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Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-o...

Netanyahu’s illegal, unilateral attack on Iran is just his latest violation of international law.

The United States must not be a part of this war.

My full statement:

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:

“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”

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YouTube video by The Seneca Project Bruce Springsteen’s Message to America: A Protest. A Prayer. A Wake-Up Call.

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Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Protesters at Senator Thom Tillis' office in Raleigh NC today:

Community health centers are closing amid funding confusion Community health centers are facing a potential federal freeze on their grants and funding following orders from Trump.

Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze.

We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.

Unfortunately, more to do with composting than deer…but I understand the plight of your people.

Dr. Vivek Murthy’s parting prescription for America

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Vulnerable House Republicans warn leaders against cutting Obamacare The group of centrists also said the party needed to be careful about deep cuts to social safety net programs.

House Republicans in competitive districts warned GOP leaders Thursday: We could lose our seats if you gut Obamacare to pay for a massive border, energy and tax bill.

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How We Lie and How We're Lied To Dealing with floods of political lies.

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A good and helpful read.

On my desk today.

Hey, it’s Karen kmelb@bsky.social

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Anyone have actual experience with keyhole gardening in WNC?

E.P.A. Again Seeks Limits on a Harmful Pesticide After a court overturned a ban, the agency has proposed restricting chlorpyrifos to 11 food crops, illustrating the limits of federal regulation.

In first Trump admin, EPA rejected advice of its own scientists to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage in kids. The Biden admin is again trying to limit its use.
What would RFK Jr, who pledged to clean up our food supply “poisoning” children, do? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/h...