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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things

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COVID long-hauler, former archaeologist, opera singer, now fed employee. Kids, homeless, dogs. Isotopes+🍩 #WearAMask 🌎 Disorient Express FB: is.gd/bp2vTA Media: [email protected] YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers Signal rubyslippahs.74 She/her

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · Oct 18

I'm housed now, but not because of any assistance program. Just lucky, and friends.

But for many others with long COVID, their housing instability journey is just beginning.

www.kcur.org/health/2021-...

From a tent in the woods, this Kansas City woman advocates for her fellow COVID long-haulers

After losing her apartment, Amanda Finley sought refuge at a Missouri campsite she calls her "happy place." Even as much of the country returns to normal, she's working to remind people that COVID lon...

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1h

A lotta federal employees getting RIFs, and they don't know it because they can't check their email from home.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 6h

They won't rehire. They're trying to shutter departments, including the IRS. It's all in Project 2025. I was an IRS employee until this summer.

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck Russell Vought

White House says layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details

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White House says 'substantial' layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details

The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It's not clear how many agencies are affected or how many people.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 22h

Yikes!

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Philippines: Tsunami warning issued after 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits Mindanao

The country's seismology agency has urged people in coastal towns in central and southern Philippines to evacuate immediately.

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 23h

🎯post by @kananaskinyeti.bsky.social:

"The problem with the Covid pandemic isn’t the virus. Because we have tools and the knowledge to stop it. It’s the collective inability to accept bad news when people have been taught to just run with their own reality. It’s why..."

OP: x.com/kananaskinye...

The problem with the Covid pandemic isn’t the virus. Because we have tools and the knowledge to stop it. It’s the collective inability to accept bad news when people have been taught to just run with their own reality. It’s why people are really trying to bully the virus away.

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 1d

An important and personal, heartfelt op-ed from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy We Must Stand with Our #Trans Neighbors.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/we-m...
I couldn't agree more. Thank you, Bruce

We Must Stand with Our Trans Neighbors | Defend Public Health

Most of us have some hobby or favorite activity we do to keep ourselves sane amid the pressures of daily living and the increasing political madness that is the USA. For me, it’s performing in communi...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

No, definitely alone. Quite the opposite. I'm watching thousands of people I love die very slowly.

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, I worked at the IRS. 😃

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

People aren't helping each other. Scarcity politics. I spent much of the last 6 years living in a tent with long COVID.

The cavalry isn't coming for the millions left behind. We've been begging you for nearly six years.

🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, but a lot of people won't make it through. It's mostly those with privilege who will.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

You're kidding, right? You missed this? And Josh Shapiro? And the others?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Investigators reveal first findings into South Carolina judge’s house fire

Law enforcement says there is currently no evidence to suggest the justice’s mansion was targeted by an arsonist and caution against sharing unverified information

www.independent.co.uk

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all, it was horrible before.

It's about to get so much worse.

Thomas J Thompson @thomasjthompson.bsky.social · 9d

ADP reports private employers cut 32,000 jobs in September.
Small and mid-sized firms shed workers, while only large companies added jobs.

With the gov shutdown delaying official BLS data, this may be the clearest jobs signal we get for now.

#JobsReport #LaborMarket

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

I hope she's safe. A whole lotta places burning down.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

👏👏👏👏👏

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

“Why is RFK going after autism so hard?”

Because you all can’t fucking get past your hangups about disability in the year of our gourd 2025.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

“Could my child have a rich inner life and sense of self even if it’s not what I pictured for them?”

“…no, it’s the vaccines that are the problem.”

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

“They just love their kids so much”

Uh huh uh huh quick question, then why are they saying vile shit about them?

If you can’t handle loving a disabled kid, do not have kids. End of.

(This is not about the dearth of resources.)

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit

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New York attorney general Letitia James indicted

James, who led a civil fraud investigation against US President Donald Trump, was indicted in Alexandria, Virginia.

www.bbc.com

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

I had a brilliant idea about this.

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

So, always.

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🗝️🐍🦉🌙 Dolly 🗡️ Dagger 🍉🇺🇦📚🌈 @dollydagger6.bsky.social · 1d

The moment it murdered indigenous peoples.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

When did the United States jump the shark?

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

Rewatching Hamilton right now as I work on things, and WOW, I will not throw away my shot.

I landed in front of so many cameras five years ago because I took my shot.

I guess we're leveling up now.

I will not throw away my shot. Never will.

RISE UP!!

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My Shot - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]

YouTube video by Asaki Takaya

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

Literal expression

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamn

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Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats

David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents

www.independent.co.uk

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