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American Culture PhD. I like the English language, verifiable facts, books, dogs, baking, art, movies, being outdoors, history, the Red Sox, and speaking Yiddish. Bostonian in Seattle.
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Pedey is here for a timeline cleanse.

Massachusetts: Here are things you can do to help immigrants.

Please enjoy #NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s astonishing photos from space. #photography www.nasa.gov/gallery/astr...

Made bagels with my mom. 😊 #bread #mothersday

Read The Jungle, if you think this needn’t be taken seriously.

This is good.

1/2 “In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions…

“increasingly combative,” and “flirting”: This you, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social? @nytimes.com

Finally!

“Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.” #highered #education

For your #Passover prep: #yiddish

How does this sound, #highered people? If not for the current emergency, what is the purpose of a massive endowment?

"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.

A primer on challah. #baking #bread

Baseball is coming soon! #redsox

Sagres lighthouse, Portugal, last week. #blueskyartshow on the theme of #sunlight.

"maybe Democrats ought to be promoting an agenda that advocates reassessment and change, that is future-oriented, that seeks to turn the page forward... And maybe... we need to be more open to ideas that the powerful have defined as sacrilege.” More from @djrothkopf.bsky.social:

Vote NO on cloture, @cantwell.senate.gov! - A constituent.

Big news! #yiddish