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submitted 18 days ago • 128 comments

Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 31 days ago • 171 comments

sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

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Since WaPo and NYT are pissing me off, I'm going to give this new publication a try for a few months [https://contrarian.substack.com/?r=2xw1g&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web](contrarian.substack.com?r=2xw1g&utm_...)

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"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

submitted 48 days ago • 903 comments

@mcuban.bsky.social ok, you’ve won me over. I forgive you for dissing San Antonio in 2014 😜 #GoSpursGo

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Post-doc job!

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Get a library card—even if you don’t plan to use it. Your registration helps secure funding for libraries, keeping them open and thriving for the entire community. Every card counts!

submitted 69 days ago • 608 comments

@iehs.bsky.social sponsors many sessions @oah.org conference in April. One of them is "Today's Attacks on Immigration and Immigrants in Historical Context," with @ithacamcg.bsky.social @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social Erika Lee, Kelly Lytle Hernandez & Uzma Quraishi. Add it to your conference schedule! 🗃️

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

UNC: Take our money Belichick. ($30M) 🏈 UNC System: Hey humanities, it costs too much to make students think critically. Let’s cut back. But we still want you to service Gen Ed classes. Except those courses that smell of DEI.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

I've been writing publicly for YEARS about unis starving the humanities of funding & pitching it towards AI. The AI-developed Comp Lit course at UCLA is just some toes in the water. We're going to see much more of this if faculty don't resist. My piece from 2021: theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

I am a fan of NPR’s Throughline so it was an honor to be featured on this episode alongside my respected colleague @rewasem.bsky.social

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Honored to be featured on NPR Throughline on the history of U.S. Asylum along with the wonderful @ithacamcg.bsky.social Seeking Asylum in the U.S. : Throughline www.npr.org/2024/12/05/1...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Make your voices heard using 5calls.org. They keep track of bills that are coming up in the House/Senate and connect you to your reps. They offer a basic telephone script but you can amend as you wish. 5calls.org

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 343 days ago • 997 comments

Holiday shopping? Check out these businesses. www.unrefugees.org/news/five-re...

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Farmworkers are the invisible guests at our Thanksgiving dinner tables. Without their skilled and essential labor, we don’t eat. #WeFeedYou

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments

Just when I thought the clown car was full.

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Climate Change: It's real. It's us. It's serious - and already dangerous. But there are solutions. The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.

submitted 102 days ago • 66 comments

As awful as Gaetz is, what does his reelection say about the folks who keep voting for him?

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

My thanks to Adam Goodman, Kimberly Phuong Beaudreau, Laura Briggs, and Julio Capó for this roundtable on my book, State of Disaster networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

VR headsets will be a top seller these next four years 🥴

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Ahoy! Help spread word that I'm here, please. I'm president of Media Matters (@mmfa.bsky.social). X is currently suing me and colleague personally as well as Media Matters. Been sorely missing the community Twitter once offered me. Hoping Bluesky can help fill that void. It's much needed.

submitted 105 days ago • 97 comments

I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining

submitted 103 days ago • 121 comments

A financial planner I know says he’s had a rush of clients come in to discuss ways to protect assets in the Trump years and even benefit from the policies to come. It’s not just the CEOs who will do well, he says. Most folks won’t benefit economically, though, so expect a midterm surprise.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s word: ‘hazmerreír’ as in “Es el hazmerreír del mundo entero.”

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

I would add to this RAICES Texas. www.raicestexas.org

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

And just like that imposter syndrome disappeared all across America

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I’m glad I can fall back on Spanish. There just aren’t enough English words to communicate what I’m feeling when I read the news.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations). Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members. I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.

submitted 108 days ago • 981 comments

Okay, one more random tip for newbies: if someone quote-skeets (yes, they're called skeets, shut up) you in a way to dunk on your or annoy you, you can "detach" your skeet from the quote, so that it no longer shows. This is also useful in ending brigading attacks.

submitted 108 days ago • 288 comments

I love seeing all the library support, but here's some realistic ways to help, from a former public librarian: - Circulate materials. Budget is often based on circ not only overall, but genre/category as well - Volunteer as a shelver if that's something they do - Don't "donate" your old crappy books

submitted 108 days ago • 138 comments