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Dennis Fischman
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To learn and to teach. Books, cats, life is good but the world is broken and we must repair it.
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Three Wins Today: Nov 25, 2025
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Three Wins Today: Nov 25, 2025
With disinformation at your fingertips, who can find trustworthy anything?
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November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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‘Treated like an animal’: ICE is moving detained immigrants quickly to conservative states, raising due process concerns - The Boston Globe
Immigrants in New England targeted for deportation are being whisked away quicker and to farther locations than ever before.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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MAGA is more bot than bite
Elon Musk himself just gave us the proof of it. Inadvertently, I think, but thanks anyway, Elon. A new “about this account” feature designed to promote transparency got a bit more transparent than I t...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The courts broke campaign finance. Maine is giving them a chance to repair it. - The Boston Globe
There is a path to restore limits on big money in politics.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Three Wins Today: Nov 24, 2025
Some terrible bills stay terrible in the dark.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Dennis Fischman's review of The Luck Runs Out (Peter Shandy, #2) buff.ly/OVYZkEc #books #fiction #MurderMystery
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November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Three Wins Today: Nov 23, 2025
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Three Wins Today: Nov 23, 2025
I'm Not Trying to be Pollyanna
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November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Doctors respond to ‘data-free’ decision over menopause hormone therapy: ‘It’s not true’
Physicians say FDA panel conflated two issues and made baseless claims about unproven health benefits
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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Brand-new activists are discovering political movements – and each other: ‘You feel the camaraderie’
Organizers are breaking down barriers and creating clever campaigns to welcome people new to protesting
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November 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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White out, but dark, very dark, inside human hearts. What a Christmas story! www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #books #fiction #MurderMystery
Dennis Fischman's review of Whiteout
4/5: This is indeed "dark Iceland," as dark as anything Ruth Rendell could come up with. Fairly ordinary people are revealed to be keeping terrible secrets about what they and people they know have do...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Bringing murder and rape back into the mainstream?
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Bringing murder and rape back into the mainstream?
You know, I thought it was bad enough when two Democratic lawmakers were murdered in their homes or a Democratic judge’s house was set ablaze—two very recent MAGA-oriented events—and when politicians ...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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How to Read the Torah from a Trans Perspective (Even If You Aren’t Transgender) — Sources Journal www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/how...
#Jewish #ParshaChat
How to Read the Torah from a Trans Perspective (Even If You Aren’t Transgender) — Sources Journal
Joy Ladin Fall/Winter 2024
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November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Judge hits pause on IRS sharing taxpayer information with ICE
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the Trump administration policy was "unlawful."
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November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A0 Dennis Fischman in Somerville, MA. Today was the first Shabbat morning in a month that I wasn't attending a bar or bat mitzvah, a birthday or anniversary celebration, just a Shabbat service. I am content. #ParshaChat
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Another Undaunted City
Charlotte defends democracy and decency
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November 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hanged Them.
This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Oh, so tariffs DO raise prices? Who’d have guessed?
So, in case you missed the news, 47 did a turnabout a few days ago and reversed tariffs on a bunch of food items, apparently 200 of them but notably things like beef, bananas, and coffee.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Trump's Anti-Trans Report Authors Revealed: Hate Groups and Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Activists
The majority of the “expert” comments cited in the “peer review” seem to be just as ignorant as the authors about the reality of trans people’s care.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Black Women You Should Know About: Bessie Coleman
Breaking Barriers in Aviation and Inspiring Generations
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November 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Jamal Khashoggi Will Haunt Mohammed Bin Salman Forever
The Saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of my friend and Washington Post writer gets the (blood) red carpet treatment.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Has Trump’s Power Peaked?
Publisher's Roundup 45
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November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Facing Unprecedented Labor Violations, Starbucks Workers Overwhelmingly Agree to Strike Indefinitely
Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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New Mexico now offers free childcare for all. Here’s how parents and teachers made it happen
From marches and petitions to a constitutional amendment, a years-long campaign led to New Mexico becoming the first state in the US to offer universal childcare
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November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I seem to be one of the few people who neither loved nor hated this book. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #books #fiction
Dennis Fischman's review of The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #1)
3/5: I seem to be one of the few people who neither loved nor hated this book. On the positive side: I enjoyed the Linus character (clearly a stand-in for the author) and his path from good values t...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM