Randy Susan Meyers
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Brooklyn-Boston writer: gained most insight while bartending. Requires books & bagels. THE MANY MOTHERS OF IVY PUDDINGSTONE: novel #6
Giving gratitude to those keeping me hopeful this fourth: Mary Kay Andrews, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Rep. Sarah McBride, and the Levys of Schitt's Creek.
Four Things I'm Happy About This Fourth
Gonna keep it short & happy—I’ve declared this holiday a time to take a brief breath from my self-appointed role as worrier-in-chief.
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Alabama farmers are losing skilled migrant workers as Trump’s crackdown targets even legal migrants with no criminal history. Americans can’t match their skill or stamina. Now, crops rot in fields - meaning less food in stores and higher prices for everyone.
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Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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Senate Democrats Did Something Important For Democracy And The Mainstream Media Ignored It www.politicususa.com/p/senate-dem...
Senate Democrats Did Something Important For Democracy And The Mainstream Media Ignored It
Watch now (12 mins) | Senate Democrats held a press conference announcing the reintroduction of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) gave important remarks and the...
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How Many Sanitized Headlines Before We Wake Up in Weimar?
How Many Sanitized Headlines Before We Wake Up in Weimar?
Trump threatens. The press sanitizes. Journalism—or unwitting complicity?
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After suggesting naming the Kennedy Center for 47's wife, his admirers came up with the perfect to-be-built multi-purpose Opera Wing.
And what does the National Park Service plan to do with the Women’s Rights National Park in Seneca Falls? Shall they rename it the White Men’s History Only Park?
In Nazi Germany it was illegal for Anne Frank to hide and resist arrest.
In Nazi Germany it was illegal for Anne Frank to hide and resist arrest.
And the Nazi stormtroopers hunting Jews were "just enforcing the law."
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Drowning in the News? The Trump administration is funneling a beaker of poison into my eyes, my mouth, and my heart. That’s how life feels these days. Each morning brings fresh evidence of policies designed not to govern, but to harm—the most vulnerable first, and the rest of us by degrees.
Are You Drowning in the News?
We Gotta Rescue Ourselves & The Nation
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Imagine if your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, who built this country, had been greeted thusly. Oh, and FEMA funds are being used by Kristi Noem to fund this American concentration camp.
“ICE” better catch a clue before they attack folks and then lie to a judge about being attacked. We are watching and recording them, as is our right. We’re not just relying on surveillance video.
When the eagle soars with grace, the whole sky learns to fly. And we can have one happy, smiling officer of the peace.
One (Calm, Friendly) Boston Policeman
Who had nothing to do but smile and watch
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my main takeaway after spending the afternoon at the national history day competition is that the kids are pretty alright. also, that reactionaries are right to fear the consequences of kids learning the truth.
We can't afford cancer care for veterans, school lunches for kids or Meals on Wheels for seniors because Trump is spending: • $1 billion to retrofit a hand-me-down Qatari plane • $330,000,000 to play golf • $100,000,000 to build a new ballroom • $92,000,000 for a birthday parade But DOGE
Larry Tenney@larrytenney.bsky.social · last yr.Trump trying to distract America with plans for a new $100,000,000 White House BALLROOM While he STRIPS AWAY health care, food assistance, veterans benefits, Meals on Wheels and basic human rights from MILLIONS OF AMERICANS And saddles US with another $2,400,000,000 worth of debt
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Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
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Announcing: I Am a Jew in the Middle. "Since Oct 7, I've struggled to formulate my feelings and responses as a Jew in America and in the world. I have felt mute, unheard, and drowned out...But recently, I’ve come to understand that I am a Jew in the Middle."
Announcing: I Am a Jew in the Middle.
A Guest Post By Jessica Keener
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Ah, shadenfreude, nice to see you, my friend.
Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-de...
Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors
LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
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Donald Trump just approved the largest meat company in the world to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange—completely ignoring its history of corruption and bribery. Why? Maybe because they donated $5M to his inauguration. I'm pressing for answers.
Donald Trump just approved the largest meat company in the world to be listed on the NYSE.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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I long for never seeing that little pumping fist and wormy mouth again.
Remember when we had someone who knew that caring, goodness, joy, love, and diversity = the heart of a thriving country?
A reminder of why we will march on June 14th for 'No Kings Day. I sure don't want loyalty tests for federal jobs, which, as reported in today's The Boston Globe) include 'nursing assistants, park rangers, and firefighters...
Three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant, arguing that it violates the right to personal autonomy and equal protection under the state constitution.
Women sue Kansas over law that disregards end-of-life wishes during pregnancy
Three women and two physicians in Kansas are suing the state over its law that invalidates the advance directives of pregnant patients.
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