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Donate to Support Austin's Transplant Journey, organized by Lora Smerker
I am raising funds for Austin Estis, who is 31 years old and is experiencing liv… Lora Smerker needs your support for Support Austin's Transplant Journey
gofund.me
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Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
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“Once the executive branch decides it doesn’t have to follow the law for one person, it has established that it doesn’t have to follow the law for anyone,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/A5gl8xWw
What Trump Means by ‘Impartial Justice’
The president’s definition of law and order is a narrow one.
theatln.tc
March 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Once the executive branch decides it doesn’t have to follow the law for one person, it has established that it doesn’t have to follow the law for anyone,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/A5gl8xWw
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Please share far and wide!
March 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Please share far and wide!
gofund.me/c495e669
Austin is 31 years old and in liver failure. He has been in the hospital since last Tuesday with at least 48 more hours to go and a long recovery at home. Please send prayers, words of encouragement and any donation that you feel moved to make. Thank you all for your support.
Austin is 31 years old and in liver failure. He has been in the hospital since last Tuesday with at least 48 more hours to go and a long recovery at home. Please send prayers, words of encouragement and any donation that you feel moved to make. Thank you all for your support.
Donate to Support Austin's Transplant Journey, organized by Lora Smerker
I am raising funds for Austin Estis, who is 31 years old and is experiencing liv… Lora Smerker needs your support for Support Austin's Transplant Journey
gofund.me
March 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
gofund.me/c495e669
Austin is 31 years old and in liver failure. He has been in the hospital since last Tuesday with at least 48 more hours to go and a long recovery at home. Please send prayers, words of encouragement and any donation that you feel moved to make. Thank you all for your support.
Austin is 31 years old and in liver failure. He has been in the hospital since last Tuesday with at least 48 more hours to go and a long recovery at home. Please send prayers, words of encouragement and any donation that you feel moved to make. Thank you all for your support.
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gofund.me/a4d85920
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Donate to Support Austin's Transplant Journey, organized by Lora Smerker
I am raising funds for Austin Estis, who is 31 years old and is experiencing liv… Lora Smerker needs your support for Support Austin's Transplant Journey
gofund.me
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
gofund.me/a4d85920
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
gofund.me/a4d85920
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Donate to Support Austin's Transplant Journey, organized by Lora Smerker
I am raising funds for Austin Estis, who is 31 years old and is experiencing liv… Lora Smerker needs your support for Support Austin's Transplant Journey
gofund.me
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
gofund.me/a4d85920
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
Any amount helps and all proceeds will go to medical bills, medication and treatment.
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This is not ok!!!
Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is not ok!!!
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"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'wait a minute, this is wrong', it helps other people to do the same." (Gloria Steinem)(Photo Credit: Mick Haupt/Pexels)
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
January 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'wait a minute, this is wrong', it helps other people to do the same." (Gloria Steinem)(Photo Credit: Mick Haupt/Pexels)
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
Happy Thursday, everybody.
#Felon47
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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With shocking secret footage, prison doc ‘The Alabama Solution' should outrage the nation www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
With shocking secret footage, prison doc ‘The Alabama Solution' should outrage the nation
Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman sat down at our studio in Park City to discuss their remarkable investigative documentary.
www.latimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
With shocking secret footage, prison doc ‘The Alabama Solution' should outrage the nation www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Educators are teaching in perilous times.
We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires.
. . . Billionaires no longer just fund reactionary policies; they are merging corporate power with government repression to cement their dominance. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teachin...
We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires.
. . . Billionaires no longer just fund reactionary policies; they are merging corporate power with government repression to cement their dominance. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teachin...
Teaching in Perilous Times
Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires — against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement ...
www.zinnedproject.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Educators are teaching in perilous times.
We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires.
. . . Billionaires no longer just fund reactionary policies; they are merging corporate power with government repression to cement their dominance. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teachin...
We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires.
. . . Billionaires no longer just fund reactionary policies; they are merging corporate power with government repression to cement their dominance. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teachin...
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The Best Books of 2024:
The Best Books of 2024 - Five Books Expert Recommendations
At Five Books, we’ve been doing best-of-the-year lists for nearly a decade and 2024 is no exception. Scroll down for all our best books of the year lists from across our site. If you prefer novels,…
fivebooks.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Best Books of 2024:
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New: Trump's first shot in his war on the deep state. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Former officials who signed the Biden laptop letter are being punished for expressing an opinion that the president didn't like. My latest in The Atlantic.
Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’
The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New: Trump's first shot in his war on the deep state. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Former officials who signed the Biden laptop letter are being punished for expressing an opinion that the president didn't like. My latest in The Atlantic.
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In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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It is not free speech when Trump aligned oligarchs have their thumbs on the algorithms of all the social media apps.
January 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It is not free speech when Trump aligned oligarchs have their thumbs on the algorithms of all the social media apps.
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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About 44% of Trump’s election was funded by just 10 megadonors, almost exactly 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark 'Citizens United' ruling, which opened the floodgates for corporations and billionaires to pour unlimited money into elections.
“Citizens United” Allowed 44% of Trump’s Election to Be Funded by 10 Megadonors
The ruling affords billionaires unprecedented political power as the rest of us pay the price, says an expert.
truthout.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
About 44% of Trump’s election was funded by just 10 megadonors, almost exactly 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark 'Citizens United' ruling, which opened the floodgates for corporations and billionaires to pour unlimited money into elections.
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A guest post from my @ragingmoderates.bsky.social co-host @jessicatarlov.bsky.social. www.profgalloway.com/how-to-survi...
How to Survive the Next Four Years | No Mercy / No Malice
Jessica Tarlov, a panelist on Fox’s The Five and my Raging Moderates co-host, has emerged as an important voice in American politics. This week I asked her what big lessons we should take from the ele...
www.profgalloway.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A guest post from my @ragingmoderates.bsky.social co-host @jessicatarlov.bsky.social. www.profgalloway.com/how-to-survi...
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18 states (+DC/SF) sue over Trump EO trying to end birthright citizenship. Suit says the EO violates constitutional rights of thousands of children and imposes undue costs on local jurisdictions that would lose federal funding tied to Medicaid and CHIP www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
18 states (+DC/SF) sue over Trump EO trying to end birthright citizenship. Suit says the EO violates constitutional rights of thousands of children and imposes undue costs on local jurisdictions that would lose federal funding tied to Medicaid and CHIP www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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What's the point of having fuck you money if you never use it to say fuck you
January 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
What's the point of having fuck you money if you never use it to say fuck you
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You'd think it would be important for the Washington Post to note that this violates the direct text of the 14th Amendment
Breaking news: The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.
Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship
The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You'd think it would be important for the Washington Post to note that this violates the direct text of the 14th Amendment
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Ok, so once I had an office job that didn’t keep me very busy - this was in the days before smart phones. When I had nothing to do but had to look busy, I’d pull up Project Gutenberg and read. I found and read so many fantastic books. It’s a brilliant site
Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
Please share.
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Project Gutenberg
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November 29, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Ok, so once I had an office job that didn’t keep me very busy - this was in the days before smart phones. When I had nothing to do but had to look busy, I’d pull up Project Gutenberg and read. I found and read so many fantastic books. It’s a brilliant site