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Philly lawmakers walk out of meeting with Penn president over DEI cuts https://tinyurl.com/2yj7ra3p #philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly

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If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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If you keep forgetting alt text, this setting is for you. It's awesome!

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For a brief moment at the end of February, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial spectacle. This so-called planetary parade, which will occur shortly after sunset on 28 February, will be the last time the phenomenon occurs until 2040.

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The Inquirer is covering the protests, even if Vichy NYT won't www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

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This turned out to be a productive prompt for my Sunday writing group. Here's mine: THE GULF OF INCREASINGLY DEVASTATING HURRICANES Erasure is creation. With climate change struck from the record, what story will they tell of our destruction?

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Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action. I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments. Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission. Start with SIFT method:

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Penn has always wanted to be the nation's leading university and it finally is -- in chickenshit cowardice I guess when your most famous alums are Donald Trump and Elon Musk you have a legacy to live down to www.inquirer.com/education/un...

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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Elon Musk is calling for the CFPB's remaining account balance of $711,586,678 to be returned to the American taxpayers. That you give everyone $2-$3. But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.

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funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

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Look up how much NIH helps research in your state. Then call your reps and ask them how your state will function without the [$X billion] your state is about to lose. ☎️ and scripts 👉 bsky.app/profile/pron...

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I went through the news articles and the discord threads for each state to get crowd estimates -- below are all the verified events I could find that happened today and I surely missed some. Over 20,000 people across the country came out after organizing for just a few days. And we'll do it again.

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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Dump Trump. Go Birds.

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Are you subscribed to 28 Days of Black History? We're a few days into February, but you can still get 25 short newsletters about Black organizers and activists this month and future Februarys. www.28daysofblackhistory.com

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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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Thrilled to have this #flash #cnf piece out in @phoebejournal.bsky.social today. It is one of the most personal stories I have ever published, and I would be honored if you read it. phoebejournal.com/Commencement/

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In January I read Housekeeping, Woodworm, Troubled Waters, The Empusium, and Utopias of the Third Kind. 💙📚 #BookSky

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I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

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Highly recommend giving UFW a follow. I've been following food news for years, but nothing brings our food systems to life like these snapshots, giving us a glimpse of food labor on the ground.

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Best 🧵 I've seen on AI and DeepSeek

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The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

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It is not too late to act on climate change because climate change is not pass/fail. Every faction of a degree matters and is worth fighting for. That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.

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I am trying to limit (but not eliminate) my use of Meta properties, so I challenged myself to post something useful and informative every time I log into Facebook to browse Buy Nothing or see if my local library branch has reopened yet. It's been going ok. But thank goodness my library reopened.

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As someone who never stopped blogging roundups of cool links, I am simply loving this energy I am not outdated, I am timeless

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"I have a PhD; you have Dunning-Kruger" needs to be on a t-shirt if it isn't already

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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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This is a wonderful interview--not just for debunking the EO sex definitions, which I knew were bad, but for marveling at the sheer variety of biological realities that humans may experience.

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remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you will do something about it

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If you went to college 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. Your initial major? 3. If you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. What do you do now, professionally? 1. English professor 2. English 3. Added minors in French and art 4. Marketing writer

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Spent the morning in my favorite park in Philly, clearing multiflora rose and privet off the banks of a lagoon. 20℉. Snow on the ground, ice on the lakes. Didn't take photos because I forgot my phone at home. I was working with a group of 10 but it looked like about 100 people who came out.

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Re: last repost, here is @south85journal.bsky.social last issue (including my piece "Metamorphoses in Reverse"): www.south85journal.com/fall-winter-... #flashfiction

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South 85, the official, faculty-edited (by ME!) journal of the Converse University low-res MFA program, is open! Our smart & eager team will read your work with care. $100 Editor's Choice Award for ONE published piece & we nominate for prizes. (Please share) south85journal.com/submissions/

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Links about the wildfires, disinformation, politics, plastics, and a little bit of good news.

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Monday is Martin Luther King Day. In Philadelphia (and probably many other cities) it is a day of service: folks can spend the day cleaning up parks, collecting books and care items for donation, attend rallies or workshops and print posters or learn CPR. whyy.org/articles/phi...

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