Melissa Berry
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3rd generation Los Angeleno...went to LBPHS, UCLA, IHC, NYU, MSMU...college instructor...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
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Live Updates: L.A. Quiet as National Guard Troops Begin to Arrive
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/08/us/la-protests-national-guard?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.6lkF.W7JErhB_u3VC&smid=bs-share
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Ryan Conners
11 months ago
I'm keeping myself from starting any new paintings or illustrations because I have things to do in the house, so I found myself reworking my fascists get scratches cat again 😹 He's freed from the circle and madder than ever. Now that's done, I have to go roll up a carpet and clean stuff.
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Ryan Conners
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Good morning ☕ Ok so I know I wasn't going to do any new art but like, my friend posted the cutest photo of her kitties with bread and I had been wanting to draw a breb cat (because my Philip is a bread thief) and then one thing led to another and this happened. (from last night)
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South African President’s Approval Rating Expected to Soar After Trump Acts Like a Dick
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South African President’s Approval Rating Expected to Soar After Trump Acts Like a Dick
His approval rating could double thanks to Trump’s tantrum, experts believe.
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/south-african-presidents-approval?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
11 months ago
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Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
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Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
Even from across the globe, it's evident that the “big, beautiful” bill is hideous
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/words-and-phrases-we-can-do-without-976?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Facebook
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Amy Siskind
11 months ago
I took some time to write out Trump's Top 10 losses as he limps through his first 100 days. Enjoy!
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Trump Has Another Awful Week
The top 10 losses as Trump hobbles through 100 days
https://open.substack.com/pub/theweeklylistreturns/p/trump-has-another-awful-week
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Rachel Maddow
12 months ago
Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security. Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.
www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
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Attention Arizona: Report Social Security Disruptions
Attorney General Kris Mayes continues to hold the federal government accountable for the illegal and unconstitutional actions by President Trump and Elon Musk, including reversing devastating federal ...
https://www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
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Bren
about 1 year ago
🚨. This Isn't a Drill! We have a real opportunity to FLIP a U.S. House Seat in
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... But only if we show up! Gay Valimont is in the ring. Now she needs us in her corner. Let's throw some punches by phonebanking - for our future! 👊 📞 SIGN-UP HERE! ⬇️
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Operation Panhandle Dialer
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Fighting for Democracy Everyday
about 1 year ago
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With Musk announcing his “departure” from “DOGE” next month & as we get further into what is happening to our country - reposting so we can be prepared for whatever they throw at us next. Time for some deep thinking and planning.
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The Dangerous Alliance of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Curtis Yarvin
The Billionaire Boys’ Club That Wants to Kill Democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/calirock/p/the-dangerous-alliance-of-elon-musk-ebf?r=aglcm
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How to beat back Trump’s divide & conquer strategy
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How to beat back Trump’s divide & conquer strategy
We must address the collective action problem
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/how-to-beat-back-trumps-divide-and?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 year ago
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Will Stimulating My Brain as I Age Keep It Sharp? If you're reading this, you're on your way.
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Will Stimulating My Brain as I Age Keep It Sharp?
Puzzles, word games, reading, needlepoint — here’s what experts say about what may help.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/well/mind/brain-games-cognitive-decline-memory.html?smid=bs-share
about 1 year ago
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Kara Swisher
about 1 year ago
Tracy Flick be lying
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How autocracies take over the news media Don't need Bezos and his WAPO to continue to follow Ann Telnaes!
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How autocracies take over the news media
Trump goes from complaining to controlling
https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/how-autocracies-take-over-the-news?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 year ago
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March 24, 2025
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March 24, 2025
Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-24-2025?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 1 year ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 year ago
"Nobody was texting war plans" -- Pete Hegseth
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What Now?
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What Now?
Forget Schumer. Fight on.
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/what-now?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 year ago
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DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find BUSTED!!!
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DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html?smid=bs-share
about 1 year ago
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NPR
about 1 year ago
JUST IN: While Trump's executive order takes aim at Perkins Coie, the judge said it "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession."
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Judge blocks Trump from enforcing 'chilling' order against law firm
While Trump's executive order takes aim at Perkins Coie, the judge said it "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession."
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g-s1-53422/judge-blocks-trump-law-firm
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Robert Reich
about 1 year ago
I salute the public servants who are resisting the Trump-Musk coup and putting themselves and in some cases the well-being of their families on the line. Join us tomorrow at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT to hear how we can fight back. Register: bit.ly/march13RSVP
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The scope of Presidential power obviously requires a colonoscopy.
about 1 year ago
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There's a name for this. Nope. Again, Musk "signaled" - let's create yet another distraction while ripping the freedoms and safeguards from the country.
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Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political Operation (Gift Article)
Elon Musk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own super PAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on President Trump in the past, but to an outside entity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.fUfz.9ijm4G4T9UcK&smid=bs-share
about 1 year ago
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. OR...GET RID OF EXPLOSIVE, PENT UP FRUSTRATION AND ANGER...GRRRR..."TAKE THAT, AND THAT, AND THAT!!!
