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Isabel Wright
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She / Her / Elle Posts = my own
Mild alarmist --> Quickly moving towards full alarmist. Rural 🔵 in a 🔴 State + SCIENCE + Bees + Vaccinated + Libraries + 🇺🇦 + 🇨🇦 + 🚫 DM 🟰 Blocked
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The art of folding a winning hand
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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A US war cemetery in the Netherlands removed information on black soldiers that helped liberate Europe during the Second World War. The local government is asking the US ambassador to put the panels back. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...
Calls for permanent memorial in Limburg to black US liberators - DutchNews.nl
Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating th...
www.dutchnews.nl
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Fetterman, you're done. We the people of PA didn't elect you to be the turncoat that you proved yourself to be today.
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The US Supreme Court has acted like it's one of Kim Davis's many husbands and kicked the "Marriage is Sacred, Y'all!!!" hypocrite to the curb. Glory!
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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SOURCES: The Epstein files are actually worse than previously thought. Here's my latest episode of The Breakdown in case you missed it yesterday. www.muellershewrote.com/p/sources-th...
SOURCES: The Epstein Files ARE Worse Than Previously Thought
I reached out to sources that reviewed the files after David Shuster reported that republicans in the House are panicking. This is about what I learned.
www.muellershewrote.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Once the government reopens, precedent has already been set, if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected representative from Arizona’s 7th District, someone else will. In Powell v. McCormack (1969), the
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Time to swear in Adelita Grijalva, let her cast the final vote to release the Epstein files!
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I had several great uncles that fought against fascism in Europe in WWII.

This is appalling.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The Supreme Court rejects petition from Kim Davis to reconsider its 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, effectively preserving Obergefell for a long time to come. Marriage equality is safe.

www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...
Supreme Court declines to hear case on constitutionality of same-sex marriage
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, to reconsider its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex […]
www.scotusblog.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.

We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy Leagu...
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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SPOILER ALERT: The super-rich don't leave when you tax them, because they can afford to stay where they are. They just tell you they'll leave to stop you raising their taxes.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I am digging this new train! Way to go @amtrak.com - it was worth the wait! Keep the rollout of the new fleet going.
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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