Peggy A. Wheeler

Good one

Oh crap. War has been his plan all along.

Congratulations 🎊 👏

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...

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‘Underwater city’ reveals mysterious octopus world | BBC Earth Over the last decade, scientists have discovered that octopuses aren’t always lone beasts. In fact, octopuses engage in rich, fascinating and unusual behaviours when they interact with each other.

i just found out there are two OCTOPUS CITIES, BUILT BY OCTOPI off the coast of australia and i’m gonna need a few days to fully process this information

www.bbcearth.com/news/underwa...

Let them eat cake.

Almost done with my 1st draft of my novella, "The Grave Eater." It's been a while since I've written. Surprised, pleased, and grateful that my backlog has sales. My publisher sent a royalty for my 1st novel out a few years ago, "The Raven's Daughter." Someone is still buying my books! I'm chuffed.

Trump is spending $200 million of our tax dollars on a “golden ballroom” in the White House, but we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research.

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Catholic Bishops Are 'Controlled by Satan' During Social Media Meltdown Marjorie Taylor Greene made the controversial post on X just hours after the Vatican announced Pope Francis' passing.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Catholic Bishops Are 'Controlled by Satan' During Social Media Meltdown”

My Catholicism may be lapsed, but MTG’s blatant Anti-Catholic rhetoric is starting to piss me off.

She’s been trash talking Pope Francis, since his death, too.

🧐 MTG is. . . Disgusting.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

YouTube video by Robert McKee Q&A: Mixing and Merging Genres

From Robert McKee, "The Power of Cross-Genre Storytelling." 'Genres, and the values their stories express, can be mixed, merged, or progressed to create something original, but not without first learning what your audience expects.'
youtu.be/-x1PzrCvJjE #writingtips #authorsky #storytelling #writers

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone?

Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.

Are you smarter than a 5th grader

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

And here we are…👇

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?!

Majority of western Europeans think Trump is threat to peace, survey finds Most respondents in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and UK also say Kyiv’s exclusion from peace talks is unacceptable * Europe live – latest updates Large majorities in five western European countries think Donald Trump is a threat to peace and…

Majority of western Europeans think Trump is threat to peace, survey finds

Trump keeps spreading lies about Social Security.

What he isn't telling you is that he's actively trying to dismantle it — firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering regional offices.

Why? To pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.

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The "disrespect "
Starts with the MFERS IN THE WHorEHOUSE

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We are having the exact problem. I'll let you know if I find a decent one.

Democracy is in retreat globally. In the United States, we often believe it can’t happen here — even while it’s happening here. I wrote this @freepress.bsky.social guide on the red flags of authoritarianism so we can spot and fight back. We have power. Let’s use it:

New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.