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Bad at writing my own bio,
#PostcardsToVoters
writer, East Lansing, Michigan
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
about 16 hours ago
…I'm so goddam tired. Ppl are increasingly in their city halls about "AI" data centers making their water & power bills & air quality worse, & literally all Dems would have to do sew up up that bloc is *Vibe With That Energy.* It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!
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I'm still early in
@andrewhickey.500songs.com
's series, and Episode 39 is one of my favorites so far. It covers James Brown's early days and "Please, Please, Please"
500songs.com/podcast/epis...
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Episode 39: “Please Please Please” by James Brown and the Famous Flames
Episode thirty-nine of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Please Please Please” by James Brown, and at the early rock and roll career of the Godfather of Soul. …
https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-39-please-please-please-by-james-brown-and-the-famous-flames/
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David Kaye
about 18 hours ago
don't just kvetch; comment. CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to
[email protected]
- and post them if you do. you have until early february.
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA)
The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review an...
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/10/2025-22461/agency-information-collection-activities-revision-arrival-and-departure-record-form-i-94-and
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Regina Schrambling
about 19 hours ago
FTW
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WXPN
about 19 hours ago
Here's everything you need on the
#XPNCountdown
at the countdown homebase. The final numbers, the stats, links to the archives and articles.
xpn.org/885-countdown/
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885 Countdown - WXPN | Vinyl At Heart
The 885 Greatest Cover Songs Countdown has wrapped. But this page is still your hub for the 2025 countdown. Scroll down to explore the full archive, every song from 885 to No. 1, plus stats on the mos...
https://xpn.org/885-countdown/
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
2 days ago
“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel
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Will McKinley
1 day ago
Hey you guys it's Rita Moreno's birthday! w/ Morgan Freeman on THE ELECTRIC COMPANY.
#RitaMoreno
#BOTD
#PBS
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Michigan Jill
1 day ago
✊🏼Join concerned citizens from around Michigan,Tuesday, 12/16 in Lansing to protest the onslaught of secretive large-scale data center projects across our state and to stand by Saline residents as MPSC/EGLE makes their project decisions on 12/18. Let's show support for every community in this fight!
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Some nerdy stuff from NHK World's Bizstream show: how analog gauges are can be digitized at low cost, how a cell phone app can simplify land surveying. The segment starts at 14:30
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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Making Measurement Easy - BIZ STREAM | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
[On-Site Report: Making Measurement Easy] This episode features services that are using image recognition technology to make a positive impact on our daily lives. *Subtitles and transcripts are avail...
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2074237/
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A mega-thread about how Republican sabotage of the ACA will cause major premium increases
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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️
1 day ago
LANSING, MICHIGAN
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This is my home state.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
2 days ago
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John Pfaff
2 days ago
In keeping w “Kavanaugh Stops,” let’s call these Kennedy Pox.
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old fruit pictures
2 days ago
coe cherries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1915
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Carl Quintanilla
2 days ago
Page One in Europe:
@theguardian.com
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Some good TV news from PBS: Miss Scarlet season 6! Passport members can stream now, all can watch or stream in January.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterp...
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Miss Scarlet
Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars in a series about the first-ever female detective in Victorian London. Watch full episodes online.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/miss-scarlet-and-the-duke/
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Detroit Metro Times
3 days ago
Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has “turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk,” the Michigan Congresswoman says.
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Rep. Stevens moves to impeach RFK Jr. for ‘putting lives at risk,’ spreading conspiracies - Detroit Metro Times
turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk.
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/politics-elections/rep-stevens-moves-to-impeach-rfk-jr-for-putting-lives-at-risk-spreading-conspiracies/
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SBN Detroit
3 days ago
What if solar power could power your career? Photo from the Solar Intelligence Training Academy courtesy of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network.
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Solar training in Detroit seeks to create 'energy leaders' in Detroit. Progress will be slower because "federal efforts to fund massive renewable energy projects, such as the $7 billion Solar for All program, have been terminated by the Trump administration"
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Countless more tragedies to be caused by Trump/Musk/GOP/Supreme-Court-6. "[T]he program treated 1.7 billion people and eliminated at least one NTD [neglected tropical disease] in 14 different countries"
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The fight to beat neglected tropical diseases was going well. 2025 could change that
The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/12/10/g-s1-101411/neglected-tropical-diseases-usaid-cuts
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Leslie Molson
3 days ago
Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich, illustration on vintage sheet music
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Anna O. Law
3 days ago
I work in a business where smart people are literally a dime and dozen. Maybe distinguish yourself by your kindness and generosity? Just a thought.
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"What makes this episode especially disturbing is that the U.S. government appears to be using its power to support the broligarchy’s fight against European regulation."
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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
4 days ago
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Conor Sen
4 days ago
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
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lacey
4 days ago
i’m taking more portrait commissions this month! i cannot guarantee delivery by the holidays but if you’d like one, check out the thread below ✨
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And "The U.S. is kneecapping the next generation of cancer researchers", instead building a police state
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emptywheel
4 days ago
One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
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Dean Baker
6 days ago
I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
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David Dayen
5 days ago
Anyone with info about foster care 👇
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WXPN
5 days ago
Good morning. We’re back with the
#xpncountdown
. It’s day five and we pick it up with song #510, Roxy Music covering Neil Young’s “Like A Hurricane.”
youtu.be/CbsTMkttmWM?...
