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On lowering the age for dependent children to 14 for parents on Medicaid, Jim Justice says “I'm good with the work requirements, you know, because I think, and I keep going back to this, and I've told you all this, but biblically, we are supposed to work.”

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I shit you not, people

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"In 2007, when I was just a girl, Texas had around 80 Planned Parenthood clinics. By 2011, about a third had closed. In 2025, only 39 remain—and none of them can provide abortion care. Even before Texas banned abortion entirely, 96% of our counties already didn’t have a provider."

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Travel policies across countries have some reciprocality. I anticipate a US passport to become a lot less powerful and US investment opportunities in Africa to dwindle substantially if these come into play. And China will surely move right in to take our place.

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I need someone to write an LLM that is willing to say "I don't know the answer to that" rather than make shit up

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HUGELY Important.

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when lawyers jump in to say “actually this bad thing the govt is doing is legal”, we (often) arent saying that the action itself is correct or moral but rather that there is no viable legal challenge. this is important information to any resistance efforts.

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Bluesky is dying... or Bluesky helped create one of the most effective spontaneous protest movements of the year?

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A positive HLA-B27 does not = a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis

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I'm still thinking about the conflation between caring about federal research funding and a university's commitment to research and science

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Wearing shoes for the first time since my fusion surgery in the right foot. These Tivas are amazing.

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The Senate proposed an 8% endowment tax for the wealthiest colleges – a step down from the 21% in the House plan. But the Senate wants to keep tiered rates, with some colleges paying more depending on the endowment per student @jessicablake.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Thankful to Prof. Rhiannon Ash for reviewing _Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_ for @historytoday.com. Definitely an engaged review & I am appreciative to everyone who has read the book and either bought it, listened to it on Audible, or checked it out from the library. 📚

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Fired CDC scientists respond: “Despite recent suggestions to the contrary, the public trust ACIP. 99 of every 100 children have received at least some vaccines by 2 years of age. This does not suggest the population is so distrustful it warrants dismantling the vaccine recommendation process.”

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why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects 82 million fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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It's probably only a matter of time before we see US healthcare companies requiring wearable devices (watches, glasses, etc) that collect data on all of users' biometrics and habits in return for better (but still ludicrously inadequate) coverage.

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Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

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"What does a president have to do to get the right kind of birthday tank parade?" A diary entry from a disappointed Donald Trump, by Alexandra Petri:

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I'm going to say once again that shame is good.

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The anti-vax movement is organized and effective at undermining vaccines. An example of how they work: An anti-vax nurse went to an Idaho state senator with a bill she wrote to ban mRNA vaccines. He introduced the bill. She “helped” him schedule a slate of anti-vax speakers for a hearing.

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Finally, a podcast hosted by 2 white guys! In “Live from Watt Hall”, my buddy @profmarkovic.bsky.social and I take on academia, higher education, and related themes. Our first episode — of what will be at least one in total — covers our alma mater, Columbia University, and its recent troubles.

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Astrophysicist Claire Lamman writes to Colorado, “the National Science Foundation offered me a spot in a program which gave students from rural areas the opportunity to do research at any US university. That program paved the way for my admission to the PhD program at Harvard University” 🧪🏠

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Universal health care: socialism Student loan debt relief: socialism Green energy investment: socialism Joe Biden: Senile socialist Barack Obama: Black socialist Hillary Clinton: Female socialist Kamala Harris: Black Female socialist State ownership of US Steel: Capitalism! Free markets! America!

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And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

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Russia was kicked out of the G8 in March 2014 exactly BECAUSE it launched its war in Ukraine by invading and forcibly annexing Crimea.

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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

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I hate to rain on his parade but this isn’t how it works.

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In Huntington Beach, advocates for public libraries championed two ballot measures to counter policies by the conservative city council. The measures both passed Tuesday—one ends a book review board, the other bars the privatization of local libraries. www.sfgate.com/polit...

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I updated my article on Vance Boelter's theological tradition of violence. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/on-the-chr...

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Checked in with Tim Walz spokesperson and as of three min ago, President Trump had not called him, according to the governor’s office

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We’re back with a new show tonight at 11pm! And it will be 50 minutes long! Because John asked if he could have 10 more minutes of TV time, and he did all his homework and chores really well this week, so we couldn’t say no. That’s just the type of paren–PRODUCERS we are. We are his PRODUCERS.

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Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott...

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The MN murderer attended "Christ for the Nations" college in Dallas. That institution was founded by a Cold War era white nationalist and Christian nationalist conspiracy-obsessed preacher named Gordon Lindsay. A thread on Lindsay. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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In Victorian 4ngland people ate all natural food, no pesticides, hormones, or plastic. They got plenty of exercise, and their immune systems got exposed to all sorts of interesting germs. Life expectancy was about 33. Goodness, this is all so stupid. We f'd around, now for the finding out.

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CDC Publishes Female Body Hair Guidelines theonion.com/cdc-pub...

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🎯🎯

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This is a good piece (gift link) on how the federal government ghosting Northwestern on congressionally-appropriated funding for three months is affecting the university...and will affect medical research more broadly.

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One of the defining aspects of the Roman Triumph (which this is seeking to emulate, consciously or unconsciously) is that the general paid for the celebration himself

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Ok, this is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.

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My view of the South side of the Texas Capitol. There were so many people that we couldn’t see everything.

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