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San Diego showed up! There were so many people peacefully protesting together. This is what Democracy looks like! #NoKings

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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 16 days ago • 275 comments

I ordered MTSS for Reading Improvement after listening to Dr. Stollar and Dr. Brown discuss their book on the May 25th Triple R Teaching podcast.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Ahem.

submitted 18 days ago • 438 comments

I, too, probably had cancer for a long time while it was quietly spreading and I appeared healthy. I found a lump 7 months after a clear mammogram and was diagnosed with stage 3B lobular breast cancer that likely had been growing for a long time.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 43 days ago • 485 comments

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/b...

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):

submitted 47 days ago • 139 comments

"Like a worm inside an apple, he will core out the entirety of our economic and financial system. He will steal everything for himself and his friends, then leave us with nothing but a pile of rot." - Hillary Clinton

submitted 49 days ago • 42 comments

My primary professional organization, which alternates annual meeting locations each year, has moved its 2027 conference out of the U.S. - where it was already booked - saying it will hold no more meetings during the current admin after this year in the U.S. This is unprecedented to my knowledge.

submitted 52 days ago • 43 comments

🖋️✏️ Handwriting beats typing for learning to read 🧠📚 A new study found that 5-year-olds learned letters and words better through handwriting than typing – with stronger results in writing, naming, and decoding tasks. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Literacy 🧪

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

If a stranger posts about how happy a silly little pleasure made them and your response is to be an asshole and make fun of them it’s time to re-examine your whole life. It’s 2025. We no longer shit on other people’s joy if it’s not hurting anyone else. This is loser behavior.

submitted 54 days ago • 91 comments

“Exit light Enter night Grain of sand Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land, yeah…”

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“When I wake up early in the morning Lift my head, I'm still yawning When I'm in the middle of a dream Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream) Please, don't wake me No, don't shake me Leave me where I am I'm only sleeping…”

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Outstanding thread:

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Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 63 days ago • 1423 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans would accuse women of having extra babies just to collect more “government handouts.”

submitted 63 days ago • 198 comments

Buddy, your grandfather had your aunt lobotomized. I’m going out on a limb here and saying what you learned as a kid about neurodivergence isn’t worth very much.

submitted 64 days ago • 19 comments

So does Pete Hegseth put on his own make up, or as we're cutting cancer researchers are we finding the money for a full time make-up person?

submitted 63 days ago • 31 comments

I'm utterly devastated by this news.

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@maddow.msnbc.com My dad is 98, WWII USNavy Veteran. Showed up for democracy in San Diego today. "I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again!" 💙🇺🇸💙 THIS is what democracy looks like!!!!

submitted 66 days ago • 507 comments

h/t Aileen, Nancy & zoë - Thanks for the belly laugh. Needed it today.

submitted 68 days ago • 34 comments

History always has a lesson.

submitted 67 days ago • 641 comments

"If the White House has its way, the Head Start program won’t just have to worry about cuts to its funding, it will have to worry about the elimination of its funding..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 68 days ago • 215 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 69 days ago • 1922 comments

Way to go, Big Ten! This is what resistance looks like!

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Great to see @sarajacobs.house.gov at the San Diego #HandsOff march!

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Thousands and thousands of San Diegans marched today! #handsoff

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

It really is a cult of the dumbest dumbfucks who have ever dumbed.

submitted 82 days ago • 1031 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 84 days ago • 1105 comments

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

submitted 87 days ago • 658 comments

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 38 comments

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submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

'Hate speech is everywhere on X.' California Assembly Democrats leave platform en Masse www.latimes.com/politics/sto... Better beyond long overdue than never. Modeling behavior matters; who’ll follow their lead?

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Imagine if ALL higher education leaders had such courage, prioritizing justice and equity . . .

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I’m a 5 year breast cancer survivor who knows that NIH funded cancer research is essential to my survival. Please join me in relentlessly calling our elected officials (use 5calls.org to find phone numbers and succinct scripts if you don’t know what to say) to fight back against NIH cuts.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

submitted 94 days ago • 170 comments

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

submitted 109 days ago • 1150 comments