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Laura Fisher Kaiser
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Writer, author, journalist. Working on the first-ever biography of fascinating "lost lady of lit" Elizabeth Dejeans (1868-1928).
http://laurafisherkaiser.com
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so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Writing about family secrets and resisting the urge to begin every sentence with "Curiously,...."
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Do the same people who believe the moon landing was faked... also believe that Elon Musk will colonize Mars?
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.

revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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This is how people look when I start talking about my family history
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The laws have put doctors under increasing pressure, complicating the standard medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature membrane rupture, and other pregnancy problems. These laws are driving much-needed doctors from certain states.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Iowa doesn't have enough OB-GYNs. Is the state's abortion ban part of the problem?
Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state's strict abortion ban is partially to blame.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Democracy dies in passive voice.
Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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World Series tickets now start at over $1,000.
In 1992, they were $24 which is about $50 today.
A beer at the game now costs more than a 1992 seat.

When did baseball become a luxury good?
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Disgraceful.
“Most of the other schools have not yet signaled how they will respond. The University of Texas is the sole system that reacted enthusiastically.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
White House’s Aggressive Tactics Are Complicating Its Education Agenda
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Relevant today, as always.
Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
contingentmagazine.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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This is Rev David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was kneeling to pray at a protest. He's one of three clergymen that ICE shot in the head.
October 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it
Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …
nypost.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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'Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.'

Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

#BookWormSat 💙📚
🎨 Eva Fialka
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Anne Frank describes Chicago in 2025
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Wonderful cover.
Q&A with Morgan Richter about her new novel, THE UNDERSTUDY.
tinyurl.com/4a46f3z3
@morganrichter.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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his father was unavailable for comment
RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
September 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM