Educacioun that doth focus on 'workforce' alone wythout serious focus on the thrivinge and curiousitye of the individual and on the collective exploration of big questiouns about societye, knowledge, power, love, historye, and art -- that ys not educacioun, that ys just control.
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As a basic “over-replying Granny”, I may have to proverbially crawl over broken glass, like the true original performance artist Chris Burden, to gain back a decent level of followers from my abandoned Xitter account. All replies are my own lucid dreams.
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I posted this the other day, but he truly is the “Tod Spengo” of presidents.
A children’s movie villain so absurd, if he wasn’t so dangerous, it’s laughable:
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It’s the Big Beautiful Emergency 🚨 Emergency, believe me.
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My translucent whiteness comes courtesy of beet-picking ancestors from present day eastern Germany. Or as my west German-born husband remarked, “you might as well be Polish”.
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Just noticed Marc Maron wore a Ship John Sashiko-Ori Townes Shirt on his new HBO special. Pretty stylish "in the know" choice for menswear nerds.
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O Canada, glorious and free! To spend loonies on their own whiskey and ditch us.
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Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare.
It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!
#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
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Then Trump started spouting widely debunked lies about dead people.
In fact, 0.1% of Social Security benefits are paid to people over age 100, exactly the share of centenarians you'd expect. SSA has long had rigorous protocols to stop payments to beneficiaries who die.
Setting the Record Straight on Social Security | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Social Security’s payment accuracy rate is very high — well over 99 percent — and it has many safeguards against improper payments, including rigorous protocols to stop paying benefits to people who h...
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Back to the Republican megabill . . . Trump falsely claimed once again that it repealed taxation of Social Security benefits. It did not.
The senior deduction doesn't help low- and middle-income seniors at all and in fact they're harmed by other parts of the bill.
Contrary to Administration’s Misleading Claims, New Senior Deduction Doesn’t Help Low- and Middle-Income Seniors, Does Deplete Social Security Trust Funds | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Trump Administration has been peddling false and exaggerated claims about the harmful Republican megabill’s effects on the taxation of Social Security benefits, including in a blast email from...
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Right? Wait til he finds out they wore more makeup than the old hags at Mar-a-Lago.
