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Solidarity is the only way
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Solidarity is the only way
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The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
September 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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The Admin is handling tariffs like a grad student assembling Ikea furniture: started keen, got partway through, lost the instructions, and half-formed tariffs are scattered everywhere. After weeks of inaction, Customs is meant to collect unannounced tariffs in just a few days.
July 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Admin is handling tariffs like a grad student assembling Ikea furniture: started keen, got partway through, lost the instructions, and half-formed tariffs are scattered everywhere. After weeks of inaction, Customs is meant to collect unannounced tariffs in just a few days.
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Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
July 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
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Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
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Hey look it’s also at the airport!
When you’re a lowly freelancer, without a fat budget or billionaire patron, you’ve gotta celebrate the wins.
Solidarity with all those continuing to believe in journalism + telling the truth in newsrooms everywhere, in resistance to the media powers that be.
When you’re a lowly freelancer, without a fat budget or billionaire patron, you’ve gotta celebrate the wins.
Solidarity with all those continuing to believe in journalism + telling the truth in newsrooms everywhere, in resistance to the media powers that be.
July 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Hey look it’s also at the airport!
When you’re a lowly freelancer, without a fat budget or billionaire patron, you’ve gotta celebrate the wins.
Solidarity with all those continuing to believe in journalism + telling the truth in newsrooms everywhere, in resistance to the media powers that be.
When you’re a lowly freelancer, without a fat budget or billionaire patron, you’ve gotta celebrate the wins.
Solidarity with all those continuing to believe in journalism + telling the truth in newsrooms everywhere, in resistance to the media powers that be.
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Your reaction to Trump or someone doing something bad shouldn't be to suggest they have an intellectual disability. That just equates immorality with disability and that's a big ableism that gets us nowhere.
July 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Your reaction to Trump or someone doing something bad shouldn't be to suggest they have an intellectual disability. That just equates immorality with disability and that's a big ableism that gets us nowhere.
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okay but are they going to keep making this? it’s seriously the best flavor. (did not watch the show)
July 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
okay but are they going to keep making this? it’s seriously the best flavor. (did not watch the show)
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For literally decades climate hawks and progressives have warned that internal combustion will die off and the tech of the future is electric + battery power and that if we didn’t seize the initiative China would eat our lunch and…welp!
China is probably going to pass 50% EV new car sales this year. ICE technology is a dead man walking www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
China Is Poised to Buy More EVs Than Gas-Only Cars This Year
Affordability, charging advances and subsidies are supporting the inexorable rise of electric cars in the world’s biggest auto market.
www.bloomberg.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For literally decades climate hawks and progressives have warned that internal combustion will die off and the tech of the future is electric + battery power and that if we didn’t seize the initiative China would eat our lunch and…welp!
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Brita Unveils New In-Throat Water Filters
theonion.com/brita-u...
theonion.com/brita-u...
July 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Brita Unveils New In-Throat Water Filters
theonion.com/brita-u...
theonion.com/brita-u...
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"Be open to the bartering process. Flexibility is the cornerstone of any successful rural birthing plan... Extra services like epidurals are nothing more than elaborate hoaxes designed by the left to rob women of God’s gift of increased pain in childbirth."
Trade Your Way to Wellness: A Patriotic Guide to Farm-Fresh Health Care
“Trump’s Medicaid cuts are coming for rural Americans: ‘It’s going to have to hit them first.’ Experts worry the tax-and-spending bill will gut hea...
buff.ly
July 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Be open to the bartering process. Flexibility is the cornerstone of any successful rural birthing plan... Extra services like epidurals are nothing more than elaborate hoaxes designed by the left to rob women of God’s gift of increased pain in childbirth."
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If people find this Wired and Rolling Stone reporting valuable, then please, as I have done, subscribe to at least one of them, because that will allow them to do even more of this, and to pay their reporters who “pound the pavement” to bring in the stories.
July 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If people find this Wired and Rolling Stone reporting valuable, then please, as I have done, subscribe to at least one of them, because that will allow them to do even more of this, and to pay their reporters who “pound the pavement” to bring in the stories.
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Our stars must glister with new fire, or be
Today extinct.
Today extinct.
June 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Our stars must glister with new fire, or be
Today extinct.
Today extinct.
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Abusive messages, fear of physical violence and violations of privacy are the cost of elected office in the U.S. now, according to nine Gen Z and millennial state lawmakers.
After Minnesota shootings, young lawmakers ask: Is politics worth it?
In an era where safety precautions and online abuse are often part of the job, young American lawmakers wonder if politics is just too dangerous as a career.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Abusive messages, fear of physical violence and violations of privacy are the cost of elected office in the U.S. now, according to nine Gen Z and millennial state lawmakers.
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Trump said that Israel and Iran "don't know what the f*** they're doing" as the ceasefire between the two nations faltered Tuesday.
Trump Unleashes on Israel and Iran in White House outburst
www.newsweek.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Trump said that Israel and Iran "don't know what the f*** they're doing" as the ceasefire between the two nations faltered Tuesday.
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A lot of people's presidential war powers arguments appear to be based on personal views about the underlying conflict (Israel vs. Iran) as opposed to the Constitution. How many people who support military action now would do so if Trump were to attack China, Russia or some other country?
June 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A lot of people's presidential war powers arguments appear to be based on personal views about the underlying conflict (Israel vs. Iran) as opposed to the Constitution. How many people who support military action now would do so if Trump were to attack China, Russia or some other country?
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Barney?
The specimen will eventually be displayed at a Texas museum.
Unexpected skull found in Texas dates back millions of years
The specimen will eventually be displayed at a Texas museum.
bit.ly
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Barney?
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Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.
June 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.
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Probably a good moment to point out that US Homeland Terrorism Prevention is being led by an unqualified 22 year old kid who's one year out of college.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
June 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Probably a good moment to point out that US Homeland Terrorism Prevention is being led by an unqualified 22 year old kid who's one year out of college.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
June 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.