Marie
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Marie
@borntodance.bsky.social
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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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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
What are the odds he already tried it on?
Like hammers that begin to see everything as a nail.
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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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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...
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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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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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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?
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.
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.
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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Milky Way and the Pleiades over the high desert
Does this make the US military mercenaries working for whoever the "anonymous donor" is?
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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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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.
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.