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Laura Parkin
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Host of Cape Climate on WOMR, creator of Cape Cod & Islands Weekly Climate Roundup, gardener, and I do some other stuff. Cats, corgis, and climate.
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So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.

#DougForAlabama
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Costs are up bigly, and this is what Trump has been focused on.

Malicious clowns.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The Mattahunt Woods Urban Wild is restored and open!
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Donald Trump shows his commitment to "populism" by celebrating the rule of the plutocrats,
A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass

It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
www.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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My law firm is currently litigating 61 voting and election cases, including 12 redistricting cases. We have four cases in one stage or another before the Supreme Court.

These cases — and others like them —
will play a pivotal role in whether we have free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028.
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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This is fantastic news for the people of Alabama.

@dougjones.bsky.social is a special kind of person. He will fight for his constituents . Alabama will be fortunate to have him as their Governor .

He helped take on one of the biggest insurance companies in the country . Story for another time.
Breaking: Doug Jones is officially running for Governor of Alabama — confirmed today on The V today!
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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If you’re ever at a low point and need a little hope, go to a naturalization ceremony. You’ll see people so excited to take the oath, and families beaming with pride as their loved ones become citizens. (1/2)
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The DOE just cut multiple fields from the “professional degree” list, shrinking loan access for future workers. Nursing, PAs, PT, OT, audiology, public health, social work, & education master’s all got dropped.

And yes, they’re fields dominated by women.
#ProudBlue
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Patriotic Americans could elect a supermarority in Congress if we're willing to do the necessary work of communicating with our neighbors about what's at stake in the 2026. Please visit the Tompkins County Democratic Committee website and sign up to volunteer!

@tompkinscountydems.bsky.social
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance.

Unintended consequences can be brutal.
When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Of course Trump’s name should be redacted from all of the Epstein Files. After all, he is the victim.

by Pam Bondi
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.

Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.

Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.

The list goes on.

We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up:
The New Jersey Climate Superfund Act would make oil companies pay for their past greenhouse gas emissions. insideclimatenews.org/news/1911202...
Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up - Inside Climate News
The New Jersey Climate Superfund Act would make oil companies pay for their past greenhouse gas emissions, possibly generating up to $50 billion for state climate relief. “This should be the easiest v...
insideclimatenews.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM