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Story lover. Crow friend. Chosen family is everything. We can get through this together. Absolutely serious about being unserious.
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So what youre saying is that ants have a better social safety net than the USA?
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

A lot of people in positions of power got their promotions because they were behaving badly.

In sexual harassment cases, institutions use promotions as a way to retain the perpetrator and separate them from their primary victim.
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Lol
THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.
March 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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DOGE has seized access to huge troves of sensitive personal and national security information – and can’t even set up its own website securely.

When DOGE fails to protect that data, it puts us all in danger.

@repstansbury.bsky.social, @connolly.house.gov and I are pushing back.
March 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Huh, sure seems like a bunch of billionaires realized the realities of the coming climate catastrophe and decided that the solution was to cull the country's population.

But that can't be it.
March 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Im about to learn how to crochet, damn
oh lord I bought the pattern for this, it’s going to look so cute in black
March 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This mf on another conversation was worried about ppl like Musk, or others that ppl call Nazis being dehumanized. Read what Musk plans and you tell me who is being dehumanized.
March 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Gonna once again ask @murray.senate.gov, @cantwell.senate.gov, and @jayapal.house.gov - as your constituent, I want you to boycott. Hold a local event of your own.
Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it.
For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Democrats Should Boycott Trump’s Speech to Congress This Week
Refusing to attend the speech would be the first indication that Democrats are not just playing politics—and playing them badly—but resisting.
www.thenation.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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OMFG
March 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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100 percent
the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.
March 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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script to call your republican senators over this shit bill
if your senator’s GOP, try this script. it’s got a bail out. you’ll get an intern. be polite.

they *all* plan to vote for this, but the GOP can manipulated if they think it could cost them (see ⬇️).

*don't do a 'hick'voice.* the suburbs are trump country.🧵

find your reps: myreps.datamade.us
March 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The government does things like this too and this is important!
"Why, CPSC? Do you track musical instrument-related injuries or something?"

Friend, that is exactly what we do through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
March 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The GOP's mythos around 'rural America' always vanishes when it comes to actually supporting rural America (which FTR is much more politically, racially, culturally, and socially diverse than people seem to think it is).
GOP Budget Cuts Stand to Deal Tremendous Damage to Rural Economies
As congressional Republicans mull slashing federal spending, a key nutrition program is on the chopping block—and everyone on our food supply chains could take a hit.
newrepublic.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Celebrating "women and non-binary people" on Intl Women's Day and only including afab enbys while excluding amab enbys shows that someone thinks nonbinary ppl are really our assigned genders and I don't want to be "celebrated" that way.
March 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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it will be hard for the day to present a more welcome surprise than this one. go listen
March 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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People are going, well the next time the democrats have the presidency. No you don't understand. We're not having elections anymore. Trump is a totalitarian who seized the democratic structures by trangressing & is collapsing America if there will not be strong enough opposition to him.
This is the thing people here truly have not internalized yet and understood. Their are not going to be real midterms or federal elections again if we don't stop them now. That's just the reality.
Can we stop prattling on about midterms and "swingstates" - the entire idea of this authoritarian Musk/Trump regime is that there will not be meaningful elections any longer.

What do you think this birthright citizenship thing is about? It's about disenfranchisement.
March 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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For migrant sex workers, police are the ‘most dangerous gang’ in the business
For migrant sex workers, police are the ‘most dangerous gang’ in the business ⋆ The Breach
A new book breaks down how anti-sex trafficking laws, masquerading as ‘protection’, put migrant sex workers at greater risk of violence and exploitation
breachmedia.ca
March 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Today, not long after 3:00 PM, the US Senate will vote on a motion to invoke cloture on a transgender sports ban applying to youth and sports from dancing to darts and evenChess. If 7 Democrats flip on this motion, we will likely get a national sports ban in the US.

CONTACT YOUR SENATORS!
My Reps
Enter your address to find and contact your federal, state, county and local elected representatives
myreps.datamade.us
March 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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people who think and act this way shouldn't be allowed to live in society. we need to bring back exile. stick this lady on a boat and shove her off into the sea.
Anyway, this is about as gross and anti-social a statement from an antivaxxer as you'll find, but also probably pretty par for the course

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
March 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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That, plus this.
March 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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love this bit where they both imply that the party is somehow being oppressed by small donors, and also that the billionaires actually speak to the common man better
March 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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the thing about the Democrats' "go find moderates, woo back the moderates" program, and I hope at least one of the tMG fans who are 100% zero-doubt inside the machine hears this: the moderates don't exist. income disparity has taken care of that. there was a guy who predicted this he had a big beard
March 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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McMahon's lack of knowledge around critical civil rights laws for disabled students is not only dangerous, it's part of the President's attempts to destroy the Department of Education. Call your Senators to tell them to vote NO on McMahon tomorrow!
Action Alert: Stop McMahon’s confirmation! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
The president’s pick for the new Secretary of Education is Linda McMahon. The President is trying to destroy the Department of Education, and nominating McMahon is part of his plan. Normally, we…
autisticadvocacy.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." This is absolute rubbish. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 85 years. Perhaps the bigger "ponzi scheme" is the $38 billion spent by taxpayers to prop up his corporations?
March 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM