Monica Potts
@monicapotts.bsky.social
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
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Hello new followers! I'm the Class Politics reporter @newrepublic.com and the author of The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America. I have 5 dogs and 4 cats. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
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Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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It’s sad that “soldiers shouldn’t commit crimes” is a brave position for a Republican to take.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It’s sad that “soldiers shouldn’t commit crimes” is a brave position for a Republican to take.
You don't have to use a plate if the crust is properly sturdy!
The problem with most pies*, especially fruit pies (as contrasted to cake or cookies), is that you need to use a plate.
This is an impediment to sneaking bits and pieces without drawing attention.
*Pumpkin and pecan pies are the exception
This is an impediment to sneaking bits and pieces without drawing attention.
*Pumpkin and pecan pies are the exception
So my pie take is there are no bad pies, but some pies have to be eaten a certain way:
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
You don't have to use a plate if the crust is properly sturdy!
Does someone want to buy me a heat pump?
"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone."
"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."
"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."
New Brattle Report Finds Beneficial Electrification Delivers Billions in Savings to US Households Along with Significant Emissions Reductions - Brattle
Harnessing the benefits of electric technology over the last decade saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone and prevented more than
www.brattle.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Does someone want to buy me a heat pump?
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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"Person in pajama pants confronting federal immigration agents" seems to be a developing trend.
The photo below appears to have been taken during an incident that took place today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The photo below appears to have been taken during an incident that took place today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Person in pajama pants confronting federal immigration agents" seems to be a developing trend.
The photo below appears to have been taken during an incident that took place today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The photo below appears to have been taken during an incident that took place today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Now we have rumors of Trump's concepts of a plan, and Republicans aren't having it: newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Why Republicans in Congress Hate Trump’s Health Care Plan
The House GOP revolted after details of the plan leaked over the weekend. Now its status is unclear.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Now we have rumors of Trump's concepts of a plan, and Republicans aren't having it: newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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The government reopened last week, ending the longest shutdown in the nation’s history. But funding for some Head Start programs, including those run by Southeastern Community Action Partnership, is still in limbo, Heidi Perez-Moreno reports. borderbelt.org/head-start-c...
Head Start Closures Leave Robeson County Families Scrambling for Child Care
Southeastern Community Action Partnership closed three Head Start sites in Robeson County because of the government shutdown.
borderbelt.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The government reopened last week, ending the longest shutdown in the nation’s history. But funding for some Head Start programs, including those run by Southeastern Community Action Partnership, is still in limbo, Heidi Perez-Moreno reports. borderbelt.org/head-start-c...
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Tfw what you, and many others, have been screaming about finally gets traction: "a big and growing number of countries recognise that a managed, collectively navigated route to fossil fuel phaseout is preferable to the chaotic absence of planning we currently have"
cc: @gruberte.bsky.social
cc: @gruberte.bsky.social
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Tfw what you, and many others, have been screaming about finally gets traction: "a big and growing number of countries recognise that a managed, collectively navigated route to fossil fuel phaseout is preferable to the chaotic absence of planning we currently have"
cc: @gruberte.bsky.social
cc: @gruberte.bsky.social
It's too bad people randomly got hostile to masking because it really makes sense in so many instances!
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's too bad people randomly got hostile to masking because it really makes sense in so many instances!
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Great piece from @brendannyhan.bsky.social about lackluster protest among youth. An under-appreciated point is a 20-year-old’s frame of reference: they’ve literally never experienced US politics with healthy political parties that follow democratic norms.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Great piece from @brendannyhan.bsky.social about lackluster protest among youth. An under-appreciated point is a 20-year-old’s frame of reference: they’ve literally never experienced US politics with healthy political parties that follow democratic norms.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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Utah plans a 3,100-mile paved bike network that would put a trail within one mile of 95% of residents.
Utah Unveils 'Ambitious' 3,100-mile Bike Network
The complete network would put a paved bike trail within one mile of 95% of Utah residents.
www.planetizen.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Utah plans a 3,100-mile paved bike network that would put a trail within one mile of 95% of residents.
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
Here are some things about farmers:
1) American farm policy needs to change
2) operating a farm in the US is difficult because of agriculture and corporate policy.
3) corporate consolidations have decreased competition and makes farmers less profitable and is also bad for consumers
1) American farm policy needs to change
2) operating a farm in the US is difficult because of agriculture and corporate policy.
3) corporate consolidations have decreased competition and makes farmers less profitable and is also bad for consumers
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Here are some things about farmers:
1) American farm policy needs to change
2) operating a farm in the US is difficult because of agriculture and corporate policy.
3) corporate consolidations have decreased competition and makes farmers less profitable and is also bad for consumers
1) American farm policy needs to change
2) operating a farm in the US is difficult because of agriculture and corporate policy.
3) corporate consolidations have decreased competition and makes farmers less profitable and is also bad for consumers
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Gah, the answer is yes, if servicemembers want to avoid criminal prosecution, they must follow all LAWFUL orders & ALSO NOT follow orders they KNOW/should know are UNLAWFUL. UCMJ, art. 90; US v. Calley (1974). Every member bears this burden b/c we tho't the Nazi justfollowingorders defense was bad.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Gah, the answer is yes, if servicemembers want to avoid criminal prosecution, they must follow all LAWFUL orders & ALSO NOT follow orders they KNOW/should know are UNLAWFUL. UCMJ, art. 90; US v. Calley (1974). Every member bears this burden b/c we tho't the Nazi justfollowingorders defense was bad.
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The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
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KFF’s @larrylevitt.bsky.social advises signing up now, because once enrollment open ends you won’t have another chance.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
KFF’s @larrylevitt.bsky.social advises signing up now, because once enrollment open ends you won’t have another chance.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
You can sign as a hedge, in case a deal is passed, and decide to drop out later if there’s no deal.
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the screams were actually us from the future
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
the screams were actually us from the future
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This is really a layup.
Congressional stock trading has to be stopped. It’s corrupt, it’s deceptive, and I can’t believe it does not adversely affect critical decisions. We should pay them all a good wage and enable people across the economic spectrum to be able to compete.
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is really a layup.
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You went into a coma in 2017.
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You went into a coma in 2017.
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”