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Christi Shortridge 🌻
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Humanities enthusiast. Yogi. Gardener. Traveler with wander lust. Small mountain climber. Voracious reader. Wisconsin girl at heart. Live music please. Duranie.
Always take the scenic route.
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Duran Duran released ‘Rio’ 43 years ago on May 10, 1982

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May 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget follows his attempts to reshape the nation’s arts landscape and his years-long efforts to defund arts institutions.
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May 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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On this day in 1996, The Cranberries released their third studio album “To the Faithful Departed” featuring singles “Salvation" “Free to Decide" “When You're Gone" and “Hollywood"
April 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
On Wisconsin!
Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
March 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is 2025! How and why is this even happening?! 🤬
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Opinion | Our Silence in the Face of Genocide (Gift Article)
Our silence about Sudan and the cancellation of U.S. aid comes painfully close to complicity.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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On this day in 1983, Duran Duran released the stand-alone single "Is There Something I Should Know?"

“Please please tell me now”
March 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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NEW: St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, is the one major institution standing in the way of a ban on emergency abortion care in Idaho — a move that would make the state’s policy one of the most extreme in the country.

With @statesnewsroom.com
A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.
St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing…
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March 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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One of the best things about fiction is that it can convey higher truths than even an author knows, @boriskachka.bsky.social writes in #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing. But, he asks, should novelists write the world as it is—or as it should be?
The Place of Politics in Fiction
Should novelists write the world as it is or as it should be?
www.theatlantic.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
DC “signs” spotting. A definite pall over Washington this week.
March 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A reporter asks Trudeau about Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s characterization of the current U.S. situation which she called a "psychodrama."

"How would you characterize it?"

Trudeau, speaking for a weary nation, “Thursday."
March 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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On this day in 1986, “Pretty In Pink” was released in theaters featuring one of the best soundtracks of the ‘80s including songs by The Psychedelic Furs, New Order, The Smiths, OMD, Echo & the Bunnymen, INXS, Suzanne Vega with Joe Jackson, Belouis Some and more.
February 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM