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Pat Thompson

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Friends School plant saler, co-op fan, gardener, Transition Town member, recovering grammar curmudgeon. She/her.

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Is their way of spelling “unbiased.”

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Former MN AG Mike Hatch was wrong about a lot of things. But one thing he was right about is that vertical integration in the healthcare “system” is horrible for patients and premium payers in almost every way (F@ck outta here with your “healthcare consumer” language)

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Electric trucks the size of those Ford Rangers with same bed size… like printing money.

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The question we answer in part 2 (coming out in two weeks) is what effect Forester had on cycling levels in the U.S. even through today. However many people he got on bikes was much smaller than the number who would have gotten on bikes had the infrastructure that he fought been installed.

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Project 2025's concerns about porn are less about protecting children from being sexually exploited than they are criminalizing adults who allow teens to read age-appropriate books about gender, sexuality, and sexual abuse/assault, which don't align with conservative ideology.

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Four NASA volunteers are exiting a simulated Mars base after a year of isolation. I don't know how much news they had access to but can you fucking imagine re-entering the world in July of 2024. www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-...

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The Water Knife is a great book - hadn’t heard about the new book yet!

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On top of everything else, the AI hucksters have ruined the word “generative.”

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Anywho, show up every day to do what you can with others and make sure that you're attending to people's material needs while doing so. That basic political engagement will put you in good stead. The rest is noise.

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