Madkirk
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Desert enjoyer 🌵All the 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️stuff. No LBG w/o the T! Sportsballs and pucks too! Say hi!
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Jon Husted sold out half a million Ohioans.
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Jon Husted sold out half a million Ohioans.
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I’m so old I remember learning about the 3rd amendment and teachers telling us it was antiquated and silly in modern times.
Time->flat circle.
Time->flat circle.
Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.
June 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I’m so old I remember learning about the 3rd amendment and teachers telling us it was antiquated and silly in modern times.
Time->flat circle.
Time->flat circle.
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THIS. Every time a dem says something along the lines of “it’s complicated” they should be met with “So Tommy Tuberville is both smarter and better at this job than you?”
One republican senator - the absolute dumbest one, in fact! - held up 400 military promotions for a year. On his own, from the Senate minority.
when democrats vote for cloture 97-0 for these whackjob nominees and then tell you "its complicated" when you complain about them aiding and abetting trump, be very aware: they are lying. none of this is complicated at all. all they have to do is oppose.
January 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
THIS. Every time a dem says something along the lines of “it’s complicated” they should be met with “So Tommy Tuberville is both smarter and better at this job than you?”
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Most people who work at a computer aren't super excited about wasting a lot of time getting to and from the office, and when you force people to go back to that it makes them angry. The consequences of that should be pretty easy to predict and yet...
Folks at MIT Sloan looked at multiple studies of return to office (RTO) mandates & found they are lose-lose-lose. No reward from Wall Street for “getting tough,” an actual decrease in productivity & revenue, and loss of top talent. youtu.be/4ec_yZCWOCY...
RTO Mandates: Hard Truths for Leaders
After Amazon imposed a strict return-to-office policy that takes effect in January 2025, other companies followed suit. But are RTO mandates a way to boost productivity and charm Wall Street - or just a way to lose your best performers? In this short video, Brian Elliott, who has studied RTO mandate
youtu.be
January 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Most people who work at a computer aren't super excited about wasting a lot of time getting to and from the office, and when you force people to go back to that it makes them angry. The consequences of that should be pretty easy to predict and yet...
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Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax”
No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.
No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.
January 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax”
No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.
No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.
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mostly feel like if you have a take about the fires that isn’t “what can i do to help” or “this is horrible, i am sorry” or “shut the fuck up donald trump”, it can probably wait until, at minimum, new fires stop starting
January 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
mostly feel like if you have a take about the fires that isn’t “what can i do to help” or “this is horrible, i am sorry” or “shut the fuck up donald trump”, it can probably wait until, at minimum, new fires stop starting
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@tyleraking.com The Mutual Aid L.A. team's resource list is up. Please boost, it's the best one I've seen: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
docs.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
@tyleraking.com The Mutual Aid L.A. team's resource list is up. Please boost, it's the best one I've seen: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Read a little bit more about this, and goddammit we're getting played you guys. The original link from the ASA is very dishonest. They are moving to the CMS standard for anesthesia billing. In other words, they are going to pay the same way they do for Medicare and Medicaid.
This is not to defend Anthem in any way, but that viral article about anesthesiologists is published by their cartel. There's a reason it's one of the highest paid specialties, and why a very common surprise medical bill is for an out of network anesthesiologist on an in-network surgery
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Read a little bit more about this, and goddammit we're getting played you guys. The original link from the ASA is very dishonest. They are moving to the CMS standard for anesthesia billing. In other words, they are going to pay the same way they do for Medicare and Medicaid.
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I think I am just completely done with giving a shit about “norms”
if people think the pardon power is abusive then change it, that’s fine, whatever, but if everyone is going to hold one party to a standard and the other to no standard at all then fuck your standard and fuck you
if people think the pardon power is abusive then change it, that’s fine, whatever, but if everyone is going to hold one party to a standard and the other to no standard at all then fuck your standard and fuck you
December 2, 2024 at 3:08 AM
I think I am just completely done with giving a shit about “norms”
if people think the pardon power is abusive then change it, that’s fine, whatever, but if everyone is going to hold one party to a standard and the other to no standard at all then fuck your standard and fuck you
if people think the pardon power is abusive then change it, that’s fine, whatever, but if everyone is going to hold one party to a standard and the other to no standard at all then fuck your standard and fuck you
Oh boy am I finding a whole lot of thumb sucking pundits to block tonight based on their application of Queensbury rules (Dems-only edition, of course) to the pardon. He gets a block, and she gets block and….
December 2, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Oh boy am I finding a whole lot of thumb sucking pundits to block tonight based on their application of Queensbury rules (Dems-only edition, of course) to the pardon. He gets a block, and she gets block and….
Seriously…one of the most famous ones came about bc one coach thought the other team would poison his team’s game day drinking water. I don’t think it went through a marketing committee vetting process.
How is UMass so bad at things that hundreds of lower division schools do with a fraction of their budget?
