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SonderGotik
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Baltimore, normie lib, veteran, translator 🇺🇸🗽🇺🇦
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If I recently added you, it’s probably because I used the Sky Bridge plugin to find my Xitter family. ❤️🫡
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Not doing the drive to DC twice a week also gave me some freedom to do volunteer work and pursue education goals. I’ve already stopped volunteering and may not be able to continue with my masters program."

The impacts of recent actions can often go unseen if you have no capacity for empathy. 2/2
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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A friend and coworker offered the following.

"Wanted to share that I’ve had this alarm set for some time. I’ve enjoyed telework twice a week for a few years now and it’s given me great work/life balance. I’ve also been extremely productive, often more productive at home than in the office." 1/
January 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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This is a breath of fresh air.
January 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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When only one party deals in facts, facts start to sound political.
"..they simply soft peddled it or outright ignored success after success allowing the MAGA counter messaging to fill the void. A vacuum cannot exist in nature and when truth is ignored untruth will easily fill the gap. It did and we are all worse for it." My latest: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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“Those seeking to curry favor with the incoming administration now have the opportunity to donate directly to the winning candidate without their names or potential conflicts ever entering the public sphere. And … foreign nationals are allowed to donate to the transition.”
President-elect Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term. BensingerFahrenthold www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...
Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money
Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Reup: One reason Trump won in spite of his four felony prosecutions is people claiming to be journalists--including 4 at WaPo yesterday--let him lie w/o correction about why he was prosecuted.

www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/23/w...
WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump's Attack on Rule of Law - emptywheel
In describing Donald Trump's plans to attack prosecutors who investigated his alleged crimes, WaPo conducts the same abusive act of replacing rule of law with false claims of grievance as Trump himsel...
www.emptywheel.net
November 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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This would be different contempt from the motion for contempt Moss and Freeman just filed for Rudy defaming them again. All new contempt. Lol
A federal judge throws down the gauntlet on Rudy Giuliani's "noncompliance."

Under "pain of contempt," Giuliani must meet December deadlines for turning over property in storage facilities to Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, he rules.
November 23, 2024 at 6:21 PM
If I recently added you, it’s probably because I used the Sky Bridge plugin to find my Xitter family. ❤️🫡
November 23, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Nate Silver apparently doesn't understand that he is one of the most annoying people on the planet -- but at least we're not at risk of his presence here.

😂
November 23, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
-Plato
November 21, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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November 22, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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This was sent out this morning and already the response is overwhelming. Thank you for everyone who signed up and to those who responded with kind words.
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November 21, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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and not much out there.
Men. We need to step it up dudes!
seriously.
Women had long FOUGHT besides us thru it all.
We need to up our game and do our part.
November 13, 2024 at 4:48 AM