@GusSaysalot @LolaMMaine No he's disabled but not totally crippled, VA math (actual name) is not intuitive to an outsider
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@ThisIsMyPhone5
I'm just here so I don't get fined
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@ThisIsMyPhone5 @LolaMMaine So the taxpayers give him over 4k a month for not being disabled?
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Graham Platner is a 100% disabled veteran receiving VA benefits of $4,800 month that he himself says supplement his income because his oyster business “does not make much money.” He took over Waukeag Neck Oyster Co. in 2020, runs it with his wife and a partner, and has acknowledged selling oysters to Ironbound, a restaurant owned by Leslie Harlow his mother, and addition to limited local spots and private events. He’s not some struggling independent oysterman scraping by solely on the water. He comes from a privileged background: prep school, successful restaurateur mother, attorney father, prominent architect grandfather, and is now a Democratic Senate candidate backed by the party machine and national donors. His attacks on “billionaires sucking money out of rural Maine” ring hollow when his own livelihood relies heavily on government disability payments rather than a thriving private business.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
America has ten times the billionaires today than we had in 1990. In rural Maine we have fewer schools, fewer hospitals, fewer young people who can ever hope to buy a home. Money has been sucked upward, out of our towns and into the pockets of the billionaire class.
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@GusSaysalot @LolaMMaine 100% benefit does not mean totally disabled, it's 100% of disability pay not 100% disabled
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@LolaMMaine I’ve known oyster farmers, it’s definitely manual labor. How does someone thats 100% disabled do that kind of work?
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The age and style differences between 71-year-old Representative Stephen Lynch and his 39-year-old Democratic challenger, Patrick Roath, underscore a key dynamic animating the Democratic Party, even in safe-blue corners such as Massachusetts. trib.al/lWZrDzn
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@GrantSmithEllis @PatrickRoath 39 is almost middle aged! JFK was already a senator at 39.
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@PatrickRoath God forbid the youth want to run for Congress.
I hope you decimate Lynch in the debates and take his seat.
I'll moderate one of them.
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Ah yes, kids these days... (I'm literally 39)
The Boston Globe@BostonGlobe
The age and style differences between 71-year-old Representative Stephen Lynch and his 39-year-old Democratic challenger, Patrick Roath, underscore a key dynamic animating the Democratic Party, even in safe-blue corners such as Massachusetts. trib.al/lWZrDzn
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@6infrigidwater @ggooooddddoogg The problem here is she's cosplaying "trad 1870s wife" and he's cosplaying "Creed backup guitarists"
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@ggooooddddoogg Its so rare that a trad husband makes an appearance in these videos. Almost like they know their ugly mugs and weird vibe have a de-influencing effect.
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watch until the end do NOT miss the half second look at the trad husband
MERICA MEMED@Mericamemed
Gentlemen, we are seeing an endangered species. Feminism has destroyed this.
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@JamesCh89793620 @TokyoTom2020 @DerrickEvans4WV @stellaglutes Well then you would understand it wasn't the Pope making the sole decision to excommunicate the former bishop for schism. And that the validity of Vatican II would be a theological opinion that a Pope would be infallible on.
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@ThisIsMyPhone5 @TokyoTom2020 @DerrickEvans4WV @stellaglutes If you’re a Catholic who understands how it works (not a naive outsider who only THINKS he does) infallibility applies when a Pope is speaking ex cathedra on matters of doctrine. That means — to settle theological questions. His “opinions” in general aren’t automatically true.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has joined President Trump in slamming Pope Leo XIV.
In a powerful new statement, Viganò told the Pope to “get his act together,” stop acting like a politician pandering to the radical left, and start acting like a real spiritual leader instead of constantly attacking Trump’s foreign policy.
Viganò pointed out that many faithful Catholics are scandalized by Pope Leo’s weak, woke criticism of Trump’s decisive actions against the Iranian regime and his overall softness on global issues.
This comes after Trump called out the Pope for being “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy.”
The message is clear: The Vatican needs strong leadership, not more political virtue-signaling.
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The teacher making $125k per year, with 3 months of PTO, and 35 hour work weeks
Is better off than...
The attorney making $250k per year, with 1-2 weeks of PTO, and 60+ hour work weeks
It's not even close
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@2ndhandsports00 @DemzDeliver The shooting rate has fallen for the last 4 years straight in Boston
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@DemzDeliver yeah, if they don't get shot before the summer
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🚨 All high schoolers in Boston are now guaranteed a summer internship if they want one.
