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Happy Mother's Day, and a reminder that vaccines are a blessing. If you look at the U. S. Census for 1900 and 1910, there are two columns: Children Born and Children Living. For one of my great-great grandmothers, the number in the first column is "15." The number in the second column is "2."

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The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

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Tech early adopter here who went old school last year: laptops off, phones down, & all drafts and exams handwritten in class. Class discussion improved because they were looking at each other & the board. What I lost in teaching new material they gained in deeper engagement with it. Not sorry.

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Reading Clyde Fitch's "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" and am now ready to see Miss Ethel Barrymore in her breakthrough role of Aurelia. "Captain Jinks" and "The Climbers" are the Clyde Fitch gateway drug to the Wharton-Fitch adaptation of "The House of Mirth."

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Me, writing an essay in AP US History: It sucks that Carnegie was able to rehabilitate his reputation through charitable givings, even if society benefited from them. Me, today: GIMME THEM ROBBER BARONS

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We have a pro-crime Republican President terminating grants that improve public safety and help crime victims. I joined @booker.senate.gov and Democrats to demand DOJ reverse course and follow our laws. We need to be making our communities safer—not tearing away critical resources.

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My statement on the first 100 days of the Trump Administration:

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The reporters of CBS News going scorched earth on their parent company and calling them out for their capitulation & cowardice was not on my bingo card in 2025. Somewhere in the great cosmos, Edwards, Murrow, and Cronkite are weeping for CBS News' future and cheering the reporters on.

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We are witnessing our government institutions — whose independence is vital for the fair functioning of our legal system — being compromised and their integrity undercut in real time. This is how tyrants undermine democracy.

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Since he's torn up the Constitution, let's try the Magna Carta: "In future it shall be lawful for any man to leave and return to our kingdom unharmed and without fear, ...preserving his allegiance to us, ... for some short period, for the common benefit of the realm."

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At the recent SCMS conference, some Canadian panelists did not appear, and who can blame them? This is not a nation of laws any more--for billionaires and politicians who worship in the reigning cult, anyway.

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Bauerlein in the NYTimes argues that NEH should focus more on (quoting Trump) “the poetry of Walt Whitman, the stories of Mark Twain, the songs of Irving Berlin, the voice of Ella Fitzgerald." It took me 3 minutes on the NEH website to find: * 106 NEH grants supporting work about Walt Whitman +

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Proud of my North Country compatriots in standing up to a bully. (Gift link) wapo.st/4lu4Vr6

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the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen

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the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do

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Sackets is TINY (grew up near there). This illegal behavior of snatching children is all so that Homan can show off for our self-named king.

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A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

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I served with Tim Haugh when he was a captain and he was absolutely the smartest, hardest working, and most honorable officer I knew in a 25 year career in the Air Force. President Trump's firing says far more about his lack of those qualities than it does about Gen Haugh's performance.

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Good news--NEH's Edsitement is backed up already! I was concerned that backups wouldn't include the many pdf's linked to the lesson plans, but the ones I tested work. The direct link to the archived version of Edsitement is wayback.archive-it.org/5474/2024112...

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Reminder that Congress could undo this if it wanted to

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We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

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"Greenland takeover" is in reality "invading another country against all reason, logic, and rule of law." I am just an ordinary person and can see this; why can't the Washington Post see it? The sanewashing of illegal acts has got to stop.

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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

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One Canadian degree does not make me Canadian, necessarily, but knowing who Mr. Dressup is might qualify.

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There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY. But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it. Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.

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Calming the timeline.

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If you missed our screening of the hilarious HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), you can enjoy a Public Domain Movie Night screening in your own home! 🍿📽️👀 Watch the full film here ➡️ archive.org/details/his-... #PublicDomain #ClassicFilm #InternetArchive

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Lilac City shows up to show Musk what we think of him.

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Not being able to talk to a real person at the Social Security Administration when you need help or your local office closing due to staffing cuts is a benefit cut—point blank. Elon needs to get his hands OFF Social Security. Repost if you agree. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Anybody else start the day by listening "One Day More" from Les Misérables before you can face anything? Just me? Okay.

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Trump's nominee for deputy budget director seems open to the idea that our seniors who need help with Social Security should talk to chatbots instead of people. And he could NOT promise Elon's staffing cuts at the Social Security Administration wouldn't stop seniors from getting their benefits.

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Trudeau: "They're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin- a lying, murderous, dictator. Make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite. But we will not back down from a fight...Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155b of American goods."

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“Who saved you from falling asleep during that hundred-slide PowerPoint on the employee handbook by slipping in that line about ‘soliciting pubic opinions’?”

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Review of Gus Trenor in the play version of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1906): "He made love to Lily as if he expected to emphasize his pleadings with a blackjack." Ouch, in so many ways.

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Visiting the MASC (Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) and seeing Mourning Dove’s correspondence & promotional materials for Cogewea was a treat for the grad class & for me on Monday.

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One way for news outlets to respond would be an immediate TV ban on airtime for all administration officials.

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Republicans are full steam ahead to defund Medicaid and kick kids off their health care to pass more tax giveaways for billionaires—but YOUR story & YOUR voice can make a difference. Congress needs to hear from you—so my advice is to get loud. Here's how you can help fight back ⬇️

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