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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 5m

Justice department folks undermining justice. GOP women setting back women. "Christians" corrupting christianity. FBI ruining intelligence/public safety. Defense officials being offensive. Health department destroying our health. Education officials ruining education. This is Trump & the GOP.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

The structure and kind of people that enabled Epstein to do what he did while everyone knew what was going on, is exactly the same structure and kind of people around Trump who enable and embolden him to do incredible damage to our country and the world.

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SedonaRocks @sedonarocks.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning, Matthew. I devoured biographies of important women as a young girl. I wanted to become a physician after reading about Emily Blackwell.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

...The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they’re anyone’s.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

...that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we’re uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts....

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

happy bday English writer Blake Morrison, b.1950.

“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it’s ours exclusively:...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

happy bday physician/educator Emily Blackwell, b.1826.
"Business has been arranged to suit men; women, upon entering any new branch of labor, are required to accept its existing conditions. There are many kinds of work which women could do perfectly well if they could modify these conditions. ”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 18h

Tigers got yesterday off.

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Suzanne Winland @suzannewinland.bsky.social · 1d

I had the delight of attending Christmas Eve service at the National Cathedral in DC when Desmond Tutu presided. It was transcendent. 💛 His humanity & practical approach to facing dark times with grace lifted the lives of those present…

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday the iconic Desmond Tutu, b.1931

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness".

"We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity"

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

...Yet to press their hands and say,
Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday writer James Whitcomb Riley, b.1849, Greenfield, IN.

What delightful hosts are they—
Life and Love!
Lingeringly I turn away,
This late hour, yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face lit with delight
And all gratitude, I stay...

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Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social · 1d

This poem❤️

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

RIP poet Elizabeth Bishop, died this day 1979, won Pulitzer Prize in 1956.

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 2d

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🌼Peace2Day🌼 @peace2day.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning

as #GOTV builds this month
reading & researching her words
are both validating and inspiring
balms needed on my heart
running in this marathon

to say,
thank you - always

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

RIP poet Elizabeth Bishop, died this day 1979, won Pulitzer Prize in 1956.

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

happy bday civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, b.1917, Montgomery county, MS.

“Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”

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The Mockers @themockers.bsky.social · 2d

As @stuartpstevens.bsky.social said and wrote, “it was all a lie.”

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maryfrancesfisher.bsky.social @maryfrancesfisher.bsky.social · 2d

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TeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 3d

Oh the hypocrisy 🙄 … and Jesus wept.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 3d

Though Trump has historic lows on approval for a President at this point in his second term overall, white evangelical christians today give him a 72% approval. They don't care that he lies all the time, that he was mixed up with Epstein, that he bashes immigrants, and never goes to church.

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TeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 3d

“Forget whatever should be forgotten, so that you can remember what should be remembered.”

Now I’m thinking of the end of When Harry Met Sally-Auld Lang Syne 🤣

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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 4d

@msnbc.com, you could really use these kinds of insights that @matthewjdowd.bsky.social regularly shares.

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4d

Some times in America we have the exact right President in office to lead in crucial moments (i.e. Lincoln). But at other times we have the exact wrong President in office (i.e. Andrew Johnson). Today we have the worst President in our history in office at a most crucial moment.

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