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I get your data from point A to point B.
"We got the rabbi!"
"My name is Anastasia Beaverhausen."
“My name is Coyote, Wile E Coyote, and I am a genius.”
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Yesterday at the farmer’s market I saw a vendor quietly give food to someone whose EBT (SNAP) card didn’t have enough money on it.

People helping people because the president and his administration refuse to.

Even when court-ordered.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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There is not one face of the Democratic Party. Tonight proved there are many faces, but each with a commitment to fight back against the reckless failure of the Trump regime and actually serve people.

Thank goodness.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter.

Local. Elections. Matter.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This weekend I read 200 pages of the first book of the Wicked series, plus noted down new vocab words.

It's amazing how much reading you can get done in even a few undistracted hours.
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Baseball, like everything else in the US, would be way more boring without any foreign-born people.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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This alone is disqualifying. If this schmuck is gonna LEAVE THE CITY if he loses, he doesn't love the city enough to deserve to win.
More incentive
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This time last week I was sitting front row, dead center box seat at the MET Opera House.

I'm not a spontaneous person and this was an impromptu trip for me.

Lesson: It is very important that you do things during your time here on Earth. Be responsible but yes, go do the thing.
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
One danger of 47 is that it's very , very important for service members to be able to confidently take orders from their Commander-in-chief.

47 makes this impossible to do so.
Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:

"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."
Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes
Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"...once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country."
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
ingenious idea for a series
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Documenting what has been lost... and what still could be found with a renewed commitment to science in America.

👇
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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At @nationalacademies.org annual meeting. An award recipient (92 years old, born in Slovakia) just reminded us, in her acceptance speech,

“Science always survives - it even made it through Stalin.

Don’t let your curiosity be diminished.”

🌼🧪📈🩺
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@nelbamg.bsky.social I have my girl's night out planned for November 21.

Also, the scene where she's falling, sees her younger self falling too, and reaches out to catch her.

Damn.

Like she's saying, "Don't worry little one, I got you, I won't let you fall."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UOg...
Defying Gravity (Ending Scene) | WICKED (4K)
YouTube video by Yuri Luv
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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same here
Cannot stress enough that I would be dead if insurers were still able to refuse me insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
You rarely know about the group chats and meetings you’re never invited to. The same is for national security which is highly dependent on global alliances.

All bills become due eventually. We will have to pay dearly for this administration.
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Every place is somebody's home. And if it's their home, it means they were loved there.

May God be with them.
Thousands of people continued to travel by foot toward Gaza City on Saturday as a cease-fire held overnight. But joy at the pause in fighting has been tempered by the scale of destruction that many people in Gaza face as they return to the north.
Thousands Return to Northern Gaza, Hopeful, but Faced With Devastation
With the cease-fire holding overnight, many Palestinians continued to travel toward Gaza City on Saturday to learn what remained of their lives and homes.
nyti.ms
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The theme of the rally is No Kings, and it's hard to think of a more pro-American sentiment than that.
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
October 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Damn.
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM