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Happy Pride from Porky. 🌈

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NYT has the data on the large upswing in ICE arrests which are up 124% y/y. gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin Pride - i was delighted to be interviewed for this article #pride2025 #queerhistories #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6742433

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The @aejmc.bsky.social conference schedule will change between now and August, but thanks to some vibe coding with Claude here's a searchable/browsable schedule app for #aejmc25: thescoop.org/aejmc25/

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Seasonal nephew. With the mama and your buddy Ryan at the Chris Stapleton Chicago show season.

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🧪🧬🦠👊👊👊 keep fighting and speaking out. #StandUpForScience

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"temu jackie o" is one of the most vicious owns I have ever seen online and I've been doing this since the 90s. holy shit. surgical

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Over 1.7 million people attend the flagship event every year held in the capital

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Parties in a federal lawsuit over Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth must file supplemental briefs in light of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld Tennessee’s similar ban, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Friday.

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Important point by UVA Prof. @larrysabato.bsky.social: "Note that [Ryan] didn’t stay & fight because the Trump Administration would have cut UVA’s federal funding drastically, cutting hundreds of jobs, financial aid for students, even visas for international students" bluevirginia.us/2025/06/uva-...

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Told a reporter we will need collective action in the days ahead at UVA and that the reality is, it will likely require the famous alums stepping up. They don't care about a lil Black girl from the 757. But people like Katie will matter more.

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There’s profound meaning when a top southern public university like UVA is open & willing to understand the past in all its complexity, good & bad, race (& “DEI”) included I got my M.A. & Ph.D at UVA, & admired the range & breadth of its embrace of complex history Unlike the current administration

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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/27/i...

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President Donald Trump wants to cut nearly $1,700 from the maximum Pell Grant award as part of his fiscal 2026 budget request — a move that would leave the subsidy for low-income students at its lowest level in more than a decade, reports Shauneen Miranda.

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The Center for Sainthood, commissioned by San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, aims to train sainthood enthusiasts on the inner workings of canonization. religionnews.com/2025/06/24/n...

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Got my Friday payday preorders in on @bookshop.org now on to @bandcamp.com for some Valus, 10 Foot Pole and Rabby Febber.

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Mississippi State University's Project ENspire postponed its 10th Annual gathering in response to President Trump's anti-diversity orders. The project, which began in 2016, introduces girls in grades 4-6 to engineering.

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Once we start picking and choosing which librarian-approved books are okay to discriminate against, we open the damn floodgates. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

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I'm just glad we can all agree that my headshot is hot as f... [touches ear] uhhhh I'm being told that "professionalism" is "critical at this juncture"

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RIP to a real one. Stood up for the truth in a sea of lies. Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Folks in Barefoot, Morning Glory and Sprout note: 50 MPH winds and pea-sized hail.

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"A panel of judges on New York’s appellate court ruled Thursday that Chesebro should be disbarred for the “serious crime” he committed when he attempted to subvert Georgia’s 2020 election results for Trump." More of this please 🎉

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Wednesday marked the first ACIP meeting since health secretary Kennedy dismissed all 17 existing voting members and installed eight new ones.

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In a concurring opinion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, Justice Clarence Thomas calls for the court to narrow Section 1983, the flagship federal civil-rights tort. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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I used to have stress nightmares that they’d drop all their big cases on the last day instead of spacing them out. They finally did it.

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Jack B Yeats’s painting of mournful scene after Bloody Sunday 1920 is acquired by National Gallery www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

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I don't choose to accept it. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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@michaeldweiss.bsky.social, an Emmy award and news about Havana syndrome. The bottom line; we were right the whole time (and Jake Sullivan looks weak). www.thebulwark.com/p/michael-we...

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Apart from all his soundtrack work, don’t sleep on the fact the late Lalo Schifrin also put out a couple jazz albums on CTI Records in the 1970s. 1976 LP Black Widow by Lalo Schifrin. Length; 38:08. #RIPLaloSchifrin m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3h2...

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Brilliant author spoke at the Patterson School and College of CI collaborative campus talk. Fascinating, exciting new book! @drfarls.bsky.social @pattersonschool.bsky.social

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Lalo Schifrin, the Argentine composer, pianist and conductor, has died at 93. Best known for the Mission: Impossible theme, his Latin and jazz stylings also graced soundtracks for films such as BULLITT and DIRTY HARRY. Schifrin live in 1994. #RIPLaloSchifrin m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhWI...

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11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

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Anna Wintour STEPS DOWN from famed Vogue role in shock career decision www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

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10 years ago today, the Supreme Court made marriage for LGBTQ couples legal nationwide in a landmark win stemming from our lawsuit. Extremist politicians have shifted their crusade to erasing trans people from public life — but we're not going anywhere. The fight may be long, but we will win.

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"And in many ways, Hip-hop journalists in the earliest days were functioning themselves as historians and critics and archivists and archeologists, if you will, anthropologists of Hip-hop culture." Mark Anthony Neal from 'Word Life: An Opinionated Mixtape of Hip Hop Journalism' (February, 2024)

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The fastest player to reach 5,000 career points in WNBA history… A’JA WILSON.

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Trump’s anti-DEI agenda faces major blow as judge sides with SF schools www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

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I'll be talking with Reverend Dr. Barber and @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social over on Substack Live later today. Tune in at 1pm ET.

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This garbage proposal to cancel Preschool for All has gotten me to actually write my reps for the first time ever…I don’t even have kids but I know how important this is for my friends and neighbors who do.

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We can’t legally call it a “Toy Story Experience,” but the hotel does have a room where toys will come to life and scream at you about Nietzsche.

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🚨Less than one in 12 African cities is covered by more than one piece of climate change research, and many are completely absent from the evidence base altogether, with major implications for climate assessments. A hugely significant study from @efesce.bsky.social and colleagues, in Nature Cities.

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