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Robert Reich Trump Wants a New Gilded Age

Trump wants you to think that he’s bringing back the “Golden Age” of prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s.

But in reality, he’s dragging us toward something else: the Gilded Age of the 1890s. https://youtu.be/fusV6pkf-_c?feature=shared

Sea lions were spotted diving into water for safety off of Russia's Antsiferov Island after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck.

Read live updates: wapo.st/45cBXo2

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#Mets #80s

You can bloom at any time.

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. Day 19.

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YouTube video by Stevie Nicks Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Official Video) [HD Remaster]

July 27, 1981

Steve Nicks released her debut solo album, Bella Donna.

The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 in September of that year. 🎶🎤🤘

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Morton Mintz, Post reporter with a muckraker spirit, dies at 103 A pioneer in consumer affairs journalism, he helped expose the deformity-causing hazards posed by thalidomide, a once-popular drug for morning sickness.

Morton Mintz, Post reporter who helped expose the deformity-causing hazards of thalidomide and the hazards around the Dalkon Shield IUD, dies at 103. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Purple coral with a brittle star, which lives on the deep seafloor. Photographer: Karen Gowlett-Holmes. Source: CSIRO

Extreme deep-sea organisms are closely related across the globe, indicating a previously unknown "superhighway" of migration via slow ocean currents.

Our planet is connected in all kinds of surprising ways. 🧪

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YouTube video by Sabac - Topic Fight Until The End

@richtomorrow81.bsky.social Your last beat reminded me quite a bit of this. youtu.be/AGaGJW9ocnY?...

To be fair, this city doesn't deserve any sugar-coating, and I feel bad for the people who actively try to revitalize it. You'd need to jettison about 2/3 of the people for that to work.

Yet it's a fascinating place, and it deserves someone a bit less humdrum than Russo to chronicle it.

Facet Hypertrophy — Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment Facet hypertrophy can cause severe symptoms and painful reactions dependent on the severity of the damage to the joint and the pressure on the nerves.

deukspine.com/blog/facet-h... A recent x-ray showed that I have this, which explains why I can't move after a few rough nights at work. Hopefully the treatment works for me, and everything becomes a bit less of a struggle.
#backpain

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. Day 18. Russo set a lot of early work in our hometown, and used my exact location for a very trashy family. On behalf of 2 generations of my family, bite me. You get one more chance.

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No “President” has a right to strip citizenship and deport people who challenge his policies. That’s fascism, not America.

LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike

“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

The Republican reconciliation bill is a disaster.

Instead of slashing Medicaid and throwing 16 million people off of the health care they have, why don’t we do what every other wealthy nation does.

GUARANTEE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AS A HUMAN RIGHT.

YouTube video by The Clash The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet

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Day 14. "Red Angel Dragnet," the Clash.

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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. Day 16.

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My doctor listed "giddiness" on the diagnosis summary of my last visit. All right, okay. But I'll miss the more dramatic words that were once used to describe my symptoms. Panic. Vertigo.

Giddiness!

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THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

YouTube video by Janelle Monáe - Topic Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!! (feat. The Skunks)

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Day 13. "Violet Stars Happy Hunting!" Janelle Monáe

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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. Day 15.

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seeing what big business it was at the time, my mom quite sincerely suggested phone sex to supplement my income when I was in my early 20's.

Our mother-daughter dynamic was a bit eccentric.

YouTube video by Felix Stairs Curve - The colour hurts

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Day 12. "The Colour Hurts," Curve.

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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. Day 14. I just desperately need the contrast.

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Food for thought 🍎

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.

The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.

The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.