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Why do I know this? I’m a librarian & publishers inundate me with marketing pitches. Basically because we’re their outsourced marketing dept. & we pay them to hawk their books. All publishers not run by investment funds know this.
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A good government agency is nearly invisible. You have safe food, clean water, stable power etc and you never have to think about it. The best societies have boring bureaucracy notices in the paper and not much else.
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The GOP is the party for mediocre white men. Every man that they put in power is just a stupid moronic pile of shit. This is what Maga is. This is what Trumpism is all about.
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No civilization is remembered for its quarterly earnings or data structures. We remember its stories, music, philosophy, and art. The humanities aren’t decorative; they’re the foundation of culture itself.
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Worth mentioning, too, that although she did use some of the mistaken cures of the era (e.g. mercury compounds) for cholera she also disagreed w/using ineffective things like opioids & prayer, and did do things (e.g hydration) that most doctors didn’t.
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Goes even further back: to Grover Norquist: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub"
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buying spree. Your institutional integrity is about to be trashed by an out-of-control despot. You could have refused. You can still refuse. Don't say you weren't warned.
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is a downward spiral of following many more unconstitutional and unlawful authoritarian directives. "Gulf of America" is just an opening salvo. It's like when someone steals your credit card and tests it with a $10 charge, then when it works, goes on a
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Here's what I wrote:
It looks like someone's finger slipped and mistakenly labeled The Gulf of Mexico "The Gulf of America," which is not the internationally recognized name of that body of water, much of which is outside US territory. Please correct it! The alternative
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You can tell the USGS what you think about this craven move to satisfy the despot: answers.usgs.gov
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Just as a reminder, separate from the executive orders being blocked in federal court, the Code of Virginia explicitly prohibits discrimination on account of gender identity.