@twirlgrrl.bsky.social
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.
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02.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 17713 🔁 5038 💬 298 📌 198A judge ruled that DOGE can now access sensitive Treasury Department systems, allowing its Musk staffers to interact with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which manages trillions in federal payments and holds private information on millions of Americans.
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"Anyone who has ever played or seriously engaged with sports knows, however, that 'fairness- is often the first word out of the mouth of a loser." -Tom Ley defector.com/its-a-great-...
28.05.2025 17:41 — 👍 146 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 5Did you know this? When the road isn’t wide enough for two cars to get past each other, on an incline, the car going uphill has the right of way.
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Near and dear. Old article but still 100% true. I'll always be sad about it.
www.politico.com/agenda/story...
That’s hilarious
06.05.2025 20:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our school district newsletter announced the upcoming Pride Month that they've been celebrating for 30 years. There was no additional commentary. I appreciate this matter-of-fact act of resistance.
12.04.2025 00:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Per the New York Times:
"China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.
"The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing."
Singing for Justice is a wonderful hour-long film about legendary folk singer Faith Petric. Some of you may remember Faith's performance at my wedding reception! I admired her a great deal, and hope that you'll take the time to watch on your local PBS station, or stream it on the PBS website.
14.03.2025 03:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
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Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall
Weird.
OPM has stated that a response is not necessary. However, if a response were required, here is their plan: Musk-directed emails to government employees, requesting details on their work over the past week, are expected to be fed into an AI system to assess job necessity.
24.02.2025 22:41 — 👍 3798 🔁 456 💬 195 📌 43The AI system will then determine whether an employee should be terminated.
Because, of course, letting AI decide people’s livelihoods seems like a great idea.
Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.
The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout.
Democrats voted yes.
Republicans voted no.
Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.
from today's post —
thanks for reading!
link to the whole enchilada is here: bit.ly/4hLYyNx
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
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As American as apple pie.
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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social wants you to know you for sure have one valentine out there, if only you would commit.
tinyview.com/this-modern-...
X post in which database is vulnerable to “MASSIFE FRAUD” because numbers aren’t de-duplicated
We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s tween haxx0rz stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earthshattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.
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So, Starlink was provided to Ukrainian military, but possibly also to Russian military, and USAID was investigating this security issue, and then USAID was the first agency shut down in Musk's unconstitutional deconstruction of our government? Hmm.
www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-m...
Dems can take the House back in 60 days with 2 special elections coming up in Florida, bringing Congress to 217 Dems and 217 Repubs. A 3rd Congressional Seat will be opening up in NY, date to be announced.
Gay Valimont for Congress gayforcongress.com
Josh Weil for Congress: www.joshweil.us
In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"
07.02.2025 21:19 — 👍 4725 🔁 1649 💬 423 📌 344by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
28.01.2025 02:53 — 👍 7760 🔁 2633 💬 206 📌 262Photos, I could probably do that!
28.01.2025 04:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's a hard place to be in, this pit of despair.
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