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Writing fiction and poetry. Reading . . . well, nearly everything.
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"Now the jail has 143 inmates. . . . The entry for Rosemery Alvarado included her mugshot and the two deportation counts. No other charges were listed."

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"We have collectively engineered a modern social environment that, by design, replaces deep and meaningful connections with shallow ties that invite superficial, isolating digital comparisons. It’s no surprise that people often feel bad; doomscrolling is depressing, . . . "

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Opinion from @maxmccoy.com: Expand the night-vision hunting season for Kansas’ top varmint? I’m rooting for the coyotes. #ksleg

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ESPECIALLY #7 👏 👏👏

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Even in deep red Kansas, people said "no more!" #protests #50501 www.cjonline.com/picture-gall...

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I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

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1/2 ". . . our history has moved on two rivers, one visible, the other underground; there has been the history of politics which is concrete, factual, practical and unbelievably dull if not for the consequences of the actions of some of these men;

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. "the great dark birds of history screamed..." —Adrienne Rich #poetry #poem #poems

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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Around a thousand (my estimate) for the #handsoff rally and protest in Wichita, Kansas today.

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"It has been more than five weeks since this town hall took place, and we have yet to receive a response of any kind from Moran or his staff." kansasreflector.com/2025/04/03/u...

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'Good thing Trump fired half of the National Weather Service' via theliamnissan [X] #ClimateCrisis #Trump #Tornado #Arkansas

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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I got kind of emo talking about Cory Booker's filibuster, not because it accomplished anything, but because someone was willing to stand up, say the true things, and calls us to action—but with love. www.youtube.com/live/MvFL81D...

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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"But what if such extreme wealth is due not to talent, but to random factors that we'd usually call luck? In one recent study, physicists teamed up with an economist and used computer modeling to develop a fake society with a realistic distribution of talent among competing individuals."

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America, watch and learn.

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Connecticut Dems are pissed off!!!! Thank you Representative Larson 💙

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Kansas satanists plan to defy governor with ‘therapeutic blasphemy’ in black mass at Statehouse | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court has temporarily blocked Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) from spending taxpayer dollars on bibles and bible-infused instructional materials. ffrf.us/3FkkAbP

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Protesters gathered at Wichita State University Monday during an appearance by Kansas senator Jerry Moran. Moran entered and exited by car through a garage entrance, causing the protesters to push signs up against windows of the building when Moran entered.

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