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Carmen Cusido
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Magaly & Armando's daughter. Rutgers and Columbia alum. Adjunct professor. Mental-health advocate. Writer for various publications, including CNN, NPR, Cosmopolitan, Oprah Daily, Health, and more. Find my bylines here: carmencusido.journoportfolio.com.
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Anyone else just finish watching President Biden's #farewelladdress? I don't know about you, but I had tears in my eyes.

#PresidentBiden, thank you for your more than five decades of public service to our great nation. Thank you for your decency, your honesty, your integrity. I will miss you.
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Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Disgusted to hear of the targeted shooting of National Guard members in DC today. All Americans should unite in condemning and rejecting this violence. Sending prayers to these victims and their families, and thankful to the responders who acted so quickly.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much. From our family to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I meant to post this last week and forgot. I'm grateful to be part of New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill's transition team committees! I'm looking forward to serving! Here's the link with more information: www.nj.gov/govelect/act...
Transition Action Team
Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill announced an ambitious and collaborative initiative to chart a bold course for New Jersey’s future and ensure the Governor-elect’s commitment to hit the ground running on...
www.nj.gov
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Tatiana Schlossberg ripped the damage her cousin, RFK Jr., could cause to future cancer patients.
Cancer Tragedy Kennedy Scion Blasts RFK for War On Healthcare
Tatiana Schlossberg ripped the damage her cousin, RFK Jr., could cause to future cancer patients.
trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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In a world where Trump punches down, be like Pope Leo and lift people up.
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Live your life so you’re not the only living president and vice president not to be invited to a former vice president’s funeral
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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re-upping this today -- if you haven't read it yet, it is really worth a look:
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Wow.
"We are hearing the administration say they intend to investigate various Dems who were friends with Epstein. I beg you President Trump -- please stop making this political. It is not about you. Show some class. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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These two are longtime friends, and I love that one of their conversations was captured for Chelsea's new podcast, "That Can't Be True."

Listen as they talk about how state leaders like @iamwesmoore.bsky.social are stepping up to help citizens in this moment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Colombia and the UK have ordered the suspension of intelligence sharing with the United States, until Trump stops murdering civilians in the Caribbean.

At least 75 innocent people have been murdered. Their murders filmed and redistributed by the Trump regime as entertainment.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Having served with Raul Grijalva and worked with him on environmental matters, it is a particularly joyful to see his daughter Adelita take up his mantle in Congress. I am happy for Raul and the nation. Finally.
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.

I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Joyce Carol Oates said what everyone’s been thinking and did it with elegance.
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM