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Nica
@nicarolinam.bsky.social
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Children's Book Editor, Weighted Blanket Lover, 💙🗽, Hot Dog & Oysters Girl, read the driest nonfiction when not working on picturebooks, & learning about too much all at once🦋 (pumping older book reviews into #skylightsocial 🎞️ we gotta get out of TT)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.”

It’s who our government is for.

Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d
The Great Gatsby was better when it was fiction.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 6d
Can our collective Halloween costume be everyone going outside at 7PM and Screaming For Democracy à la 2020 medical support?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d
What did people do before SNAP?”

They died.

Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.

They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore

The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.
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Ann @naakeetula.bsky.social · 7d
Not my shot but 👍🏻
Bumper sticker that says your papaw didn't run shine through these hollers for you to be a bootlicker
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9d
Not surprisingly, most of the U.S. tariffs are being paid by American companies and consumers — NOT by foreign exporters.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Billions for Argentina, ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...

"That's just how it is."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d
Priorities.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 12d
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 12d
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13d
"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds."

A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow.

youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d
New York City is not for sale.

Our new ad begins airing tomorrow.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13d
the AT&T-->Time Warner-->Discovery series of media mergers were some of the most pointless and disastrous business exercises ever conceived by man

so of course we're going to do it again

this time it's rumored they want $60 billion to sell this mess to Larry Ellison and whatever's left of CBS
Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale
The announcement comes after WBD previously said it would split in two.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 13d
Opinion: Of all the European travel / food shows, nothing beats the BBC's Rick Stein's Secret France episodes.
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#travel
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 14d
On the topic of The #Louvre Theft, a 2017 book for readers age 8-12, "The Crims" by Kate Davies follows an extended family of slapstick-level (really bad at their jobs*) miscreants that work together to steal back an object that was taken from them
*or really good?

It's Heist Season! #kidlit
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Book cover "The Crims" written by Kate Davies (illustration of a large family in front of a mansion)
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15d
Wut
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 15d
New York was crushing it with the cooler weather & today it has deceived me.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 15d
To drink Amish kefir after buying a random grocery store brand is the funniest first sip. Like, you now know THIS is what it was supposed to be. Pero also...
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 24d
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d
Imagine that
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 23d
Ugh, pick me up at an airport or give directions where to travel by boat from new york
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 29d
getting rid of Marc Fisher is about the dumbest thing the WP has done yet — and it's been doing a LOT of very dumb things. And without copyeditors, the opinion section won't just be historically or politically illiterate; it's going for the full trifects. x.com/SegravesNBC4...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29d
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · Oct 5
Sorry, can't absorb reality right now...I'm main-lining "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" on audiobook as I practice dissociation xoxo,
a woman is petting a large lion 's head in the woods .
Alt: Aslan and Lucy breaking my heart and also putting it back together
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · Oct 2
My upstairs neighbors are having a gathering for Yom Kippur and my nosey 14 year old cat will not come inside because he is listening to the party. I should just let him go up at this point.
#yomkippur #cat
Cat laying in a pile of leaves while eavesdropping on an upstairs dinner party Cat eavesdropping on a gathering for Yom Kippur
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