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Mindy McAdams
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Didn’t always live in Florida. Loves to travel. Taught journalism students to code. Reads novels. BritBox fan. https://mindymcadams.com/
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November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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From the article:
Text in image: Additionally, a consumer boycott following Target’s cut to DEI programs is weighing on the retailer. GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said of the results: “With the LGBTQ community wielding $1.4 trillion in spending power, and the fastest growing consumer segments being Black, Latine, and younger consumers, it’s no surprise that Target’s bottom line is down.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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From HCR, Oct. 31:
Text in image: After returning from a trip to Asia yesterday, Trump left this morning for his thirteenth visit to the Trump Organization’s Florida property Mar-a-Lago. S.V. Date of HuffPost notes this $3.4 million trip brings to $60.7 million the amount taxpayers have spent on the president’s 76 golf outings in his second term.
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Cartoon by: www.jesseduquette.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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"I have 218 votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files."
Two photos and a screenshot of a social media post by @RepThomasMassie, U.S. Representative for Kentucky. Massie is a Republican. The post says: "The government is shutdown, but the House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. @SpeakerJohnson doesn't want that to be the news." These words are highlighted in yellow: "I have 218 votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files." One photo shows Massie speaking in public, surrounded by reporters who are recording him. The other photo shows the chamber of the House, with all seats empty.
October 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Reports from America, 2025 - ICE captures edition
anotheritguy • 23h ago I was in a grocery store last week checking out and three guys and a woman came in asking to see ID for the staff who were mostly Hispanic, the manager to his credit asked to see badges and a warrant so they pointed to a star logo on their shirts but had noting else. The woman with them looked nervous like they were doing something wrong. The Manger told them to either show identification or get out of his store, and then grabbed his cell phone handed it to a cashier and told her to call the cops who would sort this out. They immediately left and walked toward a crappy old pontiac grand am, there were people from the store who followed them our and started taking their pictures and pictures of their plates which caused them to hop in and take off in quite a hurry. There needs to be some accountability before people start retaliating against these goons and give trump the excuse he needs to start martial law or worse. T3pti • 1d ago We don't know where they've been taken to. We don't know if they're alive, we don't know anything. They used to call 2 or 3x a week, now it's been over a month of radio silence. Florida. 3K u/himeeusf avatar himeeusf • 23h ago Same here, we're in Central Florida. Had a handful of my spouse's coworkers pulled over & snatched from their construction vehicles... they all ended up in Alligator Auschwitz. Supposedly they're to be deported - but it's also been over a month of radio silence for us, too. The only real updates we ever heard were early on, that one of the guys has been hospitalized twice for heat stroke. This is a fit young man who is accustomed to working on a concrete crew in Florida summers. The conditions are fucking GRIM. My neighborhood got raided about a week ago as well, splashed all over the local news. 33 of my neighbors disappeared over 2 days. One of them is our friend's father. The nicest guy. The family just opened a taco truck together & it's been a success, we were so excited for them. Now the whole area is a ghost town. People are terrified. I suppose that's the point. It's all so fucking dark. Becca30thcentury • 23h ago Friend if mine in WA is native American, she was shoping for plants at a hardware store, got pi ked up? Told she was an immigrant, and she had to prove her citizenship. Showed her tribal ID and was told that it was not a real thing and tribes don't do ID. Held her for about two weeks before she says she was just let go, no warning, no court, just dropped off about 5 hours away from home and told to not do it again. (No explanation of what it was) She shared the conditions were horrible, the food was worst quality then high-school, the beds were a literal army cot, and they just all got used to the bugs everywhere. She didn't know where she was held, they intentionally drove her away from the town by over an hour before they released her. In all that time no one knew where she was, friends and family called and were told she was in the system but we couldn't be told where or who to call, and there was never a chance to provide evidence she was a civilian. Straight_Life • 21h ago Friends Dad got taken during a quick grocery run in L.A. Didn’t know what happened to him for 3 weeks, but on the 4th week he got a call from his dad who was being held in a New Mexico center. Son sent him money for the commissary and tried to hire a lawyer to get him help, but 2 days after that call, his father was moved to a new detention center in Colorado, then moved again to one in Mississippi. In Mississippi, he was forced to sign a document he didn’t understand and moved once again. Haven’t been able to locate his dad since-it’s been 4 months.
October 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This is the area of Pennsylvania covered by WPSU's broadcasts. Bear it mind it is the main source of emergency communications in times of natural disasters.
September 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Last night’s HCR post details our continuing descent into the horror-world of Orwell’s 1984. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
Text in image: “The refusal of Republican lawmakers to challenge MAGA’s creation of its own reality has opened the way for believers to try to put that world into place through violence. Their victory would end the rule of law on which the United States was founded and base the government on the whims of an authoritarian cabal.”
September 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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4/ This is the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering and two master’s degrees.
