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Detroit expatriate but happy in @alexandriava. World traveler. Vernors lover. Dad. | Be kind and have courage. | Cave cave deus videt.

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Know more, care more, and therefore do more

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@cljack Ask him if they landed or were shot down

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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@cljack @claytonquarells Tom Hanks. Bad things happen to his airplanes, ships, rockets, trains…

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@DietCoke_Esq I'd absolutely pay my lawyer for an hour of this. ROI is huge.

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@BovrilG Three days later…

KISSINGER: Mr. President, there is one further complication.

NIXON: What complication?

KISSINGER: The strategy appears to be working.

[THIRTEEN SECONDS OF SILENCE]

NIXON: Goddammit.

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@cljack They can give you O neg if they have any, but also, only 50% or so of people get sensitized from exposure, so your best bet is to take the blood and survive now, then worry about hemolysis later.

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

Overhearing my family talk about world politics is like overhearing kids talk about what they think sex is.

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They tell cancer patients to watch out for this. I don’t understand it. Sickness AND health? I love our quarterly trips to Mayo. Rochester in the winter is a *treat*.

[zoë @zoeloveshouses]

girl on tiktok with a chronic illness saying the number 1 thing anyone with a chronic illness needs is a significant other who will do everything for them like that’s the easiest thing in the world to find and men don’t loooooove leaving their sick partners lol

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he’s an inventor, he’s a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he’s hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,

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@cljack @Tacitus1 Add this to the questionnaire: “jet fuel can melt steel beams” (True / False)?

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@endofanerajc Fingers crossed it works for you soon!

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@endofanerajc That really sucks. Wife went through concern she had MCAS too. Are you also doing H1/H2 blockers, montelukast, cromolyn sodium, etc?

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@endofanerajc Gave me panic attacks that something was terribly wrong. You aren’t alone. Can I ask what you’re using the prednisone for?

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@cljack @leylaaa31 I stopped doing that (or tried to) when I heard my 3 year old pipe up “green means go” from the back seat after the car in front took a moment to start moving.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

If you think I’m trashing MAGA (whatever that is now) I really am sorry. I know for certain there are millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump that love this country and love their neighbors and love their families and struggle and succeed and fail just like me and you and everyone. And I don’t begrudge them their political affiliation in any way. I just abhor the hate. The meanness for the sake of being mean. No matter where it’s coming from. I’m not your enemy man. I’m really not. They’re trying to get us to fight among ourselves while they pick our pockets and piss on our legs and tell us it’s raining. I’m not doing that to you and I sure as hell know you’re not doing that to me. What could we possibly gain by hating each other as they walk off with all the food on the table. We can disagree with each other without hating each other. We just all need to break the algorithm man. It’s so much more fun finding a reason to love someone than it is finding a reason to hate them.

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@Spanish_Techno There’s a joke in here about lesbians not knowing their way around caulk. Maybe we can workshop it.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

So putting a bunch of 20 something incels with no life experience in charge of making cuts to necessary government programs was a bad idea? Who could have seen that coming?