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Debbie McMannis
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Author, Artist, Gardener & Photographer. Gardening, hiking, kayaking & horseback riding. “We rise together.”
“The universe is not obligated to be tidy or understandable.
And we are not obligated to live as if it is.”
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Not Everything Is For Us
Learning to Witness a Living World Without Owning What We Meet
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December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Winter isn’t just “the dark time.” It’s the womb. The den. The dreaming. The underground place where Mother Bear gives birth in her sleep, and trees quietly move their sugar back into the roots.”

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Winter isn’t just “the dark time.” It’s the womb. The den. The dreaming. The underground place where Mother Bear gives birth in her sleep, and trees quietly move their sugar back into the roots. Empi...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Happy Bandcamp Friday! What a great day to snag a physical copy of our debut EP, UNDERGROUND MUTANTS, on digital or extremely limited vinyl 12 inch! thesubwayghosts.bandcamp.com/album/underg...
Underground Mutants, by The Subway Ghosts
6 track album
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December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Personal growth 📈
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
“Cognitive sovereignty is now a survival skill, and clarity is an act of cultural rebellion.”
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The subtle behaviors that reveal someone thinks for themselves rather than letting others think for them
I didn’t notice the woman in the teal‑rimmed glasses until she laughed—soft, almost private, as though the joke had happened inside her own mind. We were on
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November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Visions 🌱
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November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Top camper van makers: Clean up your tropical wood supply chain -- no more deforestation on wheels! action.eko.org/a/no-more-de...
No more deforestation plywood for camper vans
Camper vans have become increasingly popular and a symbol for recreation in pristine nature – but the truth is, they are deforested orangutan habitats on wheels. A breaking report revealed that one ro
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November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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More of this please.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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We could do this. We should do this.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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For 21 years, scientists in Denmark followed more than one million children to find out if vaccines cause autism.

This real-world research proves vaccines are safe and life-saving. Science doesn’t work on opinions—it works on evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Tenth Leper's Secret: When Gratitude Becomes Being
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The Tenth Leper's Secret: When Gratitude Becomes Being
When we turn our face to the sun, praise happens.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Skyrocketing rates, dropped policies, and unpaid claims. The home insurance market isn’t working for consumers, and it’s time for that to change. Sign CR’s petition urging insurers to adopt the Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights.
Americans deserve affordable home insurance
Fed up with skyrocketing home insurance rates? Demand home insurance companies adopt basic protections for all policyholders. Take action by signing Consumer Reports’ petition today.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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While insurance companies gorge on profits, millions are crushed by soaring premiums and a broken healthcare system.

A single-payer plan would slash costs, empower workers, and make healthcare a right—not a privilege.

People over profit—now! 💥

#MedicareForAll

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CNBC Host Doesn't Know How to Fix Runaway Healthcare Costs. Ro Khanna Says: Medicare for All | Common Dreams
As health insurance companies rake in billions and Americans worry about rising premiums, Congressman Ro Khanna argues that Medicare for All would help US businesses and cut costs.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Most of us will face situations in our life in which we’ll feel we have no agency. How can we create agency from the ashes of hope? It’s an important life-skill that we might be going to need even more amidst the challenges of the unknown future that lies ahead.”
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Women who show us the way
Or: why the apparently passive women of European myth are actually quite powerful
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October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Advocate for taxing billionaires so they pay their fair share. Know how billionaires lobbied for tax law changes to shift taxes off the wealthy &onto everyone else-off federal tax onto local; off taxes on income from wealth &into taxes on wages.”
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Ten Ways You Are Being Burned by Billionaires
Wealth concentration affects your life, whether you realize it or not.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM