Mego
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Mego
@mego42pemberley.bsky.social
My life is like a romantic comedy except there's no romance and it's just me laughing at my own jokes.
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One good thing about the current Republican administration is that it's forcing Democrats to look at how messed up their own party is. The entire political system needs Harvey Keitel's Mr. Wolf character from Pulp Fiction to come in and clean house.
March 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry.

You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
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 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.
February 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Elon Musk's task force has gained access to sensitive Treasury payment systems, sources say
The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and…
buff.ly
February 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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One of the many reasons to love Katie Phang is that she rightfully addresses him as "Convicted felon and President".
February 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Did you know?

In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
February 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Khristina Hunter is a firefighter. Her mom is Shelia Hunter, one of the first woman firefighters for the San Francisco Fire Department. The FIRST Black woman! Together, they’re the first mother/daughter duo with the department ✨

HERstory. They just so happen to be my neighbors 🧡
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
February 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Welcome to the class of Gaslighting 101. Take notes, it's a four-year course.
January 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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People outside the US are posting TikTok’s roasting Americans now that it’s banned here.

LMAO.
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?
January 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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In an effort to ignore the hideous reality we are all facing, here's a picture of me as a cowboy for no apparent reason. 🤠
January 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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“Shocking!” said no one, ever.

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State abortion bans are killing women

prismreports.org/2025/01/06/a...
State abortion bans are killing women
The devastating aftermath of Dobbs is creating life-or-death circumstances for pregnant people in states with abortion bans.
prismreports.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Trump’s first choice for Attorney General.
January 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!
January 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Because, of course, this guy would send condolences to the deceased first lady.

I would say what an embarrassment for Texas.

But y'all still have Ted Cruz running loose.

#SheShed #wtpBLUE #Voices4Victory

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Greg Abbott sent condolences to Jimmy Carter’s wife – who had been dead a year
Texas governor mocked for statement about former president directed at Rosalynn Carter, who died in November 2023
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

New Year's Day was a day that enslaved Black people feared the most. Why? It was the day that slave masters would rent them out or auction them off. This would result in the splitting up of (cont)
#ResistanceRoots
#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy
ibw21.org/reparations/...
The Dark History of New Year's Day in American Slavery
By Olivia B. Waxman — "Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any," one 1842 account explained. Here's why.
ibw21.org
December 29, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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I only have two episodes of Interior Chinatown left to watch and it’s SO GOOD so far! I want to know how it ends but also I don’t want it to end! More people should be talking about this!!!
December 29, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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This one wins
December 25, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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One of the coolest things about publishing a book in Norway is that the gov will automatically buy 1k copies, 1.5K if its a children's book, these will then be distributed to all the libraries.
December 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
December 21, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Happy Caturday Bluesky people 💙
December 21, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Persuasion was published on this day in 1817. Making it 207 years of every other love letter not being good enough.
December 20, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Delighted Health Insurance Executives Gather In Outdoor Coliseum To Watch Patient Battle Cancer
theonion.com/delighted-he...
December 19, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM