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If you're a bookseller or indie press person and you'll be at Winter Institute in Pittsburgh next year, please let's hang out! And also let me know if you want help planning an off-site

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I appreciate this and I think it extends to booksellers. As Winter Institute comes to a close, I remain confused as to why the ABA can't more effectively lobby the big 5 to bump up margins for bookstores so they can pay their employees more. (I'm open to someone explaining why this is impossible!)

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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis. grist.org/health/expec... #Climate #Birth #Menstruation #Fertility #Pregnancy.

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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

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It’s time to stop hoarding. There is so much need and there are orgs that are in place that NEED support.

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!!!URGENT!!! THE SAMEER PROJECT ONLY HAS ENOUGH FUNDS TO CONTINUE OPERATING IN THE NORTH FOR 3 MORE DAYS. THIS IS VERY BAD. DONATE NOW!!!!! chuffed.org/project/help...

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Not much longer for this deadline!

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So, when I talk about local civic engagement as an integral part of anti-fascist resistance, I want to make it clear that there's ways to participate that isn't just protests and voting. You can start an anti-fascist book club. (very short thread) www.veteransfightingfascism.org/antifascist-...

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New locations and dates for more #teslatakedown in Philly area: March 1 and 8 at West Chester location www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Whole story: phillyactivist.com/teslatakedow...

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Lisa Ndejuru in @tracepress.bsky.social's excellent collection of essays on translation, River in an Ocean, reminding me of sth so glaringly obvious it's completely missed me until now: Our oral tradition is replete with song (voice, instruments, sometimes dance). Writing it erases that.

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Just as an FYI, hospitals NEED Medicare and Medicaid dollars to function. Smaller/ rural/ critical access hospitals will not survive without them. So even if you don't rely on Medicare, you still might lose your local hospital or find yourself stranded without care while traveling.

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Devastating "The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip generated a life expectancy loss of more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the war, nearly halving prewar levels. Actual losses are likely to be higher" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Casting a net for a grouper volunteers to help update the Pittsburgh Fish Fry Map this Saturday afternoon. Come to fulfill your civic obligation, meet people, or just for the halibut.

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Last year, activists occupied a forest in Germany next to Tesla's Gigafactory aiming to prevent the factory from expanding. Local residents have been forced to ration their water as the factory uses mass amounts of water. See our short film from the occupation: unicornriot.ninja/2024/teslast...

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Why am I looking at my podcast feed and seeing new episodes featuring Bill Maher and TCW? Why are these the people we feel we need to interview and hear from right now?

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LRT: The work Hello Neighbor does is essential but I haven't forgotten their union-busting

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A federal “stop work” order came as a blow to three local resettlement groups: Hello Neighbor, AJAPO, and Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh. They provide a range of support that help refugees with the essentials of a new life here, including obtaining IDs and finding housing.

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Man, fuck this shit.

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But the B of BDS is too hard?

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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WWB is hiring! Work with us, we are cool and the work we do is cool but maybe I'm biased! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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When I haven't been able to find sustainable work in journalism, I've fallen back on marketing. I've made this pivot twice in my career. It was hard both times. But this is the second warning sign that's come my way this week that has me on high alert. 🧵

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NEWS: Trump's Department of Education has rescinded the guidance saying Title IX, the statute governing gender equity in sports, applies to House v. NCAA revenue-sharing payments. It's one of the expected but drastic shifts in Trump's Title IX application. frontofficesports.com/trump-biden-...

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This is an absolute nightmare and an atrocity and if not for the tattoo it would have been something else. People have been warning for years about how “gang affiliation” used by cops is racist bullshit, Trump is just building on the criminalization that existed in this country.

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The Hill needs a freaking break 😞 www.ura.org/news/stateme...

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City and county leaders gathered Monday to mark the closure of the last homeless encampment in Pittsburgh’s Central Business District. The last people living on the Eliza Furnace Trail behind the Allegheny County Jail recently moved into more stable housing.

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Join us 2/13 at the University of Pittsburgh for a celebration of the life and work of Mal Goode (Class of ‘31), network news’s first African-American correspondent.

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This profile aged like MILK. I am actually laughing at it www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-...

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Greater Pgh Arts Council— this is treason and indefensible. Still, I want to hear your defense of it.

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Every part of this blows and I'd love for Patrick Fisher to elaborate on why money was better spent developing this app than paying someone to do customer service and set up an arts calendar www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-g...

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The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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The dancer who waved a flag expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and Sudanese people during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show on Sunday has been released without charges. “I had an opportunity on a grand scale to bring awareness to a wrong [against] our Muslim brothers and sisters.”

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And on top of everything else I CANNOT log into my library account for some reason

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a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

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We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

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I can't stress this enough, join groups online or in person with people who clearly see what's happening currently. It will ground you and make you less fearful.

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oftentimes at his companies, musk thought he was making things better when he was worsening them & racking up costs. this 2018 story here says how. (took me months to report out & chats w/ dozens of tesla workers then) www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/t...

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I wrote @senatorsanders.bsky.social a message and I feel like it’s worth sharing here too

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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over. "Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.

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LATEST: At least 57 Head Start programs around the country serving more than 21,000 children still couldn’t access federal funding as of Thursday morning, according to leaders from the National Head Start Association. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/06/h...

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So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

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