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It looks like HHS has shut down the long-standing program for community orgs to request large amounts of free COVID rapid tests. Our local mask bloc received this auto reply today. Horrible and a sign of the new, worse times.

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incredible "blacks rule" moment here

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

This is a really well-reported, comprehensive feature about something I've also wondered about. Well worth your time.

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I am a former finance reporter and worked in retail banking for several years. I would not advise getting a loan for crypto ETFs. Buy non-US government bonds and stocks in non-US banks in countries with solid regulations.

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I do not mean to diminish the incredible damage done to science research since January 20, but this exact "brain drain" has been happening across higher ed since at least 2008, and esp. in the arts and humanities as those departments were cut first and overrun by adjuncts roles - that was a warning!

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“Brain drain” in higher education has been going on for literal decades. If you only care that universities and faculty are in jeopardy because it suddenly impacts your own work, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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this is just a chart of women entering the workforce

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What kills me about this is that amateur writers have been submitting columns forever without the help of the sexual harassment pizza glue machine. (Ask me how I know!)

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KENNEDY: Tell me your understanding of the Trade Expansion Act? LUTNICK: I don't have a really good understanding of the term KENNEDY: You're not familiar with the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 that gives the president almost unlimited authority to impose tariffs?

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at this point, I would be really surprised if there are any new trade deals after the 90 days

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KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

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SCOOP: The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul. www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

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Commerce Department employees who were fired, reinstated, and fired again learned belatedly that their health insurance has been cut off. Some had already racked up thousands in medical bills.

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This email makes its clear that ICE has always wanted to do illegal behavior, that they despised the constitution for constraining them, and that they never wanted to focus on criminals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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it feels like a lot of people are burnt out again

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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...

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CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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There's a lesson here for a certain kind of conservative Asian American but their whole careers are often premised on not understanding that lesson, and acting like the lesson could never appear or apply to them.

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Honestly, this is what I'm hoping and praying for. (Just don't rank Cuomo. FFS, my people!)

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Put this on billboards

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when people argue that democrats shouldnt stand up for transgender people, i want you to substitute "transgender" in your head with "black" "latino" "asian" or "women" and understand why its a non-starter. either we all have equal rights or none of us does. this is simple.

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I think this is 100 per cent correct. It's why the apps are bad. It's why the most frequent (and saddest) Guardian Blind Dates are 'two perfectly nice people with a lot in common who just immediately realised It, whatever It is, wasn't there'.

submitted 8 hours ago • 19 comments

It’s not an understatement to say his kindness and generosity changed the course of my life and career.

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Please get your air purifiers, extra filters, and masks now, if you haven't already. You can DIY a Corsi-Rosenthal box, buy a HEPA air purifier by Levoit or Coway gently used off FB Marketplace, and dig out your old cloth masks if necessary. Wildfire smoke is no joke.

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It is incredibly refreshing to see a progressive politician in New York City talk about how these giveaways for developers often fall short and do not result in truly affordable housing. Zohran's policy here is essentially an indictment of the failed Brad Lander/Zellnor Myrie model.

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Yeah they were ahead of their time (in letting the site disintegrate into slop)

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one of the lessons I learned this year is how often women of color are raised to be givers to others, while many men won't hesitate to hurt another person's feelings and put themselves first

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Remember the NFT apes and juices

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

people are surprised when I point out how much art stuff involves steel and aluminum

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Please get your air purifiers, extra filters, and masks now, if you haven't already. You can DIY a Corsi-Rosenthal box, buy a HEPA air purifier by Levoit or Coway gently used off FB Marketplace, and dig out your old cloth masks if necessary. Wildfire smoke is no joke.

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This is kind of like how people review superhero shows after they turn out to be different than the wild online theories they’ve been hothousing for a year.

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The way people are talking about the current demolition of research funding and HE legitimacy reminds me of the early days of COVID when I (and others) said it would be at least six years before any normalcy. Rage, despondency, rejection…eventually voting for a dictator just to feel alive.

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Oh god, I am old enough to remember ordering TripTiks from CAA and AAA for roadtrips

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Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

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The Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver's next exhibition is on three decades of Cantopop and Mandopop?? www.chinesecanadianmuseum.ca/exhibitions/...

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I received a small bit of good news today and my brain couldn't really figure out how to feel positive about it with everything else going on

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Today in Tabs is back and it’s NOT uplifting or inspiring! www.todayintabs.com/p/who-cares Who Cares

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The White House's stated intent to use expedited removal for this guy's family is flatly ILLEGAL. By law, expedited removal ONLY applies to people not admitted at a port of entry, or here without having been "admitted or paroled" into the US. But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!

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I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA THEY DID IT Y'ALL THEY DID IT

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