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Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility 📜https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/historians-professors-donors-sue-over-closure-of-state-historical-societys-iowa-city-facility/
Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility
Seventeen historians, archivists, professors, authors, and donors with decades of public service are suing the State Historical Society of Iowa for haphazardly and without public input closing its Iow...
www.thegazette.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Historians, professors, donors sue over closure of State Historical Society's Iowa City facility 📜https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/historians-professors-donors-sue-over-closure-of-state-historical-societys-iowa-city-facility/
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Worth a listen 👇
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On Why the Stock Market Doesn’t Matter
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
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October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Worth a listen 👇
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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
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By cutting nearly all federal funding for mRNA vaccine research, RFK Jr. has destroyed perhaps the best defense against future pandemics. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics
mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
By cutting nearly all federal funding for mRNA vaccine research, RFK Jr. has destroyed perhaps the best defense against future pandemics. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.
Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’
Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’
Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover.
The post Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.
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Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like
August 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like
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I already thought this pencil portrait Jack Kirby did of his wife Roz was great but then I read the caption: "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." DAAAAMMMMNNN!
July 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I already thought this pencil portrait Jack Kirby did of his wife Roz was great but then I read the caption: "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." DAAAAMMMMNNN!
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Jesus. He's a US citizen. With Global Entry even.
Still detained. With no explanation.
(They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)
Still detained. With no explanation.
(They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)
Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
www.wmtw.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Jesus. He's a US citizen. With Global Entry even.
Still detained. With no explanation.
(They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)
Still detained. With no explanation.
(They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)
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"Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later": Why Did L.A. ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez?
“Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later”: ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez
In an effort to fulfill the Trump administration’s daily immigration arrest “quotas,” federal agents and deputized local law enforcement are racially profiling and snatching people off the streets...
www.democracynow.org
July 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later": Why Did L.A. ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez?
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NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
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More evidence that Americans want to learn history and that they value the mission of the National Park Service. None of this will matter, however, if the Republican budget, which includes a 1.2 billion dollar cut is passed. There are many ways to kill the NPS. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How park visitors responded when asked to report anti-American signs
The majority of comments reviewed by The Post were positive, though some visitors complained that there were too many mosquitos and “not enough moose.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
More evidence that Americans want to learn history and that they value the mission of the National Park Service. None of this will matter, however, if the Republican budget, which includes a 1.2 billion dollar cut is passed. There are many ways to kill the NPS. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Which octopus are you according to your birth month? Featuring my own illustrations!
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Which octopus are you according to your birth month? Featuring my own illustrations!
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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
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At the time, back during Bush II, we knew it was a lie, they knew we knew it was a lie, and they kept lying anyway and now the legacy media tries to pretend we only found out after the fact it was a lie. We knew it was a lie the whole time. The lie was obvious. Everything old is new again.
June 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
At the time, back during Bush II, we knew it was a lie, they knew we knew it was a lie, and they kept lying anyway and now the legacy media tries to pretend we only found out after the fact it was a lie. We knew it was a lie the whole time. The lie was obvious. Everything old is new again.
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I wonder if FIFA told the US it had to be a dictatorship with a poor human rights record before it was allowed to host the World Cup.
February 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I wonder if FIFA told the US it had to be a dictatorship with a poor human rights record before it was allowed to host the World Cup.
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
bit.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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I calculate my age by how many X-Men I can't identify.
May 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I calculate my age by how many X-Men I can't identify.
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SIDE NOTE: If you are a working scientist who was fired by RFK Jr., I am eager to hear from you.
jen.bendery@huffpost.com
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jen.bendery@huffpost.com
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May 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
SIDE NOTE: If you are a working scientist who was fired by RFK Jr., I am eager to hear from you.
jen.bendery@huffpost.com
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Jeffries: "Millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck ... and Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas? I mean, you can't make this stuff up."
May 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Jeffries: "Millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck ... and Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas? I mean, you can't make this stuff up."
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🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
May 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