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Kerri Arsenault
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Author MILL TOWN; Edit @g-ehr.bsky.social; Teach @storytellingstudio.bsky.social & @nsota.bsky.social; Write @ WaPo, NYRB, NYT, Globe. In France & Maine. working on a biography about ordinary men https://www.kerri-arsenault.com
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Page 1 of my book Mill Town. Not my words but words to live by in America today.
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If you are expecting an email from me, it might take a minute as I’m having a hard time typing
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The FDA is reversing a 2003 decision that put a stringent warning on hormone therapy products for menopausal women, saying that the treatments offer heart, brain, and bone health benefits. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/f...
FDA reverses decades-old warning on hormone therapy products for menopause
The FDA is reversing a 2003 decision that put a stringent warning on hormone therapy products for menopausal women, saying that the treatments offer heart, brain, and bone health benefits.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Happy caturday.
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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A manifesto for open research. This zine came from a collective intelligence workshop where participants spoke about what open research needs to be
This manifesto is a starting point. A reminder that openness is ongoing work, not a finished state. #zines #openresearch #publicengagement #norfest2025
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.

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November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Meantime
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A shocking discovery! Microplastics found in Nova Scotia lobsters may end up on your plate. 🦞 https://www.timescolonist.com/national-news/researchers-find-microplastics-in-the-tails-of-lobsters-caught-off-nova-scotia-11448363
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Position in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing and Practices, U of Calgary, Alberta: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1699885...
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures and Intercultural Understanding in Calgary, ...
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures and Intercultural Understanding in Calgary, ...
careers.ucalgary.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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DOD civilians at home and abroad, many of whom are veterans or military family members, say morale is low and falling fast as the government shutdown drags on leaving them without pay. And for many, the shutdown was one more burden in a year of
Civilians at the Pentagon continue missing paychecks while working alongside troops getting paid | CNN Politics
As the US passes the record for the longest government shutdown in history on Wednesday, civilian employees of the Defense Department — many of whom are veterans and military family members — are ques...
www.cnn.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”

Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Agents, editors, readers, take note! An environmental story with humor! I met Cory as a student at Harvard & we've been helping each other since. Thanks to The COMMON for taking a chance on Cory! www.thecommononline.org/smith/
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CORY BEIZER <br> Eventually everything falls into disorder. That was what my physics minor taught me in college. When I met with the dietitian, I wanted to explain the law of entropy to her. That the ...
www.thecommononline.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Holidays are approaching & it seems like a good time to remind folks that I make & sell visual art! If you see something you like & it’s more than you want to spend, get in touch. I want you to have it so let’s find a way! Here’s a new one, & more here: sheilasquillante.com/original-abs...
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Straight up Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Berdimuhamedow #cultleader
A house deliberately built *not* to look like a palace.

Now being tarted up with tasteless gold frills, and a huge ballroom added.

One President omitted from the portrait line-up. Joe Biden, replaced by an auto pen machine.

A country being run by a spiteful child...🤮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
How Trump is remaking the White House in his own image - BBC News
A visual guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented transformation of the presidential residence.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The president said, “I don’t know who he is,” after he was asked about the money-laundering crypto billionaire he pardoned last month.
Trump, 79, Admits He Has ‘No Idea’ Who Billionaire He Pardoned Is
The president said, “I don’t know who he is,” after he was asked about the money-laundering crypto billionaire he pardoned last month.
trib.al
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.
November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM