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I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

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Friday Musings: When a non-reader becomes a reader. And why do we love to read? open.substack.com/pub/theadamb...? #amreading #amwrting #books #essay #substack #reading #fiction #literature

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This month, we're reading The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by the incomparable bell hooks. Check out today's Substack for a brief intro and some reading plans. open.substack.com/pub/theadamb... #theCRPblog #amreading #amwriting #masculinity #feminism #bellhooks #booktok #bookstagram

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Finding My Way to Yes: Thoughts on Finishing Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry. #theCRPblog #amreading #amwriting #poetry #booktok #bookstagram open.substack.com/pub/theadamb...

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Introducing a Weekly Craft Focus to our Substack space! open.substack.com/pub/theadamb... #writing #fiction #poetry #memoir #autobiography #shortstory #essay #writingprompt #substack #amwriting

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Our next selection for the Contemplative Reading Project is The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks. We’ll begin on May 1st. Hope you’ll join us! #theCRPblog #amreading #amwriting #booktok #bookstagram #nonfiction #feminism #bellhooks #socialscience

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Some happy happy good news. Thank goodness. Needed a bit of a lift today.

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"I'm Homesick for Life": Memory, Truth, and Suffering in Seuss' Modern Poetry #theCRPblog #poetry #amreading #amwriting #booktok #bookstagram #PopeFrancis #Buddhism #Christianity open.substack.com/pub/theadamb...

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US police departments are using "unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on 'college protesters', 'radicalized' political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers ..." They've automated snitching.

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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REPEAT: JUAN LOPEZ GOMEZ, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, IS BEHIND BARS FOR NOT HAVING HIS PAPERS. AND A JUDGE SAYS SHE CAN'T FREE HIM.

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It's Writing Prompt Thursday on Substack! Today's prompt is "The Sound of Your Language," with thanks to Ursula K. Le Guin. #writingprompts #amwriting #theCRPblog theadamburgess.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

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Please help my friend if you can. gofund.me/55276670

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Week 2 of Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY. Reflections are now live on #Substack (please consider subscribing). #theCRPblog #poetry #buddhism #language #music #writing #reading #booktok #bookstagram #amreading #amwriting theadamburgess.substack.com/p/something-...

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Something my mind cannot stop thinking about is that in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump admin ADMITTED that he was wrongfully deported and they they still are fighting as hard as they can to not bring an innocent man home because it will make them look bad.

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Totally fine… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The end is near.

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Anyone else find it weird that American Idol is doing a 3-hour live special, “Songs of Faith” for Easter? I don’t know the impetus, but asking/making all Top 20 contestants sing a song of faith… seems both pandering and unfair/inconsiderate to contestants who aren’t faith-inclined.

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The Contemplative Reading Project enters its seventh season with a new mission and new horizons ahead. Join us! open.substack.com/pub/theadamb... #amreading #amwriting #theCRPblog #booktok #bookstagram

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Just submitted these two paintings to a local art show, the St. Charles Arts Council’s Artist Member Exhibit. The show opens Sun February 23rd, pieces will be displayed throughout March! Hope local friends and family get a chance to check it out.

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New house portrait finished! Hopefully they love it. 🤞🤞

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As I’m dreaming of leaving the US drama behind, here is a painting of Ardvasar, a village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, from a photograph taken by Kelly Ufkin.

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"Beginning to Understand, but Barely": Ruminations on the first ten poems in Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY. (Plus, ravens!) #theCRPblog #amreading #amwriting #poetry #booktok #bookstagram contemplativereading.com/2025/04/07/b...

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WATCH: “Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro.” @maddow.msnbc.com explains how Trump’s tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it🤦🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏼 And now markets are crashing 🎪 #TrumpTradeWar #AmericanBrexit

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So basically no retirement. And no healthcare. And no housing. Yeah, America is super great.

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The Gospel of Thomas makes Jesus sound like a Buddha, but John was so offended by interbeing (or so much believed that Jesus was the one God), that he wrote a gospel wildly deviating from the others (Mark, Matthew, Luke) to quell this popular Buddhist (my term) view of Jesus's teachings?

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What’s the best program for creating newsletters? Especially for someone with zero experience.

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A Drawer Full of Knives: Modern Poetry in April Dear Friend, Welcome back for SEASON SEVEN of the Contemplative Reading Project. It's so nice to see you again! In February and March, we were engaged in a special read-along project of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way. These discussions were led on…

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Love to my transgender siblings today and every day.

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On April 1st, we’re back to regularly scheduled programming at The Contemplative Reading Project! Our monthly pick is Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss! Stop by Tuesday for a brief introduction and the reading and posting schedule. #theCRPblog #poetry #amreading #amwriting #booktok #bookstagram

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love to have a government that sends unidentified men to kidnap people who are then disappeared into prisons and labor camps almost like there was something to all their pinochet helicopter memes

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Saw this coming. “We don’t need your votes.” “You won’t ever have to vote again.”

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Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for "No Other Land" about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military, witnesses tell NPR.

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A Princeton study in 2014 concluded that the US functioned more like an oligarchy than a democracy. Only gotten worse since then.

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There really should be a law against dentists and doctors trying to upsell.

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Key word is “actual.” They want to eliminate due process for deportation and this is their test case. Kind of like how they wanna arrest protestors without due process, and fire government employees without due process, and indict people without due process, and seize assets without due process.

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Felice Picano. ♥️

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“It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”

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