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The antidote to all this overwhelming news, being hit w/ a myriad of policy changes & awful language is to stay calm. Fascists thrive when we are confused & feel too overwhelmed to do anything. Have some peacock colored yarn to soothe the soul. 🧶 Re-center, stay focused. ✊🏾 #yarnsky

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On this night of righteous fury against Republican legislators, I wrote about the incredible work being done in just the last few days by courts and everyday people.

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Anyone could have told you they were planning to feed all of those emails to AI. What else were they going to do? Read the millions of emails they demanded? I don't think anyone believed the DOGE twerps were going to do that. People need to be cognizant of the AI end game for this whole project.

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Author Mary Kay Andrews turned down an honor from a Georgia state rep because she looked up his voting record, then told him why, then made a video about it. If you need a dose of inspiration, I embedded and summarized it:

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New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

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For the last few weeks, every time I teach searching in America: History and Life I find myself adding "...which are still separate countries" to "this database covers US and Canadian history"

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Dear GenX Manager: My apologies for the confusion caused by the subject heading in my previous email. By "Kiss Off" I meant to reference the song by the musical group Violent Femmes from our shared generational-identity era. The song's bridge lyrics constitute my five bullet points. Thank you.

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Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

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Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

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We’ve been overtaken by greedy, narcissistic, cruel thugs, devoid of any empathy. Get out all your monster hunting equipment—- it’s time to suit up.

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I am CRYING with laughter

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submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 6 days ago • 571 comments

People are starving for leadership and richly rewarding the small smidgens of it that appear and yet output has not remotely met demand.

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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 6 days ago • 418 comments

We need to practice asking, “wait, can they really do that?” over and over, to be more informed and less credulous - which sometimes is the same as being preemptively compliant.

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I keep seeing “comfort zone” this morning. As in “growth happens outside your comfort zone”. Fuck that noise. For many marginalized folks we never get to experience the comfort of safety. In order to try new things, we first need to feel safe.

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Bidding has started!!! Time to stab your best friends!

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I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 8 days ago • 359 comments

I was thinking the same thing, how some folks who have moved verrrry slowly about some things are managing to move pretty quickly now.

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historian and librarian here and I highly endorse this thread!!

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How did it not occur to us as a country to have "Inability Committees" at the ready for every level of government?

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WVU's student newspaper doesn't forget

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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The cognitive load of uncertainty seems so familiar from the early days of COVID, including a well-informed sense of doom

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