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James Von Hendy
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Poet, life coach, birder, nature lover, secular humanist, and sometimes philosopher
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Really a good read.
March 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.
Judge tells Trump administration it has less than 2 days to resume USAID funding
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@mattvonhendy.bsky.social Hi there little brother!
February 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency—it’s about undermining America’s global leadership. USAID counters extremism, fights diseases, and creates more markets for U.S. exports. This is reckless and dangerous.
February 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Two days in and chaos in…cancer research? 👎

“It is hard to imagine a worse time to prohibit federal officials from communicating directly with the clinical laboratory community,” noting the slew of winter viruses and increasing risk of avian flu.”

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications
The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.
A Jan. 6 defendant tells NPR why she turned down Trump's pardon
Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🔥Why is Senator Duckworth one of the only ones who can ask questions like this, and not accept nonsense answers?
Senator Duckworth ain't playing around today.
January 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Truth. This has already started. Don’t stay silent!
January 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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“The United States of America sounds like an oxymoron. The country doesn’t look like it’s a properly functioning Democracy and it is not united at the moment.”

BBC News Commentator 1/20/25
January 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This!
November 29, 2024 at 5:17 PM