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PattyHanson

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Forgiving yourself can be much harder than forgiving other people. I'm not there yet. I have a tendency to share more personal information than I should or that anyone wants to hear. My first grade teacher's message on my first report card said, "Patty talks too much". Some things never change. I have strong opinions and usually don't mind sharing them. I like living alone, but sometimes it really sucks. #LGBTQ advocate #MentalHealthAdvocate #Soccer #MLS

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black_intellect, to random
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Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seattle-gave-low-income-residents-175101720.html

PattyHanson,
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@black_intellect I lived in a homeless shelter with 79 other women & men for close to a year. The biggest obstacles to employment were 1) appropriate clothing 2) having an address 3) reliable transportation 4) adequate nutrition and 5) access to childcare

Residents were allowed to stay up to 2 years, rent free, as long as they had a job. Free childcare was available

$500/mo would have pd for bus pass, extra food, clothing & ability to establish savings. All things contributed to local economy

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

PattyHanson,
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@RickiTarr My 80+ yo dad & stepmom slept in an oversized king bed & used a quilt for the top cover. When visiting I always tried to help w/chores. My dad assured me the quilt could be washed in his washing machine. Against my better judgment, I stuffed it in & started the water. It didn't take long for the washer to become overwhelmed & start spewing water from underneath. Now I had a gigantic wet quilt that weighed about 50 pounds. I hauled it to the laundromat to use an equally giant machine.

RickiTarr, to random
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This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

PattyHanson,
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@RickiTarr Babies are born ambidextrous and don't usually show a preference until they are about 18 months old, although, some do so sooner. Caregivers can "push" a child into choosing right vs left.

skykiss, to random
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"Truth social" Scam Phantom Stock:

  • Social media platform is like phantom stocks. They appear substantial, but their value is elusive.
  1. How Phantom Stock Works:
  • Phantom shares mimic real stock value.

  1. Pump & Dump Scheme: A fraudulent practice where individuals artificially inflate the price of a stock (or in this case, social media company) to attract unsuspecting or criminal/dark money investors who “pump” stock prices, the inflated worth is illusory.

  2. Money Laundering: Trump concealing the origins of illicitly obtained funds by passing them through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions.

Truth Social is a failed social media platform, that will merge with a publicly traded SHELL company. Financial Performance: Since its 2021 launch, Truth Social generated sales of less than $5 million. However, Trump’s supporters rallied to boost shares in the shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp. Its a money laundering scheme.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/trump-truth-social-dwac-shares/index.html

PattyHanson,
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@skykiss The new order out from Engoron yesterday specified all efforts to obtain & accept a surety from any source must pass thru the desk & get the approval of the monitor. Trump already moved $50 mil w/o permission on Jone's watch. I have some concern that she, alone, is not up to the task or reigning Trump et al into compliance with the Order. I really wish there was a "committee" of 3-5 people made up of attorneys, former judges & financial experts for control & less chance for corruption

PattyHanson, to random
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IS NOT guided by faith and family as the is reporting. He IS guided by , white and .

w7voa, to random
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The South Dakota governor, who is a Trump VP aspirant, admits in her forthcoming book to shooting her puppy and goats. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

PattyHanson,
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@w7voa I don't think killing 3 senior horses is the defense she thinks it is. She shot the goat. It didn't die so she transported it to a different location and shot it again. She's no better than the sadists who throw puppies and kittens in tied bags off bridges into rivers or lakes. She shot the dog because it was acting like an untrained puppy. She's an awful human.

PattyHanson, to random
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...When ’s Republican voters receive their sample ballots...the name of the party’s current frontrunner will be missing...No, is for Nevada’s ballot because Trump’s campaign didn’t fill out an application to place him on Nevada’s primary ballot...Trump’s absence from Nevada’s primary ballot was wholly intentional. They merely followed the directions provided to them by a truly incompetently run organization — the Nevada GOP...

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/trump-cannot-legally-qualify-for-nevadas-2024-primary-ballot?utm_source=The+Nevada+Independent&utm_campaign=18594f4cd6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_05_01_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-18594f4cd6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

PattyHanson, to random
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Do you have a friend or family member who works for the fed government in any capacity? Do you know someone who owns a business or works for a business that has government contracts that are its main source of revenue?

If Trump makes it back to the White House, GOP intends, within 1st 120 days, to purge most government agencies. The agencies that remain open will be staffed ONLY w/conservative loyalists. Detractors will be fired.

Taxes should be the least of Trump voters worries

PattyHanson, to journalism
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Every time I hear "Republicans refused to stand up to Donald Trump" I want to scream.

