Debra Carroll ☮️

Proud Mother and dog lover. supporter of democracy ☮️

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Eleven days ago at Blue Ridge Animal Rescue in Asheville, North Carolina, a tiny black terrier mix named Wren arrived from a neglect case, Severely underweight Completely shut down. Wouldn't eat.!
Wouldn't lift her head. Staff tried everything for five days. Nothing reached her. Then there was Chester. A twelve year-old Great Pyrenees, Surrendered four years ago. Never adopted. Too old, people say. Too big. But shelter directon Mara says quietly: "Chester has settled more broken dogs than anything else we've tried!" Night five, Chester walked across the kennel and lay down beside Wren. By morning she had eaten her first full meal. Chester is still available for adoption. Still showing up fo the ones nobody else can reach.

[South Carolina Democratic Party @scdp]

Lindsey Graham has spent decades in Washington, but now voters are taking a second look, and they're liking what they see in Dr. Annie Andrews.

This race is closer than you think, and it's only getting tighter.

South Carolina, let's make history. #Scdems #Scpol

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

Admiral (ret.) William H. McRaven: "In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation."
Read the whole piece:
https://t.co/m9og4RFfLI

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

🚨How Reaganomics Brought Back the Gilded Age:

For half a century, America built the broadest middle class in history. Then came Reaganomics. Forty-five years later, the results are in.

In 1928, on the eve of the Great Depression, the richest 1 percent of Americans collected 23.9 percent of all income in the United States.

Over the next fifty years, that share would be cut by more than half. Through progressive era trust-busting, labor reform, taxation, social insurance, and public investment, Americans built the broadest middle class in the nation’s history. By the late 1970s, the top 1 percent claimed just 9 percent of national income.

Today, that share has climbed above its 1928 level.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

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[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

The Senate sold it to a conglomerate owned by Chileans with family and $ ties to the Pinochet regime.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

The Digital Babel

The Digital Babel: How Oligarchs Broke the Public Square and Destroyed Shared Reality

The public square did not disappear. It was privatized, fragmented, and rebuilt into algorithmic rooms where outrage spreads faster than truth and shared reality becomes harder to hold together.
https://t.co/vwpnvWp1cn

[The Post and Courier @postandcourier]

McMaster defended reopening the debate over South Carolina’s congressional map. “Can we represent our state better with different districts? I think the answer is yes,” the governor said. https://t.co/4vkNZU87ed

[Autumn Hanna VandeHei @autumnvandehei]

So proud of James VandeHei Jr. check out his co-creation: @Politik_HQ. No partisan takes, just facts. Find out how your reps vote, who their donors are, and much more. Live now on the App Store:

[Debra Carroll ☮️ @Carroll5225]

@ick_real Pearl

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

I'm going to say something that doesn't reflect well on me or my wife.

We let the kids have the iPad for too long. Way too long.

We realized that it was ruining their personalities.

I watched it happen and I didn't act fast enough.

We took the iPads away. Took the phones. All of it.

And I got my children back.

They’ve been de-zombified. The difference was immediate and it was dramatic.

So let me give credit where it's due.

Shout out to Jonathan Haidt.
Shout out to Kara Swisher

You think you're giving your kid entertainment.

A way to decompress. Something to keep them occupied.

You're handing them something that is quietly rewiring how they think, how they feel, and how they connect with the people right in front of them.

Take it away. You'll get your kid back too.

I promise you won’t regret it!

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Damn‼️This is powerful from @davematthewsbnd 💥🔥💥🔥There’s something happening here and what it is ain’t exactly clear. #NoWarrantNoICE

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

As Trump and his people continue to brazenly, transparently lie about the murder of Renée Good by their ICE agent in Minneapolis, I’m reminded of my 2017 book Fantasyland. Especially the last chapter, “As Fantasyland Goes, So Goes the Nation,” and this passage from near the end.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.

'I feel all sleepy,' she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

Roald Dahl, 1986

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Every one of the great dystopian novels begins with the premise that the majority of people can no longer read. That dystopia is here. Billions of dollars have been spent to ensure most folks are too distracted ever to pick up a book. A nation that won't read soon forgets how.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I’m not a devotee of fantasy and myth and tales of netherworlds. Which makes me all the more surprised that I found this essay by Katherine Dee/Katya Ungerman/@default_friend so illuminating, gratifying and, we’ll see, possibly useful. Gift link: https://t.co/xwMmTGqDHj

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Read an article yesterday in NY Magazine saying people grew increasingly smarter during the twentieth century because they were surrounded by intelligent media, and now we're getting dumber because media is aimed at the dumbest people. Raise your kids on books & old films.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Don’t allow tech to turn you into an un-person. Refuse to let AI make things you could produce with your own brain. Develop your mental & creative faculties. Read constantly. They want you illiterate, and nothing threatens them more than a brain that is sharp and intact.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

Do their Senators know?

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

If Republicans let premiums skyrocket for https://t.co/5ipy3hOdaG plans, nearly 200,000 South Carolinians will be unable to afford their plans and lose their health coverage.

Democrats are fighting to stop this from happening. Republicans should end the shutdown and join us.