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Ben Orlebeke
@borlebeke.bsky.social
all my haters become my waiters when i sit down at the table of success
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the main difference between late 20s and early 30s is more financial stability at the cost of increasing gastrointestinal problems

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So bleak that we’re on our second news cycle of Republicans lying so egregiously about a community that their local counterparts beg them to stop

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started it last night and was once again reminded that Coates is an astonishingly gifted writer, in addition to his moral clarity

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sometimes i think about flat earthers and chuckle. do they not realize that Ilúvatar changed the world into a sphere and removed Aman to a separate plane, accessible only by The Straight Road, during the Downfall of Númenor as punishment for their hubris under Ar-Pharazôn?

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if Trump wins and all prices go up 20 percent and his white nationalist militia thugs are kicking doors in and dragging families out into the street, millions of people will go "buh what? I wasn't voting for *that*"if Trump wins and all prices go up 20 percent and his white nationalist militia thugs are kicking doors in and dragging families out into the street, millions of people will go "buh what? I wasn't voting for *that*"

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NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion. "Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually. It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...

Mass Deportation
Mass Deportation

The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...

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There's a genre of comment, popular among some on the left, a la "yeah of course mass deportation sounds impossible if you assume they follow the law, but they'll just do mass roundups/concentration camps/etc." I promise you: that also costs money. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...

Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy
Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy

The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...

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This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.

CBS Graphic: 

HOUSING PROPOSALS

TRUMP / VANCE
CHANGING REGULATIONS & MAKING FEDERAL LAND
AVAILABLE
MASS DEPORTATION TO EASE DEMAND
LIVE

HARRIS/ WALZ
$25,000 DOWN
PAYMENT ASSISTANCE

TAX INCENTIVES FOR BUILDERS
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genuinely unfathomable to me how many people watch these debates of their own free will and not for work

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Pnotalawyer.bsky.social

that Biden has led us to a place that is both morally horrific and politically unsustainable for his party is a remarkable feat.

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Ben Orlebeke
@borlebeke.bsky.social
all my haters become my waiters when i sit down at the table of success
100 followers111 following284 posts