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PJacobs8
@pamela196.bsky.social
58, from Metro Detroit, now live near Knoxville, TN

MARRIED, BA & JD, Liberal politically, Anti-Oligarchy, Pro-healthcare
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country issued a joint statement condemning the administration’s attempts to control universities. They warned that this kind of political interference and government overreach is now threatening the future of higher education in America.
April 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Thank you all for standing up to this administration. Just one day after Harvard filed suit against the Trump administration for freezing billions in federal funds, more than 180 higher education leaders from across the
April 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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But don’t get your hopes up he added that he still expects to remain part of the Trump administration for its full duration. That’s over three more years of Elon. WTF! 😳
April 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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After Tesla reported a sharp drop in quarterly profit, Elon Musk told investors on an earnings call that “starting next month” he’ll scale back his time in Washington with DOGE to just one or two days a week.
April 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America.
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This would eliminate all federal funding for the Head Start program. The program helps 750,000 children nationwide.
April 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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The Trump administration is asking Congress to cut funding for Head Start.
April 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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in recent weeks many triggered by minor traffic violations or no clear reason at all. Court filings describe the fallout: dozens of individual lawsuits, students racing to preserve their legal status, and the looming threat of losing degrees or years of research progress.
April 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The American Association of University Professors and other groups will ask a federal judge in Massachusetts to block the Trump administration’s revocation of visas and detention of noncitizen students and scholars nationwide. The lawsuit follows a wave of over 1,000 visa cancellations
April 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Breaking News: A federal jury ruled against Sarah Palin in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
Jury Rules Against Palin in Libel Case Against The New York Times
After two hours of deliberation, a jury rejected Sarah Palin’s claim that she had been defamed in the newspaper’s 2017 editorial.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Wassily Kandinsky :
Blue Sky, 1940
April 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory.

Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
April 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I don’t know who made this but I am grateful. A giant wedge of Swiss cheese crushing a heavily damaged #Tesla #Cybertruck on a city street, with the #Wisconsin State Capitol building visible in the background.
April 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The Dow tomorrow
April 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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So let me get this straight: as he was framing Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic as lowlife scum for accurately reporting on him, Mike Waltz was frantically checking his _19_ other secret, national security-threatening Signal chats to make sure he hadn't accidentally invited any journalists to those?
April 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Heinrich Campendonk (German/Dutch, 1889-1957) :
The Red Cat, 1926

oil on canvas, 75.3 × 85 cm
Yale University Art Gallery
April 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Mike Luckovich
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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March 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM