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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 9h

well done. bravo.

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Stephen Steiniger @stephenstein.bsky.social · 10h

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I appreciate the repost! I told my mom about it!

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Stephen Steiniger @stephenstein.bsky.social · 17h

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Hi Matthew!

Some interesting reading!

A healthy conservatism is in the interest of America. Donald Trump does not promote a healthy conservatism. This article separates Donald Trump from conservatism and promotes true conservatism.

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The Argument Against Donald Trump’s Conservatism

Separating Donald Trump From Conservatism and Promoting True Conservatism

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TeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 19h

Love, love, LOVE this one!!!

a window with autumn leaves falling out of it and the words " good morning "

ALT: a window with autumn leaves falling out of it and the words " good morning "

media.tenor.com

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Andrew @amac0668.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday Mário de Andrade. 🎂

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SedonaRocks @sedonarocks.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning, Matthew. I can't thank you enough for introducing me to "My Soul Is In A Hurry". It touched me deeply. I'll be reading more of Mario de Andrade's works. 💙🦋

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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19h

...I want to surround myself with people who can touch the hearts of others.
People who despite the hard knockouts of life, grew up with a soft touch in their soul."

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19h

...Who do not consider themselves elite, before they have really become one.
Who do not run away from their responsibilities.
Who defend human dignity.
Who do not want anything else but to walk along w/ truth, righteousness, honesty & integrity.
The essential thing is what makes life worthwhile....

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19h

happy bday Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, b.1893.

"I want the essence, my soul is in a hurry. Not many treats are left in the packet.
I want to live among human people, very human.
People, who can laugh at their mistakes.
Who do not become full of themselves because of their triumphs....

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

Justice department folks undermining justice. GOP women setting back women. "Christians" corrupting christianity. FBI ruining intelligence/public safety. Defense officials being offensive. Health department destroying our health. Education officials ruining education. This is Trump & the GOP.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

The structure and kind of people that enabled Epstein to do what he did while everyone knew what was going on, is exactly the same structure and kind of people around Trump who enable and embolden him to do incredible damage to our country and the world.

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SedonaRocks @sedonarocks.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, Matthew. I devoured biographies of important women as a young girl. I wanted to become a physician after reading about Emily Blackwell.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

...The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they’re anyone’s.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

...that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we’re uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts....

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday English writer Blake Morrison, b.1950.

“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it’s ours exclusively:...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday physician/educator Emily Blackwell, b.1826.
"Business has been arranged to suit men; women, upon entering any new branch of labor, are required to accept its existing conditions. There are many kinds of work which women could do perfectly well if they could modify these conditions. ”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

Tigers got yesterday off.

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Suzanne Winland @suzannewinland.bsky.social · 2d

I had the delight of attending Christmas Eve service at the National Cathedral in DC when Desmond Tutu presided. It was transcendent. 💛 His humanity & practical approach to facing dark times with grace lifted the lives of those present…

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 2d

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

happy bday the iconic Desmond Tutu, b.1931

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness".

"We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity"

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

...Yet to press their hands and say,
Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

happy bday writer James Whitcomb Riley, b.1849, Greenfield, IN.

What delightful hosts are they—
Life and Love!
Lingeringly I turn away,
This late hour, yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face lit with delight
And all gratitude, I stay...

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Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social · 3d

This poem❤️

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 3d

RIP poet Elizabeth Bishop, died this day 1979, won Pulitzer Prize in 1956.

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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