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Nica
@nicarolinam.bsky.social
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Children's Book Editor, Weighted Blanket Lover, 💙🗽, Hot Dog & Oysters Girl, read the driest nonfiction when not working on picturebooks, & learning about too much all at once🦋 (pumping older book reviews into #skylightsocial 🎞️ we gotta get out of TT)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
Priorities.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 2d
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 2d
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3d
"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds."

A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow.

youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d
New York City is not for sale.

Our new ad begins airing tomorrow.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d
the AT&T-->Time Warner-->Discovery series of media mergers were some of the most pointless and disastrous business exercises ever conceived by man

so of course we're going to do it again

this time it's rumored they want $60 billion to sell this mess to Larry Ellison and whatever's left of CBS
Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale
The announcement comes after WBD previously said it would split in two.
www.nbcnews.com
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 3d
Opinion: Of all the European travel / food shows, nothing beats the BBC's Rick Stein's Secret France episodes.
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#travel
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 4d
On the topic of The #Louvre Theft, a 2017 book for readers age 8-12, "The Crims" by Kate Davies follows an extended family of slapstick-level (really bad at their jobs*) miscreants that work together to steal back an object that was taken from them
*or really good?

It's Heist Season! #kidlit
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Book cover "The Crims" written by Kate Davies (illustration of a large family in front of a mansion)
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5d
Wut
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 5d
New York was crushing it with the cooler weather & today it has deceived me.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 5d
To drink Amish kefir after buying a random grocery store brand is the funniest first sip. Like, you now know THIS is what it was supposed to be. Pero also...
a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a serious look on his face .
Alt: Shocked facial expression gif
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 14d
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d
Imagine that
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 13d
Ugh, pick me up at an airport or give directions where to travel by boat from new york
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 19d
getting rid of Marc Fisher is about the dumbest thing the WP has done yet — and it's been doing a LOT of very dumb things. And without copyeditors, the opinion section won't just be historically or politically illiterate; it's going for the full trifects. x.com/SegravesNBC4...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 19d
Sorry, can't absorb reality right now...I'm main-lining "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" on audiobook as I practice dissociation xoxo,
a woman is petting a large lion 's head in the woods .
Alt: Aslan and Lucy breaking my heart and also putting it back together
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 21d
My upstairs neighbors are having a gathering for Yom Kippur and my nosey 14 year old cat will not come inside because he is listening to the party. I should just let him go up at this point.
#yomkippur #cat
Cat laying in a pile of leaves while eavesdropping on an upstairs dinner party Cat eavesdropping on a gathering for Yom Kippur
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23d
Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 23d
Telling a group of generals there’s “an enemy within”—basically meaning the left – that must be “brought under control”? That’s straight fascist stuff.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 23d
All I want to do is ignore the nation around me, under a blanket...and I know that to act this way is strictly out of the running. I guess, fighting for Democracy has to happen twice a century...and we dealt the short straw. We do it scared, people.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24d
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24d
What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 24d
Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh
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Nica @nicarolinam.bsky.social · 24d
💙📚 (Vid from '22) "The Magical Imperfect" by Chris Baron is a heartwarming Fall Read for young readers ages nine and up. 2 children share a beautiful #culturalconnection in this #middlegrade book full of American melting pot energy, with some California history baked into it's pages. #kidlit
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