What the priority there because it clearly isn’t football or encouraging fun or student joy…🤨
What the priority there because it clearly isn’t football or encouraging fun or student joy…🤨
December 1, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Seriously…one of the most famous ones came about bc one coach thought the other team would poison his team’s game day drinking water. I don’t think it went through a marketing committee vetting process.
no one who got paid to do Dem politics in the last cycle deserves even one more paycheck. Burn it all down. They have no idea how to run campaigns, or maybe campaigns don’t mean anything….either way, it’s a total waste of your money.
“…The campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump.”
It sounds like Biden’s decisions both to run again and to stay in the race so long when his trajectory was clear dug a hole Democrats couldn’t get out of.
www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...
It sounds like Biden’s decisions both to run again and to stay in the race so long when his trajectory was clear dug a hole Democrats couldn’t get out of.
www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...
Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed
The Harris campaign’s internal polling apparently never had her ahead of Trump.
www.huffpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:02 AM
no one who got paid to do Dem politics in the last cycle deserves even one more paycheck. Burn it all down. They have no idea how to run campaigns, or maybe campaigns don’t mean anything….either way, it’s a total waste of your money.
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Dear mail-in voters,
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns
Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Dear mail-in voters,
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
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we're less than a week and a half from the finish line, we're almost there, we are going to beat these motherfuckers, and i'm an idiot, but i've got a big megaphone and sometimes, i guess that matters because:
THEY DO NOT BREAK US
THEY WILL BREAK UPON US
nine more days, and they're going to lose
THEY DO NOT BREAK US
THEY WILL BREAK UPON US
nine more days, and they're going to lose
a thing that has been really staggering to me is all of you that have replied to me, a dummy idiot meaningless shitposter, with the hundreds and, in aggregate, thousands of doors you guys have knocked and letters and postcards you have written. every one of you has fought for every fucking inch
WE BEAT THESE MOTHERFUCKERS ONE INCH AT A TIME AND I HAVE SEEN THOUSANDS OF INCHES FROM ALL OF YOU
October 28, 2024 at 5:24 AM
we're less than a week and a half from the finish line, we're almost there, we are going to beat these motherfuckers, and i'm an idiot, but i've got a big megaphone and sometimes, i guess that matters because:
THEY DO NOT BREAK US
THEY WILL BREAK UPON US
nine more days, and they're going to lose
THEY DO NOT BREAK US
THEY WILL BREAK UPON US
nine more days, and they're going to lose
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The most common holiday in the world is Independence Day. Which is 80% or more of cases means "independence from Britain."
September 27, 2024 at 8:10 AM
The most common holiday in the world is Independence Day. Which is 80% or more of cases means "independence from Britain."
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My wife worked for a while with Catholic Charities teaching ESL for refugees - this is lifesaving work.
September 10, 2024 at 8:23 PM
My wife worked for a while with Catholic Charities teaching ESL for refugees - this is lifesaving work.
Tired: Shapiro would have locked down PA
Wired: Walz will hold down the margins in the rural upper Midwest
Inspired: Walz delivers NE-02 for the 271st electoral vote.
Someone with meme skills please help me, my family is dying…
Wired: Walz will hold down the margins in the rural upper Midwest
Inspired: Walz delivers NE-02 for the 271st electoral vote.
Someone with meme skills please help me, my family is dying…
August 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Tired: Shapiro would have locked down PA
Wired: Walz will hold down the margins in the rural upper Midwest
Inspired: Walz delivers NE-02 for the 271st electoral vote.
Someone with meme skills please help me, my family is dying…
Wired: Walz will hold down the margins in the rural upper Midwest
Inspired: Walz delivers NE-02 for the 271st electoral vote.
Someone with meme skills please help me, my family is dying…
I’ve voted for every Dem prez nominee since I was 18 (Clinton 1). I’m not voting for this asshole.
Man, idk if this is going to work out www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/p...
July 4, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I’ve voted for every Dem prez nominee since I was 18 (Clinton 1). I’m not voting for this asshole.
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The coordinated attacks on misinformation researchers and academics who research power and propaganda are accelerating. It’s increasingly seen as dangerous to try and understand the reality of the systems being built around us and to remove our ability to know what truth is.
Awful. Stanford Internet Observatory, a fantastic effort studying online misinfo & related topics, dismantled after "a sustained & increasingly successful campaign among Republicans to discredit research institutions & discourage academics from investigating political speech & influence campaigns."
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
House Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now Stanford is pulling the plug
www.platformer.news
June 14, 2024 at 4:55 AM
The coordinated attacks on misinformation researchers and academics who research power and propaganda are accelerating. It’s increasingly seen as dangerous to try and understand the reality of the systems being built around us and to remove our ability to know what truth is.
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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This part is really well put.
May 29, 2024 at 11:36 PM
This part is really well put.