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Love novels, nonfiction & long form journalism; practicing yoga; hiking & swimming outdoors; cooking & enjoying food & wine; travel; movies that aren’t remakes/sequels; listening to music & NPR; tending my plants; badly crafting, trying to do better!

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Trump's USDA says it can’t disburse SNAP benefits on November 1 because of the shutdown.

SNAP is an entitlement program. They could *easily* find the $8 billion.

Meanwhile, they’re sending $40 BILLION to bail out Argentina, screwing American farmers in the process.

It’s bullshit—and they know it.

21.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 678    🔁 343    💬 41    📌 10

How beautiful, what a venue!

22.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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YES!!! Arizona isn’t playing.
Mike Johnson thinks he can hold democracy hostage, but Adelita Grijalva is done waiting for permission to get to work for her constituents.

Also: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

21.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 12107    🔁 3448    💬 289    📌 86

Hi! Can I ask a question. I’m serious. I just got on substack and followed you and I want to subscribe. But can all of these things be read as articles, or do I have to watch videos? I hate listening to three men talk on a video. It’s the worst. Just give me the article?

22.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The shit just continues to get crazier. Why would enlightened beings ever want us to listen to Tucker Carlson, where is the Russian money?

22.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How a Bizarre Healing-TV-Screen Tycoon Is Funding MAGA Media I had to try it out for myself.

According to court records, millions of dollars have come in to Unifyd from sales and promotion of a device called the “Light System," whose supporters claim it can cure nearly every ailment, from tumors to autism. www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-he...

22.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 80    🔁 17    💬 11    📌 4
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It’s always the ones with no lips 😑

22.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

21.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 12819    🔁 5123    💬 783    📌 375

If you understand Trump, you should understand that he has no intention of leaving the White House. He would never build that Ballroom if he was not going to be able to enjoy it.

21.10.2025 11:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A PSA to federal workers in the DMV who are not going to work:

GET OFF THE ROADS. This time is not for you. Stay home. The rest of us still have to go to work. You could at least make it easier for everybody. If you just stay home, you can go out after 9 AM and you need to be off the roads 3-6PM.

21.10.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

13.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 23789    🔁 13934    💬 1587    📌 986

May 9, 1945?
Nobody?
Trump’s ego is as deranged as Little Marco’s bootlicking is spineless

13.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can Marco get that boot any deeper?

13.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump's insistence that Joe Biden was president on January 6 raises new questions about Joe Biden's memory.

13.10.2025 12:10 — 👍 1687    🔁 242    💬 18    📌 7
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Q: "Do Democrats not have reason to be concerned that there are long term plans by this administration to keep the U.S. military or National Guard in American cities?"

Leavitt: "You guys are framing this like the president wants to take over American cities with the military."

06.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 742    🔁 220    💬 204    📌 76

California is the manufacturing capital of America, period.

We create more jobs, produce more goods, and drive more innovation than anywhere else in the country — because what gets built in California shapes the future and powers the U.S. economy.

06.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 9983    🔁 2155    💬 324    📌 75
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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

06.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 14140    🔁 4848    💬 230    📌 218

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

06.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 15584    🔁 2884    💬 222    📌 96

Bari Weiss suuuuuucks. This suuuuuucks.

06.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025

Image of Dr. Jane Goodall with a baby chimpanzee in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park where she studied their behavior for more than 60 years (Photo credit: Hugo Van Lawick / National Geographic)

“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics?”

“Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans” 

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy”

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you” 

“What you do makes a difference … you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”

Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025 Image of Dr. Jane Goodall with a baby chimpanzee in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park where she studied their behavior for more than 60 years (Photo credit: Hugo Van Lawick / National Geographic) “In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics?” “Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans” “The greatest danger to our future is apathy” “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you” “What you do makes a difference … you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make” Dr. Jane Goodall

01.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 50    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

Welcome to Heaven, Dr. Jane Goodall. You made the world a better place.

01.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 18061    🔁 2091    💬 290    📌 95
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

01.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 36170    🔁 12911    💬 1010    📌 677
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KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

01.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 22860    🔁 7000    💬 346    📌 244

He is literally so embarrassing 😩 why Pete Hegseth WHY are you this evil and also, this stupid?
How does he not watch this tape and realize he’s the clown ? 🤡

02.10.2025 04:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll say it again: Pete Hegseth looks like whatever Hoobastank means

30.09.2025 21:06 — 👍 591    🔁 76    💬 21    📌 2

Pete Hegseth lecturing warriors on the warrior ethos …?

Truth is, Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire.

Didn’t.
Earn.
It.

30.09.2025 18:16 — 👍 553    🔁 133    💬 63    📌 9
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Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

30.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 5456    🔁 924    💬 78    📌 81

Look for a headline from a legitimate news source, I haven’t been able to find it.

02.10.2025 03:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump and Hegseth gather the military’s top commanders for a loyalty test No beards, a warrior ethos — and loyalty to the president.

After the meeting, it’s still not entirely clear what the expense and risk involved in bringing so many generals and admirals together was all for. If there was a takeaway message, it was that any commanders who don’t like Hegseth and Trump’s recently rebranded “Department of War” are free to leave.

01.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 46    🔁 13    💬 11    📌 5

Wow, it’s just like the last time Ted Cruz shut down the government because he didn’t want to fund healthcare, only this time he’s a senator.

01.10.2025 12:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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