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Julie Gilmour
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Alliance Party Councillor Threemilewater, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council #demandbetter
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if you’re wondering why JD Vance doesn’t think childcare is expensive, it’s because his mother-in-law dropped her professorship to become a live-in nanny, as he believes “post-menopausal females” should do. he also suggested that otherwise, she should’ve paid for their childcare.

Host: That's the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female in theory. Did your in-laws and particularly your mother-in-law show up in some huge way?

Vance: She lived with us for a year.

Host: Right. I didn't know the answer there. So that's this weird unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.

Vance: Yeah. It's in some ways the most transgressive thing I've ever done against sort of the hyper-neoliberal approach to work and family. My wife had this baby seven weeks before she started the clerkship. Still not sleeping any more than an hour and a half in a given interval. And her mom just took a sabbatical. She's a biology professor in California. Just took a sabbatical for a year and came and lived with us and took care of our kid for you. It was just one of those things where it's like, this is what you do.

Host: So a biology professor Ph.D…

Vance: Yes.

Host: Drops what they're doing…

Vance: Yeah!


Host: To immediately tend to the needs of a new mother with her infant.
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Nobody ever asks ‘how can the Germans have just have stood by whilst it happened’ any more - which was something you commonly heard before - cause it’s just abundantly clear now. The building of consent for fascist government is inbuilt in societies who see it as a reasonable option.

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Snycsouthpaw.bsky.social

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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BGbrendagough.bsky.social

With the funds we received from Social Farms & Gardens NI we were able to share it out with local residents interested in building growing spaces and cleaning up their alleyways. Workforce Charity built planters and benches to support the grassroots community movement. We're so grateful to them 😎👏

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JGjulieegilmour.bsky.social

Going here since August. Ridiculous

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Aannenc.bsky.social

Saw this on the way to the farmers market this morning. 😎

A campaign sign with a check mark for Harris/Walz and no check mark for Felon/Weirdo.
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CMcolinmurray.bsky.social

Reporting of a failed challenge to legality of the NI Assembly designation system for "others" as being an ECHR breach. A key case; it fleshes out that the courts aren't here to radically alter NI's 1998 system. If it's broke, legal action won't fix it: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

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ABadambienkov.bsky.social

I get that he's no longer an MP but you'd think that these stories would at least mention the *ÂŁ220,000* worth of gifts and freebies accepted by Boris Johnson over the same period, on top of the more than ÂŁ6 million he received in political donations

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anyoldname.bsky.social

Suspended sentence?

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Julie Gilmour
@julieegilmour.bsky.social
Alliance Party Councillor Threemilewater, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council #demandbetter
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