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Jody
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Napa/Tuscany. Likes good wine, good books, good cats, and good whiskey. Go Niners/Dubs/Giants! Recovering world class ballroom dancer. Would sleep better in these times without that history degree.
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Quite a metaphor. 👀

"The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
Delegates were evacuated from the conference venue, where thousands from nearly 200 countries had gathered.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I enjoyed learning this.
When you’re sitting in a jazz bar in NOLA and it occurs to you to wonder who wrote “Tea For Two” and it turns out it was a superstar composer of the 1920s who was also an incredibly prolific alcoholic and horndog who died of tuberculosis before he turned fifty and whose photo is utter perfection.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
For various stupid reasons I am not currently looking at this view. The Apuan Alps, my favorite mountains. #toscana
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Rev. Woolf is the faith leader in this viral photograph:
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Delightful. Captions are a must read.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I went to the taping of the very first #DWTS episode ever because Charlotte Jorgensen was our coach and got us tickets and I’m feeling mushy watching the 20th anniversary show even though we quit watching seasons ago. Tom Bergeron was really the heart and soul of the show. So fun to see him back!
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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"So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befall,
And gently rise and softly call,
Good night and joy be to you all."
— Celtic folk song
🌱📷
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Democrats say Donald Trump molests children. As president, he's been far more likely to starve or deport them. Two Pinocchios.
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Me: You need to learn the geography of Italy.

The Geography:
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Should be mandatory reading.
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 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Please consider donating. We really don’t want to Have to surrender the pets, but it looks like that could be necessary.

#CatsOfBluesky

gofund.me/0c6d0790b
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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These negotiations are “should we starve people?

Or let them die and become disabled from disease and treatable illness and lack of health care?

How should we destroy people?”
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov Californians do not cave--do NOT vote with Schumer and the Dem spineless weasel caucus!
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A high-amplitude flow pattern, characterized by near-record strength ridging and troughing (respectively) over the western and eastern U.S. and a very wavy jet stream, will bring a progression of notable weather to North America in the coming days.
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM