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The antipoverty agenda under Trump isn’t all lost vox.com/policy/383549/…

Heaven just got a little more joyful. 🎶💜 NPR: Ella Jenkins, the first lady of children's music, has died at 100 npr.org/2024/11/10/530…

Dorothy Allison’s Life Was a Queer Survival Guide theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Richard Price’s Radical, Retrograde Novel theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/11/11/boo…

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No joke: The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax. apnews.com/article/onion-…

Bid on a note from your favorite author in The Common's Postcard Auction. lithub.com/bid-on-a-note-… via Literary Hub

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MAGA is BIGLY mad at this opening of 60 Minutes Last night. 60 Minutes merely just told the truth. Why does the truth make you guys so angry? 60 Minutes

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