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🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ copy editor, village council member, notary public, environmentalist in NoWeLoMI (Northwestern Lower Michigan) doing hyperlocal journalism at the Elberta Alert http://elbertaalert.substack.com/ Still boycotting plastics, Nestlé, and the River Bezos
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i think Owen Wilson would like a word with this graphic

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For series co-creator Bill Krebs, ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ is a kind of bizarre homage to his hometown. “Will I be a pariah?” he says with a laugh during a recent phone conversation.

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hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!

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If a bureaucrat at the State Department can unilaterally decide, with no process, to change a transperson's gender on their passport (Hunter Schafer), don't think they can't do it to anybody else, or change anything else, for political purposes. This is tyranny.

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This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

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yeah man

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I think it'll be more like let's put more Line 5s everywhere

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@repmoskowitz.bsky.social

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my grandfather William E. Votruba and his mother, Amelia (née Barták) at his house at 403 Sixth Street in Traverse City, Michigan, late 1940s, probably

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Here's a large editorial from the Heritage Foundation praising DOGE in our little "politically independent" 24 page weekly local newspaper, which is owned by Hearst

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Please take a moment to respond to this action call. I don't trust this administration with 21% of the world's surface freshwater. Do you? #line5 #savethegreatlakes www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/too_risky_to...

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There's something seriously wrong with this guy.

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Even sanctuary policies can’t stop ICE arrests michiganadvance.com/2025/02/19/e...

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Matt Christman's history of the Spanish Civil War is riveting. I hope he will write many more history books. Get it for the disgruntled student (or soldier) in your life. And yes I am completely nude.

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never have i meant this more: get that money

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This saddens me. He was one of my very favorite people on Instagram. One of the few people I've missed from there. Walter Robinson, you were a great ad for normal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/a...

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LOL. Hey, Canada? Have you gotten funnier since Trump got back in office and threatened your country’s existence, or have I just never noticed before? Either way, I’m a big fan.

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Carry-On: More feel-good(ish) propaganda from Dreamworks. The fantasy of the good cop, a portrait of tonic masculinity. Not bad escapism for now.

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snow strata

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Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk, study finds ->The Guardian | #Water | More info from EcoSearch

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From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

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If abolishing the Department of Education isn't enough to convince you that this admin wants to abolish public schools then this exec order to defund schools that mandate vaccines is your clue. They are deliberately making schools unsafe so parents will take their kids out.

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National Energy Dominance Council chair just said the "AI arms race is the most important thing we have to do relative to our future." And this involves extraction of resources from public lands.

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Today he created the National Energy Dominance Council to unleash America's energy dominance and end the "war on energy" perpetrated by the Biden administration

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