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I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

Awful preventable death because our city refuses to enforce motorists who drive and park on the sidewalk.

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❤️ Ed Yong 😷 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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If you're represented by a Republican and you care about the post office, how about flyering outside your local post office. Tell folks about the administration's plan to dismantle USPS and tell them to contact their GOP reps. Include local telephone numbers on the fliers. bsky.app/profile/sylv...

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

From the Department of Education, Medicaid, the CDC, and more - Trump and Elon Musk are gutting the agencies and programs that protect Americans every single day. They are trying to cut off the lifelines that our communities rely on.

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

Major events in human history are often driven by incredible assholes, just monstrous douchebags with ego problems that cause them to float through the world committing atrocities and cheering themselves onwards. Nate Silver should both read better books and go to therapy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 43 comments

This is what pisses me off about the @democrats.org. 30k people on discord, and they shut it down. Multiple campaigns on Reach, which was great to share social, and they’re all shut down. Huge communities just gone because they want to use Slack, which I found hard to use, even tho I do at work.

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This is good simple messaging.

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Starting April 1, 2025, most telehealth services through Medicare coverage will be unavailable. This will affect those living in rural communities, students in college towns, and more.

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Telehealth isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. For many of my patients with Long COVID and disabilities, in-person visits are exhausting, inaccessible, or simply not feasible. Removing telehealth coverage means denying care to those who need it most. We must protect access to virtual care.

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an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

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My most popular article so far: Tariffs Part 1. Learn all about tariffs - who pays them, why are they usually used, what happens in markets when they are used, and more. thelibertypear.com/2024/11/25/w...

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One of my favorite pages brings back the most joyous moments of a trip to Amritsar.

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www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Are y'all heading out this weekend to a protest, picket, community event, library, supermarket etc...? Look at this terrific handout created by @birchbot.bsky.social. Thanks to them for this.

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

The one time I will root for a Gamecock. 🐅 New book from Dawn Staley.

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Causing "global catastophe" will be judged one day as crimes against humanity. A reckoning will come. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

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“…the boundaries on redlining maps that were drawn a century ago to determine who got access to government-insured home mortgages largely correspond to the state’s school attendance lines.”

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Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

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Because these United States sided with fascism after the end of WWII. There have been Nazis in the federal government for 70+ yrs. They are just the loudest they’ve ever been now. There is no longer shame for fascists.

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He might be—was, I believed—a fearful, despot, but he had a dimple. — Ida Tarbell on, wait for it, Mussolini.

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BAACOOON! Sorry Peanut. But we have no bacon.

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The FDIC protects your hard earn money in the bank and helps prevent another financial crash. Trump and Musk’s move to fire these workers is dangerous. I led Senate Democrats in pushing back, and now independent investigators are on the case.

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I keep thinking who is the Ida Tarbell of the 21st-century? She likes Rockefeller, Ford, Gary—as long as their business and labor practices are fair and efficient. She’s critical, but she is a bit hagiographical. Thus, I’ve concluded the 21st-century version of her is Kara Swisher.

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It never wriggles.

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From Judge Gary wiki bio: From 1906 to 1908, he served as president of the Illinois State Society of New York, a group of Illinois expatriates living in New York who got together for social reasons a few times each year.

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Hi! Disability scholar here. IQ is a deeply racist and classist metric weaponized by eugenicists and used to claim the innate superiority of the white ruling class. Stop listening to ppl who crow about IQ. Intelligence means nothing without compassion, humbleness, and owning one’s mistakes.

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I really want to add with this: USPS is a lifeline for small businesses and many who need it for medication, etc. across this country. This is going to be a terrible move. Let me figure out a specific call for action, but until then: KEEP. CALLING.

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UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital

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