Carmen
@carmenreads.bsky.social
💙 my family, reading, democracy. Tutor of young learners, with special interest in dyslexia/neurodivergence. Literacy is a social justice issue.
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the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.
it is absolutely unbelievable that the Trump administration is systematically persecuting Cubans and Venezuelans, the most Republican Latinos in the US. what are they doing
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.
Actually, it is him we don’t want.
Trump: "People that shouldn't be in our country, and that includes Somalians and plenty of others. We don't want those people. Many of them are no good. All they do is go around killing each other, then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country. We don't want them."
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Actually, it is him we don’t want.
Read his book. Great read!
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Read his book. Great read!
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
I’m already mourning the end of the WS. So much fun to watch!
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I’m already mourning the end of the WS. So much fun to watch!
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
My lung cancer was diagnosed because I had hip and shoulder pain - the cancer had spread to my bones. Not for a moment did I think it was anything but signs of an aging/aching body.
Too many people with #lungcancer are diagnosed late - not because they didn’t ask for help, but because no one thought it could be lung cancer.
Angela, EGFR+ UK Non-Executive Chair, shares why we need professionals to look beyond the usual risk factors.
👉 seethroughthesymptoms.uk
#LCSM
Angela, EGFR+ UK Non-Executive Chair, shares why we need professionals to look beyond the usual risk factors.
👉 seethroughthesymptoms.uk
#LCSM
October 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My lung cancer was diagnosed because I had hip and shoulder pain - the cancer had spread to my bones. Not for a moment did I think it was anything but signs of an aging/aching body.
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As the lights continue to dim on our Democracy, I just want to go on record that I have always believed that everyone deserves quality universal health coverage whatever it’s called. No one should ever have to worry about going to the doctor and putting food on the table. No one. It’s a human right.
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
As the lights continue to dim on our Democracy, I just want to go on record that I have always believed that everyone deserves quality universal health coverage whatever it’s called. No one should ever have to worry about going to the doctor and putting food on the table. No one. It’s a human right.
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#Florida has some excellent indies, inclu. Tombolo in St. Pete, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Books & Books in Miami & Key West (where Judy Blume runs the store), Story & Song in Fernandina Beach, Happy Medium in Jax & the Lynx in Gainesville, run by @legroff.bsky.social.
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#Florida has some excellent indies, inclu. Tombolo in St. Pete, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Books & Books in Miami & Key West (where Judy Blume runs the store), Story & Song in Fernandina Beach, Happy Medium in Jax & the Lynx in Gainesville, run by @legroff.bsky.social.
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I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…
September 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
And he’s doing a terrible job at all four.
Marco Rubio: "For me personally this is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life as someone with four jobs."
August 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And he’s doing a terrible job at all four.
DJT being one of them.
August 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
DJT being one of them.
Party of individual freedom???
#Florida & TX ask a federal judge to let them join a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone www.aol.com/texas-florid...
Texas, Florida seek to join legal challenge to abortion pill
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Texas and Florida on Friday asked a federal judge to let them join a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone, saying that they need to step i...
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August 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Party of individual freedom???
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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
August 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
I believe my friend, whose son’s rare cancer, was successfully treated at the NIH would beg to differ.
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I believe my friend, whose son’s rare cancer, was successfully treated at the NIH would beg to differ.
Time to round up more “undesirables.” More masked marauders on the streets? “Treatment” centers in a swamp? I am never going to forgive the people who voted for this. Never.
An Exec Order is targeting the disabled and homeless
The EO (Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets) is criminalizing homelessness and wants to institutionalize people with mental health or those who have a substance abuse problem
The ACLU condemns this action
#SheShed
The EO (Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets) is criminalizing homelessness and wants to institutionalize people with mental health or those who have a substance abuse problem
The ACLU condemns this action
#SheShed
July 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Time to round up more “undesirables.” More masked marauders on the streets? “Treatment” centers in a swamp? I am never going to forgive the people who voted for this. Never.
🎯 A few precise words that explain a lot ⬇️
I think for the biggest boosters of AI there's a conviction that the only types of labor worth paying for is physical and executive.
July 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🎯 A few precise words that explain a lot ⬇️
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You don’t have to eagerly endorse reading every book in the library to understand that it’s wrong for the government to have full control over what ideas are available in a publicly-funded library.
They are arguing before federal courts that “libraries are government speech.”
That’s un-American.
They are arguing before federal courts that “libraries are government speech.”
That’s un-American.
July 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
You don’t have to eagerly endorse reading every book in the library to understand that it’s wrong for the government to have full control over what ideas are available in a publicly-funded library.
They are arguing before federal courts that “libraries are government speech.”
That’s un-American.
They are arguing before federal courts that “libraries are government speech.”
That’s un-American.
Ridiculous and embarrassing for FL.
“We need your help to keep our state free and make sure the skies belong to the people —not to private contractors, corporate experiments, or climate extremists." -- #Florida AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier, telling airports to report any "chemtrails." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/14/f...
Florida airports ordered to report any ‘weather modification’ activities
“We need your help to keep our state free and make sure the skies belong to the people — not to private contractors, corporate experiments, or climate extremists,” Florida Attorney Gene…
www.orlandosentinel.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Ridiculous and embarrassing for FL.
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State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
July 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.