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LOU LOU's avatar

The state of USA will continue to become more unpopular and isolated like a kid no one wants to play with because he's volatile, gross and can't be trusted.

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The Lichtenbergian's avatar

The Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week, is an interactive map that is tracking the impacts of federal cuts around the globe. Every story they receive becomes a dot on the map, when you click on the dots, the impacts are sumamrized and you can click to the news story (if applicable). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abigail-andr%C3%A9-b46b4330_data-federalgovernment-federalworkers-activity-7301985690039242752-c-Km?rcm=ACoAAAB9Ol8B22F9-NfXMg1HvmaLhP2eCfh3zDY

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SomeBeanz's avatar

So Michigan is a tree stump, is it?

The creator of the above “map” needs to be slapped. HARD.

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Andy Reed's avatar

If I worked in one of those positions, and kept my job, and someone came to me at a National Park and said "The bathrooms are filthy. Nobody's cleaned the bathrooms!!!" or "What do you mean I can't have the therapy that you required me to have and that I'm still supposed to get?!?!?" . . . my answer would be

"Sorry. Your President decided that you should enjoy a filthy bathroom." Or "Your president decided that you don't need more therapy. If you want things to change, think about politics, because that's the only thing that's going to change your situation the next time you get to vote -- but don't fucking blame me."

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Am struggling to notice any forms of emergent Great, unless it's "...great, now that's ruined too."

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This Woman Votes's avatar

Once again, Republicans have made it crystal clear that their number one priority is protecting the ultra-wealthy, and if that means letting seniors freeze in their homes, so be it. Because what’s a little mass suffering compared to keeping billionaires safe from paying literally anything more into a system that they benefit from indirectly every single day?

Social Security isn’t just a retirement fund. It’s a contract—a promise that if you work your entire damn life, you won’t be left eating cat food in your golden years. And yet, here we are, watching Mike Crapo (I will never get over that name) and his merry band of economic terrorists gleefully sabotaging any attempt to make sure people don’t live out their last decades in abject poverty.

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Cailean's avatar

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/25/jour-m25.html

The AP actively repressed any support for Palesine. They spoke out against student protests and actively sucked up to republicans while isreal commits atrocities in the name of the american empire. So why are people sad the AP doesnt have a seat at the table? Oh, OAN and daily wire are worse? I see the same bullshit coming from pretty much every "popular" news orifice.

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Peter Dellos's avatar

My alliterative summation: "DOGE douchebags dick up departmental division by the dozens with despicable decimations"

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Camilla B. (GA)'s avatar

“Right now there’s a kitchen floor that needs someone to lie on it and drink, so we’ll get back to you.”

I hear you, loud and clear.

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Snowolf100's avatar

"Incidentally, we are now convinced Trump is never going to fire Musk in a rage over being upstaged. If all that “President Musk” stuff hasn’t enraged him yet, it isn’t gonna. "

I think tfg a) is keeping musk around to blame when everything goes wrong, he always has a fall guy to throw under the bus.

b) happy he's being kept out of prison

c) musk doing the work means he doesn't have to. He can golf and show up as you say to fluff putin.

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kmblue187's avatar

"Right now there’s a kitchen floor that needs someone to lie on it and drink, so we’ll get back to you."

Great line.

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Dialectic.Detective's avatar

Well, now I can add "Quagga Mussels" to the list of terrifying things, right next to giant hogweed and Asian carp.

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displacedCTYankee's avatar

Excellent U.S. map. Al Franken would have drawn the state boundaries.

I think Alaska belongs *inside* Canada.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Isn’t Canada Southern Alaska?

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motmelere's avatar

New MAGA mantra: "I'm a douchebag and I like it"

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Tighten your belts, it is going to be a rough ride.

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ziggywiggy's avatar

The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT.

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MrEes's avatar

Over? I’m not quite ready yet.

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Parakeetist's avatar

Okay, cool!

I wish I'd heard earlier. I enjoy watching these movies. I've got to watch them more often.

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