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Canadian CPA ... US JD … mother ... befuddled observer of the human condition ... words dance in my head ... friend to all poor players of the earth. She/her. Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐈🦋🍀🖊️

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · Nov 13

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 11h

What are the odds he already tried it on?

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THEE Gutsy Woman🐝 🪷 @gutsywoman19.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 1d

So embarrassing.

Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 1d

Like hammers that begin to see everything as a nail.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

What did people do before SNAP?”

They died.

Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.

They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore

The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

The regime is giving $10 billion to the Navy to build camps for immigrants … but won’t fund SNAP. Won’t save healthcare. Won’t provide affordable housing or education.

$10 billion dollars could care for so many people, and instead it’ll be used to disappear them.

Priorities.

Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...

www.cnn.com

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 2d

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 2d

Despite a very strong wind, I managed to salvage about fifteen minutes of exposure out of an hour and a half of tracking before it set, just enough for a last-minute farewell to Comet Lemmon, capturing it a second time after my first shot in early October. 🔭

#Astrophotography

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johnnythund3r.bsky.social @johnnythund3r.bsky.social · 2d

I am so goddamn tired.

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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 3d

the ascent

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

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WOW, unbelievable. My worst fear is coming true.' This will be a historic and deadly hurricane for Jamaica. One of the worst natural disasters from a hurricane in a long time. I pray that people on the island are taking the warnings seriously.
Melissa is going to challenge the mathematical limit of intensity by Monday.
There are real people on the other end of this. All the meteorology aside, let's remember people's lives, businesses, schools, and more are going to be impacted in extreme ways.
Jamaica is going to need every bit of humanitarian aid after this it can get.
It is on par or even over-performing the intensity forecasts. The eye has appeared on satellite as of this post and this will be the 1st Category 5 hurricane ever in known history to strike Jamaica.
While there is a mathematical limit to how intense this storm can get, the only thing limiting its intensity is itself. Meaning, internal processes of eyewall replacement cycles or other meteorological occurrences of high end hurricanes.
Sustained winds of 170+ and gust of 200+ MPH are possible at maximum if it continues at this rate.
The highest sustained wind speed ever recorded in the Atlantic basin was 190 MPH from Hurricane Allen in 1980.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Furloughed federal workers in Maryland line up for their local food bank.

Federal workers make considerably more money than those on SNAP.

If they can’t afford groceries, what hope do the 40 million Americans about to lose food assistance have?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history

“There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 3d

It seems his only motivation is reflexive opposition to anything recognized as consensus medical opinion.

As a mediocre man of little achievement in a family of superstars his insecurity clouds any judgment he might otherwise have. He tilts at the windmills of experts to prove he knows better.

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noYOUhush @noyouhush.bsky.social · 4d

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 4d

Who can negotiate with such a person? He wouldn't know an honest good faith argument if it bit him in the butt. And any promise he makes today will be reversed by noon tomorrow.

Carney has gone to Asia to promote our trade elsewhere. We need you far less than you think ... miserable old man.

Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 4d

It's especially nervy to take the positions he does when his whole life he has been dependent on the largesse of an entirely unearned bank account. His complaints would be better focused on a mirror.

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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 4d

A preening swan in sunlight.

#UKWildlife #UKbirding #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Sunlit #BirdPhotography

A swan preening their feathers which illuminatea under the light of the sun.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 4d

Milky Way and the Pleiades over the high desert

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 4d

Does this make the US military mercenaries working for whoever the "anonymous donor" is?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

In Les Miserables, Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread to save his sister’s starving son

He serves 19 years in jail & emerges the hero

The villain? The cop who’s determined to pit him back in jail

For the crime of not wanting someone to starve

Telling this story for absolutely no reason at all.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children.

Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.

We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.

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Marie @borntodance.bsky.social · 4d

Russia needs to chill. They spread an intimidating smokescreen. But they are way overextended already.

Low oil prices and no economy beyond that. High inflation. Usurious interest rates. Regional governments running out of reserves within days.

Putin's expansionism has bankrupted the country.

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