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“A people that can no longer believe in anything cannot make up its mind,” said Hannah Arendt. “Eventually, such a public “is deprived … of its ability to think and judge”, and with people like that, “you can then do what you please” That’s what Trump and company are counting on.

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Lots of people asking about my plans for the 2028 election. I have a new, radical two-step process I intend to deploy: 1. Vote for my preferred candidate in the primary 2. Vote for whichever dem wins the primary in the general

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#photography open.substack.com/pub/aimeeliu...

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CONSERVATIVES AGAINST TRUMP: “nondelegation doctrine: Congress may not transfer unbounded legislative powers to the executive branch. major questions doctrine: Congress must authorize in plain language any sweeping executive actions that could transform the economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

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"Well, we are all going to die:" Sen Ernst's legacy of apathy #Medicare ##HandsOff

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“I had to do the emotional recovery work to be able to access forgiveness and develop empathy and then go back and infuse that into the writing.” #writing #memoir #books substack.com/@aimeeliu/no...

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TACO Trump Always Chickens Out!!!!!

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#Trump Administration Live Updates: President Grants Clemency to #Gang Leader Mobster in Chief endangers America www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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Price of #trumpparade

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Trump administration moves to upend $37B affirmative action program The Transportation Department initiative, which serves an estimated 49,000 contractors, was a key lifeline for many minority- and women-owned businesses.

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1) "Setting aside the Constitution, federalism and separation of powers, Vance has — again — forgotten Congress. If we are to take seriously the idea of court deference, it would be to laws enacted by Congress, not unilateral proclamations of the president. The Constitution envisioned that Congress-

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Connection #photography #metaphortography

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BREAKING: Elon Musk's AI Company is Choking Memphis Residents and Not Enough People Are Talking About It. This is the scariest story, and more people need to read it. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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R-454B refrigerant is both in short supply and expensive.

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Mightier than the sword. #writing #writingcommunity #humor #humour #grenade #keyboard

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Fight a political landscape that preys on people’s emotions with #art that also works on the emotions. Art that bypasses the brain and heads straight to the heart. It’s really the only chance we have left. #writing open.substack.com/pub/aimeeliu...

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Conditions are reported to be so bad that there have been several cases of suicide or attempted suicide. The women can spend years locked up, unable to leave without the permission of their family or a male guardian. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Given the actions of the Trump administration to date, here’s my extremely nuanced analysis: Best case is they don’t care if we die. Worst case is they’re trying to kill lots of us.

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When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

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From Buttigieg to Crockett to Gallego, Democrats are quietly building a presence on Substack. The 2026 and 2028 campaigns may be shaped more by inboxes than broadcasts.

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𝙸𝚏 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜, 𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝.

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Trump’s Tax Scam will kick nearly 14 million Americans off their healthcare to give billionaires even more tax cuts. If you’ve got a GOP senator, call and demand that they stand up for the families they were elected to serve: act.indivisible.org/...

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Under Trumpco, no bad deed goes unrewarded.

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As #AAPIHeritageMonth meets #MemorialDay, I think of my uncle Herb. He wasn’t the only Chinese citizen drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, but how many others ended up as POWs in Germany?This is the multiracial strength on which this country was REALLY built.

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Donald Trump marked Memorial Day with a bitter, grievance-filled screed attacking judges, immigrants, and his political rivals—and did not even mention the men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.

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What the #GOP has hidden in the #BigBadBill

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NEVER FORGET JAN 6 was an ATTACK AGAINST AMERICA Please share.

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TRUMP IS DEFUNDING THE POLICE. Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling www.npr.org/2025/05/24/n...

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Replay and transcript are here from my illuminating chat with @Lauren Ling Brown about her experience as a Reese’s Book Club author! It wasn’t just luck that led to her debut novel becoming a bestseller! #writing #bestsellers open.substack.com/pub/aimeeliu...

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This may well be the most dangerous part of the #GOP Abomination Bill. This is a gift link. Read it! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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watch. this. now. #stopfascism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

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Clean energy dollars are gushing to red states. Now #GOP senators are in a bind. BIND BACK BETTER pressure them now to STOP the Trump Abomination Bill

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I just got off @indivisible.org ’s weekly What’s The Plan call. My big takeaway? #ACTIVISM IS CHEAPER THAN THERAPY The #GOP and #Trump have made today an exceptionally dangerous day for America. But we do not have to put up with this, and if we fight together, we will FEEL stronger.

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#GOP has done this: nearly $500 billion in cuts to #Medicare over the next decade, unless Congress later adjusts the limits. The legislation could strip #Medicaid coverage from 8.7 million people and lead to 7.6 million more uninsured people over 10 years, the CBO projected.

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No exceptions.

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Have you seen it? The digital countdown clock on the official White House website? It ticks down by the second to July 4, 2026—America’s 250th birthday… it’s not a celebration. It’s a deadline. SHARE THIS POST AND WAKE UP EVERYONE YOU KNOW open.substack.com/pub/gloriaho...

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#writingcommunity Join me Thursday LIVE on The Substack app when I ask @Lauren Ling Brown to walk us through the experience of having her debut novel Society of Lies picked for Reese’s Book Club!! How did it happen and how did it change the plan and trajectory for her book— and career?

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The current regime is killing people who are #moral and conscientious and human. This extraordinary piece of reporting in the @WashingtonPost proves that. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Ambassador Cindy McCain’s responds to the news that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with cancer.

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CBS News chief Wendy McMahon resigns as she could ‘not agree on path forward’ amid turmoil at network

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The obscene spectacle is intentionally dehumanizing and illegal. “60 Minutes” reported in April, the overwhelming majority of the Venezuelans who were shipped to CECOT have “no apparent criminal convictions or even criminal charges.”

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How to Write a Bestselling #Multiracial #aapi Thriller All #creativewriting is inherently political, and the work only becomes stronger when authors know how to honor that reality without becoming overtly polemical! This is a strength of Lauren Ling Brown's debut #reesesbookclub bestseller!

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"The newly appointed head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn’t yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. David Richardson ... doesn’t have a background in emergency management."

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You knew this was always the real agenda: Make America Segregated (White/Racist/Klan) Again But who thought this headline would appear this soon? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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#writingcommunity meet the Japanese art of kishōtenketsu, which is built around tension rather than conflict and structured with a quiet emotional twist rather than western-style climax.

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So TRUMP is now IMPORTING DRUG CARTEL FAMILIES???? apnews.com/article/el-c... Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

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