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Patricia Saenz-Armstrong

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Peruvian-American economist researching education and labor. Mommy of 3 awesome humans and 2 goodest dogs & Wife (only to a human). Likes nerdy stuff and nerdy people. And cooking. UPacifico, TAMU & GMU.

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„Ich glaube nicht mehr länger, dass Demokratie und Freiheit miteinander vereinbar sind.“

Dieser Satz kommt von Peter Thiel, dem Mitbegründer von #Palantir. Von solchen Typen sollten wir uns gerade mit Blick auf unsere Sicherheit niemals abhängig machen.

11.11.2025 07:52 — 👍 4526    🔁 1305    💬 179    📌 68

Is anyone else polite to chat gpt or do you just give it orders?
Like when it asks at the end “would you like me to….”, if you’re done, do you bother responding “no, I’ve got this from here, but thanks!” or do you just ignore it?

09.11.2025 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yep

09.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Colby Jack is what my people prefer but they won’t bat an eyelash if I just use shredded “Mexican cheese blend” or even mild cheddar.

09.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I’m feeding all teens with this, I mix this filling with a bit of cooked rice. And of course, cheese in all cases 😊

09.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My oldest is vegetarian. I make a black bean + sweet potato filling. I start with stir fried onions + add the tiny cubed sweet potatoes, then diced peppers. Sometimes I add corn. Season as usual. Add finely chopped cilantro at the end if everyone likes it (at home they do).

09.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reposting because gotta love justice but also for all of the sandwich puns 🙄😂

06.11.2025 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

06.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 23132    🔁 5409    💬 1019    📌 1452

And we did our job, including the firstborn coming home from college for their first ever exercise of their voting rights!

05.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This gives me so much hope and joy.
We. The. People!

19.10.2025 03:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

18.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 6763    🔁 1788    💬 139    📌 402
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This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

12.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 20943    🔁 6743    💬 1359    📌 472
time
CultS
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claire's
NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE
To Our Valued Customers,
This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism.
At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation.
Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community.
We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future.
Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come.
We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Claire's Stores, Inc.
2400 West Central Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 | Claire's Stores, Inc. | CBI Distributing Corp.

time CultS -d 8 claire's NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE To Our Valued Customers, This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism. At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation. Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community. We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future. Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come. We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com Thank you for your attention to this matter. Claire's Stores, Inc. 2400 West Central Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 | Claire's Stores, Inc. | CBI Distributing Corp.

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS
[also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone]
BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS
also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

05.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 1529    🔁 364    💬 131    📌 130

Random thought on a Saturday morning: I have much respect for project managers, but how in the world did they stand the training?!?!?! I’m taking a certificate class, and I can’t tell you how many times per minute I want to bang my head against the wall 😵‍💫

04.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

03.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 25897    🔁 6288    💬 117    📌 554
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With Wounded Knee Medals, Trump Admin Suggests There’s Valor in Genocide The call to rescind those medals is not about erasing history, but about refusing to let lies and conquest define it.

To insist that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry “deserve those medals” is to frame the massacre at Wounded Knee as a moment of valor rather than atrocity. For Native communities, this declaration is not about honor, but erasure and cruelty that reopen and deepen a wound that has never healed.

30.09.2025 19:28 — 👍 93    🔁 40    💬 4    📌 3

Oooh this looks so good. I’ll make it when my vegetarian firstborn is visiting from college!

30.09.2025 01:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mon: carne asada w/ Spanish rice and refried beans, salsa, guac
Tue: leftovers (too busy to cook)
Wed: japchae
Thur: matzo ball chicken soup
Fri: prob leftovers again (bc I cooked too much)
Sat: veggie pizza (homemade)
Sun: general tso’s cauliflower w/quinoa fried rice

30.09.2025 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
time.com/7319963/bruc...

25.09.2025 12:47 — 👍 7021    🔁 1751    💬 118    📌 163

It’s not your job to sanewash him. Once you do, you’re reporting away from truth and facts.

24.09.2025 12:29 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So many other headlines you could’ve chosen to more accurately paint what happened there. So many.

24.09.2025 12:27 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I don’t know about college rankings but it says my kids’ high school is # 5 in the nation so they must be absolutely true and unbiased and almost perfectly calculated (it should actually be # 1) 😶

24.09.2025 03:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the National Mall this morning, a new satirical statue is up celebrating Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's "friendship" in honor of National Friendship Month.

23.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 2309    🔁 725    💬 24    📌 52

I'm telling you that that world doesn't exist.

Either we're all safe, or none of us are safe.

Kimmel and Colbert and jokes cannot save you from what's coming.

You need the people that you won't fight for, to fight for you.

But one-way solidarity ain't it.

23.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 1340    🔁 280    💬 13    📌 8
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“I’m just one person, what can I do?”
Our part, dear, our part.
One by one, doing our part. Text from hubs after we decided to “vote with our feet”.
You’re more powerful than you think you are.

21.09.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Obama on Charlie Kirk:

17.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 2897    🔁 732    💬 172    📌 224

🔥 take: If your field relies on a pile of acronyms, you’ve built a members-only club.
In an era of interdisciplinary collaboration, lingo and acronyms are walls. Clear language is an invitation. Try common, accessible language. It might surprise you how much more impactful your work can be.

13.09.2025 18:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#econsky anyone at DOL who could hook me up with RAPIDS data that has recently disappeared from public use?

10.09.2025 20:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That’s my district!

10.09.2025 00:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Glad because he needs to hear much more of this. Thank you NY.
Sad because I know the singer, and she was doing one of the best national anthem performances I’ve ever heard.
I hope she gets to do it again when the orange buffoon isn’t there.

07.09.2025 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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