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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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David Hogg has been forced out of his role as vice chair of the DNC.

His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US.

🎧 Listen to Hogg on More to the Story 🎧
David Hogg’s Fight for the Future of the Democratic Party
Podcast Episode · Reveal · 06/04/2025 · 29m
podcasts.apple.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Congress’s proposed hike in endowment taxes would land particularly hard on small private colleges that rely on endowment returns to support their financial-aid programs and operating expenses. chroni.cl/3FWJIWz
Small Colleges Are Banding Together Against a Higher Endowment Tax. This Is Why.
These liberal-arts institutions rely on their endowments to fund much of their operations and financial aid.
chroni.cl
June 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Use. Alt. Text. When. Posting. Images.
March 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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glenn youngkin easily the commonwealth's worst governor of the 21st century www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Youngkin commutes sentence of ex-officer who fatally shot unarmed man
Youngkin commuted the sentence Sunday night, writing that the three years of incarceration went beyond the state’s sentencing guidelines.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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useful list:
February 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I think a very, very deep recession is unavoidable at this point.
I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA.

The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.
February 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Friends I’m gonna need all of you to go buy Eve Ewing’s new book “Original Sins/ The (Mis)education of Black and Native children and the Construction of American Racism” when it releases officially tomorrow. Truly an incredible and all too timely book
February 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I'm super-excited and oh-so-proud that Eirene Allen has written a book!
"The Epic Women of Homer" is available now from the publisher, Pen and Sword (www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Epic-Wom...), and all bookshops.
Go get yourself a copy!
#Ancientbluesky 🏺📚
February 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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If you're still looking for something to write about for the "Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies" Blog Carnival, perhaps you could write about how this CFP *circulates* on Bluesky.

Full CFP: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/02/04/c...

Proposal deadline is Feb 26th!
Call for Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
For much of rhetoric’s history, circulation—the cultural and spatio-temporal flow of texts, ideas, and images through various networks, platforms, and structures—has been less of an explicit area of…
www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Hey, why do y’all always have these hangars hanging above your woodstove in the winter?”

#rurallife #winter
February 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Air traffic controllers have been emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash.
Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs
Federal employees were told they could use their paid time off to explore “dream destinations” before quitting.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM