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Laura Brooks
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Mom, teacher, artist, animal-lover, avid reader
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Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many in 2025 STILL consider a romantic tryst or loving affair with Sally Hemings.

Ms. Hemings had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property,

BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS 14-YEARS-OLD. /1
July 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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pro tip: innocent people don't generally suppress the files that prove their innocence
July 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Thank you, Senator Booker! I finally have a little hope that people in our government will fight to keep our democracy. 💙
April 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"If the administration succeeds in privatizing the government-run Student Loan Program, college will become much more expensive, significantly shrinking the number of kids who’ll be able to attend. And that seems to be the point..."

educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...
Connecting the Dots
What's behind the Trump world's obsession with education?
educationwars.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just posting my dog sleeping while I pretend all is right with the world.
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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From @yepicurus on instagram
February 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend belittling Zelinsky for not wearing a suit in a disrespectful, condescending manner. Disgraceful and a global embarrassment. I'll bet he'd never ask Elon Musk that question. This is a freaking coup America!
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I would like to apologize to all of the sane, respectable leaders of the world. Many of us didn’t vote for the felon. He does NOT speak for us. Also, what’s your immigration policy? I don’t know how much longer I can stay in this shit hole country.
February 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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are you fucking kidding me? the Space Nazi wore a tee shirt and baseball cap to a cabinet meeting
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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I don’t know if I have ever in my lifetime felt more embarrassed to be an American than I feel at this very moment…
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.
February 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Trump and his bigoted red state lawmaker cronies are deputizing every bigot to harm anyone who doesn’t look “American enough” to them…
January 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.

Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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ideally, you want the President of the United States, an adjudicated rapist and a convicted felon to be three different people
November 16, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 16, 2024 at 11:38 PM