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a man in a blue hoodie is reading a book called the bible a comprehensive study
ALT: a man in a blue hoodie is reading a book called the bible a comprehensive study
media.tenor.com
1) NEW BOOK 🔔
Cozy season approaches, bringing a bounteous crop of new books for fall.
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#Netgalley #Booksky
Cozy season approaches, bringing a bounteous crop of new books for fall.
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#Netgalley #Booksky
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A headline that totally captures this perverse moment – – and regime.
ps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/shutdown-trump-rich-poor.html
ps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/shutdown-trump-rich-poor.html
Lines at the Food Pantry, Billionaires at the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A headline that totally captures this perverse moment – – and regime.
ps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/shutdown-trump-rich-poor.html
ps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/shutdown-trump-rich-poor.html
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Like I was saying— Epstein is Russiagate, Russiagate is Epstein. Einhorn is Finkel, Finkel is Einhorn.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Like I was saying— Epstein is Russiagate, Russiagate is Epstein. Einhorn is Finkel, Finkel is Einhorn.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Walter Isaacson and I discussed Dick Cheney's presidential power legacy and how he paved the way for Donald Trump despite being adversaries. This aired tonight on PBS's Amanpour & Co. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH6...
NYT Reporter: “Dick Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved Way for Trump” | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Walter Isaacson and I discussed Dick Cheney's presidential power legacy and how he paved the way for Donald Trump despite being adversaries. This aired tonight on PBS's Amanpour & Co. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH6...
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NBCC member Hope Reese talked to Beth Macy, author of "Paper Girl," for Greater Good Magazine:
Why Well-Being Is Falling in Rural America
According to a new memoir, inequalities in rural education may be contributing to the political polarization in the United States.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NBCC member Hope Reese talked to Beth Macy, author of "Paper Girl," for Greater Good Magazine:
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Just finished @bethmacy.bsky.social new Paper Girl. Really powerful book about the politics of our time. I’m going to be recommending this and teaching out of it.
intrepidpapergirl.com/papergirl/
intrepidpapergirl.com/papergirl/
Paper Girl
About the Book From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America’s social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her …
intrepidpapergirl.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just finished @bethmacy.bsky.social new Paper Girl. Really powerful book about the politics of our time. I’m going to be recommending this and teaching out of it.
intrepidpapergirl.com/papergirl/
intrepidpapergirl.com/papergirl/
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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - The Ditter Photo Hoax
November 13, 1966 — Zanesville, OH
1/Barber and amateur astronomer Ralph Ditter Jr. of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of a daylight disc.
Today in UFO History - The Ditter Photo Hoax
November 13, 1966 — Zanesville, OH
1/Barber and amateur astronomer Ralph Ditter Jr. of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of a daylight disc.
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - The Ditter Photo Hoax
November 13, 1966 — Zanesville, OH
1/Barber and amateur astronomer Ralph Ditter Jr. of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of a daylight disc.
Today in UFO History - The Ditter Photo Hoax
November 13, 1966 — Zanesville, OH
1/Barber and amateur astronomer Ralph Ditter Jr. of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of a daylight disc.
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This holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of knowledge, America’s libraries the gift of cash, and don’t give Donald Trump a fucking cent. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an incredible new product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS! ExplainsTheJoke.com
Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke
An incredible product totally exempt from Trump's stupid tariffs.
ExplainsTheJoke.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of knowledge, America’s libraries the gift of cash, and don’t give Donald Trump a fucking cent. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an incredible new product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS! ExplainsTheJoke.com
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@cardsagainsthumanity.com, longtime supporter of libraries, organized a creative way to support ALA with presales of a special edition product—Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke—during Banned Books Week. CAH will donate 100% of proceeds to ALA.
ALA Explains the Donation: ala.org/CAH
#IGM25
ALA Explains the Donation: ala.org/CAH
#IGM25
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@cardsagainsthumanity.com, longtime supporter of libraries, organized a creative way to support ALA with presales of a special edition product—Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke—during Banned Books Week. CAH will donate 100% of proceeds to ALA.
ALA Explains the Donation: ala.org/CAH
#IGM25
ALA Explains the Donation: ala.org/CAH
#IGM25
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Sapeurs/sapeuses are members of La Sape, ‘Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes’ (Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People).
www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/the...
www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/the...
Sapeurs: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congo
In a new book Tariq Zaidi, explores the self-expression through fashion, style and art in the streets of Kinshasa and Brazzaville
www.voguescandinavia.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sapeurs/sapeuses are members of La Sape, ‘Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes’ (Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People).
www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/the...
www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/the...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Stop using the language of the rapist.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Stop using the language of the rapist.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.
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One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
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My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
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Adelita Grijalva has finally been sworn in and immediately signs the Epstein Files Discharge Petition as #218. LFG!!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Adelita Grijalva has finally been sworn in and immediately signs the Epstein Files Discharge Petition as #218. LFG!!!
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Breaking on MSNBC:
A source close to former CIA Director John Brennan confirms he has received a subpoena in connection with the Florida grand jury investigation.
All the subpoenas in this round asked for docs related to the prep of the 2016 intel assessment on Russian election interference.
A source close to former CIA Director John Brennan confirms he has received a subpoena in connection with the Florida grand jury investigation.
All the subpoenas in this round asked for docs related to the prep of the 2016 intel assessment on Russian election interference.
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Breaking on MSNBC:
A source close to former CIA Director John Brennan confirms he has received a subpoena in connection with the Florida grand jury investigation.
All the subpoenas in this round asked for docs related to the prep of the 2016 intel assessment on Russian election interference.
A source close to former CIA Director John Brennan confirms he has received a subpoena in connection with the Florida grand jury investigation.
All the subpoenas in this round asked for docs related to the prep of the 2016 intel assessment on Russian election interference.
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As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
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New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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“If there is no life-saving, essential medical urgency and factual diagnosis that means you have to perform an irreversible surgery, then you don’t do it.” – Holly Greenberry-Pullen
#intersex
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#intersex
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“If there is no life-saving, essential medical urgency and factual diagnosis that means you have to perform an irreversible surgery, then you don’t do it.” – Holly Greenberry-Pullen
#intersex
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#intersex
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Y'all love a blue bird, so here's your chance to step outside your comfort zone and grow as a person.
Green Honeycreeper.
Like, follow, comment.
Costa Rica #birding
Green Honeycreeper.
Like, follow, comment.
Costa Rica #birding
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Y'all love a blue bird, so here's your chance to step outside your comfort zone and grow as a person.
Green Honeycreeper.
Like, follow, comment.
Costa Rica #birding
Green Honeycreeper.
Like, follow, comment.
Costa Rica #birding
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November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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typo queen "kingfisher"...hmm maybe I was thinking No Kings!
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
typo queen "kingfisher"...hmm maybe I was thinking No Kings!
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Very interesting nugget in this profile of (now former) Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters' quiet relationship with far-right Texas billionaire Tim Dunn who, per sources, changed Walters "from loving schoolteacher to rightwing radical."
Former state superintendent’s legacy filled with politics, turmoil
Southwest Ledger Editor’s Note: This story is the first installment in a multi-part series about the fallout and impact of Ryan Walters’ tenure as Oklahoma’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction...
www.southwestledger.news
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very interesting nugget in this profile of (now former) Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters' quiet relationship with far-right Texas billionaire Tim Dunn who, per sources, changed Walters "from loving schoolteacher to rightwing radical."
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Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield Tuesday around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. https://to.pbs.org/47zMEDJ
Serbians protest real estate project linked to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner
Thousands of protesters in Serbia have formed a human shield around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment.
www.pbs.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield Tuesday around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. https://to.pbs.org/47zMEDJ