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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 5h

Tackled, close to the sidelines. The shovel pass or similar play was telegraphed and slow to develop. It sucked.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 5h

Special teams were abysmal and our o-line got beat on the line of scrimmage pretty much every set of downs.

Mahogany out min 8 weeks.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 5h

Fellow Lions fans - do we think Morton is the right guy to be our OC?

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 14h

I think the primary reason SNAP is a voucher instead of cash is because it isn't universal. If we made it universal, I think the idea of converting it into a cash program would suddenly become very popular. This is why one possible strategy to winning UBI could be by first making SNAP universal.

Tea’s so happy being Teddy Roosevelt @teaberryblue.net · 1d

Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.

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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t want these data centers. I don’t want AI. And I definitely do not want higher bills subsidizing AI.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 7h

Mahogany looked bad. I think he’s out til wk 16 min

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 8h

Need to trade for O line, probably a center.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 9h

Not good. I think we get a L today.

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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 11h

Get the damn downs Dan.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 11h

Please door dash a few hundred cases of Red Bull to the Lions sideline.

Thank you.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 11h

This is why I do not want a bye in the post season. Lions are always scattered after a bye.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 11h

"The expensive, bureaucratic apparatus of monitoring and punishing people was effectively useless at getting them into work, but very effective at making them miserable."

Work requirements don't work and means-testing discourages employment.

UBI is the way to go.

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"The key takeaway D66 likely leveraged for their successful 2025 campaign was that the expensive, bureaucratic apparatus of monitoring and punishing people was effectively useless at getting them into work, but very effective at making them miserable."

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The Netherlands May Become the First Country With a Universal Basic Income

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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 11h

Guys, the Lions look like crap.

They are always a mess after a bye.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 11h

Special teams. What the hell guys.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 13h

I do not know how Penei Sewell can be this large and also very fast.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 13h

O linemen already warming up/stretching. You can tell this game is going to be intense

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

And the Democrats have the lowest approval rating. This wrung out crap isn’t rebellion. It’s a plea to submit.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

This ramped up big time in 2016.

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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Because Joe Lieberman killed the public option, shackling us to this punitive model that enriches the boardroom class while keeping us unwell.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

The guard is not hitting blue collar workers. It’s not hitting elderly church goers.

It’s hitting people of color, academics, left politicians, and protesters.

This pleases Trump voters.

If it hits one of them it’s game over.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 1d

It's absolutely 100% immoral and even illegal for Trump to stop SNAP and increase hunger for 42 million Americans, but it's a reminder how weak a poverty-targeted program can be. There is strength in universality. If every single Trump voter got SNAP, there's no way Trump would stop it. We need UBI.

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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

They are only running the show via cabinet, which are easily dismissed if Vance feels enough pressure.

Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Vance does not have the charisma djt does. The people who love Trump will turn on Vance the minute the leopards show up to eat their face, which is now.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1d

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

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Amanda @demetersgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting info from a different non paywalled article stated the campaign has raised 90% of its $ via their digital fundraising director and Holmes was for big dollar donors and didn’t net many results.