Raine Carraway

I pictured it kind of like when Yoda gets so tired of Luke's whiny bullshit he just closes his eyes and dies

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:

“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

Also, thanks for all the follows and likes and skeets while I was going, will be trying to look through and follow some people back in the coming week.

Wasn't keeping that unit open supposed to be one of the requirements for their purchase of Mission?

Or am I confusing it with something else?

Ever wonder why Trump is trying to dissolve the Department of Education 🤔

a man peeking out from behind a grassy hill Alt: George Clooney peeking out from behind a grassy hill

Me looking at news for the first time after a week at sea

Because DOGE has shut down USAID's payment system (Phoenix), our housing electricity and the electricity in our USAID building have not been paid for. Mission leadership has informed us that the only reason our electricity is on is because we've asked for an extension from the electric company. The Mission asked for a waiver but because our payment system is down, the Treasury has no way to issue money to USAID and State Department representatives here are hesitant to make payments on our behalf for fear of not being reimbursed. 7. Once the electricity goes out in our homes, we lose access to our security cameras and radios. Again, I live in a high-risk post, so access to security systems is very important to me. 8. I have been told by Mission leadership that the cell phone and internet bills are due this week with no way to pay them. This is despite the so-called "waiver" process that has been allegedly implemented to preserve such access. 9. Our cell phones and radios are also the only way to communicate with the Regional Security Office about security threats. We have access to no other USAID security systems.

The agency is also considering spending about $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the building’s 6th floor, according to a Feb. 25 invoice obtained by POLITICO. There is also a child’s play area decorated with a stuffed animal and toys, according to a photo of the room shared with POLITICO. “People are definitely … sleeping there,” said one GSA staffer.

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.

Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

Even though a lot of the communications we've gotten are basically "here's more bad news here's how we're trying to address it but we may all end up screwed", I appreciate the efforts my university has taken to keep students informed about the ongoing changes and how it may affect us.

Current reality feels like Ayn Rand as directed by David Lynch.

If this is a simulation can somebody please reboot me.

Still around, just officially moved, started a new job and a practicum, and I'm pretty much drowning between work, school, and real life so more scarce than usual on social media.

I spent most of my teens and 20s in those places and remember some telling people to tone down the slurs and rhetoric to be taken more seriously.

It shocking to see people in the mainstream, including politicians, saying things that would have gotten them banned from Stormfront around 2008 or so.

Read this

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It's wrong that my first thought upon reading this involved jerky, isn't it?

He's going to play at the inauguration and be introduced as the new poet laureate.

(I wish there was actually no chance of this happening.)

As a former White Nationalist who saw many of my acquaintances from those circles drop the skinhead look and identifiers in favor of Crusader iconography, including displaying the Deus Vult slogan and Jerusalem Cross, I read it loud and clear.

These same guys also idolized Putin. Weird coincidences

All I can think of is Lil Jon.

And now every damn time I post I'm gonna hear "skeet skeet" in my head.

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The only DV shelter in the county next to me closed this summer due to lack of funds.

The city spent over $750k to put up a set of wooden arches over the highway that collapsed within less than a year, while this shelter this was begging for funding to survive.

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

I want to add that these trans people serve in critical roles in the military, they aren’t expendable. The military has spent time and money training them, and they have served honorably.

This makes the military weaker, dishonors the service members themselves, and will be a dark stain.

“You take 15,000 of us out — there’s more but that’s the number that is always mentioned — that’s 15,000 leadership positions, every one of us play a vital role,” said Paulo Batista, a Navy analyst and trans American 👇🏽

🔵 Blue dot in WNC

I'm frequently amused and confused by SW being used to abbreviate both social work(er) and sex work(er).

Because collecting hobbies is its own hobbies.

I guess be thankful you're not into all the crafty hobbies (yet?), because collecting supplies and patterns for those becomes a hobby in itself too.

My ADHD means I'm usually tired of the hobby before I actually make anything with those supplies.

I came here to reply that people do the same thing to me and that's why I'm working as a counselor now and getting my MSW.

It's funny to see similar in the comments.

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless.

But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

That was definitely not the cover I expected from watching the movie.