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Bryan Ferry/ Roxy Music - - - " Like A Hurricane "
YouTube video by buzz834
https://youtu.be/CbsTMkttmWM?si=sMftep9zbuRgwINZ
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Jack Jenkins
5 days ago
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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Dean Baker
7 days ago
This is fascinating
www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/com...
If stores typically charge more at the checkout than their shelf prices, it would not be picked up in inflation measures. Wrote about this with Dollar stores
cepr.net/publications...
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Dollar Stores: Where Trumpian Sleaze Meets Affordability
Widespread mispricing at Dollar stores may hide real inflation, frustrate shoppers, and show how weak consumer protection enables corporate cheating.
https://cepr.net/publications/dollar-stores-where-trumpian-sleaze-meets-affordability/
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Lindsey Cormack
8 days ago
AOC just put out a very cogent way to think about what it might mean if we stop federally recommending the Hepatitis B vaccination at birth:
www.dcinbox.com/email/?id=26...
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Protecting Access to Critical Vaccines
https://www.dcinbox.com/email/?id=263215
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Ken T
8 days ago
That was a beauty! Highly recommend the movie "Summer of Soul" for a great live performance of this song and others
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I was listening to U2's Joshua Tree this week and thought maybe it's time for a new recording of "Mothers of the Disappeared", with proceeds going to immigrant-protection groups
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDy...
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Mothers Of The Disappeared (Remastered 2007)
YouTube video by U2 - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDy8nbw-vk&list=RDFsDy8nbw-vk&start_radio=1
8 days ago
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James Fallows
8 days ago
2/2 Sen Bill Cassidy, a liver-disease MD, complains about this ruling, as I am doing. Here's the difference: He, personally, could have prevented all the resulting casualties, by casting the swing vote against RFK Jr. That's a power the other 330+ million of us lacked. Don't let him forget it.
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The "Hiroshige Code" from NHK World explores strong and subtle messages in Utagawa Hiroshige's "100 Famous Views of Edo"
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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History Uncovered: The Hiroshige Code - Time and Tide | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Influential ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige's
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/3022073/
8 days ago
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Canary Media Inc.
8 days ago
If you had to guess which country gets the largest share of its electricity from solar, you might picky a balmy island or a country with swaths of desert. Here’s who actually topped the list:
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Chart: Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption
The small European country unseated a longtime champion in a ranking of nations by how much of their electricity comes from solar.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/top-countries-share-renewables-ember
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Brandon D. Wilson
8 days ago
Richard Wayne Penniman was born on this day in 1932.
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Little Richard - Tutti Frutti (1956)
YouTube video by the rockabillie
https://youtu.be/Cj059o9OwqY?si=atcPT00_RU-k-x9t
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Andrew Hickey
8 days ago
You know, I think if I owned the rights to a century's worth of the most acclaimed films ever like The Wizard of Oz and 2001, plus all the most popular characters in cartoon history, plus Superman and Batman, plus tons of other stuff, I could probably make enough money I wouldn't need to sell it.
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Representative Jim McGovern
9 days ago
The GOP economic platform: Struggling to pay for food? Relax. Can’t make next month’s rent? Relax. Going without health insurance because it’s too expensive? Relax. Don't worry, Republicans have the solution to your economic problems: just relax!
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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️
8 days ago
Coming today…stay tuned.
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The American Prospect
8 days ago
USAID funding to combat tuberculosis in India helped to save 3.65 million lives last year. Funding cuts spell death for many TB patients, and has left health workers unable to do their jobs. From Shoab Mir and Parthu Venkatesh P:
trib.al/4FNvqGa
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Losing India’s Guardian Angels - The American Prospect
USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money and support is gone.
https://trib.al/4FNvqGa
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Drummer Brandon Sanders' Lasting Impressions (2025) was featured on the Naxos
#Jazz
home page, so I gave it a try. A good decision: I've been listening to it every day this week, and especially enjoy tracks 1, 2, and 7
brandonsandersmusic.com/music
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Music — Brandon Sanders Music
https://brandonsandersmusic.com/music
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maura quint
9 days ago
For everyone who contributed to my cover songs playlist -- WXPN kicked off their listener generated 885 greatest cover songs playlist this morning. You can listen and follow along here:
xpn.org/wxpn-playlis...
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SBN Detroit
9 days ago
This past spring, the City of Rochester took a big step in a small space: planting a micro forest – a densely packed grove of native trees and shrubs grown in an area as small as 1,000 square feet. Photo credit: Amanda LeClaire, WDET News
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Dave DiCello
10 days ago
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in
#Pittsburgh
, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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David Waldman
10 days ago
Be sure to shout, “I love crypto!” during your crimes, kids!
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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai
10 days ago
Saline residents mobilize against planned $7 billion data center
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Saline residents mobilize against planned $7 billion data center
Residents in Saline Township are hoping to create a “critical mass” of concerned citizens at a virtual public hearing Wednesday night over a proposed $7 billion data center backed by tech giants OpenAI and Oracle. The Michigan Public Service Commission...
https://wdet.org/2025/12/02/saline-residents-mobilize-against-planned-7-billion-data-center/
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Dana Nessel
10 days ago
Rushing a project of this scale without full transparency is unacceptable. If the MPSC allows DTE to fast track the Saline project, every future data center will expect the same treatment.
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