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💻 Deputy Editor @insiderbusiness 🇦🇷Argentine in Maine 👦🏻👧🏻👧🏻 mom of 3
My kids met this man living on a tiny island in Maine, and asked me to interview him. Turns out he had a great story to tell
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My parents bought an island in Maine. I spend my summers there, away from civilization and without running water.
Scott Kern spends his entire summer living on Sand Island off the coast of Portland, Maine. He has no running water and built a structure with trash.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sand-island-scott-kern-maine-summer-life-2025-9
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Emillio Mesa
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This is my new essay and one of the topics in my book in progress). Special thanks to
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for being such a great editor and
@profsue123.bsky.social
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#immigration
#assimilation
#esl
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I moved between New York and the Dominican Republic as a kid. I was made fun of because of my accent.
I moved between New York City and the Dominican Republic.
https://www.businessinsider.com/im-bilingual-was-made-fun-of-because-accent-growing-up-2025-8?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7BwVCX0VeeWOHU5nAaxEtYRb5AgvjOWquYzVGEwKQHdP2UuZMF_w2KtnfUYA_aem_1Uv1jMbl3dIyW_tjMXx3EQ
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Abigail Gray Swartz
4 months ago
Our pup has a tumor we have to remove so if you’re in the market for any gifts or art commissions - I would love some help with this hefty unexpected vet bill. 🙏❤️
www.GrayDayStudio.com
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For
@businessinsider.com
: We are looking for an international student who was/is on a student visa and attended Harvard to write an essay about their experience for us. Not an op-ed, though. Email me directly:
[email protected]
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Looking for pitches on sleepovers. Seems like it's a hot topic right now and in every parenting group I'm in. I'm open to different and varied perspectives, and we want to explore the subject with personal essays. Email me directly:
[email protected]
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Georgene Smith Goodin
5 months ago
My latest on the kids…
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A pleasure working with
@conz.bsky.social
on this.
#parenting
#immigration
#incarceration
#fostercare
#adoption
#ice
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My 3 adopted daughters' dad is in prison. I take them to visit him and am surprised by how much we've all connected.
I adopted my daughters in 2022 after years of fostering them. Their biological father is in prison and I bring them often so they can connect.
https://www.businessinsider.com/took-my-daughters-to-a-prison-to-visit-their-father-2025-5
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Kimberley Johnson
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I'm looking for pitches on: - Boomer regrets (whether it's about not/having children, retirement, career, etc) - A stranger's actions/words that changed a situation (or even life?) for you - Unconventional living - Retirement (can include not retiring ever) Email me directly:
[email protected]
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Question for parents: Is it worth driving from Miami to the Kennedy Space Center just for a day? My kid is big time obsessed with space, but it'd also be 7 hours of driving.
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gg
6 months ago
this is honest and good...when i got my tubes tied after 3 miscarriages and 2 c sections, i was thrilled to close the factory down but a little sad as well
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
6 months ago
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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Eric Michael Garcia
6 months ago
I am always grateful for
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's writing.
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Business Insider
6 months ago
I have fibroids in my uterus that are causing heavy periods leaving me severely anemic as a result. I'm sad knowing I won't ever be pregnant again.
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I'm getting a hysterectomy. Even though I'm done having kids, I'm struggling emotionally.
I have fibroids in my uterus that are causing heavy periods leaving me severely anemic as a result. I'm sad knowing I won't ever be pregnant again.
https://www.businessinsider.com/i-need-hysterectomy-struggling-emotionally-2025-4?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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I wrote about needing a hysterectomy and how I'm more concerned about my emotional healing than my physical. Knowing I will never be able to get pregnant again is, unexplainably, making me incredibly sad.
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I'm getting a hysterectomy. Even though I'm done having kids, I'm struggling emotionally.
I have fibroids in my uterus that are causing heavy periods leaving me severely anemic as a result. I'm sad knowing I won't ever be pregnant again.
https://www.businessinsider.com/i-need-hysterectomy-struggling-emotionally-2025-4
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Isabel Lara
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Genial escuchar a
@conz.bsky.social
en la radio esta mañana—> How to raise bilingual children at home: real-world tips from speech pathologists
www.npr.org/2025/04/05/n...
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Want to raise bilingual kids? First, let go of a common myth
Speech pathologists offer parents real-world advice on how to incorporate a second language with their kids at home — and demystify a misconception about bilingualism.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/05/nx-s1-5311920/want-to-raise-bilingual-kids-first-let-go-of-a-common-myth
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"Ultimately, name changes are not the quickest or easiest process for someone to do, yet it was so easy for them to make the change when I got married in the first place."
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I changed my last name when I married. I've been divorced for 16 years and am still trying to change it back.
