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A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

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Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

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Among heterosexual couples over age 50, research finds that divorce rates increase significantly when the wife develops a serious illness but the husband does not; however, no such increase is seen when husbands fall ill but wives do not. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...

submitted 22 hours ago • 101 comments

Need a fun summer read? BALD-FACED LIAR has it all! Sun, sand, the Satanic panic, and murder! Read it now on Amazon First Reads or preorder anywhere for June 1! #booksky Kindle/FirstReads: amzn.to/4jBLw6H BN: tinyurl.com/59d9be5b Bookshop: tinyurl.com/mpj372ty Audible: tinyurl.com/yhx6w9ne

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Happy Liza Doolittle Day all you blimey blokes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9U...

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May 20th - It's #ElizaDoolittleDay 📽️📅 My Fair Lady (1964)

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JFC. The head of Homeland Security doesn't understand a fundamental right. But she sure looks good posing in front of illegally deported and imprisoned migrants.

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Sale Alert! It seems to be the month of ebook sales! Moon Called is on sale on all ebook digital platforms like kobo and kindle. Sale ends on the 25th of May and its only for those who reside in the US and Canada.

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I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

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I’m listening to @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com ‘s “Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe.” It’s fascinating book in its own right, plus it’s good to read about another era’s problems for a bit and see if there are lessons for our own.

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Incoming Book! THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP, coming soon from @TachyonPub More Info: tachyonpublications.... #IncomingBooks

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They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

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I’ve donated a zoom chat to the Locus fundraiser. Click here to check it out and all the other great rewards: igg.me/at/locusmag2... @locusmag.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

Things Democrats should state openly: • Immigrants make America great • Birthright citizenship is a constitutional right • Housing + healthcare are human rights • Abortion is healthcare • Paid family leave + free early childcare • Sexism & racism bad • Trans rights are human rights • TAX THE RICH!

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All of these highly recommended (four by me, one by everyone I know who's read it).

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At last night's mayoral forum cosponsored by Hell Gate and NY Focus at the Public Theater, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social asked @bradlander.bsky.social a question that Lander was more than ready to answer: What he thought was the worst thing Andrew Cuomo did as governor.

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Great novel. Today is the last day it is on sale.

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What songs do the candidates at the Hell Gate/New York Focus mayoral forum love to hear blasted out of a car window on the streets of New York City? The answers....are not what you'd expect!

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This is the best mayoral candidate interview I've ever seen. I can only hope @byzantienne.bsky.social has already seen it.

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This is high quality content.

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what happened in trump presidency timeline

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The new Google AI functionality in Docs is total mind-ruining shit. Hit enter in docs, it takes over your cursor to offer to help you write. Every. Time. You. Hit. Enter. Do you know how annoying that is when you are writing something? It's someone interrupting you every minute. MAKE IT STOP.

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If Nottaway Plantation had been used as an educational center and museum about the horrors of enslavement, the lives of enslaved people, and of resistance to that system, nobody would celebrate its destruction. Instead, it promoted a racist glorification of the aesthetics of the antebellum South.

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If you like fated mates, grumpy-sunshine, sexy banter, hot aliens, brilliant heroines, and geeky Easter eggs hidden in books--all set elsewhere in the universe, check out How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days. #KindleUnlimited #Romancesky #Booksky #Ad www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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CNN will exclusively televise actor George Clooney’s record-breaking Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck,” on Saturday, June 7, the network announced Thursday.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

The Cozy The Day Away sale is live! Nearly 100 cozy books, a variety of formats, including my Facets of the Bench. cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org for all the books - you can filter by different genres and focus. Here are a few of the cozy fantasy options!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

peeps Ireland has changed their naturalization process points are involved. Having a great-grandparent born here is worth some points. This is potentially a big deal.

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Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey. Delicious. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

submitted 6 days ago • 202 comments

Rand Paul on the reconciliation bill: "The problem is it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That's historic. Nobody has ever raised the debt ceiling that much ... where are the cuts? If the cuts are real why are we gonna borrow $5 trillion?"

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The next mayor of New York City will have their hands full. We've teamed up with @hellgatenyc.com to present an evening at the Public Theater with top Democratic mayoral candidates. Join our livestream tonight at 8pm!

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Man of the people who definitely knows what the ancient term "groceries" are.

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