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Cassandra J

@casslea.bsky.social

Teacher, advocate, side questing my way through life. PNW based small business owner.
www.cs-of-three.com
@cs_of_three & @casslea77 on tik tok⏰
Kindness is magic ✌🏻❤️🌻

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Cassandra J

@casslea.bsky.social

And checking before sleeping just in case I miss a notification. Since his inauguration I’ve had 6 migraine days. I’m placing all blame for my migraines on DT & his people for every migraine for 1077 more days.

February 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM

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Jump Cat

@jumpcatt.bsky.social

raising the next supervillain

A close-up of an adult orange tabby cat holding a tiny orange tabby kitten in its arms. The larger cat has a calm, slightly smug expression with half-closed eyes, while the kitten looks directly at the camera with wide, curious blue eyes. Their fur patterns are similar, with a mix of orange and white. The image gives a cozy and affectionate feel, as if the adult cat is protectively cuddling the kitten

February 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Ouch. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board just called Trump's new trade war "The Dumbest Trade War in History"

February 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Pearlmania500

@pearlmania500.bsky.social

Mrs Pearlmania isn’t gonna let Joe Rogan and the podcast bros pretend that they didn’t have a fucking hand in this shit.

youtube.com/shorts/TC7P4...

Stop pretending you didn’t do this Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Jake Paul, and Andrew Schulz

YouTube video by Pearlmania500

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January 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM

Cassandra J

@casslea.bsky.social

Don’t make other people your coping mechanism for the masochistic fetish developed from that belt, Tommy.
bsky.app/profile/sena...

Senate Finance Committee @senatefinance.bsky.social · Jan 31

Senator Tommy Tuberville: We have an attention deficit problem in this country. Attention deficit — when you or I were growing up — our parents didn’t use a drug they used a belt.

February 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM

Cassandra J

@casslea.bsky.social

January 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

A new OMB memo lists programs *potentially* affected by Trump's (illegal) funding freeze. The list does nothing to dispel confusion, since it includes programs (SNAP, Head Start) that OMB now claims are unaffected. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

First reported by @jennifershutt.bsky.social

Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
All Federal agencies that provide Federal financial assistance are required by February 7, 2025
to complete the attached spreadsheet and submit it to OMB. The information requested must be provided for any program that has funding or activities planned through March 15. Agencies are encouraged to complete this task for all their programs as soon as possible. OMB will be following up with additional deadlines for subsequent periods.
Using the spreadsheet provided, locate or filter the spreadsheet to isolate the agency's list of Federal programs (by Assistance Listing number) and complete the requested information for each program (represented in columns C-G). Agencies should add additional lines to the spreadsheet to include any programs not listed in the spreadsheet.
Column B:
Column C-G:
Column H:
Column 1:
Column J:
Column K:
Column L:
Column M-T:
Column U:
Sub-Agency or component.
These columns contain pre-populated information on each Assistance Listing program.
Identify the email of the senior political appointee responsible for overseeing this program.
Indicate if the program has any pending funding announcements.
Indicate if this program has any anticipated obligations or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025.
Indicate if this program has any statutory requirements mandating the obligation or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025.
Provide the estimated date of the next obligation or disbursement of funds.
Provide responses to each of the questions (Yes/No).
Provide any additional relevant information on program or project activities.
Submit the spreadsheet no later than February 7, 2025 to: FFAPlans@omb.eop.gov.
OMB will review each agency submission and will communicate additional information to each Federal agency through the agency Senior Financial Assistance Official and the Points of Contact provided.

Screenshot of first page of spreadsheet (very small text, hard to read, just posted as visual example—follow link in post for full text)

January 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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Mark Cuban

@mcuban.bsky.social

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.

January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM