams from demand.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 2d

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck off.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4d

Don't know if any of you have ever been tempted to use Evernote, but any company that eliminates their free tier AND makes current users subscribe to extract their own data is little better than a protection racket in my book.

Evernote home page with some bullshit about your second brain.

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Boo Boo @intn.bsky.social · 7d

He will put 2 of every kind of traitor, criminal, pedophile, oligarch, Nazi, and bigot into the arc to sail into his fantasy kingdom.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 7d

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 10d

No reason the current operation can't get the same treatment.

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 10d

I'm not inclined to destroy their work on the basis of their status. Maybe their heirs have something to say about that.

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 10d

It doesn't matter what the tats and reddit posts actually signify. If the world has seen more than one photo of your nipples at this point in the campaign, it's already over.

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 10d

If you really think people can only unify under white guys with rolled up sleeves & newly-formed convictions, you're still trying to squeeze juice out of a decades-old turnip. Sorry about your bro. Try harder.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10d

what if I told you that defeating fascism requires a strategy more complicated than a one sentence slogan that happens to fit your partisan love of white guys with beards right at the moment? 1

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 11d

Actually, most things government does are like this.

Seattle Department of Transportation @seattledot.bsky.social · 11d

KING 5 reports on Seattle's bridge operators: "It’s one of those jobs you don’t think about, but you’d notice if they weren’t there."

www.king5.com/article/news...

Inside Seattle’s bridge towers: Meet the operators who keep the city moving

Seattle's drawbridges rely on human operators for precise and safe movements, as automation can't replace their crucial judgment.

www.king5.com

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 11d

The call to defund police comes from decades of abuse of authority, money and public trust. Nobody but a few anarchists and the Republican party is calling for the abolition of law.

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 11d

2003, sorry

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 11d

afsc.org/news/what-yo...

What you need to know about the call to abolish ICE

AFSC joins with people across the country in calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—and we hope you will join us. ICE has a long history of separating families and terr...

afsc.org

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 11d

We did just fine without it or the entire creepily-named "Homeland Security" agency before 2005.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12d

Nominee to be the Office of Special Counsel, ie., the guy federal employees must appeal to if they think they have been treated unfairly

Politico @politico.com · 12d

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 12d

Got it. How would that be addressed in a funding bill? And is it significant enough to warrant it?

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 12d

So he's propping up the leader who supports the measures that have led to widespread suffering. Good idea.

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brief experiential avoidance questionnaire @beaq.bsky.social · 12d

If those studies never happened, how do you know we pay for too many unjustified procedures?

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