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PattieGillett
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Mother, Wife, Auntie, Daughter of Immigrants 🇬🇺 Fordham Ram, Public Ed Supporter, Stress Baker, Proud Philly Resident. She/Her/Youse.

No boom today, boom tomorrow.
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The FDA has suddenly dropped a proposed rule to require asbestos testing in cosmetics.

The rule would've set up testing to identify cancer-causing asbestos in talc-containing products.

Contamination has repeatedly been found in talc-based cosmetics before.

www.consumeraffairs.com/news/fda-dro...
FDA drops proposed rule on asbestos testing in cosmetics
• Agency abruptly withdraws plan to require standardized asbestos testing • Move contradicts congressional mandate in 2022 cosmetics reform law • Health
www.consumeraffairs.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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They're my constituents, too @shaheen.senate.gov.

None ask me to raise healthcare costs. None ask to see their neighbors kidnapped.

And they understand - when explained - you cannot cut a deal with a GOP that routinely lies.

Your legacy is sealed: You were weak when strength was most needed.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
@lyndacarter.bsky.social A few years old but I’m still proud of this costume. Especially of the lighted lasso. I later upcycled it into a holiday wreath.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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We’re waiting, Jake.
August 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The economy is just a distraction from the concentration camps
July 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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This explains why they greased all the lampposts in Metropolis during the final fight
Today I learned that David Corenswet, the new Superman, is actually not English, despite that name, and is in fact from Philadelphia.
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is the stupidest, most ridiculous own goal I have seen in my life.

This is not a soccer post.
July 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Dr. Charles Nichols, longtime friend of Dr. Richard Kimball, and shareholder and spokesperson for the new miracle drug Provasic, has endorsed Cuomo.
June 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Coco giving the ballkids the trophy to raise.
June 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Aquaman is exploring his options.
May 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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A tribute to my Mexican grandmother, Martina, brought to the US by undocumented parents and I owe her so much: “Rhumba Girl” from my 1981 TV special, Lynda Carter’s Celebration ❤️🇲🇽 youtu.be/zt9AD3O4Sdc?...
A tribute to my Mexican grandmother, Martina: "Rhumba Girl" from Lynda Carter's Celebration (1981)
YouTube video by Lynda Carter Official
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April 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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April 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Deeply appreciate the Betty White Summoning Circle I noticed at a USPS counter this week. 🕯
April 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Nothing that's happened so far wasn't predictable in November.

Many, many people did, in fact, predict it all.
April 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Good day to remember that DOGE has already lost the US government at least half a trillion dollars this year alone. And likely more.
April 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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financial advice in a weird time:

-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw

simple
April 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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CNBC has a headline that says markets fear "Trump tariffs will spark trade war." What? This is like saying you're afraid Russia invading Ukraine will spark a conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
April 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The New Jersey Democrat spent more than 25 hours criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. ET Monday. He ended his marathon speech shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech
The New Jersey Democrat spent more than 25 hours criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. ET Monday. He ended his marathon speech sh...
www.npr.org
April 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If nothing else, we can now be grateful that the longest speech in Senate history is no longer a diatribe against the Civil Rights Act delivered by a segregationist.

Thank you Senator Cory Booker.
April 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM