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I can’t believe that we are at the point where we need to constantly remind everyone that children aren’t meant to die from vaccine-preventable diseases.

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BREAKING: Elon’s Epic Email Rake-Stomp Finally Explained! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

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Just put in a FOIA request for Amy Gleason’s five bullet points from last week.

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I joined an elite club with members like @stephenking.bsky.social - nobody at my book reading -;)

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Just sayin... write me 5 bullet points of things I could have done in my administrative government job that would look good when analyzed by an LLM such as yourself ChatGPT said: Here are five impactful bullet points ...

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Not to belabor the obvious, but this only became a "ruse" when people started ignoring him It's the same well-worn playbook when Rs say something racist / sexist / etc, get "wtf??" in response, and claim they were just joking

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. Today: Chris Gerrib has wanted to be a writer since he was a child riding his bicycle to the library in the small Central Illinois town where he grew up. Since then ... www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotl... #AuthorSpotlight #Mystery @cgerrib.bsky.social

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NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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A useful corrective: gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...

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From that noted left-wing radical communist rag, the Wall Street Journal: (For the math-challenged, commercial = $524 / migrant, military = $2075 / migrant.)

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Complete at a very short (too short to market) 42,000 words, my latest novel "What the Bank Robber Saw."

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Just for reference: South Africa's Expropriation Act is no worse than eminent domain in the U.S., and it exists because 7% of the population owns 70% of the private farmland, the direct result of a 1913 law that stole the land from Black South Africans. And South Africa hasn't even used it yet.

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Since we seem to be stuck on stupid in the US of A, we have not given Ukraine $200 billion in aid. We have given them $87 billion to date, and committed to another $130 billion. We (the government) knows where all of that went to. See below. www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/

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Trump's Gaza plan is to round up the survivors, march them across country to some desolate place in a foreign land, and then take their property for "redevelopment." Who came up with this, the Bureau of Indian Affairs? If Trump offers you blankets, make sure you've got your smallpox vaccination

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Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

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Biden got the exact same deal in 2021 without starting a trade war. apnews.com/article/guat...

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A whole bunch of these Executive Orders seem to have been drafted by Very Clever Lads with undergrad degrees in Ayn Rand Studies from the Internet University of Heinleinian Magical Thinking.

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look this is all going to suck a lot for everyone but I do think it's important to take this special tariffs moment to say to all the "he won't actually do the tariffs tho, it's just words, he won't really do it" people from the very bottom of my heart my loudest and most heartfelt "i told you so"

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Why Has Trump Gone Soft on China and Hard on Canada? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

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I have booked my trip to Worldcon and after that I will spend a couple of days in Victoria Canada. seattlein2025.org

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Here's another chance to read an excerpt of my latest novel, "Strawberry Gold." Also, the site has opportunities for other authors to promote their work. leehallwriter.com/2025/01/24/e...

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For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.

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Posted here for reference: There is no such thing as "anchor babies." Illegal immigrant parents are subject to deportation, etc. just like any other immigrant. They can either take the kid with or find somebody in the US to care for them. oneill.law.georgetown.edu/anchor-babie...

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Elections have consequences...

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Well, it's back to work for me after the MLK holiday, and to celebrate, you can read an excerpt from my latest novel "Strawberry Gold" here: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...

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He’s moving the inauguration indoors bc it’s too cold and he wants to invade Greenland? It’s a damn ice sheet!

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I highly recommend this novel and here's why: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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A variant on the old saying "fools and their money are soon parted."

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Every once in a while, it's nice to get a thank you. I recently received one as part of my other job, writing - somebody pinged to let me know they had enjoyed my latest novel Strawberry Gold. You're welcome! www.amazon.com/Strawberry-G...

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The Case for Letting Malibu Burn longreads.com/2018/12/04/t... tl;dr = Malibu has burnt before and will again, and there's not much we can do to stop it.

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I will be attending capricon.org to be held February 6-9 in downtown Chicago. My schedule is in the attached image.

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Home ownership is such a joy, part whatever, or, They say a boat is a hole in the water into which one throws money. A house is something similar. Details in picture.

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I'll add to below one tidbit - the reason we call it the Gilded Age was because a group of wealthy Americans was trying (and frequently succeeding) in buying themselves political power which they used to further enrich themselves. Paging President Musk - please pick up a white courtesy phone.

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Political Violence and the Great Disinhibition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/polit...

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The holiday issue of Book Lovers Dispatch is out! Learn about Jólabókaflód, the Icelandic book holiday! Download for free at bit.ly/BookLoversDispatch-007.

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"You idiots don't understand H-1B visas," explained the rich tech exec. "It's easier to exploit foreign workers, telling them to put in 100 hours a week or they'll get deported." "Americans think they deserve things like 'rights' and 'weekends,'" he went on. "And that's, like, really unfair to me."

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And it's fun watching them flail... ;-)

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For the afternoon crowd - the e-book of my latest science fiction novel is included in this 99 cent sale: authorsxp.com/spotlight/sp...

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Since we’re talking about #BeyonceBowl … Let me re-up this: capitalbnews.org/beyonce-blac...

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So my science fiction publisher is trying to end 2024 on a bang - my book and others are on sale for 99 cents until the end of the year! www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com

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