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Dana
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“To create today is to create dangerously”💣 ~ Albert Camus ~ 💣
🌽Illinois ✍️Writer 📚Lover of Books
🤝Social Workers Belong in Libraries🤝
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I'm glad the GOP is full Groyper and white nationalist now. Just let it all out. Tell the world who you are.
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?

That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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#tdih 1980, three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) & one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, & murdered 💔 in El Salvador by members of U.S. backed National Guard.

Reagan administration blamed the nuns for their own murder.

Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/nu...
Dec. 2, 1980: Three Nuns and Lay Worker Killed in El Salvador
Three nuns and a lay worker were killed in El Salvador by members of the U.S.-backed National Guard.
www.zinnedproject.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Karen and her wine what a combo
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Maybe Hegseth and Trump could also send 500 National Guard members to Kentucky, to help administer pertussis vaccines.

Since saving lives is their thing.

www.wlwt.com/article/kent...
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Update: The US National Debt has now surpassed $39 trillion. It was $36 trillion when Trump took office earlier this year. Trump’s tariff manipulation has also nearly wiped out entire industries across the United States, countless now unemployed.
The official statement from the MAGA White House as the US hits a rapidly increasing all-time high $38 trillion national debt, is:

“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The US is jumping into a pattern of a $1 trillion debt increase per month, meanwhile the Trump regime has blocked the release of the jobs report, inflation report and GDP report

The Trump network increased their wealth by the billions since he first took office in January 2025.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.

"...Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents. ... After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen...."
RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.

This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
Hours Before Expected Release, Rikers Detainee Dies After Apparent Seizure
Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year.
www.thecity.nyc
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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NEW: The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates.

It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Be the reason your local indie bookstore stays in business this holiday season
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Trump just called Mohammed bin Salman a "very good friend" and added, "we've always been on the same side of every issue."

This is the first time MBS has been on U.S. soil since Saudi agents murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump praised MBS's record on human rights.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Cinnamon Girl
-Neil Young🇨🇦
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Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl (2009 Remaster)
Listen to Cinnamon Girl (2009 Remaster) on TIDAL
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Breaking: A Trump-appointed judge just ruled that Texas Republicans CANNOT use their new gerrymandered map in the 2026 midterm elections.
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM