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us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

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“Do you know of any challenge in the history of humankind that was successfully overcome that began with pessimism and defeatism? There isn’t. So optimism is a choice.” — Christiana Figueres, who knows what it looks like to tackle seemingly impossible challenge – and succeed!

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After a year of college tours: My favorite advice for parents: "If you're still doing your high school junior's laundry for them, STOP IT." My favorite advice for students: "Put your professors' office hours on your calendar and treat them like another class you have to attend."

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Saw a post about people feeling guilty making art in the current climate, but like. Please do things that make you happy in hard times. You're not a bad person for keeping your spirits up. And your art might keep other people's spirits up, too.

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Reasons my teenagers allow me to give them haircuts: cost, convenience, and the hairstylists never seem to understand what they want or how to deal with curly hair. Reasons my teenage children aren't getting a great deal: I'm not very good and they have to sweep up their own hair afterward.

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Full marks to UMBC for hitting the message of success through diversity and inclusion at admitted students day. Folks doing the real work of education know what matters. umbc.edu

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"It's the men who appear to have let their emotions — whether it's unjustified fear of immigrants or an unwillingness to cross Trump — interfere with rational decision-making."

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I spent a lot of time studying the Bible. I'm not an expert by any means, but I know a lot. One of the things I know for sure is that the kind of people who want Bibles in public schools really DON'T want their children to be biblically literate.

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"I'm Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. And I'm very much alive, and intend to stay that way!"

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Reina thinks reading the news is a terrible way to spend your time.

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Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt

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Science teachers, have you read the letter from #NSTA's President? It's a lot of words, but not a lot of substance. I'm genuinely concerned the changes being discussed are going to be aimed at compliance with bad policies. #edusky. www.nsta.org/blog/letter-...

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Me to my middle school students:

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In shocking news, Trump doesn't care about coal miners (or any other American workers.)

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Amidst the global trade war and a divided nation, let’s remember the common ground that all of us Americans share - paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of those before us. Today marks the anniversary of the Civil War's end, a reminder of what we have overcome and why we need to work together.

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This small herd decimates invasive vines that choke a campus forest.

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A little chilly, but it's still baseball! @baysoxofficial.bsky.social

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There’s a real link between AI writing and Silicon Valley meal replacement drinks and the entire fuckin swath of maximizing the human experience and it’s that they view pleasure as being unhelpful to life. I don’t want a drink that replaces a meal, I don’t want a book summary, I want to savor things

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too. context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests. only 4.5 days left!

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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

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Highly recommend scrolling through #HandsOff posts. Good for the soul.

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A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents.

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"Christianity emphasizes redemption, making it an attractive framework for a celebrity needing to rehab a bad image. In theory, however, there is supposed to be repentance before redemption. But this is the era of Trumpian Christianity, so skipping the part where you say you're sorry is optional."

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One of the things I love about baseball is that the pace of the game allows stories to unfurl. I wrote about just one of those stories almost ten years ago. I invite you to come sit along side me in the virtual bleachers to read about it. www.camdenchat.com/2015/4/15/84....

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I'm an average height woman who used to ride Metro at all times of day and night. I'll be riding it tomorrow. Have never felt unsafe.

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Republicans hate our veterans.

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Today is @glsen.bsky.social's Day of (No) Silence — a national day of action pushing back against the silencing of LGBTQ+ youth and the erasure of their experiences. Join us to demand supportive schools all students need to be their free, authentic selves. →

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Somebody tell Pearson so they can make a test for it. (This is sarcasm. I hate mandated testing.)

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I have been binging on police procedurals, and not one of them has featured poker girls. I am disappointed. In more serious but less shocking news, "Girls Gone Bible" is a total scam, just like all the tradwife content. The only way Evangelicals can make submission sound good is by lying about it.

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