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It's 2:37 PM Eastern and I'm glad you're alive.

Thanks for being here with me.

The largest caucus of House Republicans released a plan that cuts Social Security spending by $1.5 trillion.

These are the same Republicans pushing to extend the Trump tax cuts — which would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit.

None of this is really about addressing the debt.

Yesterday the Fair Representation Act was re-introduced in Congress! This reform will stop gerrymandering and make the House of Representatives more competitive and more responsive to voters.

Learn more from #FairVote here: fairvote.org/our-reforms/fair-

And contact your representatives and ask them to support the #FairRepAct!

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#uspol #RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #ProportionalRepresentation #gerrymandering

A preview of next week when the so-called billionaire pretends he can't afford an approx. half billion dollar payment.

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is!

It's going to be so much fun watching Donald Trump loot the Republican National Committee. Couldn't happen to a nicer party.
Gift link: wapo.st/48RMtRq
#politics #USPol #Trump

Age has become a big issue in the US presidential election.

By the end of the next presidential term, Biden will be 85.

And by the end of his prison term, Trump will be 795.

#OpenAI responds to the #Elon suit with a blog post. Which, honestly, might be more appropriate than it seems.

#lawfedi @law

openai.com/blog/openai-elon-mu

As far as people go, I *get* that in some cases the jurisdiction they live in will not let them change their government name. But that move is against their will. I'll respect any trans or non-binary person's name to committing to a name they want to be called.

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It is not a deadname until you stop using it (The exception: When you're legally prevented from doing so).

I will stop "deadnaming" Twitter when the domain twitter.com no longer works or redirects.

There is nothing legally preventing Elon Musk from cutting off the name Twitter, so it is decidedly NOT a deadname. He keeps it for the ad revenue to come in, and thus, has chosen to not deadname it.

If there actually was some Illuminati-level conspiracy to remove the weakest people from the gene pool, convincing the absolute dumbest people not to vaccinate their kids would be a pretty solid way to get that done.

Update: So we're going for a house that has said decorative fireplace. At least the realtor for the listing was honest and didn't try photoshopping in some fire.

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Growing up, I my schools never made any kind of observance about day 100. My kids go to different schools and each school makes a big deal out of it now, and they're schools near where I used to attend.

A typical school year is 180 days, why did they start making a big deal out of 100 days? It's past the half point, which I think would be more of a milestone than some arbitrary number picked out because it happens to be the first third digit day.

The skin of your laundry pods dissolve in the washing machine, right?

They dissolve into microplastic.
And wastewater treatment systems have no way to filter that out so the microplastics go straight into streams and the ocean.

Just pour your laundry soap out of a box or bottle.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20?

In her latest unhinged rant, Nikki Haley now says "Texas can secede if that's what it's voters want."

Okay, let's do the math on that.

If Texas secedes:
•Texas loses $68.2B in Federal aid
•GOP loses 2 US Senate seats, Dems lose 0
•GOP loses 27 US House seats, Dems lose 11
•Dems win permanent control of US House, US Senate, & White House

MAGAs never think these things through, do they? They don't care about the Constitution or national unity—only uninhibited power.

Vote GOP Out Permanently.

Why are real estate listings allowed to photoshop in actively burning fires in the fireplace if it has been declared decorative and sealed/capped by the homeowner?

OH HELL YES!

Jon Stewart, who during his 16-year run as host of the Comedy Central program established it as an entertainment and cultural force, will return to host the show each week on Mondays starting February 12, Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios announced Wednesday.

cnn.com/2024/01/24/entertainme

That awful feeling when you come home from visiting your young grandson and realise that you didn't give him his nose back before you left.

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