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Jo Ann Brown
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citizen.
scientist.
gardener.
damn good cook.
fueled by women's sports
(words/views/errors/profanity- all mine) BK+ATL
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A certain crowd loves to use Sudan as a cudgel against people opposed to the genocide in Gaza.

Are those people talking about Khalifa Haftar? Fly Sky Air IL-76s flying to Chad? Small Canadian arms dealers?

No. But I am. Read more here.
Using the Sterling Arms XLCR as an illustrative example, I discuss the web of money and guns that the UAE operates to fuel the RSF's activities in Sudan, where it has been credibly accused of committing genocide. Until something is done about this, the killing will only continue.
Illicit Arms in Sudan
How foreign actors and lax arms export regimes are fueling genocide in Sudan
someforeignfield.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Flyers for our 12/1 charity bike ride are going up around Atlanta.

Spot us in the wild? Be sure to take a photo of/ with the poster and tag us and our partner Atlanta Social Bike Rides!

Sign up to ride or be a sponsor; all donations will be matched up to $1,000: www.eventbrite.com/e/save-scien...
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Today a bunch of folx drank the haterade and unleashed their self-loathing on me.
Hmm, could it be a mercury retrograde?
Why yes, Yes it is.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.

newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
newsletter.anamariecox.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.

Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Was finally able to secure a Novavax version of the COVID-19 vaccine. For the 2nd year in a row CVS took my appts and cancelled them an hour before, citing no stock (cue Seinfeld).
I went to COSTCO, in stock, no hassles.
Status-post 4 hrs: I feel a little crappy, but not too crappy.
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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While in Israel, Mayor Eric Adams released the key autumn budget modification with no warning, and no fanfare.
Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani
Looming budget deficits, no provisions for federal aid cuts and new commitments mark the departing mayor’s last word on the city’s financial plan.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The elevators at the Church B/Q station quietly opened this week just in time to assist me with my luggage from JFK this morning.
And, and, and it doesn't smell like pee (yet).

Straight to the Top: New Nonstop Elevators to Speed Subway Accessibility Coverage  www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/05/m...
Straight to the Top: New Nonstop Elevators to Speed Subway Accessibility Coverage
The J/Z’s Woodhaven Boulevard station in Queens is the first stop in the system where elevators bypass an existing turnstile level and deposit riders directly at the platform.
www.thecity.nyc
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:
Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor
See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.
www.thecity.nyc
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Mamdani elected mayor of NYC, Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins governorship in Virginia, and California passes Prop 50.

(gif from the archives)
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Girl, bye.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Replying "dont worry I got u" to all the NYC text bankers today
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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New York knows how to do Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Happy Halloween everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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from the directpr of Hot Tub Time Machine?

oh bitch, say less. i’m in
BIG NEWS: When Adam Kinzinger stood up to Trump and risked everything, director Steve Pink captured it all. Meidas Studios just released our latest documentary ‘The Last Republican’ on all major platforms. Watch the movie today!
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.
First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens
Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Affordable housing providers are sounding the alarm, with some of the city's most vulnerable tenants at risk.

Side note: Is your building in foreclosure? Talk to me about it.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/a...
Affordable Housing’s Slow-Motion Financial Collapse
Nonprofit groups say swelling operating costs exceed the rent they collect for more than one in five of their apartments, housing some of the city’s most vulnerable tenants.
www.thecity.nyc
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM