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Anyway, apropos of nothing, here is President Obama with his Nobel Peace Prize.
September 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Sunday night check in!
How’s everybody doing?
Can you add some magic into your week?
June 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hoping the Substack link will work here for folks not on the app, because this conversation is definitely worth the watch! Two really smart people discussing some really interesting ideas —

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Conversation with Secretary Buttigieg
A recording from Heather Cox Richardson's live video
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
June 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is totally true: not quite a “bar tab,” it’s the “merchant’s invoice,” but same deal really.

Another thing to keep in mind when folks start going on with, “Well, the Founding Fathers would have — “
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It kinda felt like this needed shared again —

youtu.be/6_35a7sn6ds?...
The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)
YouTube video by Hamilton
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
June 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
[i just snorted, i was laughing so hard]

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
Trump Tariffs Ruled Illegal by Federal Judicial Panel
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Random Fun Fact:

The term “summer reading” - you know, the light, frothy, enjoyable stuff you take to the beach - was first used in the late 18th Century.

I had no idea it went back that far.
May 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Zelenskyy flies to Turkey, risks his life:

“I’m here. Come talk. Let’s end this war.”

Putin stays home and says: “They don’t want peace.”

And what does America say?
I’m hearing crickets.
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
May 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
May 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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During his hearing RFKJ 🧠🪱claimed that no "working scientists” were fired 🧐

The amazing local branch of our AFGE union just published a list of CDC employees by job series who were fired in April. 59% did scientific work.

See link for full list of affected jobs

www.afge2883ga.org/afge-2883-on...
May 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
May 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
…always worth another share, I’d say, especially this year.

I’m a Guillain-Barre survivor.
No matter what triggered our GBS, they never let us have any vaccines again, for fear of a relapse.
May 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I saw Rufus Wainwright when he was just one hour on one stage among many at a radio station’s outdoor music fest.

Your turn: GO.
May 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Now, I am no real expert here … a casual fan, you might say … but even <I> know …

The red … lightsabers … were carried by the Sith Lords. 🤦🏻‍♀️

He can’t even get this right.
May 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
55 years ago today.
Recognize the photo?

Kent State. Four students were murdered by the National Guard for protesting. May 4, 1970.
May 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Remember Neville Chamberlain.
Have courage: Resist.

open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
Trump forced to concede defeat
Maine's governor promised she'd see Trump in court. She just declared victory.
open.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Just in case anyone needs the actually inactive ingredients to share with anyone, there you go —
May 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
You’ve just got to wonder how many of those 20,000 salaries $9.6 billion would pay, don’t you?
May 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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