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antiracist | antisexist | she/her | extremely online since 1992 | former backwash writer | currently writing at http://hippiegrrl.substack.com
Anyone who has ever dealt with a bully knows that they don’t respond to “going high”. You have to stand up and fight and sometimes that requires the low road. Ahem, Democrats… is this mic on? Time to get in the ring and fight dirty.
March 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)
The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Yes! Move to Philly! It’s a great city that is more affordable but has the same amenities as D.C.

Help turn Pennsylvania blue!

apnews.com/article/trum...
Pennsylvania governor says he wants to recruit laid-off federal workers to fill state job openings
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to recruit federal workers for job openings in the state’s workforce.
apnews.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Our front page today. Happy 181st birthday to Canada's national newspaper.
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers.

Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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It is deeply disturbing that some Americans are expressing joy over their fellow Americans losing their jobs.

These are our neighbors.

Federal workers don’t deserve the pain of layoffs and they certainly don’t deserve being vilified by a political party on a power trip.
February 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Absolutely
February 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Libraries help us preserve and understand our past, enrich our present, and prepare for the future. Now more than ever, they need your support. Learn more and become a supporter — for all of us — #ForOurLibraries. ilovelibraries.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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In 1925, a literary, musical, artistic, cultural & unapologetically BLACK movement solidified in Harlem

— Celebrate 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance, Feb 13-14, 2025, as we bestow the Annual Langston Hughes Festival Medal upon @roxanegay.bsky.social

#AddToBlackSky #BlackSky
November 18, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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The reason MAGA has been so intent on destroying woke culture. is because woke culture is all about waking up to confront power.
February 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Just to say, the sociologist is correct.
November 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Americans will not suddenly wake up in 1930s Germany — even the Germans didn’t, because before the 1930s was the 1920s, and the 1910s, and even more history before that. familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/t...
Trump is a fascist but this isn’t Nazi Germany
Americans will not suddenly wake up in 1930s Germany — even the Germans didn’t, because before the 1930s was the 1920s, and the 1910s, and even more history before that.
familyinequality.wordpress.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM
here we go again…
November 23, 2024 at 4:50 PM