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My smart pants have a +2 Int but -2 Dex.
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So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Changes could break the system, former officials say.
www.axios.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The cruelty is unrelenting.
March 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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The "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" boils down to this: Taxpayer money is being STOLEN, without congressional approval, to artificially boost the value of a highly speculative financial asset. You can like that asset, you can dislike that asset, that's your own business. But this is open embezzlement.
March 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮

#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Who is House Speaker Mike Johnson's new roommate in Washington D.C.? An evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie” and called multinational institutions “demonic." @propublica.org scoop:
Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
www.propublica.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Imagine a world where banks can wreck your credit, drain your account with fees, and scam you - without consequences. That's the world Wall Street and billionaires want by killing the CFPB.

#HandsOffCFPB #DeleteDOGE
February 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.

Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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So this is a coup, right? Like these are neither elected officials nor federal employees.
February 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Psst. Check out our rewards list if we meet our goals! 😇
www.patreon.com/posts/white-...
January 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Look, this is bad for democracy and all, no doubt. But I also can’t help but notice that NYT’s many years of pandering to Trump and shaping coverage in his favor failed to prevent them getting kicked out of the Pentagon press room.
February 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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hey y’all! @benjaminfaye.bsky.social and I are hosting a Black History Month event to discuss some of the tactics that were used during the Civil Rights Movement and how we can apply those lessons today.

Join us on Monday, February 10th!

www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaiming...
February 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Trump is released unconditionally

There are only two laws.
One for them
And
One for us
January 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Birth control is also going to be on the chopping block soon, and they won’t be done there, either.

We’re been saying it and saying it:

All our freedoms are intertwined.
All our struggles are one.

Solidarity and collective liberation or bust, literally.

We can do this:
January 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Happy 2025, friends.

May it be a year of health, of safety, of righteous actions, of hope, of inspiration, of solidarity, of connection, of reaching out, of bringing in, of love, of laughter, of bounty, of sharing, of creativity, of showing up, of doing just, of unmitigated joy. ❤️ 🌱
January 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM