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Melissa Jo Peltier

Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Stateline

Suicide among children ages 8 to 12 has risen sharply in the past two decades. The increase has spurred calls for more communication, screenings and tailored care, @nhassanein.bsky.social reports. stateline.org/2026/07/28/r...

Rise in US preteen suicide rate alarms mental health experts • StatelineThe number of preteens — ages 8 to 12 — who die by suicide in the United States each year is relatively small. But the total in 2025 was 194 — the most since at least 2001, according to preliminary da...stateline.org
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Adam Kinzinger

Democrats have spent years warning that Donald Trump is an existential threat. So why do they keep acting like they have unlimited time? My latest looks at Mitch McConnell, Andy Beshear, and a party that too often moves after the opportunity has passed. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Mitch McConnell Would Never Be This NiceThe delay in demanding proof from McConnell is a microcosm of how Democrats are squandering the midterms.open.substack.com
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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 OR

Personally, I remember having to tell my Home Health patients that ingesting bleach would kill them and and others that we did not have unvaccinated nurses and therapists to see them. All while wearing garbage bags and month old masks. This was due to trump, not Dr. Fauci!

ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected

As we all remember Dr. Fauci was strongly anti-vaccine and anti-mask. And publicly referred to it as a hoax and suggested using ivermectin, drinking bleach and sticking UV light bulbs up your ass.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆

btw if you're wondering how the competing Ambassador Bridge came to be a vitally important international land crossing *privately owned by one billionaire*, basically it was built by a private company in the 1920s which went bankrupt in the 70s and got bought out by one investor

Ambassador Bridge - 99% InvisibleDetroit, Michigan is home to the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit to the Canadian border city of Windsor. The Ambassador is essential. CNN once called it “the most economically important one-and...99percentinvisible.orgBarb McQuade

Gordie Howe Bridge opened yesterday, 46 days after Trump blocked it. Owner of rival bridge, who donated $1 million to Trump PAC in March, earned an estimated $6.9 million in tolls during that time as travelers and businesses endured costs of slow border crossing. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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John Self

And to M. John Harrison, whose universally-acclaimed (I think?) The End of Everything is also longlisted:

John Self

“I’ve read several of Harrison’s novels: not once have I fully understood what was happening, but I keep rushing back for more.” Me on M John Harrison’s The End of Everything, a book that speaks to our time of repeated crises, when disaster follows disaster until something seems permanently broken.

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