Librarybarb
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The full gamut of humanity can be in found stories. If you think someone is less than you, you haven’t heard their story. Posting any instances of people standing up for others.
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
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Walz: "To watch people word salad - there's too damn many guns & wrong types of guns on the street. I don't want to hear 'how do you define assault weapon?' I damn sure can tell you what it does & unfortunately we have a bunch of parents now who know a lot more about what these weapons do"
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Walz: "To watch people word salad - there's too damn many guns & wrong types of guns on the street. I don't want to hear 'how do you define assault weapon?' I damn sure can tell you what it does & unfortunately we have a bunch of parents now who know a lot more about what these weapons do"
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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The Trump presidency is being kept alive by nothing more than denial at this point.
Denial that his policies aren't gravely hurting American households and potentially pushing the economy into a recession.
Denial that he doesn't have dementia and isn't fit to serve. #trump
Denial that his policies aren't gravely hurting American households and potentially pushing the economy into a recession.
Denial that he doesn't have dementia and isn't fit to serve. #trump
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Trump presidency is being kept alive by nothing more than denial at this point.
Denial that his policies aren't gravely hurting American households and potentially pushing the economy into a recession.
Denial that he doesn't have dementia and isn't fit to serve. #trump
Denial that his policies aren't gravely hurting American households and potentially pushing the economy into a recession.
Denial that he doesn't have dementia and isn't fit to serve. #trump
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GOP back bencher commented on Trump’s gross tweet before Democratic leadership, who I suppose are sleeping in late
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
GOP back bencher commented on Trump’s gross tweet before Democratic leadership, who I suppose are sleeping in late
It’s past time for congress to put a stop to this before there are more senseless deaths. @debbiedingell.house.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
www.foxnews.com/us/jetblue-p...
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JetBlue pilot calls Air Force near-miss 'outrageous' after tanker crosses flight path
JetBlue flight from Curaçao to New York narrowly avoided mid-air collision with U.S. Air Force tanker near Venezuela, forcing evasive action during climb.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It’s past time for congress to put a stop to this before there are more senseless deaths. @debbiedingell.house.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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@debbiedingell.house.gov I hope you will be joined by your GOP colleagues to honor the lives of Rob & Michelle Reiner. They touched so many lives in positive ways. They were true humanitarians, unlike Charlie Kirk who you voted to honor, they made the world a better place with love & empathy.
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
@debbiedingell.house.gov I hope you will be joined by your GOP colleagues to honor the lives of Rob & Michelle Reiner. They touched so many lives in positive ways. They were true humanitarians, unlike Charlie Kirk who you voted to honor, they made the world a better place with love & empathy.
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The government has no problem trying to set up a national voter database, so they can track your vote but they bristle at the idea of a national gun registry
We are so messed up
We are so messed up
December 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The government has no problem trying to set up a national voter database, so they can track your vote but they bristle at the idea of a national gun registry
We are so messed up
We are so messed up
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Tell me I'm wrong, but the Post Office isn't supposed to turn a profit.
Firefighters and Police aren't meant to generate revenue. Not everything in society needs to be about making money.
Stop the #Privatization of America!
Firefighters and Police aren't meant to generate revenue. Not everything in society needs to be about making money.
Stop the #Privatization of America!
December 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tell me I'm wrong, but the Post Office isn't supposed to turn a profit.
Firefighters and Police aren't meant to generate revenue. Not everything in society needs to be about making money.
Stop the #Privatization of America!
Firefighters and Police aren't meant to generate revenue. Not everything in society needs to be about making money.
Stop the #Privatization of America!
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JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
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🌱 ¡Pequeños cuidados, grandes recompensas! 🌳
December 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🌱 ¡Pequeños cuidados, grandes recompensas! 🌳
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Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy without a gun
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy without a gun
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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Hey @npr.org don’t tell us what Republican senators say about Trump administration actions like ending Afghan immigration, tell us what they do. Empty words by people with the power to act, that’s not news.
December 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Hey @npr.org don’t tell us what Republican senators say about Trump administration actions like ending Afghan immigration, tell us what they do. Empty words by people with the power to act, that’s not news.
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Reposting for no particular reason 👀 (with apologies for uncorrected typos @lithub.com.web.brid.gy).
Increasingly think the failure to twig the lies is not just lack of diversity in publishing + adherence to a certain convenient narrative about disability, but a wide failure in critical thinking.
Increasingly think the failure to twig the lies is not just lack of diversity in publishing + adherence to a certain convenient narrative about disability, but a wide failure in critical thinking.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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December 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposting for no particular reason 👀 (with apologies for uncorrected typos @lithub.com.web.brid.gy).
Increasingly think the failure to twig the lies is not just lack of diversity in publishing + adherence to a certain convenient narrative about disability, but a wide failure in critical thinking.
Increasingly think the failure to twig the lies is not just lack of diversity in publishing + adherence to a certain convenient narrative about disability, but a wide failure in critical thinking.
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
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There's little that's more relatable than watching someone in a bookstore negotiate with themselves over a fat stack of books
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There's little that's more relatable than watching someone in a bookstore negotiate with themselves over a fat stack of books
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I love how Real ID was so necessary for security they could punt its implementation for literal years, it’s still not fully adopted because states don’t have the capacity to do all the appointments, now it’s a $45 surcharge if you don’t have it but it also doesn’t count for anything if you do
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I love how Real ID was so necessary for security they could punt its implementation for literal years, it’s still not fully adopted because states don’t have the capacity to do all the appointments, now it’s a $45 surcharge if you don’t have it but it also doesn’t count for anything if you do
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"Stripping people of their ability to easily access comprehensive, high-quality health care insurance and instead trying to trick them into thinking a $1,000 voucher will actually pay for anything is a gesture of huge contempt…”
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"Stripping people of their ability to easily access comprehensive, high-quality health care insurance and instead trying to trick them into thinking a $1,000 voucher will actually pay for anything is a gesture of huge contempt…”
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*