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LiberalLoner

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February 8, 2025

My husband said DOGE is monitoring fed emails and looking for signs of disloyalty to Trump, in the emails. He is a fed.

Feels like we are now East Germany under Soviet rule.

They are monitoring emails of fed workers sent out, and sent to them, for certain keywords.

February 8, 2025

I'm 62 and disabled by MS. And wondering if the cancer I was treated for last year will come back soon or not. I just

Wanted to let you know, you aren’t alone.

Sometimes I have those feelings too.

Playing with my art supplies and knowing I won’t ever be a real artist, so sometimes I do wonder, what’s the use?

All the stuff happening lately….feeling like a speck of dust in a tornado. Just blown all over.

Some days I wake up and think, well, I’m not dead yet, gotta do something today since I’m not dead.

So I make some tea and feed the crows peanuts, which is their favorite snack in the whole world, and usually my geriatric beloved kitty climbs up on my lap, and chatters at the crows he can’t catch.

To anyone watching, I’m just an old broken down woman, anyone could make fun of. Not very interesting or smart. Not special in any way.

But for that moment when I am drinking my tea and Mr. Bobo is purring on my lap, and the crows are cawing in excitement for the peanuts, life seems pretty good.

I think about all the things I’ve lived through. The mental pain and the physical pain. And it feels pretty good to feel safe for awhile, and free of pain. While I am sipping my tea, that seems like enough. And life seems pretty good.

If we can find moments like that each day, life is worth living, I think.

Your special magic times won’t look like mine, everyone has different magic in their lives, but I know if you look for those bits of magic in each day, you might think, life really is worth living, after all.

P.S. and when I’m feeling really silly, I play this song and sing along with it. It gives me a chuckle.

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P.P.S. And if Daniel Johnston could live his broken dreams, so can we.

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February 8, 2025

What do we do, if he does stop all payments? All five trillion dollars? No SS or Medicare, no air traffic controllers,

No military, etc. etc. etc.

What will we do?

Serious question.

February 7, 2025

Great new ad by The Lincoln Project.

Hope it reaches MAGA.

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February 7, 2025

Love is the Answer

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February 7, 2025

DOGE sends threatening "Fork" email to every federal judge, urging them to resign or else. Link provided.

I’m sorry for posting a twitter link.

https://x.com/hissgoescobra/status/1887713768781623626

These judges are of course appointed for life. The person in this video, who some posters have said is a lawyer (if so, he would know whar he is talking about, I think) seems to think it was a huge self-own by Musk and the incels.

February 7, 2025

Maybe because no personal phones or recording devices or cameras are allowed in federal buildings

My husband has to lock his cell phone up before he can enter into the secure space of where his offices are located.

February 6, 2025

Federal workers have been harassed by DOGE, pressured by insulting and threatening emails to resign

Before an 80% RIF is done to all fed workers.

They are making offers that are not legal.

The fed workers are standing strong against all of this and the courts have now shut it down as well.

And in other good news,

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93?st=zAUFux&reflink=article_copyURL_share

February 6, 2025

The fork in the road program halted for now by courts, my husband just wrote me (he's a fed.)

That is awesome news!

In case someone doesn’t know, fed workers were offered a “fork in the road” (to resign) before mass firings happen.

All of it was completely illegal.

The emails were insulting and threatening.

For more in-depth news about this, please see Reddit /fednews.

Also good news: https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93?st=zAUFux&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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