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These Explosive Exercises Can Help You Age Well (Gift Article)
Plyometrics are an effective way to improve power, balance and coordination. Here’s where to start.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/well/move/plyometrics-exercises.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.99k3._asSJ57Saqol&smid=bs-share
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Ukraine Targets Moscow With Large-Scale Drone Attack Russian officials said Ukraine attacked Moscow before dawn on Tuesday with its largest long-range drone bombardment of the war, as both sides stepped up attacks ahead of talks intended to find a way to end three years of fighting.
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Ukraine Targets Moscow With Large-Scale Drone Attack
The assault, which the mayor called the largest on Russia’s capital since the war began, was a reminder of Ukraine’s power to strike as its president proposes an air truce.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html?smid=bs-share
about 1 year ago
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The grift continues
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The grift continues
Trump is making money off the presidency...again
https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/the-grift-continues?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 year ago
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🌺Flower power by Women Artists. 🌼 Do you think you can recognize the artists by their flower compositions? 💭
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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NPR
about 1 year ago
Conservation biologists are using dogs' super-powered sense of smell to help their research – on land and at sea.
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How a dog's nose became a powerful tool for science and conservation : Short Wave
On their second job ever, Collette Yee and her partner were assigned a difficult job: locate transient whale poop in the ocean before it sinks. Luckily, Collette was partnered with Jack, a blue healer...
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1235939375/dogs-science-smell-poop-whales-conservation
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Jerry of the day Having been a downhill skier for over 40 years (accident 1998...) Steve Schmidt's piece here about Appalachia Boy skiing in Vermont made me laugh really hard! (And, WE ALL need some laughs...)
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Jerry of the day
PLUS: Join Sasha Ingber and me for "The Wednesday Warning" at 8 pm ET TONIGHT
https://open.substack.com/pub/steveschmidt/p/jerry-of-the-day?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 year ago
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Matthew Champion
about 1 year ago
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero" now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/
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Passing the Bar Exam doesn't make you smart. (Try teaching college freshmen...)
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Washington Press
Washington Press. 1,444,797 likes · 238,013 talking about this. Washington Press is a political news website dedicated to providing our readers the most accurate breaking political news of the day.
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about 1 year ago
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"Buh-bye" mass post card mailing to WH on March 15th (SEE BELOW)
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Postcards for Trump
Please spread Lyn’s idea Lyn Kirshenbaum 1h · On March 15th, many people will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of t...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/3/2307601/-Postcards-for-Trump
about 1 year ago
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JoJoFromJerz
about 1 year ago
“I’m gonna berate and bully the leader of a warn-torn democratic ally for all the world to see because my daddy Vladdy told me to, but first let me put on these fifty-three layers of cake makeup so all the drag queen hating MAGA Incels who jerk off to my face know I’m a manly man.” - this fucker
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It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations-trump/681880/?gift=T5lxVp4Co_TuDMJq9XHfAttrvT7_TrSuPGJ2sreYeBY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 1 year ago
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Robert Reich
about 1 year ago
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Today's disgusting scene
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/todays-disgusting-scene
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Today's disgusting scene
Friends,
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/todays-disgusting-scene?r=2098vk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 year ago
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙💛
#SlavaUkraini
#cats
#kilkennycatart
about 1 year ago
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Robert Reich
about 1 year ago
We are the leaders that we have been waiting for.
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It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations-trump/681880/?gift=T5lxVp4Co_TuDMJq9XHfAp3cXNFUBjJ_aXwF1VfB-Xc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 1 year ago
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Sphincterprez and Appalacian Lap Dog Ambush Zelensky with audience in attendance to watch them at th bullying best/worst.
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'Doing Putin's Dirty Work': Trump Slammed After Clash With Zelenskyy In Oval Office
"What an utter embarrassment for America. This whole sad scene," one Democratic senator lamented.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-vance_n_67c1fddbe4b04a93b34bcfd0
about 1 year ago
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VidaArtist
about 1 year ago
A
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#iceberg
#climatechange
#photography
#photocollage
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Sphincterprez and Appalacian Lap Dog Ambush Zelensky with audience in attendance to watch them at th bullying best/worst.
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'Doing Putin's Dirty Work': Trump Slammed After Clash With Zelenskyy In Oval Office
"What an utter embarrassment for America. This whole sad scene," one Democratic senator lamented.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-vance_n_67c1fddbe4b04a93b34bcfd0
about 1 year ago
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Amanda Marcotte
about 1 year ago
Being in the room with a man who is actually strong and brave — which MAGA only pretends to be — reveals Trump and Vance for the babies they are.
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Joyce White Vance
about 1 year ago
We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.
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Sphincterprez and Appalachian Juvenile Deliquent Vance are TERRIBLE BULLIES! Just watched them on TV.
about 1 year ago
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John Coleman
over 1 year ago
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February 28th...no Facebook to post things for friends? No problem...Bluesky works just fine!
about 1 year ago
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