Photo shows Mayor Paul Young, current mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, in his office. There is an American flag, a desk and chair, and various awards and mementos on the wall behind the desk. Young leans back against the desk, wearing a dark blue suit and tie. Young is an African American man in his mid-40s, with short dark hair and a close-cropped beard. Photograph from memphistn.gov
September 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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HCR’s Sept. 8 essay is a must-read. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
Text in image: “The administration appears to be in a rush to replace democracy with a dictatorship before the whole administration collapses. On Saturday, Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers reported that 46% of Americans—almost half of them—‘strongly disapprove’ of the job Trump is doing as president while only 24% “strongly approve, a 22% enthusiasm gap.”
September 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Like the U.S. protests following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the protests currently under way in Indonesia (not only in Jakarta; they have spread to several cities) rise from a long, deep history of injustice—not from the death of one man.
Photo shows people standing on several levels of a very tall, wide gate in Jakarta. At the base of the gate stand a much larger number of people wearing camouflage military uniforms. The text says: “Violent unrest in Jakarta escalated after the death of 21-year-old motorcycle taxi driver Affan Kurniawan. He was struck by a police armored vehicle during Thursday’s labor rally, triggering riots that spread into Friday night and Saturday.” Jakarta Globe.
August 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Another great essay from HCR this morning.
Text in image: The Trump administration is launching a classic authoritarian project, attempting to take over a country through division and fear. But they badly misunderstand the nature of power. If they succeed, they will control a badly diminished United States of America, one that has fallen to the level of a country like Russia, far from the powerhouse it was when we recognized that the extraordinary strength of our nation always came not from force, but from alliances. There is one thing Trump’s military deployments against the American people have accomplished though: media mentions of the Epstein files have plummeted.
August 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote this, on Monday. Source: keyt.com/news/2025/08...
Text in image: “A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion – aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such.”
August 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I’ve stopped using Google, changed to DuckDuckGo, turned off all the AI options
Screenshot of search results for “Hezekiah Moscow” in DuckDuckGo show the second hit is an article by Sarah Elizabeth Cox. The first hit shown is an article from biography dot com.
July 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Found here: journals.openedition.org/cmc/365
July 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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The character “Lying Cat” from the Saga comic series, saying, “Lying.”
July 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Florida is not in the top 10? Again, I am skeptical. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...
Chart title: Top 10 States with the Highest Homeless Rate 2024 (per 10k). District of Columbia 83.0. Hawaii 81.0. New York 81.0. Oregon 54.0. Vermont 53.0. California 48.0. Massachusetts 42.0. Washington 40.0. Alaska 37.0. Colorado 32.0.
July 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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HCR recounts deranged social media posts from the president yesterday. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-24-2025
Text in image: A video on Trump’s social media feed posted at 7:15 tonight recalled Senator John McCain’s 2007 call to “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann.” Trump’s version used McCain’s “bomb Iran” chorus but was longer and had visual imagery of planes dropping bombs. In Trump’s version, the soundtrack to the video used the melody of Barbara Ann to say things like: “went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks, tell the ayatollah gonna put you in a box,” and “old Uncle Sam, getting pretty hot, gonna turn Iran into a parking lot.” It is a truism that, like other authoritarians, Trump tries only to appeal to his supporters, but I confess this video, from the president of the United States, left me aghast. It seems to me long past time to question the 79-year-old president’s mental health.
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Trump did in fact leave the G7 meeting a full day early. Making only a feeble excuse.
Text in image: On Friday, journalist Dean Blundell reported that Washington insiders and observers from abroad had noticed how rarely Trump appears in public and how often he falls asleep when he does, prompting speculation that he is not physically able to do the work of the presidency. Blundell suggested Trump’s team would look for a way to get the president out of the G7 early to avoid exposure.
June 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Text in image: Almost four million people live in Los Angeles, with more than 12 million in the greater L.A. area, making the protests relatively small. Nonetheless, on Saturday evening, Trump signed an order saying that “[t]o the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” Based on that weak finding, he called out at least 2,000 members of the California National Guard to protect ICE and other government personnel, activating a state’s National Guard without a request from its governor for the first time in 50 years.
June 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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In Los Angeles, Sunday:
Text in image: Over the course of the afternoon, protesters shouted at the federal agents, who formed a line and shot tear gas or rounds of flash-bang grenades if anyone threw anything at them or approached them. L.A. County sheriff’s deputies arrived to block off a perimeter, and the border agents departed shortly after, leaving the protesters and the sheriff’s deputies, who shot flash-bang grenades at the crowd. The struggle between the deputies and about 100 protesters continued until midnight.
June 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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The farmers are not okay. Gift link.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Stop dropping the ball on this truth.
Text in image: “The totality of his statements clearly show that he is utterly fucking off the rails,” said Rick Wilson, a longtime GOP consultant who became an early Trump critic. “Most of the Washington media is still playing the polite game of pretending this is a normal White House, and so they just move on and move on and move on eternally into the future.”
May 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Walking through the evolution/Earth history exhibit at the Field Museum, I thought about all the science deniers out there and wondered: If they came here, would their heads explode?
Lighted map display of the exhibit titled “Evolving Planet” at the Field Museum In Chicago. Labels on the map include Early Life, Age of Fishes … Age of Dinosaurs … Human Origins, and Ice Age.
May 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM