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R. Cathey Daniels
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writer biker hiker cross-fitter grandmother, author, fiction, Live Caught published by Black Lawrence Press

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USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern history. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop Playing Politics With Food Assistance Programs
USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern hist...
sign.moveon.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Spotted at highland books in Brevard NC @blacklawrence.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So proud to be part of this press!!
Congratulations to the latest Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series finalists! We look forward to announcing the winner in July.
May 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If we were truly committed to human health, we would not be gutting human health research.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
Trump’s Budget Calls for Deep Cuts to NIH and CDC
A budget blueprint released on Friday advances, in hard numbers and biting words, President Trump’s assault on the nation’s universities and scientific research enterprise.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Earth Day
April 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So now we’re demotivating paying taxes??
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 8
The Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with immigration authorities to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
The IRS finalizes a deal to share tax information with immigration authorities
The Internal Revenue Service reached a deal to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
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April 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“Community is a concept that the MAGA movement is working overtime to undo, but human beings are a social species. We depend on one another for safety and survival. When we vaccinate our children, we are keeping them safe, but we are also keeping those who cannot be vaccinated safe.”
"We depend on one another for safety and survival," writes @margaretrenkl.bsky.social. "When we vaccinate our children, we are keeping them safe, but we are also keeping those who cannot be vaccinated safe. It’s part of the social contract."
Opinion | Why I Got the Measles Vaccine at Age 63
Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start worrying.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
omg I’m so confused in all the very best ways! Just go listen!!
Listen to the new episode of Between the Covers!

@davidnaimon.bsky.social & @torreypeters.bsky.social discuss Stag Dance, which not only interrogates genre, but also gender through genre. 🦌⚡

🦌⚡Listen now! tinhouse.com/podcast/torr...

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March 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”

How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Us and them is all the rage.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Even if USAID’s work is allowed to resume in a few months, the intricate global-health ecosystem being torn apart by the Trump administration will not be easily repaired, @hana-kiros.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/9JhIRJq1
What Is the Full Cost of Dismantling USAID?
The speed with which the Trump administration took USAID apart will be felt for years to come.
theatln.tc
February 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Many thanks to Alison Luterman for sending me her poem. I wanted to share it with you all. robertreich.substack.com/p/praise-the...
Praise the Broken Promise of America
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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It’s #SquirrelAppreciationDay
so just thought everyone should know
when things are uncertain
Squirrel Toddlers hold hands🥹
January 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Progress is like a wobbly top… so…

“You do the thing that matters whether it feels like you are moving forward or not. “
Tessie McMillan Cotton
June 20 2025

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🔊 Listen Now: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. as an 'organizer of the people'
Fresh Air on NPR One | 43:48
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January 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Suddenly everything’s a metaphor, the living world a teacher. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...
Opinion | On a Cold, Dark Inauguration Day, a Message From the Birds
Seeing those cardinals watching over each other, I wondered: What can I, too, do to be watchful? To take care?
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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🎶 Artists in the Wild (3): Meet Lynn Mundell, Flash Writer & Publisher
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🎶 Artists in the Wild (3): Meet Lynn Mundell, Flash Writer & Publisher
On hybrid forms, the fractious world we live in, and the beauty that connects us.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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“The club wasn’t really called the Bunker, but that’s what I will call it, because that’s how we experienced it…” Read from Aria Aber’s novel, Good Girl.
Good Girl
The club wasn’t really called the Bunker, but that’s what I will call it, because that’s how we experienced it: a shelter from the war of our daily lives, a building in which the history of t…
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January 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Started a starter pack!
November 16, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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What better way to celebrate the launch day of Aria Aber's Good Girl than the launch of our deep dive into the book together, into questions of exile and belonging, desire and shame, self-erasure and self-discovery?
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Aria Aber : Good Girl - Tin House
Poet Aria Aber’s debut novel Good Girl , set in the club scene of Berlin, is a book brimming over with sex and drugs and music, true. But really at its heart it is a book of self-making and unmaking, ...
tinhouse.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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January 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM