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Catharine Mason
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Ethnopoetics scholar of oral discourse styles and genres. English professor at the Université de Caen - Normandie. Devout humanist.

Founding president of vovarts.org
See full video at DonoFoxMusic on YouTube ❤️🎵🌹
July 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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“All Americans” by my son, Donovan ❤️🎵 - a call for unity and the defeat of tyranny.

#landofthefree #sympathy #equality #safetyandsanity #savetheday

Watch full video on YouTube-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6i...
July 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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LGBTIQ+ organizations in El Salvador are using technology to protect themselves and create a record of the country’s ongoing authoritarian escalations against their community. It’s not without risks. www.wired.com/story/the-pr...
The Promise and Peril of Digital Security in the Age of Dictatorship
LGBTIQ+ organizations in El Salvador are using technology to protect themselves and create a record of the country’s ongoing authoritarian escalations against their community. It’s not without risks.
www.wired.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“All Americans” by my son, Donovan ❤️🎵 - a call for unity and the defeat of tyranny.

#landofthefree #sympathy #equality #safetyandsanity #savetheday

Watch full video on YouTube-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6i...
July 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Zombie no go go unless you tell am to go
Zombie
Zombie no go stop unless you tell am to stop
Zombie
Zombie no go turn unless you tell am to turn
Zombie
Zombie no go think unless you tell am to think
Zombie

- Fela Kuti
FELA! on Broadway Sneak Peek: "Zombie"
YouTube video by Fela Kuti
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“One of the most remarkable aspects of the Icelandic experience is the promotion of greater gender equality. By encouraging men to become more involved in family life, the four-day week has contributed to a better sharing of domestic and parental responsibilities.”
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true.
In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate ...
farmingdale-observer.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Artist - Hamelink
IG - hamelink.art.bart
June 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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A reminder to Members of Congress

open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...
Members of Congress
A Brief Reminder of your Oath of Office
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Excerpt: WHEN WE ONLY HAVE THE EARTH by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson

In these moving poems Waberi urges us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives and exhorts us to join him in the collective fight to save our planet from destruction. wp.me/p4J9AE-gzt
Excerpt: When We Only Have the Earth
Abdourahman A. Waberi is a poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in what is now known as the Republic of Djibouti and is a major voice in African postcolonial studies. Waberi is the author of t…
wp.me
April 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you wanna understand politics, I always sa, follow the money…

fortune.com/article/why-...
‘The Sell America Trade’: Who's behind the sinking of the U.S. dollar
It's not China or Japan. It's everyone.
fortune.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen defended the Constitution and fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat, who said that the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, to El Salvador was “the distraction of the day.”
Van Hollen: If You Won't Fight for the Constitution, You Don't Deserve to Lead
Sen. Chris Van Hollen fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom who called the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia "the distraction of the day."
www.rollingstone.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Don't ask Stephen Miller questions; he wasn't planning on actually answering
April 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The “in effect; virtually” meaning of 'literally' is not a new sense.

It has been in regular use since the 18th century and may be found in the writings of Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, James Joyce, and many others.
April 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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On Language-on-the-Move, we have started a new mini-series to make sense of current US language politics. First up, legal scholar Rosemary Salomone explains the background to making English the official language - a solution in search of a problem
www.languageonthemove.com/english-in-t...
English in the Crossfire of US Immigration
Editor’s note: The Trump administration has recently declared English the official language of the USA while simultaneously cutting the provision of English language education services. This …
www.languageonthemove.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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No lande hath evir had but one language. Even the monolingual do not lyve wyth just one tongue. Historye ys polyglot, culture ys a glorious babel of invention, and lyfe itself ys made out of translaciouns.
March 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.
March 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My very first critique of Musk, long before he went bat shit crazy, was with regard to his monopolization of popular understanding of, and relationship to, space. I would tell people that he is stealing everyone’s dream and vision of what it means to live in a galaxy among galaxies.
February 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What’s his name? Between victims of hate crimes and a defendant whose motives challenge institutional inequality, the media complies with ellipsis.

His name is Luigi Mangione.

Even The Guardian is afraid Mangione will become a martyr … rather, that they will be accused of making a martyr of him?
February 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM