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I was honored to be on podcast Freelance Writing Direct hosted by @estelleserasmus.bsky.social. We discussed writing and editing personal essays and my work as editor of @opensecretsmag.bsky.social and May 3 NYC personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live! estelleserasmus.com/128-crafting...

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What an absolute ghoul.

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BIG NEWS: @mindahoney.bsky.social and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social will be our closing keynote speakers Saturday, May 3 at personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live! Plus Jane Pratt, memoir authors, magazine & book editors! 12 tickets left! Agenda & discount: www.eventbrite.com/e/1140713949...

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Billionaire owner of Washington Post seizes control of opinion page. Will focus nearly exclusively to promote rightwing libertarianism. "Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Democracy Docket will expand its pro-democracy opinion section. www.democracydocket.com

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Early in desegregation white Americans were faced with the prospect of integrating their beloved public pools with Black people Instead of sharing the space, they paved over them, destroying their joy to sate their hate All so we can keep hating Black people

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A friend called Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy “quite possibly the worst film I’ve ever seen” and that immediately made me want to see it to decide if I agree. Something to think about the next time your writing or art or anything else gets a scathing review.

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NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

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Battling a cold is never easy, all the more so with taking care of a baby. But one upside is I’m even more determined to take good care of myself, stay hydrated, and rest my body and mind so I can be as healthy for my baby’s sake (and mine and my household) as possible.

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I never thought I’d be someone who forgets to eat breakfast, but then I became a work from home mom who races through pretty busy weekday mornings. I was up around 3:30 thanks to insomnia and after a very early morning snack, I forgot I made a smoothie till I went to refill my water bottle.

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Medicaid covers nearly HALF of all births in America and provides care for millions of moms, kids, and caregivers. But House Republicans want to slash $880 BILLION from the program. That means more uninsured families and worse health outcomes. We can't let that happen.

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Continuing our string of personal essays on relationships at Open Secrets Magazine, @funkybrownchick.bsky.social shares what it's like to be a single Black woman dating in Europe in this week's essay: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/single-bla... Comments, likes, and shares help us reach more readers.

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This is quite a thing to find 18 paragraphs down in a story. wapo.st/4hW2xGI

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Tupelo Press’ response to new NEA restrictions is inspiring and should serve as an industry standard. @tupelopress.bsky.social

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Book bans impact public libraries & bookstores, but it’s school libraries where they are rampant ❤️‍🩹 Many kids are unable to make it to the public library. They can’t drive, often times the library isn’t in walking distance. It’s not that their grown-ups don’t want them to be library kids. 🧵 1/11

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I’m reading on March 11 at 7:30 at Jake’s Dilemma in NYC for the reading series Must Love Memoir with Jenny Higgins, Molly Roden Winter, Charles Bock, Sarah Gormley, and series cohost Krystal Marie Orwig! Looking forward to this! I miss live events. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DGLKpYeOp9...

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NEW: Guest post from almost-Rabbi Ben Luks-Morgan: "We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text. Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."

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For anyone who needs a smile, here’s some alpacas visiting a nursing home. youtube.com/watch?v=Nq0E...

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I finally wrote my first The ADHD Diaries column for @opensecretsmag.bsky.social. I’m hoping writing it will help me get back to regular writing and tackle some of my ADHD productivity issues, and maybe make others with ADHD feel seen. opensecretsmagazine.com/p/adhd-distr...

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NEW: Under the Trump administration, the Office for Civil Rights has shifted its focus to removing gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and prioritizing complaints alleging discrimination against white students.

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For those who use submission forms on the contact page your website, a heads up that often your responses to emails sent via those forms go to the recipient’s spam folder. And for people who contact people via website submission forms, always check your spam folder for a response.

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Students in a middle school show more guts than all America and show the way for the rest of us. Resist. Protest. Be loud. Be heard. Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

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NYC friends who are into racy desserts and adult toys, check out this Spencer’s claw machine at Sugarwood at 157 Prince Street through Friday, February 14! www.instagram.com/reel/DFqJMP_...

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In Gaza, we thanked Trump for the ceasefire. Now we know how he really sees us.

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Hello everyone. For the past few months @rachelkramerbussel.bsky.social has hosted my advice column at @opensecretsmag.bsky.social. I'd like to start spreading the word, so here I am to do that. I'll offer tweet-length advice here while also answering longer questions at Open Secrets.

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It’s tax time! Especially if you’re a caregiver or otherwise responsible for your own and another person’s taxes, it’s probably smart to start now so you can gather all the necessary paperwork and make the process helpfully a little easier.

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Everyone who was aghast over Hillary Clinton’s emails should be asked to justify this access to our treasury system that they proudly voted for. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

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If you have something to say to your elected officials about what’s happening, you can easily find their contact info here and start calling and messaging. ✨💪🏼💜✨ www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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This week, as part of our series of personal essays on love and romantic relationships leading up to Valentine's Day, we have Siham Lee on "The Romanticization of the Organic Meet Cute." opensecretsmagazine.com/p/romanticiz...

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Would love ideas from folks within the scholarly communications ecosystem about how we can push back on, resist, and support the scholars and scholarship under attack by the CDC directive. This is a threat to all, not restricted to CDC researchers. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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YES! Ever since moving back to my home state of New Jersey, I’ve assumed “everyone drives.” I got my license only in anticipation of being a mom. I can drive locally decently now, but I hate it, and wish there were better public transportation. My town’s library isn’t accessible by a nearby bus.

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This is back up. I didn’t know its history. Here’s one inscription via the site: "May this memorial be a tribute to the indomitable spirit of a citizenry in World War II who remained steadfast in their faith in our democratic system." Norman Y. Mineta, internee at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.

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Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

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Read “What you can do, right now, for your trans and nonbinary friends, family, students and colleagues.“ by S. Bear Bergman on Medium: medium.com/@sbearbergma...

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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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the other thing about these moves is that the union becomes untenable if your access to the good faith and protection of the national government is contingent on whether you renounce your co-sovereignty as a state and submit to the whims of a president who has claimed sovereign authority

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Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

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Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Today was a day of mass censorship. Sending love & solidarity to all the amazing career scientists in government. For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.

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For many years I ran a reading series & did book events & felt uncomfortable charging money. Now that I’m almost 50, I’m more comfortable charging, knowing I’m putting on a valuable event. 72 tickets sold so far! Finding more sponsors & planning swag bags is next. www.eventbrite.com/e/open-secre...

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only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Trump didn't visit the people shot at his rally when they were in the hospital. Later Trump at a campaign rally bragged about giving the guy who died's family iirc $7m That money was from the family's gofundme campaign, not Trump. And that was his superfan who caught a bullet meant for him.

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🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

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