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@JamesCh89793620 @TokyoTom2020 @DerrickEvans4WV @stellaglutes If you're a Catholic being the Pope does make your opinions valid
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@TokyoTom2020 @DerrickEvans4WV @stellaglutes Just as simply being Pope doesn’t make your opinions valid, “excommunication” by Francis doesn’t make your opinions wrong.
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@DavidJHarrisJr Oh, you've never been to mass. Priests do this thing called a homily where they do a short lesson on the scripture being read, in this case a line from Matthew.
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THIS IS BLASPHEMY!!!!!
Jesus NEVER SAID THIS!!!
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST NOW: Pope Leo drops this line in Cameroon "Jesus told us, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."
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@Zulu2454 @notcapnamerica Ok, but can they register to vote?
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@notcapnamerica Common sense should tell you
Yes, foreign (international) students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities routinely receive the same university-issued student ID cards as domestic student
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Now I need a Republican to explain to me why they would be against college IDs being used to vote. Quickly
Hannah Adamson TV@Hannah__Adamson
BREAKING: A federal court has blocked an Indiana law that prohibits college students from using their student ID as voter ID. @FOX59 | @CBS4Indy
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@BasedNP @punishedpants The nurses all work 3 12's or 4 10's depending on the schedule structure and the doctors probably work 4 12s based on a 4 week month (16 shifts a month)
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@punishedpants The real problem is availability. People expect the ER open 24/7 and tech support to answer the phone. You might have done nothing all day Thursday but twiddle your thumbs but Friday something happens and you have a crisis
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this study has been replicated a shitload of times that the 5 day work week tends to be a waste of everybody's time but nobody important really seems to care that that's the case
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
"Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing," per FORTUNE
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@frogs4girls @FabianLiberty I was going to reply until I saw his check, just looking for engagement for that $0.000000001
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@FabianLiberty then shut up close the app and go spend time with your children lmao
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@MalarkeyControl @HollyJollyGamer @BenjaminPDixon So we're mercantilist now? Because I assure you the owners of plantations sold their wares at market for their own profit, not state profit
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@ThisIsMyPhone5 @HollyJollyGamer @BenjaminPDixon The difference: the state prevents large fractions of society from buying and selling capital under mercantilism.
The state protects everyone’s right to buy and sell capital under capitalism.
The movement to abandon capitalism and return to mercantilism is gaining support.
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People with no capital defending it with their lives.
Harry Eccles@Heccles94
What’s the worst thing about capitalism?
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@MalarkeyControl @HollyJollyGamer @BenjaminPDixon Let's just get to the core of this argument, how do you define mercantilism and how does it therefore differ from capitalism?
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@HollyJollyGamer @BenjaminPDixon You are describing mercantilism. Capitalism only started replacing mercantilism in the 1800s.
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This you, Nina? You fucking asshole.
Nina Turner@ninaturner
They refused to listen to those of us who said their support of a genocide would result in them losing to Trump, allowing this to happen.
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@Brianf53 @SamaHoole jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
These recommendations are based on the review of 22 RCT-DB studies though
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@SamaHoole Fake science-Always ask: What’s the absolute benefit, who funded it, and was it blinded?
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Doctor: "The statin is non-negotiable given your family history."
Patient: "My father had a heart attack at 58. He ate margarine his entire adult life on medical advice."
Doctor: "Dietary fat isn't the issue."
Patient: "The margarine?"
Doctor: "We now know trans fats were problematic, yes."
Patient: "You recommended them."
Doctor: "The profession recommended them."
Patient: "Based on the same lipid hypothesis you're using to prescribe me a statin."
Doctor: "The science has moved on."
Patient: "Which bit?"
Doctor: "...LDL remains a key marker."
Patient: "Right."
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@hiscoraline So in direct response to your question, an hour a night of "hand hand fingers thumb" or "the story of Moses" kills any time I have to read "the iliad" (honestly I read several books and MANY research papers last year, but I'm helping everyone else with this response)
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@hiscoraline First of all, my kids books are 25 pages max, second of all they want me to keep reading the exact same one over and over. I read the same book 7 times yesterday, cover to cover
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It wasn't a stunt! Proceeds to explain exactly how it was a stunt.
Cernovich@Cernovich
It truly was not a stunt. I was there. The White House was rolling out the red carpet for new media. Briefings all day with Cabinet, principals, etc. We had to leave the building as Kier Starmer's people needed the room. (They were outside waiting, we ran overtime, it was not some chess play on us.) Bondi told us there wasn't anything new in the binders, but wanted to show us they were working on it. It was a gesture of goodwill. Then we went outside, and snap snap snap. Armies of photographers. Great example of the truth is stranger than fiction.
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