I've been divorced for 16 years but changing my name is expensive and time consuming. I would need to change all my ID's as well.
https://www.businessinsider.com/changed-last-name-marriage-expensive-time-consuming-2025-4
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Business Insider
6 months ago
Is it time to stock up ahead of tariff price increases? We asked Business Insider reporters and editors. Some of us are taking the opportunity to buy.
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We asked BI's newsroom who is spending ahead of tariffs — and who is holding off
Is it time to stock up ahead of tariff price increases? We asked Business Insider reporters and editors. Some of us are taking the opportunity to buy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tariffs-what-to-buy-before-price-increases-2025-4?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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I should've titled this "Oopsie, made an oopsie. A $300 giant bear oopsie"
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I bought an 8-foot-tall teddy bear from Costco. It was $300, and my kids love it.
I wanted to go big for my kids' birthday and bought a giant teddy bear. They have played with it nonstop but it takes up half the playroom.
https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-giant-teddy-bear-worth-it-2025-04
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Frank Olito
6 months ago
Looking for first-person essays from people who landed jobs thanks to their parents. Did you use your parent's connections? Did they apply to jobs for you? Are you embarrassed or have no shame? Stories from the parent's perspective are also welcomed. Pitch to email in bio
#journorequest
#freelancers
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NPR
6 months ago
The Tesla brand is in trouble, according to branding consultant Allen Adamson, who says the car company is facing headwinds due to a lack of innovation and the political activity of CEO Elon Musk.
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Expert says Tesla's best way to rebuild its brand is to ditch Musk
The Tesla brand is in trouble, according to branding consultant Allen Adamson, who says the car company is facing headwinds due to a lack of innovation and the political activity of CEO Elon Musk.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5339818/tesla-brand-elon-musk
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Arbella Odishoo Parrot,PsyD
6 months ago
Thanks to
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for her support with this piece.
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I'm a clinical psychologist and parent of teens. My younger patients gave me perspective on what my kids are going through.
Seeing my patients struggle with similar things as my kids gave me perspective. It also reminded me of how I felt growing up.
https://www.businessinsider.com/psychologist-parenting-teens-reminder-struggles-of-age-2025-3
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Alex Fitzpatrick
6 months ago
Tesla falls after Commerce secretary recommends buying stock
www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t...
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Tesla shares fall after Lutnick goes on TV and recommends stock
His comments are the latest in what has effectively become an administration campaign to defend Musk's company.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick
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"It's really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left," Musk said.
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Elon Musk says he's shocked at the level of Tesla hate and vandalism happening: 'I've never done anything harmful'
Elon Musk said the Tesla vandalism shocked him, adding that neither he nor his company had done "anything harmful."
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-responds-tesla-vandalism-protests-2025-3
6 months ago
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How are you all not spiraling into absolute despair? Need tips.
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Eliot Higgins
7 months ago
This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.
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Andrea Hoag
7 months ago
Can confirm. My day job is insurance. The attacks on teslas will also necessarily make premiums soar in the next quarter.
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There are kids out there who only have Snapchat-filtered photos of their childhood.
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My only parenting regret is using funny filters on most of my daughter's baby photos
Lawayne Dacosta looked at baby photos of her now 8-year-old daughter and realized a lot of them had filters on them. She used them to entertain her.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mom-regrets-only-having-silly-snapchat-filter-photos-baby-2025-3
7 months ago
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Not everyone is selling their Teslas for the reasons you think. It turns out, they are incredibly expensive to insure:
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We're getting rid of our Tesla — and Elon Musk's politics have nothing to do with it
After tons of research we bought a Tesla Model Y. We didn't realize how expensive it'd be to insure it. Now we want to sell it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/we-are-selling-our-tesla-model-y-2025-3
7 months ago
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I love when
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
does her thing the only way she knows how to
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I ordered a $2.74 mouse pad from Temu. I got a pile of goo — exactly what I deserved.
My $2.74 mouse pad from Temu lasted all of two weeks before it oozed gel all over me. I learned my lesson after choosing it over a $14 one on Amazon.
https://www.businessinsider.com/temu-shopping-deal-cheap-mouse-pad-junk-return-2025-3
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Honestly, if more parents were like this we would all probably be happier
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I didn't have the best relationship with my parents growing up. I'm giving my teen the relationship I wanted.
I didn't have the best relationship with my parents when I was a teen. Now I try to say yes to my daughter as much as I can.
https://www.businessinsider.com/making-effort-to-have-good-relationship-with-my-teen-2025-3
7 months ago
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I know it's not ~that~ important given everything else, but as an Argentine I'm here wondering how they are gonna pull off a US-Mexico-Canada 2026 World Cup given how the presidents are getting along.
7 months ago
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The world we live in
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SBF talks from prison about life with Diddy and trading muffins as currency
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is in a Brooklyn prison with Sean "Diddy" Combs, told Tucker Carlson that the rapper has been kind behind bars.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-tucker-carlson-diddy-prison-interview-takeaways-2025-3
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7 months ago
The Pentagon told employees to "pause any response" to the email, saying it would be the authority to conduct staff reviews.
