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Reader, resistor, nature lover, hiker, kayaker,art lover, traveler. Tell me what you're reading now.

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Bill Ackman, hedge fund billionaire and key Trump ally, slams tariffs The Wall Street mogul warned of “economic nuclear winter” as the threat of an all-out trade war triggers a global market meltdown.

The United States is “heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down,” Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire who endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, wrote on the social media site X on Sunday.

07.04.2025 19:26 — 👍 583    🔁 164    💬 128    📌 23
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Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."

06.04.2025 15:53 — 👍 33466    🔁 6628    💬 601    📌 304

If only they would

07.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 848    🔁 165    💬 21    📌 3
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Hours in Line, Cut-Off Calls: Accessing Social Security in the Era of DOGE Advocates say cutbacks hurt the agency’s already depleted field offices: “It’s like a house of cards.”

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are cutting Social Security staff, closing offices, and shutting off vital phone services.

One field office worker called it a "house of cards that's about to collapse."

This attack is hurting Americans everywhere. We will keep fighting back.

07.04.2025 21:26 — 👍 1615    🔁 359    💬 81    📌 20

Disgraceful

06.04.2025 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.

Third time’s the charm, I guess.

03.04.2025 19:00 — 👍 44454    🔁 10109    💬 1480    📌 478

The Great Lakes Compact has been a shockingly good system of protecting our greatest fresh water resource. I totally think breaking it to sell/siphon off water is part of this administration's agenda.

03.04.2025 23:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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The US and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending. Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth

Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.

03.04.2025 12:15 — 👍 319    🔁 120    💬 9    📌 5
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I am hoping I am getting this pedestrian stuff right.

28.03.2025 00:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We started a podcast! We now have 5 episodes—the most rent two are focused on women’s history and resistance. You can find it wherever you listen to pods or follow the link.

honestdogbooks.com/dog-pod

28.03.2025 00:09 — 👍 61    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1

We need real journalists now more than ever.

26.03.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

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D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’ Trump appointee Ed Martin made the claim in a letter to the Georgetown University law school dean. Martin has called the school a “locus” of anti-Trump activity.

D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

And the punches keep coming

06.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is so distressing

05.03.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have used em dashes since AI was science fiction....

09.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can order it!

07.02.2025 02:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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