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@paraphrased.bsky.social

Tired, so very tired - but we can't quit. Humanist, skeptic, scientist. Deport Elon to Mars πŸš€ Democracy stan she/herπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Do you have any info on which offices were targeted? EERE? OCED?

11.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Duh, of course you have fashion sense - pony tails and glasses are hot! (Disclaimer: I may have written that with my hair in a ponytail and my glasses on too)

06.06.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But didn't you know, if a hot girl wears glasses and her hair in a ponytail she becomes ugly!

(until she takes said glasses off and lets her hair down that is)

06.06.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

03.06.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 12022    πŸ” 2931    πŸ’¬ 313    πŸ“Œ 189
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"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts"

Source:
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03.06.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7176    πŸ” 2288    πŸ’¬ 293    πŸ“Œ 198
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They're literally doing the meme

03.06.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 15097    πŸ” 3242    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 113
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"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst

That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

30.05.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 16811    πŸ” 5419    πŸ’¬ 2013    πŸ“Œ 619
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JD Vance cheered on Trump today for gutting oversight of cryptocurrencies, while Trump’s family cashes in with meme coins, NFTs, and stable coin.

They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts!

I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:

29.05.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2616    πŸ” 841    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 40

after HOW MANY MONTHS of baseless incarceration??????

29.05.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit.

We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.

21.05.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 17792    πŸ” 5415    πŸ’¬ 564    πŸ“Œ 348

Ghouls, they are ghouls. I really wish I believed in hell.

14.05.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genocide is genocide is genocide, ffs.

How is it antisemitic to call things what they are?

It's as if you were calmly watching a woman go on a murder spree, but refused to stop her (or call it murder) because it would be "misogynist"

14.05.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Report: One in five people in Gaza could starve to death within months Almost 250,000 are already starving under Israel's blockade, according to the UN.

Nearly 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or approximately one in five of its residents, could starve to death in the coming months under Israel’s total aid blockade, according to a new report published Monday.

13.05.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 452    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 28

Oh, just ban the poors, why didn't we think of it earlier?

Can we ban infectious diseases and cancer too?

Go F yourself Newsom.

12.05.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When your "progressives" are actually just baby austerity-peddling, fund -the-rich, fuck-the-poors, waiting-till-I-get to-power-to-reveal-myself conservatives.

We have his kind across the pond too.

12.05.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So is American major media just going to pretend that Donald Trump and his venal band of brigands didn't just spend the last five years of this space-time continuum daily accusing Joe Biden of taking bribes from a foreign countryβ€”something Trump just PUBLICLY did to the tune of $400 MILLION DOLLARS?

12.05.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2493    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 40

Worcester MA police "deescalating a chaotic situation"

11.05.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for being there, and standing up for what democracy.

11.05.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG. I would be giving a speech after this game, aimed at all the parents. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN FOR THEM.

10.05.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is intentional - the same strategy was used by secret police in Poland during martial law. They would arrest people, leaving infants and children unattended in apartments, and then use the threat of not calling anyone to pressure parents to cooperate and talk. It was inhuman and horrific.

10.05.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So it’s Friday night and Rumeysa Ozturk is out on bail, Ras Baraka is in Homeland Security custody, and Stephen Miller is casually toying with suspending habeas corpus. Do I have that right?

09.05.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3353    πŸ” 735    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 39

Relieved Ozturk is out,
now do Khalil.
And Ras Baraka. And everyone in CECOT.

And then fucking abolish fucking ICE

Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE

09.05.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think police officers in the US should not be able to masks. If you’re not proud about what you’re doing quit. If you’re ashamed quit. If you have a conscience quit. If you’re afraid your family or friends will leave because what you’re doing is despicable then have the courage to quit!

09.05.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 530    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Ah, so it was about money and grift? Nobody could have predicted it!

09.05.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And this is a blunt example of why I don't seek a diagnosis

09.05.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

07.05.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15938    πŸ” 7487    πŸ’¬ 624    πŸ“Œ 572

Yeah, we are too :(

07.05.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ad is cheesy, kind of lowbrow, and poorly acted - I wouldn't have made it.

But it's making people watch and think, so maybe it is achieving it's desired effect.

And going out of our way to be offended at any and everything doesn't serve anyone's best interest.

07.05.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate the sentiment and willingness to go to bat for women, but linguistically this doesn't work the same way in Polish. It's a much more precise language, and puns and double entendres are very difficult to pull off.

"Place" literally refers to his spot on the couch, or by her side.

07.05.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, and then the Post tried to somehow still take credit for the award

07.05.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@paraphrased is following 20 prominent accounts