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Just a girl. An old one. Wondering how she got that way. Philly Philly, Nova girl, Nerd mom

Joined January 2017
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"A day in April never came so sweet" Merchant of Venice A2S1
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"Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us" All's Well That Ends Well A4S4 #ShakespeareSunday
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"With his eyes full of anger" As You Like It A1S3 #ShakespeareSunday
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I'm old enough to remember when Trump and Elon cut children's cancer research funding (last week) and Republicans were silent.
if you’re not clapping for a kid with brain cancer, you have serious mental issues.
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"What are you reading?" Troilus and Cressida A3S3 #ShakespeareSunday
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"Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge" Twelfth Night A2S3 #ShakespeareSunday
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Manda retweeted
McGovern: Democrats offered an amendment to protect Medicaid. Every Republican voted no.  Democrats offered an amendment to extend tax cuts for people making under $400,000 while ensuring that corporations and billionaires pay their fair share. Every Republican voted no.  Democrats offered an amendment preventing tax giveaways for people earning over $1 million a year. Every Republican voted no.  We asked them to vote against tax breaks for people earning over $100 million per year. Every Republican voted no.  We offered an amendment preventing tax cuts for people with a net worth of over, get this $1 billion. Every Republican voted no.  They betrayed their constituents. They voted to steal from the American people in order to protect tax breaks for billionaires
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"What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?" Much Ado About Nothing A3S4 #ShakespeareSunday
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We DID NOT take an oath to a king or wannabe dictator, we swore to defend the United States Constitution. We served our nation, not one man!
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Can’t wait for the all of the MAGA Black folks at the White House yesterday to comment on how Donald Trump fired a Black 4-star general as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has named less qualified white man. I’ll wait.
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This is Nazism this is nazism this is nazism this is nazism this is nazism this is nazism. We have to believe our eyes.
First musk. Now Steve Bannon. America. You have a nazi problem. I say this with no exaggeration.
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It’s 4am - still debating the Republicans’ billionaire tax giveaway. We offered an amendment to say no tax cut for those making over $10m. Every Republican voted no. So we tried $100m. Every Republican voted no. So we tried $500m! Every Republican a no. See what’s going on?
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"But, come what may, I do adore thee so, That danger shall seem sport, and I will go" Twelfth Nigh A2S1 #ShakespeareSunday
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"they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves" Much Ado About Nothing A5S1 #ShakespeareSunday
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The whole "no men in women's sport crowd" never talk about "women in men's sports" - think they know trans-men play sports, too? And probably also can out perform some cis-men? Nah, because it's not about that. It's about #hatingwomen
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Read/copy/repost if you can 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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"Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning May bare the raven's eye!" Cymbeline A2S1 #ShakespeareSunday
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The Commander in Chief is politicizing the deaths of not only 67 lives, but three Servicemembers. His hatred for those who serve knows no bounds. His disdain for women knows no limits. His empathy for those left behind is nonexistent. Absolutely DISGRACEFUL.
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"I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster" Tempest A2S2 #ShakespeareSunday
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