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Needed to get my mind off the current political situation and the status of my retirement funds.
April 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Oh man, somebody get him out of there. He’s crazy.
April 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.
March 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Interesting Times we live in
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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March 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Reminder: If you’re sharing information, protect yourself. Documents and communications often contain hidden watermarks, intentional typos, odd punctuation, inconsistent spacing, or stylized phrasing—all designed to uniquely identify the source.
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.

time.com/7269604/el-s...

www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
March 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’m afraid to look at my retirement accounts. Thanks to Trump I’ll be working until forever.
March 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Elon Musk’s staffers have been granted access to a sensitive child support database by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The data access was approved by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite resistance from career employees within the department. Sorry, we tried…
March 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Emails sent out late last night—The Department of Health and Human Services is offering employees up to $25,000 to voluntarily leave the agency.
March 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As we begin our Lenten journey, I would like to share some this devotional from the ELCA. It is from 2019, but the theme is dismantling white supremacy.
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March 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds.

um...

www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...
February 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thinking of long ago summer trips to the coast with the kids.
December 29, 2024 at 6:10 AM