Donald is a . He is a ; a hand with the power of the pen.

What's happening isn't because of Donald Trump. It's a culmination of of and change that started long before Trump was a consideration.

Trump was because of his willingness to break the law, and, in truth, because of his ability to skirt the law. He's a shell paid to act.

PattyHanson, to legal
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standing outside the courtroom waving papers with the jurors photos for the cameras to see.

PattyHanson, to random
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This is another tailgate decal this company is selling cubebik dot com

PattyHanson, to random
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I'm glad was held accountable for income tax "crimes". The came after me with a vengeance when I failed to pay secondary to my addiction. They only stopped when I became homeless, and I was still required to report.

Now I expect them to go after and every sitting member of who has failed to appropriately identify financial "gifts" as income.

PattyHanson, to random
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I still can't believe that many really intelligent people are taken aback by the behavior of . 6 of 9 are Federalist Society. Their appointments to the court are the culmination of more than 40 yrs of patience by the GOP. Trump didn't do "this". Trump is a tool. A means to an end

But what conservatives have miscalculated is doesn't care about their agenda. He only cares about himself. If he gets back in office, he will dispose of them, Congress & the judiciary using the military

PattyHanson, to random
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is not a U.S. ambassador. He has no authority to speak on behalf of the U.S. government or the American people. Though I don't want him to be acknowledged, it angers me that the U.S. State Department is staying silent on his trip to Israel.

PattyHanson, to random
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I recall during trial that I said people were focused too much on how much property claims to own v how much debt he has. Even w/limited reporting, it was easy to figure out he was "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul". And w/favorable interest rates, he was still over leveraged. The trial docs never revealed his . Many observers assumed, wrongly, that if he could borrow amounts he did, he must be "rich". He played a shell game w/lenders & it caught up with him

PattyHanson, to Georgia
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The against & his 17 co-defendants in is the same whether presented by Fani or any other prosecutor. The same.

Would it have made a difference in their deliberations If the grand jurors knew or suspected that Willis was having an affair with a co-worker? Maybe, but only if it caused them to doubt the evidence. After all. Willis wasn't a jilted lover of Trump or a co-defendant or one of their attorneys.

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PattyHanson, to TeslaMotors
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"" by isn't a matter of fear. It's a matter of . Even the "good" republicans choose Trump.

Trump is the biggest bully in the world, altho comes pretty close. BUT, we are talking about grown ass people choosing him & what he represents. They WANT what he's offering.

It's not fear. For the politicians falling in line, it's a matter of greed and thirst for power. For everyone else it's something we don't want to attribute to people we care about.

PattyHanson, to TeslaMotors
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After this was revealed, stopped allowing any oversight of the clinical trials.

...Animal 15 began to lose coordination and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”...

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

PattyHanson, to random
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If you choose to read this in its entirety or skim sections or pages, please note that every reference is to "the next conservative" president, not . As I've said many times, Trump is a tool. He is the man of the hour. The will use the same playbook with or without him so please don't think voting for a "lesser of two evils" GOP candidate will save democracy. It won't. Voting for a 3rd Party candidate won't either. The vote MUST be for .

https://www.project2025.org/policy/

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    PattyHanson,
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    @thepoliticalcat Well, everyone likes a good mystery 😂

    PattyHanson,
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    @thepoliticalcat If Bannon's life were a movie he'd get shanked in prison.

    PattyHanson,
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    @Janika @thepoliticalcat Probably true. Maybe he'll choke on the bone.

    PattyHanson, to random
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    People shouldn't be calling for Alito's or Thomas' recusal(s). We should be calling - insisting - that they resign.

    They are the epitome of unethical, biased and of poor moral character. They are both politically compromised.

    The fact that "Chief" Justice Roberts is doing nothing is barely more reassuring. The opinions coming from the court are garbage and the "rule of law" has been tossed. Why should anyone adhere to any decision coming from them?

    PattyHanson, to random
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    After in November, Congress must immediately begin the process of writing legislation to protect the rights that are threatened & return those that have been taken away.

    If we, as a country, don't step up & reject the monetization that has controlled our government for decades, we will lose in 2028

    We said before 2020 that we must vote to protect democracy & because Congress was taken over by Republicans, the goals we worked for haven't been achieved. We won't get another chance

    PattyHanson, to legal
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    There are many great among us. Some paint. Some make jewelry or other craft items.

    It's important to creativity and the arts. It's what helps us remain sane in an insane world.

    The image I'm sharing is a work in progress that I commissioned from an artist on Mastodon @BenHigbie

    We didn't know each other beforehand, and I'd like to think we've become friends.

    Check out Ben's account.

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