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We have a new doctor in the group ! Warmest congratulations to @annabaidiuk.bsky.social for the successful PhD defense👏, really proud !
We wish her all the best in her professional future.
Thanks to all jury members for the very interesting discussions!
We wish her all the best in her professional future.
Thanks to all jury members for the very interesting discussions!
December 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We have a new doctor in the group ! Warmest congratulations to @annabaidiuk.bsky.social for the successful PhD defense👏, really proud !
We wish her all the best in her professional future.
Thanks to all jury members for the very interesting discussions!
We wish her all the best in her professional future.
Thanks to all jury members for the very interesting discussions!
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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This is why surgical light never cast a shadows.
December 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is why surgical light never cast a shadows.
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Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Exonerees Sound the Alarm on New Florida Law Allowing Death Sentences by Split Juries - Bolts
Herman Lindsey braced himself for news that he would be sentenced to death as he sat inside a courtroom in Broward County, Florida in 2006. A jury had convicted Lindsey... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
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Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
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Georgia elected 2 new Democratic PSC members in a landslide.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
Georgia Power, PSC staff strike deal to allow historic data center expansion
Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission’s staff unveiled a deal that would allow the utility to build huge amounts of new power plants, mostly to serve data centers.
www.ajc.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Georgia elected 2 new Democratic PSC members in a landslide.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
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🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will pause federal funding to blue states that refuse to provide the information it requested on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid recipients. Via NOTUS.org
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Trump’s USDA Prepares to Pause State Food Stamp Funding in Data Standoff
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the administration will withhold SNAP spending starting next week to states — all led by Democrats — that have not provided personal information on…
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will pause federal funding to blue states that refuse to provide the information it requested on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid recipients. Via NOTUS.org
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Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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Turns out when you spend a bunch of time with David's Sack and the Crypto Bros, you end up absorbing a whole lot more than their dirty money
www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...
Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny
Last week, Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego's texts leaked, where he lamented that Democratic "women look like men and men look like women."
www.erininthemorning.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Turns out when you spend a bunch of time with David's Sack and the Crypto Bros, you end up absorbing a whole lot more than their dirty money
www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
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Patent challenges at USPTO aren’t perfect, but they’re a realistic way to fight junk patents. USPTO is trying to take that option away. Submit a public comment while you still can.
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF sup...
www.eff.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Patent challenges at USPTO aren’t perfect, but they’re a realistic way to fight junk patents. USPTO is trying to take that option away. Submit a public comment while you still can.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