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@mishiepoet I haven’t been here for a while so a big hello! Here is my protest poem for @TopTweetTuesday
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#Ekphrasticchallenge2025 Day Twelve. All are welcome. Please post your responses below to one, two, or all three of the artworks.
thewombwellrainbow.com/2025/…
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Poetry in response
Ekphrastic poetry challenge April 2025
#writers+poets #nz #poetrycommunity
thanks to @PaulDragonwolf1 , the wombwell rainbow
and all the artists .
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Autumn has fallen
For the tree and her
A serene siren who leans
Upon her this day remembering
All that has been lost
But still hoping for some glory yet
@ArtistreesS @PaulDragonwolf1 #EkphasticChallenge2025 #day3 #poetry #australianpoetey #autumn #ageing #menopause #hope
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🚨#BREAKING: Western North Carolina high-school students in Yancey County have been using their carpentry class to build tiny homes for victims of Hurricane Helene for 4 months.
Today, the group of 18 high-school seniors and their teacher delivered their first home.
AMAZING!!!
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Her worries floated away
She popped some of the bubbles
To make sure they stayed that way
Her hopes were buried in dirt beneath her
In the arms of the trees that lit the ember
Of future hopes and loves still to come
@ArtistreesS @PaulDragonwolf1 #ekphrasticchallenge #poetry
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I've been told that pundits don't want to entertain the possibility that the election was hacked because it would "undermine confidence in the government." Well, folks, that ship has already sailed. We might as well know the truth.
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Elon Musk was elected by no one. He is accountable to no one.
Donald Trump handed him the keys to our government, and together they have plunged the country into chaos.
It’s the American people who will suffer as a result.
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ONCE AGAIN FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK..
DOGE IS NOT A OFFICAL GOV ENTITY.
CONGRESS HASNT CREATED THIS DEPT OR EVEN SEEN A PRELIMB BUDGET REPORT!
THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO YOUR PRIVATE INFO.
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As Trump steals our data, fires cops, releases his violent inmates onto our streets, and raises all of our grocery costs…remember this:
It’s a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to defend freedom than to get it back once it’s taken.
Get ready. He’s coming for your freedom.
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From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."
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STOP RIGHT NOW: If you haven't read this yet, please do. This was yesterday, January 29th, 2025.





























