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Posts by Mandy Pennington

Went to grab a bag of potatoes and was greeted by "Genie in a Bottle" on full blast. It was exactly what I needed in that moment. I love Wegmans after dark. ❤️

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curiosity is an antidote to despair

1 year ago 136 21 4 1
Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 (the word censorship is crossed out with a red line), Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 (the word censorship is crossed out with a red line), Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

Orwell's 1984 wasn’t meant to be a how-to guide, but here we are. This October, join the fight for the freedom to read.
The theme for #BannedBooksWeek 2025 is Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.
Planning to participate? Apply for a Krug Fund grant by April 30!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

1 year ago 231 88 3 5

Life is a nightmare. You might as well write about it.

1 year ago 248 64 6 4

Tell them you don't want any Medicaid cuts. Tell them you don't want any SNAP cuts. Tell them you don't want huge tax cuts for billionaires.

Tell them why it matters to you. *Make them* hear WHY Medicaid matters to you. That is how we convinced Murkowski, Collins, and McCain to vote no.

1 year ago 2041 572 19 22

The next most important thing you can do is call your GOP member's office every single day. When I worked in the Senate, in every single weekly all-staff meeting, we went over the phone calls we'd received.

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The single most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is show up at a town hall w/ your GOP member and talk to them face to face.

Heroes like @indivisible.org helped organize last time. People drove for hours to spend just a few minutes talking to their members. But we saved lives because of it.

1 year ago 1907 525 18 22

Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

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My birthday gift to myself this year. I can't wait to dive into flash with this workshop. ❤️

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Trump's historic war on traditional media Trump is targeting traditional media sources at a moment of tremendous vulnerability for the industry.

Once considered a bastion for free expression, America's record on press freedoms has fallen to a historic low, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Under Trump's second presidency, the press is "under siege," the group argues.

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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

1 year ago 1751 598 107 47

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