@carolquirke.bsky.social
Historian of images and social movements, working-class academic. Author Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class, https://bit.ly/4fzAgVI and bio of Dorothea Lange, bit.ly/4bgiOTk.
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Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
October 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
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I have no idea what this will mean on a day-to-day level, other than that it will be very bad for kids and involve many, many lawsuits.
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I have no idea what this will mean on a day-to-day level, other than that it will be very bad for kids and involve many, many lawsuits.
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Absolutely disgraceful and despicable. If you are a partner at Paul Weiss or Kirkland & Ellis you should be ashamed of yourself -- that is, if you had any shame left.
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Absolutely disgraceful and despicable. If you are a partner at Paul Weiss or Kirkland & Ellis you should be ashamed of yourself -- that is, if you had any shame left.
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usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
August 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
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When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:
August 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:
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August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Two unfathomably rich nepobaby dumbfucks slap-fighting each other on their respective vanity networks over how to strip-mine public infrastructure is precisely how Mark Twain predicted American Empire would end.
June 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Two unfathomably rich nepobaby dumbfucks slap-fighting each other on their respective vanity networks over how to strip-mine public infrastructure is precisely how Mark Twain predicted American Empire would end.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will
June 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will
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New in Jokien with Tolkien today: 'Elrond Beginning to Regret Not Pushing Isildur Into Cracks of Doom When He Had the Chance'
www.jrrjokien.com/p/elrond-beg...
www.jrrjokien.com/p/elrond-beg...
Elrond Beginning to Regret Not Pushing Isildur Into Cracks of Doom When He Had the Chance
RIVENDELL—After a heated council meeting that lasted long past midday, Half-elven Lord of Rivendell Elrond was overheard lamenting to fellow Elves that he regretted not solving the issue of Sauron’s m...
www.jrrjokien.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New in Jokien with Tolkien today: 'Elrond Beginning to Regret Not Pushing Isildur Into Cracks of Doom When He Had the Chance'
www.jrrjokien.com/p/elrond-beg...
www.jrrjokien.com/p/elrond-beg...
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The bird dance for the ages
June 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The bird dance for the ages
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For the record, though I helped make her case, I think Caity’s wrong about this particular Twainian lie (my part of our correspondence pictured below).
But, much more importantly, this essay successfully reimagines for the 21st century Twain’s American Vandal narrator.
So I love it.
But, much more importantly, this essay successfully reimagines for the 21st century Twain’s American Vandal narrator.
So I love it.
June 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
For the record, though I helped make her case, I think Caity’s wrong about this particular Twainian lie (my part of our correspondence pictured below).
But, much more importantly, this essay successfully reimagines for the 21st century Twain’s American Vandal narrator.
So I love it.
But, much more importantly, this essay successfully reimagines for the 21st century Twain’s American Vandal narrator.
So I love it.
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Farmers could be facing another terrible harvest after the hottest spring on record and the driest conditions in decades, finds @eciu.net analysis:
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest
Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.
www.independent.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Farmers could be facing another terrible harvest after the hottest spring on record and the driest conditions in decades, finds @eciu.net analysis:
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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Was the headline, "Trump Takes Bribes, GOP gives approval" too complicated for them to write?
May 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Was the headline, "Trump Takes Bribes, GOP gives approval" too complicated for them to write?
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“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?"
That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security.
Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.
That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security.
Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.
New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it
Newly sworn-in Social Security chief Frank Bisignano, who previously was a Wall Street executive, told staffers he had to Google the SSA job when it was offered to him.
abcnews.go.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?"
That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security.
Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.
That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security.
Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.
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The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.
Senate overrules parliamentarian and votes to undo California EV rule
The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.
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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.
May 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.
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RIP Brian Kozin - Chicago countercultural icon, owner of No Exit Cafe.
No Exit was the oldest cafe in the country, the last gathering place for beatniks at its closure in the 1990s. They wrote Sartre asking if they could use the name of his play. He declined. They used it anyway.
No Exit was the oldest cafe in the country, the last gathering place for beatniks at its closure in the 1990s. They wrote Sartre asking if they could use the name of his play. He declined. They used it anyway.
May 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
RIP Brian Kozin - Chicago countercultural icon, owner of No Exit Cafe.
No Exit was the oldest cafe in the country, the last gathering place for beatniks at its closure in the 1990s. They wrote Sartre asking if they could use the name of his play. He declined. They used it anyway.
No Exit was the oldest cafe in the country, the last gathering place for beatniks at its closure in the 1990s. They wrote Sartre asking if they could use the name of his play. He declined. They used it anyway.
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#OtD 23 May 1946 engineers and rail workers launched a nationwide strike in the US. "An almost complete shutdown of the nation's commerce," despite the govt taking over the railroads on May 17 to prevent it. More about this and other US mass strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
May 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#OtD 23 May 1946 engineers and rail workers launched a nationwide strike in the US. "An almost complete shutdown of the nation's commerce," despite the govt taking over the railroads on May 17 to prevent it. More about this and other US mass strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Cutting programs that assist the most vulnerable in order to give more resources to the wealthy is a barbarism incompatible with idea of a society and it has been most of what passes for politics my entire life.
May 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Cutting programs that assist the most vulnerable in order to give more resources to the wealthy is a barbarism incompatible with idea of a society and it has been most of what passes for politics my entire life.
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The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.
Trump moves to gut PBS and NPR in latest salvo against the media
The president's executive order targeting two of the nation's largest public broadcasters comes as the White House seeks to radically reframe how Americans get their news
theweek.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.