When the government closes an agency created in a bi-partisan effort to protect consumers from unethical corporations, it tells you who the government is siding with. And, eggs are still expensive!https://www.wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/ https://www.wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

In NC, When Democrats won the governor and AG offices in the election last year, Republicans in the state legislature hurriedly passed laws to limit the powers of those offices. Fascists are everywhere and they do not believe in democracy.

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Wow! And, yet I have never seen a picture of the two of them together!

We are competing with Texas and Florida to be the worst state. NC Republicans are responsible for a bill filed in the state legislature last week to bar the Democratic state attorney general from challenging any executive orders from the President. https://www.wral.com/story/north-carolina-republicans-see... social.lol https://social.lol/@amerpie/113991627704823806

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Here in NC, we now get to use our tax dollars to pay for renaming Ft. Liberty back to the name of the incompetent Confederate general it originally had. As a vet who served there, let me just say how stupid this is.

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If you told me that be bathes in baby blood, I would believe you.

FUCK!!!! I can’t hate these motherfuckers enough.

Silly me - I actually thought this was real. — Apple Maps today. Not playing stupid games like Google is. Tim Cook is kissing Trump’s ass but the folks in Maps definitely are not.

These idiots are so zealous that anti-hacking websites can't use the term "privilege escalation" and scientific papers cannot refer to "confirmation bias". The fascists would rather promote ignorance than acknowledge the reality of existence in America.

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