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Pablo
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I'm a mutt who's into music, math, education, comics, technology, equity, and community.
Great article about the dysfunction in DC and the importance of the systems that Tr*&p/DOGE are working so hard to destroy. thefulcrum.us/environment/...
The Wind Doesn’t Know State Lines, Washington Doesn’t Seem To Care
As you cross the George Washington Bridge heading west, you can smell New Jersey. You pass through notorious Superfund marshes and speed through Newark's refinery smokestacks. East Coasters love to mo...
thefulcrum.us
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Schools should have done this years ago. The single man in charge is not going to work most places. I think it's actually tougher than the combo coach/GM in the NFL.
NIL and Portal management are at least a full-time job. Let the coach focus on recruiting and Xs and Os. www.espn.com/college-foot...
Andrew Luck as Stanford's GM? What it means for the Cardinal and college football
Stanford's legendary quarterback is returning to school as the Cardinal's GM. What does it mean for Luck, the team and the future of college football?
www.espn.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
"While the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among comparable countries, it far outspends its peers on health care." www.kff.org/other/slide/...
The U.S. Has the Lowest Life Expectancy Among Large, Wealthy Countries While Far Outspending Them on Health Care | KFF
An updated Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker analysis shows the United States experienced a second year of decline in life expectancy in 2021 while other comparably large, wealthy countries saw a reb...
www.kff.org
December 2, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Betsy DeVos is a piker. Trump's second war on education is already shaping up to be far worse than the first.

That's because an army of Christian nationalists is making their move on the state level. The goal: Destroy public schools as we know them.

www.salon.com/2024/11/26/o...
Emboldened by Trump, Christian nationalists ramp up war on public education
MAGA leaders promise an "educational insurgency" to create "boot camps for winning back America"
www.salon.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Healthcare should be free and universal!

Health is public, and healthcare is a human right!
December 1, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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The first five pages of a comic I wrote called October Surprise. It's a sci-fi political thriller about a Presidential candidate with a secret that could change human history. Tony Rollinson was the artist. Feel free to hit me at travis@travisgjohnson.com if you'd like to know more.
December 7, 2023 at 4:56 PM
I really liked TweetDeck, and now I can have the same type of view for BlueSky: deck.blue. Signing up also introduced me to App Passwords, which is a smart feature.
November 7, 2023 at 4:39 PM
From @rbreich.bsky.social "In 1965, CEOs of America’s largest corporations were paid, on average, 20 times the pay of average workers. Today, the ratio is over 398 to 1" open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Why labor activism is good for America
It could help rebuild the middle class
open.substack.com
September 21, 2023 at 8:38 PM