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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the most recent installment of Letters from an American , Heather Cox Richardson contrasts yesterday’s speeches, one by the current occupant, one by King Charles III. “They presented,” she says, “a very clear picture of what is at stake in the United States today.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Capehart, talking about redistricting congressional districts before the midterm elections:

“I think of James Brown and his song ‘Static.’ And there’s a great line in it that says, ‘Don’t start none, won’t be none.’ And had the president not gone to Governor Abbott and said Give me five seats, then you wouldn’t have had Governor Newsom jump out there and say, Oh, wait, what? No, we’re going to do something.”]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-22T13:29:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Senator Patty Murray (D-WA): “Let’s put this in perspective. I think this is important. The president spent more on bombs in just the first week of the war in Iran than we spend in an entire year for parents to afford child care.“]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-15T13:28:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Jesse Jackson (1941–2026)</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-18T14:38:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we’ll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation. We, the people, can win.”
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    <title>What the actual</title>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Congress? International law?

Just another day in the Untied States.]]></description>
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    <title>A lost cause</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-19T15:12:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jamelle Bouie, writing in The New York Times: “The White House Is a Lost Cause.” Alternate title, from the tab in my browser: “The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing.”
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    <title>Split screen</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-10T16:13:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As the current occupant opines (and slurs) about the number of dolls and pencils children should have, &c., Miami elects a Democratic mayor for the first time in many years. First female mayor too.
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    <dc:date>2025-12-03T15:38:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the PBS NewsHour. How to handle difficult (i.e., politically charged) conversations during “the holidays.”]]></description>
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    <title>About last night</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-10T14:53:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Hard times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-04T14:14:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/hard-times.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Free or reduced-price lunches. And $500,000 a month for SNAP benefits to our county.]]></description>
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    <title>]Halloween at Mar-a-Lago</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-04T14:09:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/halloween-at-mar-lago.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Norah O’Donnell left so many matters unaddressed.]]></description>
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    <title>“Violence is not politics”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-19T13:40:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/violence-is-not-politics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Violence is not politics”: Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC a few minutes ago.]]></description>
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    <title>$ and politics: a guide</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-29T14:25:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/and-politics-guide.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you’re inclined to give money to political candidates, Andy Borowitz has some don’t s and do s.  It’s serious advice, not satire.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-07-24T12:45:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We took a walking route this morning past a house that since last fall has had a big sign in the front yard. You can guess the names on it.

This morning the sign was gone.]]></description>
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    <title>The thing and the films</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-06T14:29:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-thing-and-films.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Everything’s down except strollers. And foreign films are now a national security threat.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f94b7f66e681/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-directions-in-corruption.html">
    <title>New directions in corruption</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-28T14:55:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-directions-in-corruption.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the April 27 installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American.]]></description>
<dc:subject>autocracy money politics HeatherCoxRichardson</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:fee7184017c0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-i-chose-to-retire.html">
    <title>“Why I chose to retire”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-24T13:58:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-i-chose-to-retire.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dick Durbin explains why he’s not running for reelection.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Illinois politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d45877ed7efd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/tariffs.html">
    <title>Tariffs</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-10T19:26:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/tariffs.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pathology as policy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>money politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:20dd9a722f9d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:money"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-craziness.html">
    <title>The craziness</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-01T02:28:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-craziness.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Heather Cox Richardson: “The craziness going on around us in the first two months of the second Trump administration makes a lot more sense if you remember that the goal of those currently in power was never simply to change the policies or the personnel of the U.S. government.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics HeatherCoxRichardson</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:829a654aa45e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:HeatherCoxRichardson"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/social-security-sabotage.html">
    <title>Social Security sabotage</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-18T18:24:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/social-security-sabotage.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No, they’re not coming for Social Security. They’re just wanting to make it much more difficult for people to get Social Security.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:09e8c4bc85d1/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/word-of-day-psychophant.html">
    <title>Word of the day:psychophant</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-03T14:56:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/word-of-day-psychophant.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It joins three other words I’ve thought of for our political discourse: misinflame, misinflammation, and skeptiphobia. Unlike those words, psychophant didn’t come to me in a dream.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4687d3160557/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/final-hours.html">
    <title>Final hours</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-07T18:01:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/final-hours.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today would be a good day to read Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics HeatherCoxRichardson</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:804a5372434f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:HeatherCoxRichardson"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/forward.html">
    <title>FORWARD</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-07T17:59:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/forward.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don’t want to look like The Washington Post in not endorsing a candidate. So here’s an official endorsement: the Orange Crate Art editorial board — and owner — urge readers to vote for Kamala Harris for president.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:43258b634f80/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/no-endorsements.html">
    <title>No endorsements</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-29T02:58:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/no-endorsements.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shameful. And shameful.]]></description>
<dc:subject>newspapers politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:8caaf8e8aa76/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/donations-by-zip-code.html">
    <title>Donations by ZIP code</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-25T14:06:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/donations-by-zip-code.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post (gift link), a ZIP-based guide to online donations to the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. In my little town: 312 donations to Harris ($60K), 125 ($20K) to the other.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d519c71a5e5b/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/trump-bible-in-oklahoma.html">
    <title>Trump Bible in Oklahoma</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-04T20:00:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/trump-bible-in-oklahoma.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Only the Trump Bible will do.]]></description>
<dc:subject>education money politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:e77be59ffcd5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:money"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/tell-me-why-you-like-kamala.html">
    <title>“Tell Me Why You Like Kamala”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-04T19:58:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/tell-me-why-you-like-kamala.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At harvest.ink, a song lyric after “Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt”: “Tell Me Why You Like Kamala.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>music politics songs</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:1a65d8a0b15c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:songs"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-last-republican.html">
    <title>The Last Republican</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-13T01:08:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-last-republican.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The story behind The Last Republican, a documentary about Adam Kinzinger: “‘Do you have contempt for my views?’ How a leftwing film-maker and a Republican came together” (The Guardian ).]]></description>
<dc:subject>film politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:26f1395453e5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/about-last-night.html">
    <title>About last night</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-13T01:04:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/about-last-night.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the lastest installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson offers an astute analysis of last night’s debate:]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:bf79d3c364a8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/swift-ftw.html">
    <title>Swift FTW</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-13T01:03:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/swift-ftw.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As just reported on MSNBC: Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:bdbdc51241cd/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/cleanup-on-aisle-45.html">
    <title>Cleanup on aisle 45</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-13T01:03:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/cleanup-on-aisle-45.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris: “What we have done is clean up Donald Trump’s mess.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>autocracy democracy politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:071c2488990d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:autocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:democracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/red-flags-for-scholars-of-fascism.html">
    <title>“Red flags for scholars of fascism”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-08T21:30:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/red-flags-for-scholars-of-fascism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Heather Cox Richardson: “Trump has always invented his stories from whole cloth, but there used to be some way to tie them to reality. Today that seemed to be gone. He was in a fantasy world, and his rhetoric was apocalyptic. It was also bloody in ways that raise huge red flags for scholars of fascism.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>autocracy democracy politics truth fascism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:53f7a03a239d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:autocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:democracy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:truth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:fascism"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/sanewashing.html">
    <title>Sanewashing</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-08T21:27:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/sanewashing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at The New York Times:

“Why does the media sanewash Trump? It’s all a part of the false-equivalence I’ve been writing about here in which candidates are equalized as an ongoing gesture of performative fairness.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>media NewYorkTimes politics truth</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:5bd399255e52/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:NewYorkTimes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-had-to-see-it-for-myself.html">
    <title>Trump splatter, transcribed</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-08T21:25:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-had-to-see-it-for-myself.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday at the Economic Club on New York, Donald Trump gave a lengthy non-response to a question about the cost of childcare. The non-response is incoherent enough when you watch and listen. But I wanted to see it, and I think the incoherence deepens with print, or with pixels. So I typed it out.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2eee4a5101fb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/georgia-46th-of-50.html">
    <title>Orange Crate Art: Georgia, 46th of 50</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-05T14:51:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/georgia-46th-of-50.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post:

Gun-control advocates consistently report that Georgia’s gun laws are among the nation’s weakest. The nonprofit group Everytown for Gun Safety ranks Georgia 46th in the country for gun law strength, in a tier of states referred to as “national failures.” The Giffords Law Center, another organization that advocates for stricter gun measures, gives Georgia an F rating on its annual scorecard, faulting the state for lacking rules such as universal background checks and red-flag laws.

During his term as governor, Kemp has expanded gun rights, including signing a 2022 bill that allows residents to carry a concealed handgun in public without a permit.

When Giffords delivered Georgia its failing grade, Kemp replied: “I’ll wear this ‘F’ as a badge of honor.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:29786b89dbcf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-have-created-this-hellscape-for-our.html">
    <title>“We have created this hellscape for our children”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-05T14:50:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-have-created-this-hellscape-for-our.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dr. Annie Andrews, pediatrician and senior advisor to Everytown for Gun Safety, on MSNBC a few minutes ago:

“My heart is broken for this community, for every child that was in that building today, for the children whose lives were stolen by this public health crisis of gun violence. And I have a pit in my stomach, as I do every time I see these headlines.

“This is a public health crisis, and what is so infuriating about it is we have created this hellscape for our children. Every child in this country goes to school and sits in a classroom where they should be learning how to read and write, and they're also learning how to hide from a bad man with the gun. And for far too many children in this country, that reality grows even darker when an active shooter incident happens.

