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Jane Curtin / Susan Saint James / Jessica Lange

How to Beat the High Cost of Living - 1980

#i love jane curtin and susan saint james so much

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I finally put out the photo setups again, and today I got some nice photos of two of the many Orioles in front of the Chestnut tree. It is really wonderful to walk around outside right now, the air heavy with the most wonderful smells from the blooming trees and the songs of the birds. And it feels good to see the birds up close again, I have missed their faces.

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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #16

April 26-May 3 2024

President Biden announced $3 billion to help replace lead pipes in the drinking water system. Millions of Americans get their drinking water through lead pipes, which are toxic, no level of lead exposure is safe. This problem disproportionately affects people of color and low income communities. This first investment of a planned $15 billion will replace 1.7 million lead pipe lines. The Biden Administration plans to replace all lead pipes in the country by the end of the decade.

President Biden canceled the student debt of 317,000 former students of a fraudulent for-profit college system. The Art Institutes was a for-profit system of dozens of schools offering degrees in video-game design and other arts. After years of legal troubles around misleading students and falsifying data the last AI schools closed abruptly without warning in September last year. This adds to the $29 billion in debt for 1.7 borrowers who wee mislead and defrauded by their schools which the Biden Administration has done, and a total debt relief for 4.6 million borrowers so far under Biden.

President Biden expanded two California national monuments protecting thousands of acres of land. The two national monuments are the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which are being expanded by 120,000 acres. The new protections cover lands of cultural and religious importance to a number of California based native communities. This expansion was first proposed by then Senator Kamala Harris in 2018 as part of a wide ranging plan to expand and protect public land in California. This expansion is part of the Administration's goals to protect, conserve, and restore at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.

The Department of Transportation announced new rules that will require car manufacturers to install automatic braking systems in new cars. Starting in 2029 all new cars will be required to have systems to detect pedestrians and automatically apply the breaks in an emergency. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration projects this new rule will save 360 lives every year and prevent at least 24,000 injuries annually.

The IRS announced plans to ramp up audits on the wealthiest Americans. The IRS plans on increasing its audit rate on taxpayers who make over $10 million a year. After decades of Republicans in Congress cutting IRS funding to protect wealthy tax cheats the Biden Administration passed $80 billion for tougher enforcement on the wealthy. The IRS has been able to collect just in one year $500 Million in undisputed but unpaid back taxes from wealthy households, and shows a rise of $31 billion from audits in the 2023 tax year. The IRS also announced its free direct file pilot program was a smashing success. The program allowed tax payers across 12 states to file directly for free with the IRS over the internet. The IRS announced that 140,000 tax payers were able to use it over their target of 100,000, they estimated it saved $5.6 million in tax prep fees, over 90% of users were happy with the webpage and reported it quicker and easier than companies like H&R Block. the IRS plans to bring direct file nationwide next year.

The Department of Interior announced plans for new off shore wind power. The two new sites, off the coast of Oregon and in the Gulf of Maine, would together generate 18 gigawatts of totally clean energy, enough to power 6 million homes.

The Biden Administration announced new rules to finally allow DACA recipients to be covered by Obamacare. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an Obama era policy that allows people brought to the United States as children without legal status to remain and to legally work. However for years DACA recipients have not been able to get health coverage through the Obamacare Health Care Marketplace. This rule change will bring health coverage to at least 100,000 uninsured people.

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized rules that require LGBTQ+ and Intersex minors in the foster care system be placed in supportive and affirming homes.

The Senate confirmed Georgia Alexakis to a life time federal judgeship in Illinois. This brings the total number of federal judges appointed by President Biden to 194. For the first time in history the majority of a President's nominees to the federal bench have not been white men.

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Maybe it’s just because I have Moby Dick brainworms (brain whales?) but it bothers me when people see some weird footage of a big ocean creature and are like “NOO THAT CANT BE JUST A WHALE TJATS SOME KIND OF SEA MONSTER” because in what world is a whale not a sea monster??? It’s a hundred foot long insanely powerful beast of the ocean with the intelligence of a human that can destroy ships and swallow people whole and battle sharks and giant squids for fun. Just because they’re a well-known animal doesn’t mean they can’t also be a sea monster.

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There was a pool 🏊‍♂️ for skeletens 💀 only.

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Dog Date

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ewamaka.art on Instagram

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PATRICK SWAYZE as Vida Boheme in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

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The Regime “Victory Day” (S01.E01)

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Chappell Roan on Audience Participation, Playing a Character and Being Horny (Polyester Zine, September 2023)

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#i'm so sorry siuane #but no one stands a chance against kathryn

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It’s okay, I wasn’t ready either. RIP me.

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2024 is the year we stop “consuming” and go back to “reading/watching/listening to/playing” things

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Reblog/like this if you’re LGBTQ+ and run an active blog in 2024.

Trying to find new blogs to follow. 🫶🏻

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i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times