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By day: Higher Ed/non-profit "lifer" advocating for education, truth, & accessibility to knowledge By later the same day: your fave ADHD-addled know-it-all By night: theater kid, comedy nerd, trivia master, deathcare smarty-pants
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Honestly this is just incredible content.

Overheard: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”

Breaking News: The Supreme Court appeared open to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board, the panel that decides annually if and how much rents can go up for almost one million rent-stabilized apartments, appears likely to vote in favor of rent increases for the fifth straight year.

I didn't really ever anticipate speaking publicly about this experience but ... Last year I got divorced from my husband of less than 2 years bc he went down an AI rabbit hole & now thinks he's a cosmic lynchpin and I was a threat to his "purpose." Ask me anything, I guess?

For years, a house on my commute flew Trump flags, always fresh & increasingly rage-baity. After the Zelenskyy disaster, the newest flag disappeared. I expected something nuts to take its place but instead, a new American flag appeared & has stayed. If the most vocal are shifting, there’s hope yet?🤞

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

I personally consider the boycott a success because it was a baby practice action for people who have never done that before. People got on board! They got to feel what it was like! It was easy! And when they get asked to do something next, they’ll have an experience to build off of.

A reminder for these times.

With the economy sliding toward recession, mass layoffs underway, and a growing geopolitical crisis, now seems like a terrible time for both the president and vice president to be on vacation — just weeks into the job.

It's important to remember that sometimes people DO leave a cult and they need to be supported.

“You have to be committing genocide and starting wars" to be a Nazi, the tech billionaire told Joe Rogan.

I’m over red & blue states. I want a green state; a place that provides fresh, safe food & water for all, invests in public spaces and nature, and nurtures art & education. A state where growth is prized and people aren’t fighting each other, but lifting each other up. How do we get that state?

that Krasnov thing explains what happened today

My Senator is a traitor.

DEMOCRATS WAKE UP AND FIGHT

I am so goddamn mad. A friend who’s been FISHING BODIES OUT OF THE POTOMAC appears to be in the Trump purges today.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Know thy enemy is stupid as fuck.

Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Heroes

Me saying good morning to the group chat

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

This entire "government" is just low-rent LARPing

Unrelated to The Current Troubles (kind of): This may be the uncoolest of uncool questions, but what are you academia folk doing nowadays re: listing your degrees behind your name? I feel like everyone did it for a minute, now we're playing it demure. I don't mind either way, just a temp check.

Community bulletin boards on college campuses are an incredibly underrated source of entertainment. There will always be something that calls to your soul

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

From this morning:

Those were the days

What fresh hell is this?

Trump admin's memo to federal workers today vs. Elon Musk's memo to Twitter employees before laying off 80% of staff. More on how Musk's fingerprints are all over this: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-buyo...

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Caroline Kennedy is an intelligent woman who has been media trained her whole life and knows the power of words. When she says "predator" I think she means it in all the ways, and I wouldn't be surprised.

“He can’t end birthright citizenship.” Ok I hear you but I’ll be more confident four years from now if it’s still around; talk then

We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.

#BREAKING RFK Jr to head the Department of Dying of a Preventable Disease

Yep! And don't forget this isn't limited to physical media; you can gift ebooks, audiobooks, etc. Gifting in your recipient's preferred format improves the odds they'll actually read it 🌠

Hey 👋🏽 guys , many people are seeing “invalid handle” on their account. BlueSky is working on it, hang on.

Everyone on this site has a library card

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.