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Currently reading: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
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These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere

The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
March 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Don’t forget to support indie authors even if you’re boycotting Amazon!!

#writingcommunity let’s start a thread of places your books are available outside of the Zon!!

there are so many ways to support indie (especially marginalized) authors!!

#writesky
#booksky
March 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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What we are living through right now is simply not normal.
March 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Nothing screams HYPOCRITE quite like Trump complaining about & gutting school loan forgiveness for grads dedicated to service & bettering our communities while he’s had HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in debt forgiven due bankruptcy 6 times.

tinyurl.com/r6nkkz3j
Report: Trump Had Over $280 Million In Debt Forgiven And Avoided Paying Taxes On Most Of It
The debt largely came from his Chicago tower.
tinyurl.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Ottawa IL Protest in Washington Park.
March 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Hey. I'm a journalist in Atlanta. I write for The Guardian and Rolling Stone.

If you work for the federal government, and want to connect in person to discuss the illegal and unconstitutional activities you are seeing inside your agency, send me a note via Signal.

They can't kill us all.
February 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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February 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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In baseball terms, this is a batter waiting for the perfect pitch to hit a grandslam with no one on base and down 17-0 in the second inning.
Chuck Schumer's plan appears to largely be "wait for Trump to screw up"
www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, has filed a resolution to amend the constitutional term limit for presidents from two terms to three, though only if a president’s first two terms were non-consecutive.
January 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) have been frozen but you can still get outbreak alerts from ProMED. We suggest the weekly digests to preserve your mental health.
Home - ProMED - ProMED-mail
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promedmail.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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You don’t have to finish bad books.
You don’t have to finish bad books.
You don’t have to finish bad books.
You don’t have to finish bad books.
You don’t have to finish bad books.
You don’t have to finish bad books.
You don’t have to finish bad books. #BookSky
January 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”

When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”

Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Teachers. Firefighters. Cops. After 44 years of Reagan’s cuts to their Social Security, Joe Biden just restored their benefits. This win for working people came thanks to unions, President Biden, and bipartisan support led by former Rep. Abigail Spanberger.
Last night, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, the biggest expansion of Social Security in decades and a huge win for teachers, firefighters, and cops!

Next up we expand benefits for everyone and pay for it by making the ultra-wealthy pay the same rate as the rest of us.
January 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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January 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Karina’s Law has PASSED the Illinois legislature and will be signed into law. Domestic abusers should not be allowed to keep their firearms, and this law will save countless lives.

What a great day in Illinois…
January 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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January 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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When some asshole has the 🍒s to say, "Your body, my choice," to me.
My response:
January 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM