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Writer, Army Veteran, Bird Nerd, Parent, Spouse, Atheist, Minnesotan. I've named the squirrels in my yard & I swear a lot. Working on a novel and writing personal essays at thegreenstudy.com. She/her. 2025-26 Loft Literary Mentor Fellow in Fiction.
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Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general. If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.

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Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

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For those of you going through the Amazon divestment and retaining your Kindle books, this is a very useful article: itsfoss.com/calibre-remo...

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For those of you going through the Amazon divestment and retaining your Kindle books, this is a very useful article: itsfoss.com/calibre-remo...

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On #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, we stand with #AndrzejPoczobut, jailed for nearly three years for defending linguistic and cultural rights in Belarus. Denied medical care and held in solitary confinement—we demand his freedom today. Take action: www.pen-international.org/news/interna...

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Checking in with my beloveds re: MMR vaccines. One thing I am grateful to the military for is the buffet of vaccines I was given before heading overseas for my tour. Then again later, in the run up to the Gulf War when I was in a reserve combat support hospital. Vaccinations & masking save lives.

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🚨🚨ANOTHER TRUMP ATTACK ON VETERANS! The Postal Service is one of the largest employers of Veterans in the country. Hundreds of thousands of Veterans rely on USPS to deliver medications, benefits, and critical information. We WILL fight this! MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Something you can do. Took me 5 minutes. Help ensure unaccompanied children have legal representation in the immigration process. actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...

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Health care advocates say House GOP’s Medicaid cuts would harm children, people with disabilities minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/20/h...

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After years of defending NPR, donating to NPR, and believing that they were not beholden to the government, the lie reveals itself. "Both sides" is not a standard for journalism. No more donations. Sink with the rest of mainstream media.

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Something you can do. Took me 5 minutes. Help ensure unaccompanied children have legal representation in the immigration process. actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...

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#CTA: Send a message to your member of Congress to restore the Unaccompanied Children Program today! Super easy and takes less than two minutes: 1. Fill out your information 2. Letter Topic: Immigration 3. Send Letter actionnetwork.org/letters/rest... #ProtectKids

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Go Colorado!!

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I saw video clips of Vance, then Trump, then some lawyer on Fox. I want to unlearn ableist terms for intelligence, but these have got to be the most unhinged assholes on the planet. Americans who like & voted for this shit are embarrassing. Looking for a cause? American (media) literacy needs help.

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We all seek to define ourselves and sometimes we shorthand to labels. I considered myself an average American who cared about others. I never realized I was far-left. Way to radicalize me, Christian nationalists. You're the worst and your god is malevolent and greedy.

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There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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1/2 In my lifetime, being an American has been chronicled by death. I was working in warehouse when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred. I was in a work breakroom in DT Mpls when the WTC was attacked. I was getting ready to drop my daughter off at elementary school when Sandy Hook happened.

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It's always such a bummer when people post links to Instagram and Substack. Like, I'm sure it was a great read, but a lot of people are sharing good writing in spaces that don't support Nazis or free-range techturds.

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"Right now, it’s hard to imagine Musk or Trump will ever go bust. But emperors rise and fall. Those two have now bet against America." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Whenever I hear men (usually the tech dipshits) going on about pro-natalism, I want to shove a watermelon up their ass. Not a kink, just rage. Why should women want to have children in a country that would rather see them dead than receive necessary reproductive healthcare?

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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Just more backpedalling so their misogyny, eugenics, and racism plan for this nation is not so baldfaced. They can mess with language until the cash cows come home. We know. nwlc.org/wp-content/u...

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Illiteracy in this country, to include media literacy is a huge problem, not just an educational issue, but as an empathy issue. I'm an introvert who limits socializing (it's exhausting!), so I grow some of my empathy and understanding through books. These books have helped me evolve over the years.

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1/2 I've been thinking about the hunger of "proximity" to power. White women aligning with conservative white men, despite the misogyny. Reporters gaining faux access to the White House and not defending their fellow journalists. Fear or FOMO or believing power shares?

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This #NationalNestboxWeek, a reminder that a little maintenance goes a long way. Whether it’s nesting season or a winter retreat, a well-kept nest box can be a safe space for birds all year round. Here’s how to keep yours in top shape every season... 👇🧵

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This entire thread is useful for understanding the illiterate science used to justify this administration's bizarre & dangerous focus on defining sexes (had to delete & repost because I said gender). Science is irrelevant to the bastards, but it doesn't need to be for the rest of us. Thanks, Ethel.

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