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Cold hard truth: nothing they are doing is new, it's just that now it's not happening exclusively to Black people so it seems "unAmerican" to everyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I‘m astounded that people thought the files wouldn’t be heavily if not completely redacted if/when they actually ever got released. I’m begging people to be for real, even for a minute. I’m not understanding the outrage at what everyone had to know was inevitable. Please. PLEASE.
December 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I’m getting ready to go to The Met today, for the first time since moving to NYC (it’s been a while). Much like Times Square I’ve always avoided it because it is always SWARMED with mostly tourists. But today, I tick the last major NYC [art] museum off my list.
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Great piece about my dear friend Melissa Hortman.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks won’t apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? 🙃
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
😒
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I won $4 in Power Ball tonight! 🙌🏽
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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of all of the things I am going to not watch, this is the thing I am going to not watch the most
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Welp.
NOT A METAPHOR
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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“I’m not convinced this is about serving students or cleaning up syllabi,” said Chris Gilliard, co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute. “This looks like a project to control education and remove it from professors and put it into the hands of administrators and legislatures.”
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Oh my gosh the first thing that popped into my head was that their kid killed them and I know nothing of their children. Ugh. Terrible.
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Terrible.
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Oh gosh. Wow.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What a great idea and excellent gift!

I might just bestow it upon myself..👀
Join the Haymarket Book Club this month and start your subscription with one or more of these 📚
www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One of the greatest comments of all time. 😭
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The neighbors and their umpteen children have arrived home and they are coughing so (those wet coughs) that they have me scared to go out in the hallway to the garbage chute. 🦠😷
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Here's hoping that he broke up with her. If only he could time travel back to the day before this happened and do it then. 😒
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
She will still be refusing to admit on her deathbed that this was a terrible idea.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We’ve been waiting for Will to get it together for five seasons.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I just got through the first episode of Stranger Things and all I can say is it’s about motherfucking time, Will.
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Now she’s crying because she thought she was exempt. Girl, bye. With all the havoc this bitch has wreaked? The audacity, as if she wasn‘t right there stoking the flames. Leopards…faces… dogs, fleas, and whatnot.

She needs to have a seat with her ugly, illiterate self.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Is it necessary/advised to knit gauge swatches for socks? #knitsky
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Why not both?
Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM