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University Instructor of Lit, Writing, early ret! ✍🏼📚Writing, Lit, Music, Nature🎶🌲Chaucer, ShakespeareSunday, 19th C Brit Lit💙"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air”~Emerson💙Embrace kindness💙#SlavaUkraini💙💛 Blue dot in Texas 💙
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“About a quarter million in lost revenue left to rot.”

American Farmers are getting hurt by Trump’s Gestapo’s attacks on workers. (Not criminals)
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Um...he's going to Alaska, which is allegedly part of the United States...for now.
Trump: It’s going to be a big thing. We’re going to Russia
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🧵This is the official transcript of the videotaped deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell.

This is the deposition that Maxwell fought to hide.

Held at the law offices of Boies, Schiller & Flexer, on April 22, 2016 in NYC

The transcript is more than 400 pages long, 7 hours of depositions held over 2 days
www.courthousenews.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve broken something and then gamely tried to at least pretend to glue it back together.
The Office of Personnel Management told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reinstate veterans, disabled veterans, and military spouses who were fired, according to an email sent to CFPB employees who saw their terminations reversed. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
OPM Tells CFPB to Reinstate Fired Veterans, Military Spouses
The Office of Personnel Management told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reinstate veterans, disabled veterans, and military spouses who were fired, according to an email sent to CFPB emplo...
news.bloomberglaw.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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BREAKING

The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donal...
popular.info
February 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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This is fun
Army Choir surrounded the MAGA hierarchy dining in White House East Room to sing "Do You Hear The People Sing"

It was lost on Trump but Vance was super fidgety

"Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again"

#DisruptTheCoup
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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YESTERDAY WAS A DAY OF INFAMY. THE US SIDED WITH RUSSIA (AND BELARUS AND NORTH KOREA) IN UN RESOLUTIONS MARKING THE 3RD ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIA'S HOSTILE INVASION OF UKRAINE. TRUMP BETRAYED OUR ALLIES, BETRAYED NATO, ABANDONED UKRAINE.
resist.bot/petitions/PI...
Stop the betrayals! Support Ukraine. No cuts to Medicare or Medicaid
Text SIGN PIFTCY to 50409 to send this to your officials.
resist.bot
February 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Oh you know, just Elon using a US govt. contract to extort from an ally!
February 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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February 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after stating, “MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” before engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.
February 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Maybe Turnip should read the 14th Amendment, he's clueless... Oh wait, can he even "read" it?
Thanks, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 3:50 AM
I Give You the Morning
YouTube video by Tom Paxton - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:44 PM
February 7, 2024 at 8:53 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
#HollowCrowneFans
Theme: Light and Dark – Lantern

“Ay, or else one must come in with a bush of
thorns and a lantern, and say he comes to disfigure or
to present the person of Moonshine.”
 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, AIII, SI
February 4, 2024 at 9:59 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
#HollowCrowneFans
AYLI, AI, SI  

"... he is already in the Forest of Arden & a many merry men with him; and there they live like the Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day & fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
January 14, 2024 at 10:44 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
#HollowCrowneFans
Theme: Days, Weeks, Years

R & J, AV, SI

“And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”
December 31, 2023 at 6:24 AM
#ShakespeareSunday #HollowCrowneFans
Theme: Days, Weeks, Years

Sonnet 43

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me”
December 31, 2023 at 6:08 AM
#DecMusicMemories 💙
#MusicChallenge 🎶
Day 25: I Like the Song

Xavier Rudd ~ Spirit Bird
(My fave of his: transcendent, sublime, noble, primeval)

2 versions (The recorded version in a comment bc drums add so much to overall experience)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEom...
Xavier Rudd - Spirit Bird (Bing Lounge)
October 10, 2012 - Xavier Rudd with "Spirit Bird" in the Bing Lounge at 101.9 KINK.FM. Portland, OR. Presented by Intel.Bing Lounge: http://kink.fm/pages/bi...
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2023 at 1:35 AM
#DecMusicMemories

#MusicChallenge
Day 22 - 30th Hit
 
Snow Patrol ~ Chasing Cars
 
"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"
 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GemK...
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (Official Video)
Final Straw 20th Anniversary Edition featuring 23 bonus tracks, live performances and demos. Pre-order now xhttps://snowpatrol.lnk.to/FinalStraw20thSnow Patr...
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2023 at 3:41 AM