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Leave the Military Now
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Leave the Military Now
What does courage demand?
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October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Leave the Military Now
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Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time is a fantastic read, bringing together history, London, culture, Arctic expeditions, class, time travel, race, and love (always love). This is the messy stuff of life lived large.
March 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time is a fantastic read, bringing together history, London, culture, Arctic expeditions, class, time travel, race, and love (always love). This is the messy stuff of life lived large.
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I wish university leaders would a) read this, and b) reconsider their silence.
This administration is coming for higher education. Failing to point out the illegality, the violation of basic legal rights, and attacks on research and what they mean isn't going to save us.
This administration is coming for higher education. Failing to point out the illegality, the violation of basic legal rights, and attacks on research and what they mean isn't going to save us.
New from me at Cato: in its demands that Columbia surrender its academic and administrative independence to federal overseers, the Trump administration has violated one law after another. And there's every reason to think it's planning to roll out the same game plan to other universities. /1
What Can the Feds Legally Demand of Columbia University?
The Trump administration is using the threat of a funding cutoff to demand sweeping changes at Columbia University, including a drastic overhaul of its system of student discipline, and the putting of...
www.cato.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I wish university leaders would a) read this, and b) reconsider their silence.
This administration is coming for higher education. Failing to point out the illegality, the violation of basic legal rights, and attacks on research and what they mean isn't going to save us.
This administration is coming for higher education. Failing to point out the illegality, the violation of basic legal rights, and attacks on research and what they mean isn't going to save us.
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Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
March 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”
At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
www.statnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
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Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
Christopher Newfield offers terrific insight into the culture wars & the destruction of creation here. Spend some time & energy with this. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/03/line...
Liner Note 19. All-Out War on the Knowledge Society: Waiting Won’t Work This Time
Ephesus, Türkiye on August 23, 2005 The subtitle to this post was originally “Five Ways to Counter It”—the Trumpian war, that is. But in the...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Christopher Newfield offers terrific insight into the culture wars & the destruction of creation here. Spend some time & energy with this. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/03/line...
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A Colorado law that dramatically increased jail voting is already making an impact beyond the state. Advocates in New Mexico, Washington, Michigan, and Tennessee are pushing for similar laws to expand ballot access in their jails.
boltsmag.org/jail-vo...
boltsmag.org/jail-vo...
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but the first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
March 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A Colorado law that dramatically increased jail voting is already making an impact beyond the state. Advocates in New Mexico, Washington, Michigan, and Tennessee are pushing for similar laws to expand ballot access in their jails.
boltsmag.org/jail-vo...
boltsmag.org/jail-vo...
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PRIVATIZING SCHOOLS: “Billionaires created the groundwork for Trump to expand charter schools and promote federal vouchers. Those who benefit from this privatization scheme are not students, families, or taxpayers who support neighborhood public schools.” coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/03/bill...
March 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
PRIVATIZING SCHOOLS: “Billionaires created the groundwork for Trump to expand charter schools and promote federal vouchers. Those who benefit from this privatization scheme are not students, families, or taxpayers who support neighborhood public schools.” coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/03/bill...
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I think about few books as frequently as this one.
March 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I think about few books as frequently as this one.
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Does anyone on here currently do or have previously done anything on the Flint Water crisis?
If so, can you drop ya name belowH
If so, can you drop ya name belowH
March 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Does anyone on here currently do or have previously done anything on the Flint Water crisis?
If so, can you drop ya name belowH
If so, can you drop ya name belowH
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"I’ve spent my life in rural parts of rural states. I am uniquely qualified to speak on this issue. I have seen it first-hand. You have heard of Project 2025. Missouri has been running the pilot project for almost two decades."
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No amount of letter writing has persuaded my lawmakers, but one thing has slowed them down:
Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Letting lawmakers know we see them and we know.
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Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Letting lawmakers know we see them and we know.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
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March 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"I’ve spent my life in rural parts of rural states. I am uniquely qualified to speak on this issue. I have seen it first-hand. You have heard of Project 2025. Missouri has been running the pilot project for almost two decades."
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@bsky.app I just published Hard Reading, Watching Between the Texts, and Humanizing in the Digital Age medium.com/p/hard-readi...
Hard Reading, Watching Between the Texts, and Humanizing in the Digital Age
Books and reading are having a moment on the socials, in the culture wars. Earlier this month, someone Tweeted about how books published…
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March 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@bsky.app I just published Hard Reading, Watching Between the Texts, and Humanizing in the Digital Age medium.com/p/hard-readi...
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I can tell you one thing I am *not* doing tonight: watching @msnbc.com.
February 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I can tell you one thing I am *not* doing tonight: watching @msnbc.com.
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when did the acting DOGE administrator become the acting DOGE administrator
when did the acting DOGE administrator become the acting DOGE administrator
WHEN DID THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR BECOME THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR
when did the acting DOGE administrator become the acting DOGE administrator
WHEN DID THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR BECOME THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR
February 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
when did the acting DOGE administrator become the acting DOGE administrator
when did the acting DOGE administrator become the acting DOGE administrator
WHEN DID THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR BECOME THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR
when did the acting DOGE administrator become the acting DOGE administrator
WHEN DID THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR BECOME THE ACTING DOGE ADMINISTRATOR
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Look at this leader. Lift her up.
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Look at this leader. Lift her up.
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What did we lose when we lost more than 22,000 (so far) fired government workers? This website connects numbers to people -- and to the important work they did. trumpcostsamerica.com
Trump Costs America
Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.
trumpcostsamerica.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
What did we lose when we lost more than 22,000 (so far) fired government workers? This website connects numbers to people -- and to the important work they did. trumpcostsamerica.com
Common Sense, Synesthesia, and the Soul
My introduction to a new edition of Eric McLuhan's book
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February 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Against “Efficiency” open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...
I'm sharing a gr8 piece by Emily Pitts Donahoe here - thank u, Emily!
"I want us all to make human thriving, not efficiency, the center of our work. Is that too much to ask?"
I'm sharing a gr8 piece by Emily Pitts Donahoe here - thank u, Emily!
"I want us all to make human thriving, not efficiency, the center of our work. Is that too much to ask?"
Against “Efficiency”
A rant
open.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Against “Efficiency” open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...
I'm sharing a gr8 piece by Emily Pitts Donahoe here - thank u, Emily!
"I want us all to make human thriving, not efficiency, the center of our work. Is that too much to ask?"
I'm sharing a gr8 piece by Emily Pitts Donahoe here - thank u, Emily!
"I want us all to make human thriving, not efficiency, the center of our work. Is that too much to ask?"