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Jim Ryan is a man of incredible character and this is a deeply troubling read. Gov. Spanberger and the legislature need to get those three members of the board to resign and reevaluate the university and state's ties with McGuireWoods drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
11.14.25_JER Resignation Facuty.pdf
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Jim Ryan is a man of incredible character and this is a deeply troubling read. Gov. Spanberger and the legislature need to get those three members of the board to resign and reevaluate the university and state's ties with McGuireWoods drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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The guy beloved by Celtics legends Larry Bird and Bill Walton?
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The guy beloved by Celtics legends Larry Bird and Bill Walton?
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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#Mariners star Cal Raleigh was named the Sporting News MLB Player of the Year, becoming just the second catcher to ever win the award.
Raleigh received nearly half of the 312 votes from players across the league.
sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...
Raleigh received nearly half of the 312 votes from players across the league.
sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...
Seattle Mariners' Raleigh wins SN's MLB Player of the Year
Seattle Mariners star Cal Raleigh was named the Sporting News MLB Player of the Year, becoming just the second catcher to ever win the award.
sports.mynorthwest.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
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Chattanooga’s finest
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Chattanooga’s finest
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MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.
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October 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.
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What Extreme Poverty Looks Like
Ten percent of humanity struggles to live on under $2 a day. That, and the gap between the extremely poor and the more privileged, is important to see.
classroom.ricksteves.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.
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Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.
Kilmar Abrego García detained by ICE days after release from custody
Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney s...
wapo.st
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
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Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
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You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
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these people are as eager to keep out a talented young white man from bristol as they are an eager black kid from portsmouth or a young white woman from alexandria
July 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
these people are as eager to keep out a talented young white man from bristol as they are an eager black kid from portsmouth or a young white woman from alexandria
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The director really wanted you to understand the nickname
July 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The director really wanted you to understand the nickname
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The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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I'm often asked what Democratic politicians can do to learn from pro wrestling and combat Republican neokayfabe
The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️
#wrestlesky #polisky
The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️
#wrestlesky #polisky
June 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I'm often asked what Democratic politicians can do to learn from pro wrestling and combat Republican neokayfabe
The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️
#wrestlesky #polisky
The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️
#wrestlesky #polisky
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Pet Sounds all day, man. RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90b...
God Only Knows (Remastered 1999)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Pet Sounds all day, man. RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90b...
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory
Snark aside, I'm honestly baffled. I know I show my naïveté daily, but aren't even most rich, powerful people concerned about food safety? Seems like you'd have to be Zuck or Bezos rich to be safe(ish). Not state politician or large landowner rich. Don't these folks buy groceries like everyone else?
I guess GenX trained for this, at least
April 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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Know when U-Va. really started gaining note for academic excellence? After Black people and women began attending. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia with the dream that that the best minds of Europe would tutor American youth. What happened next left the former president in tears. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
April 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Know when U-Va. really started gaining note for academic excellence? After Black people and women began attending. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