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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Does RFK Jr have any idea how much research parents do on a regular basis? I'm a new, first time mom of a baby about to start solids that has a higher risk for significant food allergies. I've researched what I can do to reduce his risk nonstop, talked to pediatrician, an allergist, my PCP, etc. (1)

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Or — hear me out — we could all pool our money together and hire experts to do the research for us, thus creating a "center" for disease control and prevention.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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I think about this burrito at least once a month.

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It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

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I don’t know what I expected, but I did not expect my first tornado warning with a 4.5 mo baby to be the time where he starts trying out spooky laughs.

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In a new letter, AERA and other education research leaders call on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

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society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room

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This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

submitted 53 days ago • 167 comments

I wanted to be like Samantha growing up but not like this.

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KNOBS AND CRANKS KNOBS AND CRANKS

submitted 65 days ago • 769 comments

“News literacy is just another form of literacy, & it’s a skill that needs to be taught & that kids have to learn as they get older. ... It’s always going to be important for kids to know about current events & to know what’s going on in the world.” #NewsLiteracy www.poynter.org/business-wor...

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“America’s edu system is far from perfect. Teachers are underpaid and overworked, standardized testing is flawed, & school funding is wildly uneven. But abandoning federal oversight is not the solution—it’s a retreat into an era when edu was a privilege reserved for certain groups and not a right.”

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If you don't work in the education policy space day in and day out, it's really easy to fall for misinformation talking points like "I just want control over what's taught to be returned to the states." Brookings breaks down what the USDOE actually does and why you should care about its future.

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The good news: My 3 month old doesn't have an ear infection! The weird news: He apparently screamed at us all night because of his delicate skin.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

The department is claiming the fourth and eighth grade tests won’t be affected, but will that be true in a week? Last week they said NAEP was safe.

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Sorry I haven’t been posting so much lately I’ve been trying to ignore the tiny television in my pocket that delivers all of the misery in the world to me 24/7

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Bob Hoskins on Super Mario Brothers: ‘I didn’t even know it was a game, my kids told me. ‘What are you doing next, dad?’ ‘Super Mario Brothers.’ ‘Oh, that’s a game.’ ‘What?’ And they showed me this thing jumping up & down. ‘This is you.’ And I thought: ‘I used to play King Lear.’

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"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

submitted 77 days ago • 327 comments

From the New Yorker

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The actual solution to getting Starbucks employees to “work faster” isn’t to get rid of “DEI” (aka people of color and women), but to stop ordering your precious seventeen-ingredient “secret menu” milkshakes.

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My son's tummy hurts and he hates the government. (We made him do tummy time)

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 81 days ago • 412 comments

I spend an hour or more scanning the news for work each day and I can't think of any better way to describe how taxing it is seeing the worst things our country has to offer in headline after headline, year after year.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Chuck Schumer is so old that Wikipedia's photo of him as a young Congressman is in black & white.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

It’s like the entire Chiefs roster got severed and their one day old innies showed up to play

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

since it's nola it should be "geuax birds"

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Live by the em dash, die by the em dash.

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“The bear problem…is much bigger than individual libertarian cranks refusing to secure their garbage. It is a problem born of years of neglect and mismanagement by legislators, and…indifference from NH taxpayers in general, who have proved reluctant to step up and allocate resources to Fish & Game…”