MegLavDC
@MegLavDC
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Anti-irregardless. Former Fed. Believer in hard work. Forever ADK.
Washington, DC
Joined August 2015
Min Wage: $7.25/hr / $15,080/yr Poverty Line Family of 2: $17,240/yr Taxpayer Subsidies to Min Wage Workers: $107B/yr Last Increase: 2009 Living Wage: $13.49/hr Low wages are another form of corporate welfare. Our taxes are paying what Amazon, McDonalds & Walmart 'can't afford.'
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A big thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal of $200,000 this year for childhood cancer research. We are so grateful for the legacy you are helping us build for Francesca through the Infant Brain Tumor Program and the $3.7 million dollars you helped us raise to date.
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Men tend to choose higher paying careers like doctor, engineer, lawyer, or CEO. While women tend to choose lower paying careers like female doctor, female engineer, female lawyer, or female CEO.
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The White House knows exactly what it was doing when they published a list of Democrats who have used their voice to call out Trump & Miller’s ICE abuses. The list is now being used by the far right as an enemies list. It’s reckless. It’s dangerous. And it puts lives at risk.
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One of the most underreported stories of 2025 is that Trump is the first President ever to create electricity shortages on purpose. He is illegally canceling solar and wind, causing layoffs and price spikes, and the media is like “wow what a showman that guy is!”
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This is Amazon’s new $11 billion dollar massive Data Center Campus in St. Joseph County, Indiana It will be primarily dedicated to training and running AI models It will use 2.2 gigawatts of power, equivalent to the electricity needed to power roughly 1 million homes and
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From 1947 to 1979, wages and productivity rose in tandem, driving broad-based prosperity. After 1980, productivity kept climbing while wages and compensation stalled. This disconnect defines the Great Regression, a period in which workers produce more but receive far less in
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fake doordash orders. fake construction photos. fake homework assignments. fake everything, just a pandora's box of industrial scale bullshit polluting both the planet and the basic social contract (which was already on thin ice)
Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right).
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Megachurches don’t pay taxes because they are expected to provide public benefits, such as charity, education, and social support. This would have filled a lot food pantries and helped lots of people struggling to afford basic necessities. Tax churches.
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Getting filthy rich by forcing everyone to use a product they don’t like and also destroying the planet as a fun bonus. This is villain behavior.
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THE ECONOMY ISN’T BROKEN It’s working exactly as designed. You were told: “GDP growth = prosperity.” Here’s the 2025 reality: 4.3% GDP growth. $166 billion in corporate profits. 4.6% unemployment. 0% real income growth. The economy grew. You didn’t. This isn’t a bug. This
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The worst people in the world use professed faith as a shield for all their misdeeds, and far too many let them get away with it.
‘HONOR CHRIST’: NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre shared Christmas wishes with those celebrating, giving glory to Christ and encouraging others by writing, “put your faith in Him who can save, Jesus Christ.”
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I live by the Universal Girlfriend Theory which is my theory that everyone wants to be treated like a Girlfriend in the sense they just want to be taken on a fun date they didn’t plan and for you to buy them dinner. this applies to women, men, parents, in laws, grandparents,
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Nothing justifies this. Nothing.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. 3 agents divvy up his already bought food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
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Carol of the Bells in Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
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I'm obsessed with cognitive biases. A "cognitive bias" is a systematic error in thinking that destroys decision-making. 11 most powerful (and dangerous) cognitive biases I've found: 🧵 1. Survivorship Bias:
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Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it. “I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.
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Travel writer Rick Steves said he takes the verse ‘love thy neighbor’ seriously and paid more than $2 million to save the facility in Washington state.
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“There are no more files, case closed.” Six months later after @RepThomasMassie & my Epstein Transparency Act. “There are a million files.”
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review
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