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FEMA and the FCC are testing their emergency alert systems Wednesday, sending an alarm to cellphones nationwide even if the devices are set to opt-out of them. Social media users are sending out an alert of their own ahead of the test, saying vulnerable people with secret cell phones, such as domestic violence victims, should turn off their device.

flip.it/JedCHw

#DomesticViolence #FEMA #CellPhones #Emergency

Is this like 10 Downing Street, and McCarthy is immediately kicked out of the Speaker’s Office?

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Warning over unconscious bias against working-class pupils in English schools | “Lee Elliot Major, writing in a new book, blames a mindset in education that treats working-class children as “inferior” and requires them to become “middle-class clones” in order to succeed in school”

theguardian.com/society/2023/o

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Na na na! Hey hey hey! Goodbye!

"The office of Speaker of the House of the United States is hereby declared vacant."

It kind of already was.

The MAGA gang who sought to oust McCarthy for working with Democrats voted with Democrats. Imagine that. Can we oust them now too?

McCarthy is, in no ways, a good person. Yet he didn’t get ousted for being bad.

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NEW: A session of North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament last week revealed several significant new changes to the country’s agricultural policy, including the return of a ministry charged with overseeing food procurement and a new law related to increasing investment in farming infrastructure.

nknews.org/pro/a-north-korean-

mooove, get out the way

Arizona governor moving to stop groundwater pumping for alfalfa that feeds cows on the other side of the world. ✔️

Then how about expelling all the House members that we know were involved in Jan 6?

NY Republican introduces resolution to expel Bowman for pulling fire alarm | The Hill

thehill.com/homenews/house/423

Konfederacja (Confederacy) is a far-right party in my East European country (Poland) that promises to fix the economy (by literally ruining everything about the economy for the poor and making it great for the rich). Any person who knows anything about the economy looks at their ideas and knows that it will simply collapse everything or create some USA level dystopia, but people who vote for them just always use this as an excuse to not talk about all the nasty shit that Konfederacja says

Glanced over at that other site, and there's got to be an unhappy billionaire today... another social network is trending (it has all day... partly because the spammers have gotten a hold of the hashtag and most of the posts are not about the social network now, but people trying to sell your NFTs, crypto, and otherwise part with your money). #birdsite #hellsite

Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal) bit.ly/48AcZA1 #TechNews #TechTips

Striking #Kaiser workers to join #PicketLine for 3 Day #WalkOut include 75k members of Kaiser’s Alliance of #HealthCare #Unions will mostly affect the #WestCoast and #SouthWest US

▪ Tens of thousands nurses represented by United Nurses Associations of #California/Union of Health Care Professionals.

▪ Thousands of pharmacy assistants, housekeepers and others represented by United Steelworkers Local 7600.

▪ Thousands more physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory #therapists, registered #nurses and other #HealthcareProfessionals.

kcra.com/article/california-ka

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