Therese Flanagan, MA
@therese0923.bsky.social
I'm a lifelong Democrat. I was in Grant Park the night Obama was elected; it was life changing. My mom had ALZ; I took care of her for 9 years. I kept notes, thinking they may be of help to someone on the same path: https://OnForgetting.com
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Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"
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People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy
The risk is greatest among Black women in states with abortion bans, according to a new report. By� Shefali Luthra �for The 19th Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans are almost ...
www.dailykos.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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"....I'm still mystified as to how a first, second, fourth or sixth grader would pose any type of risk to our nation's national security that would require Homeland Security to deploy its agents to two elementary schools." -- LA Schools Super Alberto Carvalho @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com
@lausdsup.bsky.social Alberto M. Carvalho didn’t hold back when expressing his anger & "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to 2 elementary schools.
This is the leadership that we expect! Thank you, Dr. Carvalho.
#ImmigrantsMakeAmerica
This is the leadership that we expect! Thank you, Dr. Carvalho.
#ImmigrantsMakeAmerica
April 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"....I'm still mystified as to how a first, second, fourth or sixth grader would pose any type of risk to our nation's national security that would require Homeland Security to deploy its agents to two elementary schools." -- LA Schools Super Alberto Carvalho @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com
trumpworld, where women's health research is guaranteed to be defunded.
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
trumpworld, where women's health research is guaranteed to be defunded.
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Get tix now for my virtual interview with @radiofreetom.bsky.social, about his updated Death of Expertise, plus who knows what out of the headlines (including stuff he's wrong about). www.keplers.org/upcoming-eve... Your ticket includes online access for 30 days, in case you can't catch it live.
This Is Now: Tom Nichols — Kepler's Literary Foundation
One of our most popular speakers—and one of the most compelling skeptics in
politics—returns with an update on the death of expertise.
www.keplers.org
May 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Get tix now for my virtual interview with @radiofreetom.bsky.social, about his updated Death of Expertise, plus who knows what out of the headlines (including stuff he's wrong about). www.keplers.org/upcoming-eve... Your ticket includes online access for 30 days, in case you can't catch it live.
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Raccoon knocks out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto
Raccoon knocks out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto
toronto.ctvnews.ca
February 2, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Raccoon knocks out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto
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THAT IS A FORM OF INFLUENCE. YOU’RE A FUCKING LAW PROFESSOR.
December 18, 2023 at 1:24 PM
THAT IS A FORM OF INFLUENCE. YOU’RE A FUCKING LAW PROFESSOR.
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a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
A letter to our readers
docs.google.com
December 5, 2023 at 4:55 PM
a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California will debate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida with the Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday. The stakes are high for both men in a face-off between what could potentially be two leading candidates in the next presidential race.
Gavin Newsom Wants Fox News Viewers to Hear Him Out
After sparring twice with Sean Hannity, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California will jump into the ring this week with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. The stakes are high for both men.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2023 at 6:12 PM
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California will debate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida with the Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday. The stakes are high for both men in a face-off between what could potentially be two leading candidates in the next presidential race.
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In 2005, a Jewish family was forced to flee their home after challenging their local school's policy of requiring Christian prayer.
A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"
A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"
House Speaker Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Public Schools
“The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the Gospel," the Republican said in 2004 after Jewish parents sued a school for pushing Christianity on their kids.
www.huffpost.com
November 27, 2023 at 5:35 PM
In 2005, a Jewish family was forced to flee their home after challenging their local school's policy of requiring Christian prayer.
A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"
A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"
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Plutopians convene for early tales of digital culture: the WELL, bOING bOING, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FringeWare, all sorts of high weirdness. Thursday, November 30, 7-8pm Central Time, streaming live at www.youtube.com/c/PlutopiaNe...
November 28, 2023 at 5:26 AM
Plutopians convene for early tales of digital culture: the WELL, bOING bOING, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FringeWare, all sorts of high weirdness. Thursday, November 30, 7-8pm Central Time, streaming live at www.youtube.com/c/PlutopiaNe...
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Popular Science was an important byline in my career. I wrote some formative pieces for them, including a feature I consider one of my best. They even gave me a column for a little while. I hate this so much.
Venture capital killed a 151-year-old magazine that I and so many other people were proud to work for, until, of course, we were all laid off a few weeks ago.
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
The long-running publication has come to an end.
www.theverge.com
November 28, 2023 at 6:45 AM
Popular Science was an important byline in my career. I wrote some formative pieces for them, including a feature I consider one of my best. They even gave me a column for a little while. I hate this so much.
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As of Saturday, nearly $200,000 had been donated to RIP Medical Debt in Casey McIntyre’s memory, which would wipe out approximately $20 million of unpaid medical bills.
She vowed to clear strangers’ medical debt in a posthumous viral post
Since her diagnosis in 2019, Casey McIntyre befriended dozens of other cancer patients who, unlike her, had piles of medical debt as they underwent treatment.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2023 at 7:26 PM
As of Saturday, nearly $200,000 had been donated to RIP Medical Debt in Casey McIntyre’s memory, which would wipe out approximately $20 million of unpaid medical bills.
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George Santos has just announced a press conference for Nov. 30 at 8 a.m.
Meanwhile, tomorrow the head of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), is expected to introduce a resolution to expel Santos, which the House will take up once its members return to DC on Nov. 28.
Meanwhile, tomorrow the head of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), is expected to introduce a resolution to expel Santos, which the House will take up once its members return to DC on Nov. 28.
November 17, 2023 at 3:20 AM
George Santos has just announced a press conference for Nov. 30 at 8 a.m.
Meanwhile, tomorrow the head of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), is expected to introduce a resolution to expel Santos, which the House will take up once its members return to DC on Nov. 28.
Meanwhile, tomorrow the head of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), is expected to introduce a resolution to expel Santos, which the House will take up once its members return to DC on Nov. 28.
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Breaking news: A former attorney for Donald Trump has told Georgia prosecutors that a top presidential aide said to her in December 2020 that “the boss” did not plan to leave the White House “under any circumstances,” according to a video recording obtained by The Washington Post.
Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos
The Post obtained recordings of statements made by four of Trump’s co-defendants who pleaded guilty in the case in Fulton County, Ga.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2023 at 12:28 AM
Breaking news: A former attorney for Donald Trump has told Georgia prosecutors that a top presidential aide said to her in December 2020 that “the boss” did not plan to leave the White House “under any circumstances,” according to a video recording obtained by The Washington Post.
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Pope Francis has removed one of his most visible American critics from diocesan leadership, a Texas firebrand who said Francis was “undermining” the faith by discussing the place of LGBTQ+ communities and women in the Catholic Church.
Vatican dismisses conservative Texas bishop who criticized Pope Francis
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Tex., has vocally opposed Pope Francis on theological issues, saying an “evil and false message” had infiltrated the Catholic Church.
wapo.st
November 12, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Pope Francis has removed one of his most visible American critics from diocesan leadership, a Texas firebrand who said Francis was “undermining” the faith by discussing the place of LGBTQ+ communities and women in the Catholic Church.
We have a practicing Catholic as President, a man who prioritizes the good of all -- people over money -- and a lot of Catholics are more favorable toward trump, an amoral man, who places himself above our Constitution. I thought maybe they were one issue voters; Dobbs proved that theory wrong.
November 12, 2023 at 4:02 PM
We have a practicing Catholic as President, a man who prioritizes the good of all -- people over money -- and a lot of Catholics are more favorable toward trump, an amoral man, who places himself above our Constitution. I thought maybe they were one issue voters; Dobbs proved that theory wrong.
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If you don’t understand Trump is running on explicitly authoritarian state and is promising mass political revenge and immigrant sweeps and detention, I don’t know what to tell you. His entire platform is vicious revanchist revenge.
November 11, 2023 at 4:31 PM
If you don’t understand Trump is running on explicitly authoritarian state and is promising mass political revenge and immigrant sweeps and detention, I don’t know what to tell you. His entire platform is vicious revanchist revenge.
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Trump is going full-on Hitler.
The astonishing part is that he will be the nominee of a major American political party.
People forget that there were pro-Hitler demonstrations here in the 1930s.
The astonishing part is that he will be the nominee of a major American political party.
People forget that there were pro-Hitler demonstrations here in the 1930s.
November 12, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Trump is going full-on Hitler.
The astonishing part is that he will be the nominee of a major American political party.
People forget that there were pro-Hitler demonstrations here in the 1930s.
The astonishing part is that he will be the nominee of a major American political party.
People forget that there were pro-Hitler demonstrations here in the 1930s.
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A pond in Hawaii became a social media spectacle this week after turning bubble-gum pink. However, experts said the new hue, seen at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, was not just a photo opportunity but an indicator of environmental stress. nyti.ms/3QAazt5
November 11, 2023 at 11:12 PM
A pond in Hawaii became a social media spectacle this week after turning bubble-gum pink. However, experts said the new hue, seen at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, was not just a photo opportunity but an indicator of environmental stress. nyti.ms/3QAazt5
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A Florida woman who filed a report against her ex-boyfriend was allegedly shot and killed by him 40 minutes after she filed it
Woman Allegedly Killed By Ex 40 Minutes After Filing Police Report Against Him
The suspect was present at the station when the victim made her report, and police have launched an internal investigation.
t.co
November 11, 2023 at 2:15 AM
A Florida woman who filed a report against her ex-boyfriend was allegedly shot and killed by him 40 minutes after she filed it
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reading normal-tone politics coverage in 2023 as the gop gets more and more overtly autocratic makes me insane... horse race coverage but one horse is actually a demonic boar whose sharp hooves are covered with the blood of the innocent
November 11, 2023 at 12:10 AM
reading normal-tone politics coverage in 2023 as the gop gets more and more overtly autocratic makes me insane... horse race coverage but one horse is actually a demonic boar whose sharp hooves are covered with the blood of the innocent
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In a statement, Prime Minister Netanyahu responds to President Macron:
November 11, 2023 at 2:57 AM
In a statement, Prime Minister Netanyahu responds to President Macron:
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Seems kinda fascist to have the voting public pass an amendment and then have the legislature say "we're sure people didn't mean to do this so we're going to stop the judiciary from enforcing it."
What the everloving fuck. Writing about this in the newsletter today but I had to share now: Ohio Republicans say that "to prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts with Issue 1, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary." ohiohouse.gov/news/republi...
DECEPTIVE OHIO ISSUE 1 MISLED THE PUBLIC BUT DOESN'T REPEAL OUR LAWS
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio Legislators will be introducing several bills to address this issue in the coming weeks.
“Foreign billionaires don't get to make Ohio laws,” said...
ohiohouse.gov
November 11, 2023 at 3:08 AM
Seems kinda fascist to have the voting public pass an amendment and then have the legislature say "we're sure people didn't mean to do this so we're going to stop the judiciary from enforcing it."