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Exhausted Gen X, trying to stay cheerful for my teenagers. MSU and WSU Alum. GO LIONS 🦁💙 Michigan Women for Democracy 🇺🇸
And Trump will sell these properties to the highest DOGE bidder so they can lease them back to the government! Grift at the highest order! Infuriating!
A General Services Administration list marked down the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek as “non-core property” or sites not considered essential for operations.

That list has since been pulled from the agency's website. More from Byron Tollefson
www.woodtv.com/news/calhoun...
Federal Center in Battle Creek on ‘non-core property’ list
The future of Battle Creek’s Federal Center is unclear after it was included on a list of hundreds of government-owned buildings that could be sold.
www.woodtv.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Michigan lost 37 USFS workers last week.

"The layoffs exempt wildland firefighters, but local union representative Rick Davis said losing his coworkers still hurts firefighting efforts since many are certified to fight fires and participate in controlled burns."

radio.wcmu.org/local-region...
‘A nightmare’: Dozens of Michigan Forest Service workers lose jobs
Two union leaders in Michigan confirmed with WCMU that at least 15 people from Huron-Manistee, 14 from Hiawatha and eight from the Ottawa national forests were affected by the layoffs.
radio.wcmu.org
February 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. 

Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. 

Trickle down economics was always a hoax.
February 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
FLOW is now available on HBO MAX and I cannot recommend it enough! One of the best films of 2024, good for all ages (3 teens loved it) and visually stunning with fantastic music. Our cat watched most of it intently, too! 🥹 🐈‍⬛ flowthemovie.com
Home | Flow
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate...
flowthemovie.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
He’s going full psycho dictator
Remember the days of "No one is above the law"?

Seems quaintly constitutional now.
February 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Come on Dems SHINE UP THAT SPINE!
This evening, every Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee backed the nomination of MAGA wingnut climate denier Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture, who admitted to a lack of basic knowledge of the department's workings. Every. Single. One.

Led by @amyklobuchar.com.

#Assistance
February 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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This is so perfectly stated.
February 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Horrifying
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Congratulations to Lakeview Men’s Swim & Dive! 34th straight win! WTG! 💜
Lakeview 'keeps the tradition going' as it wins All-City Swim Meet for 34th straight time
Lakeview boys team wins all 12 events to sweep All-City event and get past Harper Creek, Battle Creek Central
www.battlecreekenquirer.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Debunking MAGA’s hateful lies about the LA fires: The reservoirs were full, the fire budget was increased, the 12 firefighters fired for refusing to get Covid shots were replaced long ago, the donations to Ukraine were nominal, and on, and on.
Elon Musk is the new emperor of misinformation - Kevin Drum
Here's the latest from Elon Musk about the LA wildfires: Every single thing on this list is either badly misleading or flat-out wrong: Reservoirs and emergency water tanks were all full before the fir...
jabberwocking.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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So sorry. Yet another rant:

We are losing the information war in real-time. LA is on fire, and the conservatives are seizing the moment, drafting on the fear, the panic, and the pain to target democratic officials, policies, and power centers and salting the earth along the way.

A thread. 🧵
January 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million.

That is a lie.

The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.

Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.

But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.

What planet are they living on?
LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors
Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.
www.axios.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Happy You Don't Actually Get in Trouble For Inciting An Armed Rebellion You Get Rewarded Day for all who celebrate
January 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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One silver lining in all this is that the supervillains are starting to look like it so they can be easily spotted by anyone with eyes
January 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Sliding into ‘25 like
December 31, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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this mf thinks he’s president
December 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM