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Enchantra Sand📚🌻
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Reader and Recluse, Mother and Citizen. History📜, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Maker of voluminous lists of books. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. #SlavaUkraini
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I have ten thousand books on my TBR list. I am 70. If you didn't just win the Nobel, I am probably not going to get to your book.
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The first hellebore of the winter blooming in my garden today. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Garden #GardenPhotography 🌱📸
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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“Islamorada” by Rivka Keren (tr. Dalit Shmueli) is a short fiction piece from our archive about a Florida vacation that veers off course when a migrant fleeing the police bursts into a couple’s hotel room. Read the story here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, shortlisted for We Computers, are longtime contributors. On our website, you can find their NBA interviews, fiction translations, a book review of We Computers by Hannah Weber, and much more.

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The National Book Award Interviews: Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega - Words Without Borders
Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega discuss We Computers, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
wordswithoutborders.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Enjoying We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov, translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:

Zero.

Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:

Zero.
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places

CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon

HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Just finished reading There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak.

A tremendous book, following three main narratives linking water (physically, culturally & metaphorically) with the deep history of Mesopotamia & the Yazidi people of that area.

#booksky

1/3
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Back in March 2022, while Russia was invading Ukraine, Farage was defending the rights of Russian oligarchs.

Why was he so concerned about their welfare? Is there something we don't know about Farage and Russian oligarchs?
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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On the whole it is safer to stick to Arbutus unedo, so rewarding with its green leaves throughout the winter, and so pretty with its waxy racemes and scarlet fruits in autumn. #gardening
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Just picked up my holds: six books from the National Book Award long list and one book of werewolf porn. 3 weeks to make some Choices
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭

IG twhattcomethru
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Clearly the flower is spraying some sort of enfeeble gas.
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The same big corporations that fund the Republicans who cut SNAP underpay their workers so much that they depend on it to survive.

We need higher corporate taxes and a higher minimum wage.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.

Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?

He gets a full presidential pardon.

Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The pentagon papers were leaked changing history. I don’t get why the Epstein files are so protected. Seems like there would be someone out there that would leak them.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Joseph Ntensibe (Ugandan, b. 1953). The Innocents (2006, acrylic on canvas).
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Keep your eyes on the Epstein Files!
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Nehls just announced he’s not seeking reelection
Nehls to Kash Patel: "I would say if Charlie Kirk lived in Biblical times, he'd have been the 13th disciple."
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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BREAKING: Republican Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX) announces he will NOT seek re-election
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM