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Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

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If we're just figuring this out about a disease that we have long considered ubiquitous and have had around as long as we can remember, that most people can only get once, why is everyone so eager to go out and get COVID as often as possible?

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youtu.be/HMORDgnxNs8?...

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youtu.be/sKUqdMHoPNQ?...

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“Inscribe my book with something weird and random” I was born for this challenge

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The new subvariant has mutations on the spike protein. This means that several vaccines may not be effective against it, especially older ones. Something we will need to keep an eye on. Mask up everyone.

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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected. My reaction:

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

submitted 25 days ago • 506 comments

Okay, so Trump may win the birthright citizenship case before the SCOTUS. Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is not an idle threat, either. Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

So will all the Irish media that gave blanket coverage of this stitch up on vulnerable trans children report on it and hold Irish clinicians to account? Will they fuck!!

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The Quakers are probably the only US religious group shooting over 90% from the field on being on the right side of history.

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments