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It is NONSENSICALLY warm outside today.
December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Episode 526: Friendsgiving 2: Throwin' Rolls! @ambertolina.bsky.social, @babyshoes4cash.com, @edisthebest.bsky.social, @willaverill.bsky.social & @robonelson.bsky.social still celebrating! Top law dog, Gideon’s Trumpet 2: Double Jeopardy, Simon & Garfunkel & Salad!
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Double Deuce podcast
Comedy Podcast · Updated Weekly · Two guys living in the midwest giving you a lean 22 minutes of content so you can laugh and think, and then get on with your day. Email us at doubledeucepod@gmail.com
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December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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#songwriter Mary Frances Spade delivers a #childrensbook filled with #creativity and #wonder in Oodle Doodle available now by Anamcara Press.
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Now that #ElectionDay has passed let’s ignore the #books politicians want us to read and #read what we want instead
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Happy to have 2 poems in the new Write Bridge by AnamcaraPress, with @ambertolina.bsky.social, @fatladysings.bsky.social, @bethgulley.bsky.social, @irisgarden9.bsky.social & more! Y’all can purchase locally or remotely at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social or @bookshop.org. 📸by Watkins Museum. #ReadLocalKS
July 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Health groups are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.
The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr.
The extraordinary effort to create a parallel system of recommending and perhaps even providing vaccines faces major challenges.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Our daughter is terrified to get pregnant. She and her boyfriend have no plans for children.
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views.
Three years after Roe fell, more women are managing their abortions without doctors
A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
How I take criticism
June 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Opinion by Steven Becker: Take it from this retired Kansas judge — an independent bench reinforces justice #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/06/12/t...
Take it from this retired Kansas judge: An independent bench reinforces justice • Kansas Reflector
The majority of the Kansas Legislature sadly confuses the court of law with the court of public opinion with its recent vote.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: School funding task force warns of fearmongering. Kansas K-12 supporters have reason to be afraid. #ksleg
School funding task force warns of fearmongering. Kansas K-12 supporters have reason to be afraid. • Kansas Reflector
Republicans who want to strip public schools of funding, impoverish teachers and stunt learning have accused educators of 'fearmongering.'
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May 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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These legislative actions, taken as a whole, suggest that lawmakers want nothing more than to spend less on public schools, shift resources to private religious institutions and face the absolute minimum of scrutiny while doing so. #ksleg
June 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Ming Li Hui, who has lived in a Missouri town for 20 years, is getting deported. This has shocked and angered the locals, many of whom back Trump.

She spoke to us on our podcast straight from jail. She broke down in tears and made a wrenching appeal.

Listen:
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Trump Arrest of Immigrant Triggers Shock and Regret in Small MAGA Town
An immigrant’s pending deportation has stunned Trump-supporting Missouri locals who have come to know and love her. Speaking to us on our podcast straight from jail, she makes a tearful, wrenching app...
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June 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Working with our good friend Nile at Abbey Road Studios this weekend. Stay tuned…

📸 Gavin Elder
June 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Trump ‘blatant’ refusal to comply in deportation case shows growing rift with judges | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Trump ‘blatant’ refusal to comply in deportation case shows growing rift with judges • Kansas Reflector
A federal judge in Maryland slammed the Trump administration Friday for its “blatant lack of effort to comply” with her order earlier this month to report steps taken to facilitate the return of a sec...
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May 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.
Exodus of USDA veterinarians and others drives fears that U.S. farms are at risk
More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.
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May 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🌮🌮🌮TACO MAN, TACO MAN, DOES WHATEVER A TACO CAN. 🌮🌮🌮
May 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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A junkie unmoored from reality destroyed our govt:
"The drug has psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain...Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues"
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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May 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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NPR sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, saying that a May 1 executive order violates the news organization’s First Amendment rights.

“This is not about politics — it is about principle,” the member stations wrote in a joint statement.
NPR sues Trump over executive order targeting funding
The president’s May 1 order sought to halt taxpayer dollars from flowing to both NPR and PBS.
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May 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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An increase in extreme heat in Kansas is making pregnancy more risky, according to a report by the nonprofit advocacy group Climate Central.
Via Kansas News Service:
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Kansas has more dangerously hot days. That makes pregnancy riskier, report finds
An increase in extreme heat in Kansas is making pregnancy more risky, according to a report by the nonprofit advocacy group Climate Central.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: ChatGPT can now write a comprehensible column about Kansas politics. It might also end the world. #ksleg
ChatGPT can now write a comprehensible column about Kansas politics. It might also end the world. • Kansas Reflector
The promise that I once wrote about has been replaced by a nagging sense that the technology still falls short and poses profound risks.
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May 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM