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I will stop what I’m doing in a grocery store if I hear them play Talking Heads.
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I’d really like to see a supercut of Mike Johnson denying knowledge of things. It’d be very long.
I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
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I make and sell paper pinecone ornaments using old maps, vintage sheet music, and now Japanese Chiyogami paper (it’s what I started with years ago.) I will try to post shop updates as I make more for the holidays, but you can always check out what’s in my shop with the link:

ebay.us/m/XzOKYB
The sorrows write themselves.
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
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The German "national newspaper for politics, business, culture, and goulash" follows @theonion.com...into print.
"Der Postillon" erscheint als Print-Zeitung: Was für ein Blödsinn - im besten Sinne
via @sz sz.de/li.3332508
"Der Postillon" erscheint als Print-Zeitung: Was für ein Blödsinn - im besten Sinne
Ein Best of der Beiträge der letzten Wochen von der Satireplattform "Der Postillon" gibt es jetzt gedruckt am Kiosk.
sz.de
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Happy Halloween, Boston! 🦞

It’s been a joy to watch our neighborhoods transform over the past two weeks through Boston’s Spooky Streets block party program, organized by @civicorganizing.boston.gov

Thank you to all our neighbors for bringing the spirit of the fall season to your blocks! 👻🎃
Sorry if this was already said, but casting Janney and Whitford the way they did is such a perfect resonance.
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I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
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**Smells Like Wet Otter is the best track....**
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Do we remember the Republicans-manufactured panic over “death panels”? Segregating health insurance access by risk is a de facto death panel.

Every accusation is an admission.
John Kennedy on Republican healthcare ideas: "Bringing back high risk pools, which have been outlawed under the ACA."
The headline cut across everything else in my inbox. I’m so angry for you right now and so grateful for you also. I send you my energy for healing.
Not inaccurate.
cold email: hey 😎 are you looking to level up your bookkeeping with AI? it’d be super cool to vibe on a quick call: virtual ☕️ on me!

follow-up email: guess my email was in your spam 🤔 but it’s not too late haha

follow-up to the follow-up: KILL MYSELF??? you wouldn’t care if i was dead. admit it.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d
“By narrowing who counts, what knowledge survives, & whose voices are heard, it strikes at the very conditions of civic life. To dismantle universities is not simply to shutter classrooms or cut research; it is to strip away our collective memory of the past & narrow the horizons of the future.”
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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"We The People One" by Synthia Saint James, contemporary US visual artist, author, keynote speaker, and educator #WomensArt
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The U.S. Virgin Islands just made history, becoming the first U.S. territory to let trans and intersex residents change their gender markers. This is more than paperwork. it’s recognition, safety, and respect.

🔗: gayety.com/usvi-gender-...
U.S. Virgin Islands Becomes First Territory to Recognize Trans and Intersex Residents
The U.S. Virgin Islands now allows gender marker changes on official documents, becoming the first U.S. territory to formally recognize trans and intersex people.
gayety.com
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for whatever it's worth their article on the jugalbandi was wholesale ripped from Wikipedia's, citations and all
Yes, you do.
Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽
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ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.