Caera Thornton
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Carolina Texpat making good trouble. I don’t evangelize; I shenanigize. Might be an author again someday. Still a musician, though. 😇
Banned Books Week Day Seven: Today’s book is “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy, banned across thr U.S. for violent and sexual content. And here I thought it would be because McCarthy doesn’t use proper punctuation. This book was left in Little Free Library Charter No. 66514.
Banned Books Week 6: “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, banned repeatedly across the nation for its depictions of race and sexuality. This book was left in Little Free Library Charter No. 153790. #BannedBooks #ReadFreely #LittleFreeLibrary #Books #BookSky #VigilanteLibrarianism
Imagine claiming to follow Jesus who was publicly executed and then glorifying public executions by wanting to live stream them.
Banned Books Week 5: “How to be Ace” by Rebecca Burgess, banned by by school admins in Missouri out of fear that it might violate SB 775, which established criminal penalties for providing “explicit sexual material” to students. Apparently none of those admins know what “asexual” means.
Banned Books Week 4: “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Banned for daring to challenge religious authority and describing a hedonistic society with no “traditional family values.” It is also criticized for insensitivity toward indigenous people (said criticism is justified but banning isn’t).
Many of the most frequently banned books share stories of young girls enduring sexual trauma. At a time in which women still struggle to come forward and achieve justice in the face of violence, these stories couldn’t be more important. Meredith writes in honor of Banned Book Week:
What It Feels Like to Have the Most Banned Book in the Country
Author Patricia McCormick is “really quite mystified” that “Sold,” her novel about child sex trafficking, is the most ba
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Data centers have become a stand-in for bigger fights: affordability, corporate power, soaring energy costs, and a Republican Party that won't cross Trump even when their constituents are paying the price.
Data Center Backlash Is MAGA’s Comeuppance
🚨 27 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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There’s a term for Trump’s bullying, often racist sneers and attacks, accompanied by indirect (always indirect) calls to violence: stochastic terrorism, defined as hostile rhetoric that raises the statistical risk of ideological violence. Here’s how it works:
Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’
No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.
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Doctors and medical professionals have pushed for the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services to pay more attention to menopause for more than a decade. Now, they're listening. WATCH: www.contrariannews.org/p/congresss-...
Congress’s Sudden Interest in Menopause Is Decades Late to the Discussion
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf’s new book explores the years of demand for robust women’s health policy and advocacy.
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Instead, their billions come from appreciated assets, like shares of corporate stock, which don’t get taxed until they’re sold. Eyes are on California's superrich:
Why a Wealth Tax Is Fracturing the Golden State
How a proposal to tax California’s superrich is dividing the working class from the billionaires — and Democratic leaders from the party’s base.
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"Hegseth can tell us how much we have destroyed. He can tell us how lethal our military has become. He can tell us how Iran’s conventional forces have been battered. But he cannot answer the most important question: Why are we still at war?"
‘Peace Through Strength?’ I Have Heard This Before
By John F. Terzano
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Dennis Hastert, Jim Bakker…hey Grim Reaper I’m pretty sure it’s reap two get the third fugly ols predator free this week.
Yet the legacy media continue to use language to describe his “speeches” as ordinary political addresses and “interviews” as within the realm of normal presidential interactions with the press. More here:
Words & Phrases: A Crazy Rant Isn’t a ‘Speech’ or an ‘Interview’
🚨 28 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and Contrarian contributor Jennifer Weiss-Wolf on what’s at stake for women’s health ahead of the midterms and beyond @jweisswolf.bsky.social
‘Tell Me More’: Margaret Atwood, Menopause, the Midterms — and Me
What I said (or wish I had) to a legendary woman about my new book, ‘When in Menopause.’
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Today, she's back to break down her organization's new project — The Propaganda Playbook — a guide to identifying and fighting back against the Trump administration's disinformation.
The Propaganda Playbook | Onyx Impact
A practical guide to identifying, verifying, and responding to political propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation in the digital age.
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Onyx Impact CEO @esosaosa.bsky.social is BACK on The Tea with April Ryan today at 5:30PM ET on Substack! She joined April earlier this year to highlight the groundbreaking launch of Aisha, a brand new AI digital assistant built specifically for Black communities 🧵
She Built “The Black ChatGPT.” Here’s Why.
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Ahead of the release of the report, the Contrarian spoke with one of the authors, Sarah Mehta, a human rights lawyer at the ACLU. She explained to us what third-country deportations are, and how Trump’s immigration policy is designed to create fear. Watch the conversation:
Trump’s Terror Campaign Deports Vulnerable Immigrants to Dangerous Third-Countries
Lower courts and legal activists fight back against Trump’s vicious mass deportation agenda
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The report calls on members of congress to restore and defend transformative immigration reform - to protect, not only our neighbors, but the bedrock of our democracy.
76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy | American Civil Liberties Union
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October 5, 2026 Last night, on October 4, U.S. Southern Command posted that it had struck another small boat in the Caribbean, killing another four people it called “narco-terrorists.” This brings the number of strikes to more than 70, and the number of people killed in the strikes….
October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Banned Books Week 3: “Red: A Crayon’s Story” by Michael Hall. Banned in various districts across the U.S. including Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools (Charlotte WTF) because they consider it to be about gender nonconformity. This book was left in a little free library by Whipporwill Park in Durham.
From accelerating Epstein file disclosures to reinstating illegally fired U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff, DDF & DDA scored 5 major court wins this week A microcosm of how we're holding this administration accountable Full list in my weekly column @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN
We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges
Publisher’s Roundup 87
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One of the big cases on the Court’s docket is a challenge to a state law banning AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles. As the states and advocacy organizations defending these laws have noted, AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are often the weapon of choice for mass shooters. More here:
Next on the Docket: Dismantling Democracy
The Supreme Court is enabling Trump’s corruption while also doing the kind of institutional damage that will long outlast him.
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"The regime’s utter contempt for voters’ economic woes (Vice President JD Vance lectures them to stop worrying about “little things”) leads Trump and his flunkies to make ever-more cringeworthy comments that, if anything, will only infuriate voters."
Please, Mr. President, Campaign For My Republican Opponent!
🚨 29 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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"The accusations that Democratic Christians are heretics or “pastors in name only” (as Lindsay James was called), Djupe argues, are the “rearguard battle just for exclusive control of the Christian environment.”"
Are Democrats Gettin’ Religion?
Democratic candidates are bringing up faith and religion more often on the campaign trail in 2026.
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“Foreign policy is no longer something voters experience only through headlines; they now see it in their daily lives.” Maher Bitar shares what the latest polls reveal about how foreign policy is playing a role in elections this fall.
For Midterm Voters, Foreign Policy Isn’t Feeling so Foreign
Trump’s disastrous choices on the world stage are hitting close to home for many. Candidates, take note.
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