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MetaFilter is leaking.

The office of Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, issued a statement saying: “Senator Collins has been a longtime advocate for LIHEAP and the critical financial assistance it provides to lower income families to help ensure that they can stay warm during the winter months. It is unclear how, and if, the administration of this program will be affected by the HHS staffing changes.”

I’m surprised there wasn’t another “I’m sure they’ve learned their lesson” in there from this dumb fucking bitch.

I find myself wondering how much can the People take before they break out the pitchforks

Quite a lot, actually, based on historical precedence.

It’s going to take mass starvation and lack of food access for people to get fed up. It’s always food access that tips the scales.

The banality of evil at work. Just following orders to lie with impunity to people.

I hate my family, only have a weak associates degree, and have fucking cancer.

Also FlyingSquid literally left for the sake of their family, a trans child who needed out of the USA

Sadly, most folks aren’t in a position to gtfo of dodge, as much as we would like to.

Corporate America:

“Oh no, we’ll only be able to buy up everything from the poor suckers at a bargain price!”

Not just bodily autonomy, this funding helps poor women detect breast cancers, cervical cancers, and ovarian cancers in enough time to save their lives.

Hell yuh. I have had misgivings about Booker at times in the past but I have to say, good on him, this is the time for such things.

and now can’t get them back

That part is very, very purposeful.

Quite a few of our biggest businesses and public agencies are run by people exactly like this.

Exactly, there is always a throughline of “I make the rules here, why should I have to follow rules” because they erroneously think “being in charge” means no rules should apply to them. They literally don’t understand things like security or why it matters and literally think it doesn’t and shouldn’t apply to them.

These are not clever people.

For a more long-term solution that works for more sites:

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

It was on the Firefox add-ons store, got removed. It was on github, got removed. It was on gitlab, got removed.

Moved to gitflic in Russia, sadly, but magnolia1234 still writes all the documentation in English.

There’s also a Chrome version if you really must with Google’s browser.

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Thanks so much!

I sadly don’t have an hour to dedicate to listening to this woman gaslight her own constituents… Sooooo…

Got a time stamp for where she mentions the Signal blunder?

Not just lied to, gaslit.

Exactly, its like having a Ransomware hacker working directly for the government.

Trump was riding a wave of exhaustion with Democrats’ cultural overreach.

I’d meet people at parties, reading groups and “salons” who would whisper — or, when intoxicated, shout — that they could finally say what they really thought on issues such as gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives without fear of being ostracized.

The Washington Post can eat shit and so can Bezos for peddling this kind of slop.

The idea that these fucking assholes ever shut up about their backwards fucking opinions is a joke.

The people supporting progressive ideals have always been the ones shouted down and being told they are being divisive.

“They can finally say” my ass they never, ever shut the fuck up about how they feel. They just feel emboldened to be a legitimate fucking all-out asshole now is all.

Well, I’m also personally of the opinion that violence being the first answer is a losing proposition in a surveillance enabled police state with the largest and most advance military in the world.

I think it’s a much better idea to organize on a national level mutual aid groups, community gardens, community doctors, community mesh-networks not connected to the internet for information sharing, people working outside of capitalism and then when enough of a support network is built, going all-in on a general strike. Violence will still happen anyway, but take the time to prepare parallel systems and starting from a defensive position instead of offensive is the smarter move.

I think with the massive boot of law enforcement, the surveillance tools they have, and the military backing them, starting by fighting is a fools errand that will be crushed quickly, mostly because there won’t be enough logistical planning. I’ve met enough antifa wannabes who just wanna go out and recklessly shoot shit to understand that it’s not organize enough.

We need to be organized at a community level to care for each other so people can feel supported enough to stand with each other.

Right, which is why I advocate for fewer protests and more community organizing so we can care for each other outside of these broken ass systems. People are going to wait until after the last minute to start organizing ways to protect and care for each other, but that’s America for you.

However, we not only need to support each other internally like you mention, but we need support of our allies across the world to help continue spreading the Truth and support our journey to a better place.

Fair point.