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Lavinia Kumar
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Poetry, flash fiction, sciences, nature, reading, cats, walking, Ireland, UK, US
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Read about Mary Delany who did most of her amazing work from aged 71 to aged 88 - making over 900 masterful botanical "mosaics."
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s #9
A Very Late Bloomer
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October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Read about another 1700s woman botanist!
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s #5
#5 Did She Start the Journey of ‘Moving Plant of Bengal’
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September 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Bragging! My poem, “Dream in South India” in Club Plum was nominated for Best of the Net 2026

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2026 Best of the Net Nominations!
Visit the post for more.
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September 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Extraordinary 1700s Women Botanists #3 Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717 – 1795)
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s
3. She Categorized Numerous Plants
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September 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Check out my new substack post on my series about often forgotten women botanists
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Extraordinary Women Botanists of the 1700s
2. A Privileged Child of a Colonialist
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September 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Lasker Awards are for fascinating and important studies and results The article of this great science is hidden in NYT's Health section. To see the theLasker Awards info: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Major Medical Prizes Given to Cell Biology and Cystic Fibrosis Pioneers
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September 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Spirited American Women – 100 of them up to around the Civil War. Writers, artists, activists, abolitionists, independent…
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Spirited American Women. Book by Lavinia Kumar. Also Kindle edition.
August 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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From AOC: "Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully."

Marvelous!!!!!!

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Trump Came For AOC And Her Comeback Was So Brutal I Need To Lie Down For A Minute
"It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made."
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June 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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FYI Boelter, the assassin is White The car-rammer in Salt Lake City is White Did the MAGAs somehow miss this White criminality?
June 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Required reading for every young(ish) worker: Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath
AI is coming for all interactions and jobs at breathtaking speed
www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
Hardly anyone is paying attention.
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May 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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What on earth? Why try to undo US major scientific discovery, patents, future thinkers, Nobel Prizes... Is the Project 2025 gang really that scared of excellence? Really? Dummies should be the new leaders of America? Really?
May 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Read my Marsh Morning poem on Tiny Seed Journal tinyseedjournal.com/2025/03/18/m...
Marsh Morning
As the sun rises, mist hangs above the marshas though ocean climbed high in the night,as though great seas cover mighty flames,as though troubles must be drowned.Tall goldenrod and purple loosestri…
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May 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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New Issue of Club Plum is a great read Great songs to go with pieces, too See clubplumliteraryjournal.com/vol-6-issue-2/
Vol 6 Issue 2
CLUB PLUM LITERARY JOURNAL FLASH FICTION David HensonAmy MarquesBen StarrAnthony St. George HYBRID Loria Harris PROSE POETRY Tina BarryLavinia KumarElisa Subin Volume 6 Issue 2
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April 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Pizza deliveries to judges, judge children AND now in the name of murdered Daniel Salas These are threats MAGA threats to kill
April 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus. — Turkish proverb,” quoted by Dan Rather
April 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Musk danger. In 2021 Musk was not invited by Biden to an EV car event as he was not supportive of Unions. After, he turned from being a Democrat to a Republican. SO - what happens when he falls out with Trump. And takes a pile of US government secrets to his next stop?
March 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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What are the citeria Musk and his musketeers are using to "scrutinize" the social security so many rely on? What experts are being used to develop the criteria?
March 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Beware the new crytocurrency honeymoon of Trump, his family, and the oligarchs Read Graham Moore's book The Wealth of Shadows to see the Maynard Keene idea of a world base currency not based on the dollar

Now think of Trump and his oligarch coterie in charge of worlds currency
March 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Join the 40 day boycott of Target! It starts March 5
March 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Fraud? Corruption? Remember those oft-repeated accusations by MAGAs? Has anyone heard these words during the great purge of budgets and employees? Could it be, that they do not apply?
March 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Like geese, like planes... www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The aircraft that may fly like a flock of geese
Some species of birds like geese save energy by flying in close formation. Airliners could use a similar trick to burn less fuel.
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March 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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33 times Zelensky thanked Americans and US leaders www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
Fact check: 33 times Zelensky thanked Americans and US leaders | CNN Politics
Zelensky has thanked the United States on numerous occasions since Russian launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 – expressing gratitude to Trump and President Joe Biden, to members of Cong...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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11-year-old took her own life after classmates threatened to call ICE on her family, devastated mother reveals
- written in a UK paper. Her classmates are also 11!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says
‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother
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February 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Enough said ... Read it again and again. And then again. When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of defense but were immediately squashed. Quickly, we were all very silent. Steve was sent to the principal's office. The teacher came back in the room and said something like "See how easy that was?" We were reading "Anne Frank." I started to understand. I just thought now was a good time to share this story. Don't ever let anyone tell you that what you see with your own eyes isn't happening.
February 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Latest Kelsey Review is out with poems, stories, photos. See kelseyreview.com/wp-content/u...
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January 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM