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vernib.bsky.social
@vernib.bsky.social
💙, Animal lover, Save democracy, Translate bs to truth
You really need to reassess your plans for visiting us here in the U.S. Don’t put your wonderful work in jeopardy. Many countries are advising their citizens to not visit at this time.
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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If your federal payroll provider is DFAS, the Interior Business Center, or the National Finance Center your union dues are no longer being deducted from your paycheck. ⤵️

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Trump administration ends union dues collection for most feds without notice
Unions at federal agencies targeted by the president’s executive order stripping them of their collective bargaining rights found out about the change when employees began receiving their most recent ...
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April 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Or, hear me out on this one, it's because the richest people in the country pay a lower average tax rate than our middle 50% of the country.
April 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Whatever happened to emails?
April 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The key line is, "in the custody of a foreign sovereign."

The Administration is—predictably—treating SCOTUS as having upheld its legal theory that the moment it sells a body to Nayib Bukele, it can't retrieve it because he has _permanent_ custody of it.

And that's how the slave trade works, folks.
April 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
They don’t care.
April 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Asinine. This whole thing. All his blathering about a beautiful thing. We will not experience any such beauty from this. He has given us NO PROTECTIONS from any of this. It is purely using the power of our country that we (the commoners) pay taxes to, for his own bank account.
April 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Kiss my ass”
April 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“Why is this bad?”. Wow.
April 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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April 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM