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We read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Message” for February family book club. His stunning prose, how he writes about the power of language, stories, and what it means for a people to have control of their own narrative, and why all those things are perceived as threats by hierarchical power…

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blocking everyone who calls the Kennedy center thing “a distraction.” If you can’t realize that this kind of thing impacts real people’s lives as much as anything else going on, like I don’t even know what to say.

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Well, went ahead and scheduled an MMR booster for next week. I do not want to play games with measles-caused immune amnesia

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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one thing about having a cat is sometimes there do be a creature in your lap and sometimes there do be a creature in your lap /neg

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My family had been planning a trip to Montana to visit Glacier NP to celebrate my dad’s 75th birthday. All the NPS staffing stories made it feel very risky to book travel. Yesterday we decided to pivot to Calgary and Banff. Now Canada will get our tourism dollars and not Kalispell.

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If you're looking for ways to make a tangible difference during this nightmare, one of the very best things you can do is to make as generous a contribution as you can possibly afford to a nonprofit organization that works with children.

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Ok I need everyone to be more proactive about calling people out for casual use of AI because this "I only do it for fun" and "it's here to stay" shit is rampant and terrifying.

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My dad had his 75th birthday earlier this year and we have been planning to celebrate this summer with a trip to Glacier National Park. I’m really worried we won’t be able to actually go with all the fuckery with NPS seasonal worker contracts.

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How can it be made any clearer how fascistic this administration is? They want to control our artistic expression. I expect Stalinist censors soon.

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must feel weird to get fired for the same reason you were hired

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Trump would welcome a terrorist attack on American soil as a reason to deploy the military and his new best buddies in right-wing militias. But he'll likely try to do the latter even without a terrorist attack as incitement...

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"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

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A friend of mine worked as US Aid for a number of years, traveling the world doing crucial life saving work. She sent me this link that puts the sudden, illegal stoppage in stark numbers. Can I ask as many of you you out there as possible to spread this link around? www.usaidstopwork.com

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You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

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From Signal Cleveland’s reporting about ICE actions and Cleveland Mayor Bibb stating that local LEO resources would not be diverted to federal enforcement, Sen. Moreno is happy to threaten his own constituents with severe punishment.

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Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.” sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

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Just incase, a friend downloaded the CDC vaccine schedule for kids and adults and I put it in a dropbox folder here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/psiuq...

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The paper of record has spoken, Oklahoma now has to claim this absolute jerk.

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With alt-text

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That’s a nazi salute. Also, a coworker doesn’t think Elon did a nazi salute and when I asked her to demonstrate the gesture, she finished with her palm up saying “my heart goes out to you,” and uh dumb boomer lady, Elon did not finish with his palm up.

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Was able to speak to someone in Moreno’s office, left a message for Husted. It matters to have my feedback registered even if they do not listen. If they do not listen, they will be shamed.

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Yeah, they about to fuck up tax refunds and that's the breaking point.

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This is a good bit of local news that Cleveland employers may soon be unable to ask applicants about salary history and would need to list pay ranges in job postings. Pay transparency is good for everyone, but especially for people of color, women, and other marginalized groups.

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The guy in charge of elections in OH doesn’t want you to know about your voting rights, and that should be really telling.

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The Women Composers Collection contains approximately 2,800 musical works by more than 700 composers. With the exception of several dozen 18th-century works, the music is almost evenly divided between the 19th and 20th centuries. The scores have been digitized, with many available in HathiTrust.

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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

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I’m sure you never thought you should follow a public waste management utility on social media, but you really should follow NEORSD

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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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If you don’t yet know about Abel Meeropol, please read this thread.

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If your rep voted no previously, call them and thank them and tell them to hold the line. You can also call reps who aren’t yours and say, I may not be your constituent, but your votes affect me, too, and this issue matters and you should change your position

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NO WHY DO YOU WANT TO OBEY THE RULES OF A FASCIST? this should be so fucking easy why is it hard for you to grasp

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It is not in keeping with a claimed value set of trans acceptance and allyship to deadname a transperson you dislike or disagree with, no matter how naive, self-serving, and/or foolish they are.

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Hope this helps

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Commentary: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted had dinner with two FirstEnergy executives the night they bribed Ohio's top utility watchdog. On Friday, the executives were hit with federal racketeering charges while DeWine appointed Husted to the U.S. Senate.

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The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.

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Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him

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