“This is a public health crisis, and we know the solutions. The solutions include commonsense gun laws, like expanded background checks, secure-storage laws so that adult gun owners cannot allow access to children to their firearms, and red-flag laws. What we lack in this country is elected leaders with the moral courage to pass the laws that the majority of Americans know that we need and that the children in this country so desperately need and deserve.

“We have robbed every child in this country of a sense of physical and psychological safety in their classrooms, and as a mother, it breaks my heart.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:324fdbaa0dbb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/advertisements-for-myself.html">
    <title>Advertisements for myself</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-29T01:31:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/advertisements-for-myself.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Trump campaign is paying for TV ads to soothe Donald Trump.]]></description>
<dc:subject>advertising politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ea0f5b4b2063/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/curb-your-introductions.html">
    <title>Curb your introductions</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-27T14:12:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/curb-your-introductions.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An imaginary Wanda Sykes confronts Larry Dvaid: “Why’d you go and introduce that little girl to that anti-vax worm-eaten bear-pranking whale-beheading no-account plug-ugly drug-addict conspiracy-ass Trump-flunkie?”]]></description>
<dc:subject>LarryDavid politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2320e4c60a14/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/i-accept.html">
    <title>“I accept”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-24T20:38:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/i-accept.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination for President of the United States”: Kamala Harris, a few minutes ago at the DNC.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:c3907a3924c0/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/reappropriation.html">
    <title>Reappropriation</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-24T20:37:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/reappropriation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The reappropriation of “Born in the U.S.A.” at tonight’s DNC — a song first appropriated by Ronald Reagan so many years ago — makes my head hurt.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music politics songs</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:bdc7ab1d18e2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/harris-walz.html">
    <title>“Harris Walz”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-11T14:44:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/harris-walz.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine Fine has written a one-minute waltz for piano.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:899452f4453a/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/responses-and-non-answers.html">
    <title>Responses and non-answers</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-11T14:43:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/responses-and-non-answers.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lawrence O’Donnell’s commentary on yesterday’s Trump “General News Conference” is worth watching in full.]]></description>
<dc:subject>media news politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:766831592862/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/uh-oh.html">
    <title>Uh-oh</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-11T14:42:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/uh-oh.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is having what he calls “a General News Conference” at 2:00 p.m. (EDT). I cannot imagine that his advisers have advised that. But the mess his campaign is in? He alone can fix it!]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:25ebe3cd5c9c/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/evisceration-in-philadelphia.html">
    <title>Evisceration in Philadelphia</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-11T14:37:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/evisceration-in-philadelphia.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Make no mistake: violent crime was up under Donald Trump. That’s not even counting the crimes he committed”: in Philadelphia, Governor Tim Walz is eviscerating Donald Trump.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:eaf8502ed43d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/its-tim-walz.html">
    <title>It’s Tim Walz</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-11T14:36:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/its-tim-walz.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An excellent choice, making a ticket very much like Obama–Biden in affect.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:8aa0f3e4474c/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/irony-alert.html">
    <title>Irony alert</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-31T13:37:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/irony-alert.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[J.D. Vance: “I felt like the modern world was constantly in flux. The things that you believed 10 years ago were no longer even acceptable to believe 10 years later.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics truth</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ba93f03fce23/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-did-i-think-about-kamala-harris.html">
    <title>What did I think about Kamala Harris?</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-24T14:38:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-did-i-think-about-kamala-harris.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From 2019: “The last thing Democrats need to do is to turn the 2020 presidential election into a battle between oldsters. Such a battle will do little to spark voter interest and much to spark parody..”]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d5c8e69d9285/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/president-venn-diagram.html">
    <title>“President Venn Diagram”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-24T14:35:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/president-venn-diagram.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The webcomic xkcd is on the case.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f07f4bd57c42/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/one-original-thought.html">
    <title>One original thought</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-24T14:34:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/one-original-thought.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Andy Beshear would be an excellent vice presidential choice for Kamala Harris. He’d be the anti-Vance.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:6e8a6c17481e/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-cartoon-martyr.html">
    <title>A cartoon(ed) martyr</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-24T14:33:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-cartoon-martyr.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This editorial cartoon was drawn to appear in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The artist, L.K. Hanson, explains that the paper decided that it was “too soon” and refused to publish it. Thus Hanson asks that anyone who wishes to pass the cartoon around do so.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cartoons politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:dc3db954bfc8/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/hcr-on-july-21.html">
    <title>HCR on July 21</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-22T14:36:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/hcr-on-july-21.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Heather Cox Richardson on yesterday’s big news.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy news politics HeatherCoxRichardson</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:a2e45d19f138/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:news"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:HeatherCoxRichardson"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-last-nights-debate.html">
    <title>On last night’s debate</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-29T14:17:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-last-nights-debate.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Heather Cox Richardson: ”This was not a debate.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:284547600d7f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/shrinking-trump.html">
    <title>Shrinking Trump</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-17T14:40:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/shrinking-trump.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cognitive decline + personality disorder = Shrinking Trump, a new podcast, available from the usual purveyors.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics autocracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:58ccca20a4c2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/paul-berman-on-slogans.html">
    <title>Paul Berman on slogans</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-14T21:56:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/paul-berman-on-slogans.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Bad faith is when you don’t like the truth so you lie about it. Then you lie about having lied about it. You might even convince yourself that in lying about lying you’re not lying. That’s bad faith. It’s a twisted consciousness. We’re seeing a mass movement for a twisted consciousness.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture politics truth</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:0ce531ad53fe/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/nihilism-in-disguise.html">
    <title>Nihilism in disguise</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-02T00:32:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/nihilism-in-disguise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aaron Rupar warns of nihilism masquerading as leftism.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics culture autocracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:137cbcea95f7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:culture"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/paying-attention.html">
    <title>Paying attention</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-06T15:35:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/paying-attention.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From yesterday’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American .]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture democracy politics autocracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:77406115f1a4/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/molly-you-in-danger-girl.html">
    <title>“Molly, you in danger, girl”</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-23T00:39:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/molly-you-in-danger-girl.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Capehart: “There’s a great scene in the movie Ghost where Whoopi Goldberg says to Demi Moore, ‘Molly, you in danger, girl.’ And, you know, if I were to see Doanld Trump, I would say exactly that to him.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>PBS politics film</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d8edd15c88f4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:film"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/05/heather-cox-richardson-on-second.html">
    <title>Heather Cox Richardson on the Second Amendment</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-10T13:40:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/05/heather-cox-richardson-on-second.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The idea that massacres are “the price of freedom,” as right-wing personality Bill O’Reilly said in 2017 after the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas, in which a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 411 others, is new, and it is about politics, not our history.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>history politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:1b8e2bb36aed/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/04/supreme-count.html">
    <title>Supreme count</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-02T13:42:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/04/supreme-count.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(6 - 2) + (3 + 2) = 9.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics autocracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:e75cabfd42a2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/03/precedented.html">
    <title>Precedented</title>
    <dc:date>2023-04-04T14:37:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/03/precedented.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From today’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American:

