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Good reporting out about Pittsburgh and the potential effects of indirect cost cuts. www.publicsource.org/research-fun... 1/2

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Calling themselves #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts.

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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

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If your member of Congress won't hold a town hall, hold one without them

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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

submitted 4 days ago • 454 comments

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

submitted 4 days ago • 209 comments

THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired. “I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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They want 1939 Germany, Let’s give them 1789 France.

submitted 6 days ago • 105 comments

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 5 days ago • 866 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 6 days ago • 300 comments

The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 11 days ago • 386 comments

Turns out Bond really did die at the end of the last movie… ( 🙏 @newyorker.com)

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

The Communist Manifesto was published on this day in 1848. To celebrate, we've created a list of books on Marx and other key Marxists texts. Save up to 40% on these select titles - including preorders for Kevin B. Anderson's upcoming book, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads.

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Well now.

submitted 7 days ago • 80 comments

My essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist, is on the shortlist for The WCoNA Best Book of the Year Award. 🌟 Congrats to the other authors on the list: Laura Jackson, Michael Lockett, and Torli Bush 🌟 @univnebpress.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Calling Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick (to make sure he’s ok) 😢

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THIS. Be annoying as hell. Play dumb. Don’t do anything until it’s required by law and it’s the last possible moment to comply. Ask for clarification. Insist on explicit definitions of the most pedantic minutiae imaginable. Get it in writing. Slow. Everything. To. A. Crawl. Malicious compliance.

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Watch out! Uber quietly changed its settings so that travelers will be charged a 1.5% service fee! Here's how to fix your account and foil this dirty trick: www.frommers.com/tips/money-a...

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"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying." - Anton Chekhov

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

going to print this out and tape it on the wall at the shop

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Did this last week. Going to save a PDF monthly. I trust no one.

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

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Since the Dispatch on diversity only made 5 dollars, I'm back at it again today working on a new one to 'sing for my supper' - until then...Here's one from my vault that is considered one of my most popular pieces. Enjoy! medium.com/@kidether/th...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 13 days ago • 1611 comments

💥ATTENTION CDC💥 If terminated, you may have hrs before access is revoked. Please download (print to PDF) all employee docs asap including: eOPF file (esp SF50s), mypay (esp LES), benefeds, PMAS, termination email. Collect important website addresses and passwords for accounts accessed via PIV.

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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For @teenvogue.com today, I wrote about the impact of closing the Dept of Education. Long story short: students of all ages will face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them, and that is the point. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-w...

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