Lacey Spirit

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police

I really wish they would have linked to source material and not their own article. Anyone have the bulletin from FBI?

All of this is to say, in a single day I experienced a multitude of ways in which we are failing ourselves kneecapping our economy and small business, our families, ohr children, our future and our most vulnerable. It’s frankly overwhelming. 10/10

Everyone is suffering. My industry is dependent on international tourism and guess where the fuck people don’t want to go? Here. Which is completely understandable they don’t want to be Hyundai’d . So less income, less taxes payed, less benefits to employees, less disposable income and less growth.

Our economy shrinking in my day to day life. Can you? All of the price increases are suffocating our ability to create jobs. Growth and the future seems like they’ve been tabled until next fiscal year, at best. Wtf are we doing? This is not what a strong middle class and economy look like. 9/?

It looks like I’ll have to table health insurance until next fiscal year in favor of keeping the team on salary. I’ve offered bonuses to cover part time employees that won’t receive snap. They are forced to part time work as schools don’t have funding for SPED programs. I can personally feel 8/?

“Look, it’s crazy out here right now. Just take it” They thanked me and sheepishly accepted. On the drive home I couldn’t shake the experience of my day with the failure to fund education in last nights election results. Teachers in my neighborhood have said they will be let go due to funding. 7/?

I got groceries. But on the way out of the hair salon that I couldn’t afford, I noticed a couple checking the rack set up outside for food donations. I checked in with the couple and tried to pass them some cash. They politely declined. I noticed the woman was pregnant. I tried again 6/?

In a single day, I was quoted $3700 for basic car maintenance ie. tires, oil, brakes. $675 for a hair cut & color, $300 for groceries… I’m at a loss. You can bet your ass, my new money, tax paying ass says “nope” I asked the mechanic to just make the car “stop & go” and opted for just a hair cut 4/?

Annually. It’s difficult to budget for that. Should I budget another 50% for next year so I can operate? I come from small town Texas. We didn’t go to the doctor. We went to the veterinarian. Real talk. Fish antibiotics. Puppy pain killers. Cold baths for fever. So when in the lord year 2025 3/?

My goal for the past two years has been to get health insurance for the genuine friends and family that make up our team. I have worked to provide salary to experienced seasonal workers and create stability for our team. Every type on insurance needed is insanely priced nearly 50% increase 2/?

Look, I’m fresh to the lower middle class. The newest of money. In my immediate family, I’m the only one to graduate college & have health insurance. Im the founder & majority owner of the family business that I created for us. The CEO/CFO/COO. I’m drowning in responsibility. My mother is disabled.

I don’t agree. Tho, the messaging is off per usual. Highlighting this spending and priority while we suffer financial instability begs the question, why aren’t we collecting “private donations” via taxes to fund our Real American Priorities. healthcare, housing & groceries > tRump Spending Agenda.

I need everyone to ask their republicans friends and family why their party, as a majority controlling all branches of government, has made no effort to pass immigration reform. Please report back.

This thread makes me wonder what it’s like to be a law school professor these days. I’m reminded everyday of my legal studies professor telling me that maybe law wasn’t the right fit for me if I questioned the charitable interpretation of legislative intent.

Watching this made my stomach churn. I was not expecting the wave of emotion that hit me at the end though. The volume of awful we are seeing erodes at hope.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Relevant: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

I’m over here wrapping up a day of work to see if Bluesky is talking about this shit show.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Dear news outlets: Link to the actual things you're writing about. A lawsuit? Link to it. A previous court ruling? Link to it. A bill? Yup, link.

So often we instead get a link to that outlet's past coverage, only to learn the original story also didn't link to the source.

This is bad. Stop it.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

I was surprised to learn of the Epstein and Koshoggi connections when reading the Epstein Wiki. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. But the gravity of the 90/00s power and influence became clear to me.

Where is the report of cutting off ties due to political leanings? I’m looking for it and the source.

What was released today?

You can do that in your settings

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book filled with sexual references One friend called him the “Degenerate One.” Another referred to his deviant sexual obsessions, writing an anecdote about forcing women to undress at knifepoint while they were trapped on a boat.

You’d have to read the book. There is a quick mentioned in this article. www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...

Epstein has various media contacts, production companies, dignitaries & executives from the 90’s to early 00’s. So it’s pretty obvious why some of these details are ignored in favor of seeming benign information. The truth is right there. Clutching my idealistic sense of justice over here.

Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel is found dead in a French jail cell Brunel, a modeling agent, was being held in an investigation into the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.

Context: www.npr.org/2022/02/19/1...