Cindy Livingston

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Agnostic, pro-horse, pro-dog, anti-cow pucky, leery of "cowboys", luv rocks - geological kind.

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The fact they played a video of a guy making monkey sounds at Black people at the fucking convention to hype up the crowd not being front page news across the nation is proof not one of those publications deserves to exist

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If you think Harris isn't articulate and Trump is it just means you think articulate means white

🧐 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and want Trump as dictator.

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"Vance is not a hillbilly, but a grifter of the hillbilly trope." A great piece by my historian friend and former colleague Dr. Tina Irvine on the long history of throwing Appalachia under the bus for political gain. time.com/6999981/j-d-...

J.D. Vance's Distorted Vision of Appalachia Is Nothing Newtime.com Vance comes on the heels of a long 19th and 20th century tradition.

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I spent a good chunk of today at an early voting site, campaigning for a state house candidate. Voters aren't talking about Biden/his age; they want to know who's running for common sense gun reform, restoring abortion rights, & protecting our public schools. Those arguing re Biden are out of touch.

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“That Fascism serves the ends of Big Business is seen in the attitude of Big Business men towards it.”

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IDK who the first person to express this sentiment was, but: "When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small."

What are people doing w/neighbors & friends to create & nurture networks of collective care & mutual aid? What small but significant (or super size me and spectacular, and everything in between) actions & practices are people talking about, preparing for, or taking?

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which was part of the point all along (the other point is school segregation)

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Republican president was shot by a Republican because of an environment of normalized violence that Republicans insist we all live in, and somehow this means that both sides need to tone it all the way down, which in practice means that Democrats and only Democratic need to stop talking entirely.

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Just a thought: How about we stop treating Trump like a former President and instead treat him as the enormous threat to our national security and democracy that he truly is? — And most importantly, under no damn circumstances should we “soften our tone” toward this traitor!

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Look, I’ve made it a practice to not care about individuals pirating my books, and to make my books available DRM free everywhere possible, for a lot of reasons, including my not actually caring and also not having any executive function.

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Project 2025 calls for defunding the FBI. (Note that Heritage called the FBI to start an investigation of the hacking incident the other day. Yes they called the agency they plan to shutter if Trump wins 🤷🏼‍♂️)

from now until Election Day, we connect every story back to Project 2025 Eg: The FBI is currently investigating the Trump shooter. But did you know that Project 2025 will place the FBI under Trump’s direct control, so he can decide which acts of political violence get investigated, and which don’t?

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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Took me half a goddamned hour to figure out why everyone is mad this morning, this site fucking sucks sometimes

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So…I’m currently writing a book about Black mediamakers and US democracy. I have interviewed many inc. current+former employees of you know where. I’ve done years of research. I just want to say: you have no f-ing idea from the outside the fight these folks are fighting to try to save you chill out

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Good morning! #birds

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Me, before I start working: Ugh. I'm not ready yet. Just five more minutes. Working is so hard. I'm tired. Me, five minutes after I start working: Oh my god, this is amazing. I don't know why I spend time doing anything else. I will never retire, they will have to put a bullet in me

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Good morning! #birds

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If this were a normal election, President Biden would be extolling excellent economic news: inflation looks like it has not only been tamed, but turned around. Median wage growth (which excises returns for the top 1%) is outpacing inflation significantly. Unemployment is near record lows.

Prices fell in June for the first time since the start of the pandemic | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Americans weighed down by fast-rising prices for three years just received more encouraging news on the inflation front.

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this is powerful, whatever else you think about the paper of record. i suggest skipping the sniping and just embracing and sharing this widely.

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

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As hard as it is to believe, Vermont is flooding again. One year - to the day - from the devastating floods we experienced last summer. Like everywhere else, Vermont is in the cross-hairs of climate change, and it breaks my heart.

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This is what Trump tried to do to us last time 'round. Don't see any reason why he wouldn't try again.

If pre-existing conditions come back, the health insurance that saved my niece’s life when she got leukemia at age 2 is the last insurance she’d ever be able to get.

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"The US-DOJ & AG Garland can invoke 2 powerful authorities for this motion: the Constitution of the United States, specifically the due process clause, & the federal statute mandating judicial disqualification for questionable impartiality, 28 U.S.C. Section 455." (U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin)

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I live every day stunned that the guy who killed more Americans than anyone in history besides Jefferson Davis AND attempted a violent coup on national television AND suborned US foreign policy to his own electoral interests badly enough to get impeached for it AND

I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!

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this is, and I am being 100 percent earnest here, not commentary on anything that is happening right now but here in sg literally 95/100 calls that are not from people in my address book are robotically voiced scam calls pretending to be a bank or the government

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Then, he can tell the chatbot to make it four times longer. “If you’re going to put all kinds of barriers up for my patients, then when I fire back, I’m going to make it very time consuming,” he said. lol

i love that an an apparently unalloyed success of a.i. chatbots has been in an administrative bullshit war www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/h...

In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I.www.nytimes.com As health plans increasingly rely on technology to deny treatment, physicians are fighting back with chatbots that synthesize research and make the case.

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"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person." Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...

what i'm doing about alice munroblgtylr.substack.com why i hate art monster discourse