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Lovely op ed from 2024 by Beth Macy
Lovely op ed from 2024 by Beth Macy
Opinion | I Grew Up Much Like JD Vance. How Did We End Up So Different? (Published 2024)
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December 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Lovely op ed from 2024 by Beth Macy
Lovely op ed from 2024 by Beth Macy
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Nearly thirty U.S. diplomats across the world were recalled by the Trump admin. and told to return home. Erielle Reshef and panel discuss.
'It's going to be destabilizing;' Nearly thirty U.S. ambassadors ordered to return home
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December 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nearly thirty U.S. diplomats across the world were recalled by the Trump admin. and told to return home. Erielle Reshef and panel discuss.
Great thoughts about the justice system. Worth a listen.
did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...
Why Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court
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December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Great thoughts about the justice system. Worth a listen.
"..the economy[Trump] inherited was, according to The Economist,“the envy of the world"&"has left other rich countries in the dust." If Trump had left that system in place,he would have gotten credit for a booming economy as investments made under Biden took hold." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"..the economy[Trump] inherited was, according to The Economist,“the envy of the world"&"has left other rich countries in the dust." If Trump had left that system in place,he would have gotten credit for a booming economy as investments made under Biden took hold." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Russia is trying to overwhelm Europe with its sabotage campaign, Western officials say - ABC News share.google/Lj0sPXfbeDD6...
Russia trying to overwhelm Europe with its sabotage campaign, Western officials say
The Associated Press has documented 145 incidents in what Western officials say is a campaign of disruption across Europe masterminded by Russia since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Russia is trying to overwhelm Europe with its sabotage campaign, Western officials say - ABC News share.google/Lj0sPXfbeDD6...
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The VF profile notes Wiles was incorrect about violent Jan. 6 defendants receiving greater-than-recommended sentences, but it doesn’t capture how wildly off base she was. I don’t think there was a single above-guidelines sentence given in a J6 felony case. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The VF profile notes Wiles was incorrect about violent Jan. 6 defendants receiving greater-than-recommended sentences, but it doesn’t capture how wildly off base she was. I don’t think there was a single above-guidelines sentence given in a J6 felony case. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
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New from me at @motherjones.com: Senate Republicans blocked the Democratic plan to extend ACA tax credits while trying to pass (and failing too) health saving accounts plans, which @mirandayaver.bsky.social told me, are not useful for poor and middle-class folks. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Senate Republicans blocked yet another chance to save Obamacare subsidies
ACA health care "is not a luxury item. It is basic survival for a lot of people."
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December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New from me at @motherjones.com: Senate Republicans blocked the Democratic plan to extend ACA tax credits while trying to pass (and failing too) health saving accounts plans, which @mirandayaver.bsky.social told me, are not useful for poor and middle-class folks. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Don't any of these guys remember before the ACA? Emergency rooms were overwhelmed, many people without insurance couldn't get PCPs, and overcrowding and long wait times were a persistent national public health problem.
Of course the Senate voted against ACA tax credits. Republicans refuse to see the pain they’re causing everyday Americans who are just trying to survive this regime.
Keep the faith, folks - in elections nationwide, we’re winning our democracy back by huge margins!
#RepublicanHealthCareFailure
Keep the faith, folks - in elections nationwide, we’re winning our democracy back by huge margins!
#RepublicanHealthCareFailure
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Don't any of these guys remember before the ACA? Emergency rooms were overwhelmed, many people without insurance couldn't get PCPs, and overcrowding and long wait times were a persistent national public health problem.
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
This is just mean. share.google/OdzMBecwEj46...
Rubio directs diplomats to return to using Times New Roman, undoing Biden-era switch to Calibri | CNN Politics
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to go back to using Times New Roman typeface as the standard for official papers, a spokesperson told CNN, in a reversal of the prev...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is just mean. share.google/OdzMBecwEj46...
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60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found.
More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines. Continue reading...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
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Australia: "COVID-19 has been the leading cause of acute respiratory infection mortality across the majority of 2023–2025"
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Australia: "COVID-19 has been the leading cause of acute respiratory infection mortality across the majority of 2023–2025"
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
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This semester for my WW2 classes I made their research project final product a podcast - in part to avoid AI. The research, inc day in archives so they could learn how to use an archive, was same req as paper. Folks, I am sitting here in tears these things are so good. #thekidsarealright #hopelives🗃
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This semester for my WW2 classes I made their research project final product a podcast - in part to avoid AI. The research, inc day in archives so they could learn how to use an archive, was same req as paper. Folks, I am sitting here in tears these things are so good. #thekidsarealright #hopelives🗃
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This isn’t just an all-male panel debating women’s bodies — it’s a blueprint. Republican bills like this redefine “personhood” so broadly that they can criminalize miscarriage, restrict birth control, block IVF, and even punish people for sharing reproductive-health information.
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This isn’t just an all-male panel debating women’s bodies — it’s a blueprint. Republican bills like this redefine “personhood” so broadly that they can criminalize miscarriage, restrict birth control, block IVF, and even punish people for sharing reproductive-health information.
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Loneliness is now considered a public health crisis. An international team of public policy researchers has created the first official health guidelines for tackling it, and the recommendations go beyond just telling people to socialize more. buff.ly/8T9c240
We created health guidelines for fighting loneliness - here’s what we recommend
Guidelines for social well-being can help health care providers identify when someone is socially isolated and provide goals and standards for policymakers.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Loneliness is now considered a public health crisis. An international team of public policy researchers has created the first official health guidelines for tackling it, and the recommendations go beyond just telling people to socialize more. buff.ly/8T9c240
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
@velshimsnow.bsky.social Hi Ali. Thanks for your fantastic conversation with Walter Isaacson this morning!
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
@velshimsnow.bsky.social Hi Ali. Thanks for your fantastic conversation with Walter Isaacson this morning!
German chocolate cake was named after English-American chocolate maker Samuel German, and uses baking chocolate—which may be the Baker’s Chocolate brand which was named after the Baker family who owned that chocolate company.
French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.
French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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.
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 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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I just feel like people should know about this as we move into some of the busiest travel weekends of the year, no reason.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I just feel like people should know about this as we move into some of the busiest travel weekends of the year, no reason.
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