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Xio Axelrod
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(ZEE-ohh) she/her
USA Today Bestselling author 📚💙🌶️
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GenX brain/Millennial🖤
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GIRLS WITH BAD REPUTATIONS is now (inexplicably) a USA Today Bestseller. I’m in shock. This book is seventeen months old (17!!!) but here we are. Haha!

This is my first time making the list with a solo title, so heartfelt thanks to everyone who has embraced Kayla, Ty, and the Lillys.🖤🤩
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“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com
Clarksville veterans say care, not cuts to the Veterans Administration, are needed • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee veterans face worsening chronic illnesses as a result of long waits for care and denial of claims from the Veterans Administration.
tennesseelookout.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Gift article

"The Angus Kings, John Fettermans, Jeanne Shaheens, and Chuck Schumers will be remembered by the history books as craven appeasers, and nothing more. They do not deserve one moment of peace until good people can force them off a platform they do not deserve."
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November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A mobile lounge crashed while shuttling passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport, the airport said, on a day when major airports around the country continued to grapple with government shutdown-related disruptions.
At least 18 hospitalized after mobile lounge crashes at Dulles Airport
A people mover shuttling passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport hit the dock of a building, causing non-life-threatening injuries.
wapo.st
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Everyday people are improvising stopgap efforts to support their communities through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
Everyday volunteers are providing stopgap services during the shutdown in a show of community power
Everyday people are improvising stopgap efforts to support their communities through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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ByHeart plans to recall all its baby formula products amid a multistate outbreak of infant botulism, company officials said. The company said it was notified Monday evening of 15 cases in a dozen states.
ByHeart recalls all baby formula amid botulism outbreak
Officials have identified 15 cases of infant botulism potentially linked to the company’s organic products. The recall is not expected to create a nationwide shortage.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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NEW on MSNBC: Trump is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn the E. Jean Carroll defamation and assault case — via Vaughn Hillyard
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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According to @underthedesknews.bsky.social, it isn’t over yet. There'll be another vote.

CALL THEM ALL, especially these 8 “YES” votes:

Cortez-Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen

It isn’t over.

(I mean, PROBABLY, but maybe we can SCARE them out of it.)

202-224-3121
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The Senate voted to advance a GOP bill to reopen the government after a bloc of moderate Dems dropped their party’s health care demands
Senate Advances Bill To End Government Shutdown After 8 Democrats Fold
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL
The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.

“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Trendon Watford joins Wilt Chamberlain in Sixers history.

https://ouo.io/x7FZga
#sixers #philly #jawnphilly
Trendon Watford joins Wilt Chamberlain in Sixers history.
ouo.io
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII.
Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to recall a pastime — and a lifeline
The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII.
nbcnews.to
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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President Trump on Wednesday blamed his party’s bruising election night losses on the government shut down and urged Republicans to end the funding gridlock by any means necessary. https://wapo.st/48ZlKGv
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.

She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Laughing My ASS Off. I can't even abbreviate, it's so pathetically funny. apnews.com/article/fifa...
FIFA announces new peace prize to be awarded at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
apnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Not enough people are talking about how Michelle Wu is so popular in Boston, her general election opponent just stopped campaigning after the primary. That’s wild.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM