The bills would prohibit accrediting agencies from basing accreditation of an Arkansas institution “on a review or consideration of DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion],” collecting information related to DEI or requiring diversity statements from a college or university.

In the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the City Council of Arlington approved plans by French energy giant TotalEnergies to drill 10 new gas wells near a daycare center, residential neighborhoods and elementary schools.

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

My Texas town had a rally to support immigrants today and my local paper was there and anyway I fixed their caption. ✌️

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

Just renewed my drivers license for RealID. I advise every transgender person, just as I did with passports, to not wait to renew your ID. Get that done now - many states let you do it online, schedule appointments, etc.

Don't get caught flat footed if/when Trump turns RealID against us.

You got to check out this house budget committee webpage…each one of these documents looks like they were written by a Jan 6 mobster in one day and randomly arranged by month and day. 🥴😄 budget.house.gov/news/soundin...

It’s an open secret among medical professionals: Many drugs maintain their ability to combat ailments well after their expiration date. One pharmacist says he sometimes takes home expired OTC medicine so he and his family can use it.

(Published 2017, but there's no expiration date for this story)

interesting article illustrating overconfidence and bias from people effectively living in echo chambers where they are only exposed to viewpoints and information agreeing with their beliefs,

www.sciencefocus.com/news/hidden-...

If you were in Mariann Budde’s position, would you have done it differently? How?

I remember the old days when Fox said it was Biden’s fault.

I keep thinking about all the ways to be soft and tough at the same time. Water over rocks. Green rushes in the wind. Vines curling around obstacles and through cracks. Opening and softening to give life.

Yesterday, President Donald Trump launched a new assault on civil rights and efforts to combat workplace discrimination by signing an executive order rescinding Executive Order 11246, originally issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson. www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...

"The need for Democrats [is] to break more explicitly with the neoliberal version of globalization that brought widening inequality and also to move beyond the faith that the solution to inequality is individual mobility through higher education."

"The best things in life aren’t political...the main sources of human well-being are family, friends, meaningful work, hobbies, the arts, nature, spirituality and acts of kindness. None of these depend on political systems. We can cope by falling back on the best things in life."

Let’s try not to be trapped in a blue bubble, again!