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The Department of Defense is publicly telling staff to ignore the DOGE team's 'what did you do last week' email requests
The Pentagon told employees to "pause any response" to the email, saying it would be the authority to conduct staff reviews.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-what-did-you-do-staff-ignore-pause-reject-response-2025-2?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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Unpopular opinion, but warm weather makes me way more productive than cold weather.
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"I think we're still at the beginning of the outbreak, and we're going to see a lot more illness among unvaccinated kids over the next few months. With that in mind, here's what the community should know."
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I'm a pediatrician working in the middle of Texas's measles outbreak. Here's what I want parents to know.
Lara Johnson is the chief medical officer at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock. Vaccines are 97% effective and can work even after exposure.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pediatrician-working-in-the-middle-of-texass-measles-outbreak-2025-2
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7 months ago
Ron Vachris is Costco's third CEO in its 40-year history. He started out as a forklift driver while at college.
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From forklift driver to CEO: Meet Costco's Ron Vachris
Ron Vachris is Costco's third CEO in its 40-year history. He started out as a forklift driver while at college.
https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-ceo-ron-vachris-career-timeline-earnings?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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Alejandra Caraballo
7 months ago
The official White House account posted this.
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The Washington Post
8 months ago
Pope Francis sharply rebuked President Donald Trump’s policy of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and urged American Catholics not to lean into anti-immigrant sentiment in an open letter to U.S. Catholic bishops Tuesday.
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Pope Francis rebukes Trump over mass deportations, warns policy ‘will end badly’
Francis also appeared to take aim at Vice President JD Vance’s recent use of a medieval Catholic concept to justify the administration’s deportation policy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-pope-mass-deportation/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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I love life in Maine, but the one thing I've struggled with is access to healthcare. Doctors either have yearslong waitlists, never call you back, or, in my case, hardly ever listen to what I'm telling them.
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I moved from New York City to Maine 5 years ago. I miss good healthcare.
While there are a lot of reasons why we love our life in Maine, access to good healthcare has been a problem for the last five years.
https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-family-new-york-maine-miss-good-healthcare-2024-9
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Jason Koebler
8 months ago
ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA:
www.404media.co/national-arc...
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National Archives Workers Unsure If Marco Rubio Has Secretly Been Their Boss for Weeks
The current Archivist of the United States held an all-hands this week in which she still seemed to be in charge, 404 Media has learned.
https://www.404media.co/national-archives-workers-unsure-if-marco-rubio-has-secretly-been-their-boss-for-weeks/
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Has anyone successfully bid for a higher class in Lufthansa? How does it work?
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Still applies.
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How is it still January
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who knew writing for the parenting section
@businessinsider.com
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My mom had me in her 40s, months after her mother died. Now that I'm older, I get why she did it.
My parents had four teenager kids by the time I was born. Now that I'm losing my mom to dementia, I understand why she had me.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sorrow-baby-mom-had-me-forties-after-grandma-died-2024-11?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar
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Punish the Villains
8 months ago
The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over
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I need iron infusions. Each costs $700. I need about three. My insurance covers none. Fuck this system, tbh.
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Frank Olito
8 months ago
For my first Bluesky post, a pitch call-out: After the success of a
#CyberTruck
essay, I'm looking for more
#tesla
Cybertruck owners to write first-person essays. Do you love it? Do you want to sell it? Do you struggle with the attention? Pitch me! Email in bio.
#journorequests
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I drive a Cybertruck, and I'm sick of people flipping me off. I wish they understood how helpful this car is for me.
I drive long distances for my job, so my self-driving Cybertruck helps reduce my exhaustion. But angry people project their hatred of Elon Musk on me.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cybertruck-driver-angry-people-tesla-elon-musk-2025-1
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8 months ago
My life is much healthier now than when I was in a classroom all day. I sometimes miss my colleagues from school but this is a better life choice.
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I left my teaching job after 8 years and became a ski instructor. I get to teach without the anxiety of a classroom.
My life is much healthier now than when I was in a classroom all day. I sometimes miss my colleagues from school but this is a better life choice.
https://www.businessinsider.com/i-quit-teaching-after-8-years-became-a-ski-instructor-2025-1?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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8 months ago
When he was 3 years old my grandson got on a subway train without me or his mother. We had to wait what felt like an eternity to get to the next stop.
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I lost my 3-year-old grandson in the London tube. It was the longest 10 minutes of my life.
When he was 3 years old my grandson got on a subway train without me or his mother. We had to wait what felt like an eternity to get to the next stop.
https://www.businessinsider.com/i-lost-my-toddler-grandson-in-the-london-tube-2025-1?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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