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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Watching The Social Contract with Joe Walsh and he’s giving excellent ideas as to what Democratic leadership should do. Check it out
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Think it’s ironic that it’s being streamed on Amazon, based on Jeff Bezo’s recent decisions about the Washington Post
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Rep. Melanie Stansbury youtube.com/watch?v=sulN...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
They hate the military—unless it's just white guys.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos' investment in Trump is paying off.
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Amazon's Whole Foods cites Trump's NLRB purge as grounds for rejecting union win
Last month, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
!!!!
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
How the Muskrat is messing with your social security, your religion, and everything else open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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How the Muskrat is messing with your social security, your religion, and everything else
He and his goons must be stopped
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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The Mump Oligarchy -- A Glossary
Ten Words for the Wise
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Dear Republicans
A thought about our former president, our laws, and our future
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Perfectly captured.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is a national emergency:
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So very sorry for your loss
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
To recap, Trump: -Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence -Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers -Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee -Blamed the DCA crash on DEI This is disastrous leadership.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thank you for speaking truth to power
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
He’s one whiny baby
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gailv27.bsky.social @gailv27.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Here we go. I knew this was coming
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/12/2024
The safe way to leave Twitter. lifehacker.com/dont-delete-...
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Don't Delete Your X Account (Do This Instead)
It's temping to delete your X account now that things have gotten so bad. However, it's not the best move for your security.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 15/11/2024
www.newsweek.com/googles-ai-c...
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Google's AI chatbot tells student seeking help with homework "please die"
A Google spokesperson told Newsweek on Friday morning that the company takes "these issues seriously."
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