“This is the first time in history a former United States president has been indicted, although it is worth remembering that it is not new for our justice system to hold elected officials accountable.”

Including a number of Illinois governors.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Illinois politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/01/word-of-week-shitshow.html">
    <title>Word of the week: shitshow</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-11T16:17:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/01/word-of-week-shitshow.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yep, in the House.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics words</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/01/getting-things-done.html">
    <title>Getting things done</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-04T22:04:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/01/getting-things-done.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Heather Cox Richardson: “The first thing they did was to remove the metal detectors that were installed after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/01/recently-updated_2.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-04T22:02:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/01/recently-updated_2.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Still more lies from George Santos.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics truth</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:63a5e6854e2d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/12/updating.html">
    <title>Updating</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-04T21:57:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/12/updating.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More and more George Santos lies.]]></description>
<dc:subject>truth politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:9b7c6a2cd25a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/11/about-last-night.html">
    <title>About last night</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-09T15:48:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/11/about-last-night.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Illinois: we have a Democratic governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, &c. Voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy Illinois politics autocracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:fea1b1cfe658/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/11/past-and-future.html">
    <title>Past and future</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-09T15:41:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/11/past-and-future.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From President Biden’s speech last night: “We must vote knowing who we have been, what we’re at risk of becoming.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy politics autocracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:531f194db270/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/10/reaching-out.html">
    <title>Reaching out</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-01T12:46:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/10/reaching-out.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning I have had a president, a vice president, and an undefeated former president reach out to me, one of them “personally reaching out.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:5110c4c07cb8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/10/gabbard-palin-hitchens.html">
    <title>Gabbard, Palin, Hitchens</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-18T02:16:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/10/gabbard-palin-hitchens.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard is the Sarah Palin of Christopher Hitchenses.

Or:

Tulsi Gabbard is the Christopher Hitchens of Sarah Palins.

I can see it both ways.]]></description>
<dc:subject>metaphor politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/08/ira-bfd.html">
    <title>IRA = BFD</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-10T13:29:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/08/ira-bfd.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[IRA: the Inflation Reduction Act.

BFD: Self-explanatory, I hope. If not, ask Joe Biden.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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