Bearded Reader - Adam

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I am a fan of books, reading, and learning. I read a little bit of everything: Nonfiction, literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, YA, etc. https://linktr.ee/beardedreader

Haley Stevens’s supporters are finding out who gets her loyalty. We defend these people at family dinners while wealthy interests pay for the ads. Outside spending benefiting her primary: $30.6M: AIPAC’s super PAC. $17.3M: A Stronger Michigan, funded by corporate-backed Center Forward.

I spend a lot of my life avoiding being vulnerable with people. Posting this is hard for me. These are my parents, and this is their story. If you want to understand me, please read it. I’d appreciate your help sharing it. protectourcare.substack.com/p/we-are-peo...

“We are people too.”

As the Trump administration continues its war on our health care, Michigan resident and full-time caregiver Cynthia Burton shares her message for Congressional Republicans.

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What Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult captures so quietly is the calculus of empathy; the everyday choices that determine who gets our sympathy and who doesn’t. It’s banned for the surface themes, but the real challenge is in the subtext most people never sit with long enough to notice.