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I think the AI-generated 2025 summer reading list published in the Chicago Sun Times sounded intriguing but I couldn't find one of the books, so....

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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

submitted 24 days ago • 90 comments

when you're not worried

submitted 44 days ago • 12 comments

I remain authentic to who I am and a large part of the past 4.5 years for me has been my sobriety journey. I think I’ve been an inspiration to many that if I could get sober, anyone can do it... But just when you think it’s easy,,, it ain’t…

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I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

submitted 51 days ago • 1082 comments

"The difference between encrypted information and radio noise is your faith there cannot be a key for the static."

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again" "America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" poets.org/poem/let-ame...

submitted 51 days ago • 43 comments

More than 20 hrs in, and Senator Corey Booker has given proof through the night that our flag is still there! O say does that star spangled banner yet wave, o’er the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE! ✊🏼 Thank you @booker.senate.gov 💙 www.youtube.com/live/N5NfmuI...

submitted 51 days ago • 80 comments

#Taichung, à #Taiwan par Hanson Mao

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 96 days ago • 415 comments

Who is synchronizing the campaign to combat Russian active measures being deployed in American sovereign territory, because it sure as hell isn't the USG right now.

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And this, soon to be again proven self-evident, is why the Judiciary including the Supreme Court need Inspectors General. Can't wait to see their hot take on the administration's firing of independent watchdogs, as hot takes is the new jurisprudence.

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@npr.org Yesterday my kids were asking each other to name things. My four-year-old's response to her eight-year-old sister's request to "name something fun" was 'playground'. Her answer to "name something boring" was 'WAMU' (our NPR station). Think we need to start listening to Million Bazillion...

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Can we call the twitter exodus Xit? Please? I always wanted to get to name something.

submitted 193 days ago • 177 comments

What's up with Russians trying to coopt democracy in both Georgias?

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