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Self care is an act of resistance. Enduring in technogarch fascism with books, streaming shows, photography, art, and history. No DM’s. 🇺🇦
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The insanely hateful GOP held onto their grudge against the black president’s signature legislation for more than 15 years and here they are about to watch it fade into history with the help of feckless Dems.
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Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

Sonnet 5

Lisa Graa Jensen #ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Like to the time o’ the year between the extremes of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.”

Antony and Cleopatra [I, 5]

#ShakespeareSunday
#Museums

Sir Thomas More (1527)
Hans Holbein, the Younger

The Frick Collection
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @propublica.org did. www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Anti-ICE protests in Charlotte, marching to the state Capitol to demand justice. ✊🏼
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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#ShakespeareSunday

In them and in ourselves our safety lies.

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 1]

#ClimateAction
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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🇨🇳🇯🇵 Poten. Conflict: The situation is escalating between China & Japan after Japan's new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, stated that a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan is a matter of Japan's national security, which could threaten Japan's national survival and requires practical actions from Japan.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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According to the Wardle-Derakhshan Framework, simplistic terms often focus too much on "truth" versus "fake," although false information comes in different shades. 3 categories of information disorder are identified . These are misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
Wardle-Derakhshan Framework of Information Disorder - Profolus
The Wardle-Derakhshan Framework provides a model for analzing information disorder, particularly misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
www.profolus.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The bill to end the shutdown kills FDA food safety rules.

Just like public health, food safety isn’t flashy or exciting

When it’s functioning well, you barely notice it.

But it’s necessary for our survival.

Food borne illnesses have been on the rise & this cut will endanger lives l
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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And not forgetting the protesters on the streets.

Today is the 350th day of marching against the Moscow-influenced regime in Georgia.

In Tbilisi they're back on iconic Prospekt Rostaveli.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque
Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque
It may well be that the major pivot points of history are only visible to those around the bend.
www.openculture.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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NEW: In my report for @huffpost.com, I take a deep dive into the battle being waged for common sense and rule of law in our courts and what the hell the point any of it is.

I hope you will read:
www.huffpost.com/entry/a-defy...
Lower Courts Are Playing The Long Game Against Trump
There is a pointed purpose to the increasingly spicy rulings and dissents coming from across the judiciary.
www.huffpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I had no symptoms! Get scanned (not a X-ray)!
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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18,000 released emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account confirm that prosecutors opened a money-laundering investigation running parallel to the #Epstein rape trafficking.

It was shut down by US officials to prevent exposure of major institutions and individuals. #OpDeathEaters #3E 🧵
The Epstein Money Laundering Coverup
Eighteen thousand emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s Yahoo account reveal a 2007 federal money-laundering investigation.
spookyconnections.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress.

I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Federal flight engineers, pilots & scientists with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration flew multiple harrowing missions into #Melissa, along with their research partners, but the federal employees did so without pay. #Republicangovernmentshutdown #NOAA
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The vote to reopen the government with no deal on health care is a brutal blow to all those who have stood together to save affordable health care for more than 20 million Americans.

I will vote ‘NO’ with every fiber of my being.
www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-voti...
Merkley: Voting No with Every Fiber of My Being - Merkley
Washington, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement announcing he is voting against the bill that funds the government but does not extend the Affordable Care Act’s en...
www.merkley.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Nov 8
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.
Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false…
wrd.cm
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM