@SteppinRazor

Check to see if your town has a trash app (ours is Cartology). Tells you what weeks, what days, holidays, types of trash collected and lets you search for specific things to see if they can go out with the bins or need to go to the landfill.

I got a happy notification yesterday that trash pickup was delayed one day due to the holiday.

@grrlscientist

Pretty sure not for long.

I expect a lot of legal problems to go away for folks who can "tip well".

Remember, it's a tip if you pay the politician AFTER they do the favor. And no taxes on tips, right?

@cassandra17lina

For the moment, mine are being split between ProPublica, NPR, PP, ACLU, and WCK. (And local groups, but I digress)

I genuinely have no idea going forward other than the ACLU is always a solid bet.

Don't forget to unsubscribe any recurring ActBlue donations.

@GEAUXJayna

You aren't retiring. Plan around that.

And I'm so sorry.

@GEAUXJayna @AverageCitizen

It's a crapshoot.

Which describes the next 4-10 years.

Hell, I was even thinking about ways to take SS now, since I expect my "full retirement" to not be there.

(Didn't make ANY sense, so one grand scheme down.)

@GEAUXJayna

I'm leaving mine in stocks.

I think this is a shadow administration for Thiel and Musk.

They NEED the stock market.

I may be wrong, but hell - I may be dead, so...

This week I'm buying a new washer and dryer, new cellphone, getting the generator repaired and buying the requisite materials for 3-4 years of house and yard projects.

We are current on all vaccinations, even recent TDaP.

We're also planning to keep an eye out for a camper when folks start needing to sell stuff.

@Horrrflmlvr

He's a senior, so unfortunately, I'm going to have to go with keeping him comfortable, feeding him his favorite foods, and easing him across the bridge when the time comes.

I was all set to schedule the surgery, but now I'm prioritizing things that will be hit with tariffs and making sure we can crawl through the next four to eight to whenever years.

It's really devastating on so many levels.

I know this sounds small, given the bigger issues, but I have a cat that is likely going to die thanks to this election.

He needs surgery. He needs treatment. He's never been particularly healthy, but he's hung in there.

Yesterday, I probably had the income to get him the most recent round of recommended surgery.

Today, I have four years of the unknown ahead and people I've got to support. 😢

@QueenOfEverything @cassandra17lina

As a lifelong Tarheel, I'd love to be surprised, but there's a lot of folks who just are not going to vote for a black woman, but expect a Democratic administration to do a good job for them.

I really got nothing. It's going to be very bad in the red areas of NC.

@Coffee_and_Salt

J-School was one of my original college directions. Yes, because of All the President's Men.

Close call, it seems.

@wolfwoman @radar323

I'm not saying that there aren't folks who will need to leave, but unfortunately, it's not just the US shifting.

Example - Germany is often listed as hugely LGBTQ friendly. But, if you dig in, it's a few cities. And not so much all of those cities. And the German far right has been on the rise so stability issues.

Coupled with language and cultural barriers as well as the costs and paperwork of emigrating - it's a lift.

I'm so sorry.

@Coffee_and_Salt

There was a brief period between the first and the current ages of yellow journalism where it rose above to a profession.

@radar323

I'm not sure fleeing is the answer - this is a global movement. I've got friends who are on their third retirement country, leaving right before each government destabilized.

Take stock, figure out which 2025 policies are going to hit you and make a plan to weather it as best you can.

To be blunt - no one wants refugees. We should know that by now.

@Loffreni @Graci

Wiley Nickel comes to mind.

@ToruOkada

It's part of a backup somewhere anyway.

I think of it like shit people leave behind in slumlord apartments when they move out. 🤷

I can only assume that people think that a Democratic administration (or in some states, adorable little abortion amendments) is going to be able to do anything other than stand aside and watch.

Real shame - finally passed the healthcare expansion.

So in NC:

-(D) Josh Stein for Governor
-(D) Rachel Hunt for Lt. Governor
-(D) Jeff Jackson for AG
-(D) Mo Green for Superintendent of Public Ed.
-(D) Elaine Marshall for SOS

Broke the GOP Supermajority (again).

And gave 50.1% of the vote and the state to Trump.

I got nothing. 😐

@Horrrflmlvr

Tang - an orange not found in nature.