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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 5h

Flashback to my mom telling me and my brother that and us being little shits running around sneering “carrot!”, “banana!”

lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 1d

The Washington post has the memo wapo.st/47dbJEe

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 1d

This is all incredibly rich coming from the administration that just paid tens of thousands of federal employees to not work for months on end

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 5d

a woman is singing into a microphone while holding a keyboard on stage .

Alt: a woman is singing into a microphone while holding a keyboard on stage .

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 7d

*K-pop demon hunters voice* Shutdown, Shutdown, Shutdown down down down

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 9d

All local sports seasons were cancelled and students weren’t allowed outside during the school day because people thought they might target them. People were afraid to stop for gas

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 10d

Frankly this reads to me like he’s probably mad at the liberals’ angry dissents. Nothing in there indicates he’s on the right side of things

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 11d

Had a xenophobic MAGA aunt who had nerve damage and was furious about restrictions on opioids

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Reposted

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

New from me: Russ Vought is using federal employees as hostages in federal shutdown negotiations, threatening mass firings if Dems do not accept Trump's terms.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid.

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Shutdown hostage taking

Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 12d

Curious if this impacts the shutdown negotiations. SCOTUS effectively greenlighting impoundment further weakens Congress’s assurance any funding will be spent and increases the need for executive promises or stricter requirements in the law

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12d

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress.

I’ll post the link when it’s up.

lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 12d

Flashbacks to my food service job in high school where people would write down vulgar things instead of their name so a teen girl would have to yell it out in a full restaurant

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 18d

Not sure if it’s the same one, but The Vigil is an excellent Jewish horror film

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 18d

They never should have killed Google Reader

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 20d

End of most business travel for Feds must be part of this

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 20d

Comparing universities as a left version of the evangelical church is a huge mistake and validates all the attacks on education

lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 24d

Just started The Tainted Cup. It has a visceral opening.

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · 26d

I believe Nicole publicly confirmed it

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Sep 7

No sure but anecdotally there seems to be a lot of variability in how sensitive people are to procedures involving those organs. I expect that docs encounter plenty of people who are largely unbothered and maybe discount the ones with strong reactions

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Sep 7

More important here than the Dallin is that IUDs have a reputation for painful insertions that doctors dismiss

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gotta have more kids to make up for the increased mortality rate

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Sep 2

We would’ve considered a third if daycare expenses weren’t ruinous

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also really symbolic that he’s doing this while pushing domestic deployments at the border and in the interior

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just finished Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce and started Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Aug 28

Saw a dozen in metro center at 6 am earlier this week, four armed at Smithsonian

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lemonlimerence.bsky.social @lemonlimerence.bsky.social · Aug 28

The VVitch

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