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Just bc I’m n the middle of a D-Day series on a history pod I listen to, it’s worth a note here that Canada landed its troops right alongside US and British forces that day.

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"I wish you all the joy that you can wish." #ShakespeareSunday The Merchant of Venice #spring

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As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

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West Virginia University Stand Up For Science @standupforscience.bsky.social

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This is SO GREAT!! Hope it brightens your timeline. Amanda Seyfried singing Joni Mitchell and playing a dulcimer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Ci...

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The Pentagon has marked 26,000 photos for deletion to purge evidence of diversity. The photos include the 1st black pilots in WWII, the 1st women to pass infantry training & the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb because it’s called the “Enola GAY”. This is real. We’re living in a horror story.

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I kinda needed this tonight.

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The was a rally in downtown Morgantown #WV today in support of federal workers.

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The Dems should go around and hold town halls with giant blow-up chickens

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We all know what they say about people who make assumptions.

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Yesterday I went to a meeting of people in my community who are upset about the state of the country. On a random Saturday afternoon in our deeply red state, 350 people showed up to see what can be done. The road is long but it felt good to see I wasn't alone.

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"I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind." Henry VI #ShakespeareSunday

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Along with Vanderbilt & Penn. cutting research dollars hurts us all.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Why isn’t this a bigger story on national news? There’s a pattern. They illegally get into databases they know nothing about. They allege fraud even though more knowledgeable people can provide an explanation. Next step: cutting budgets.

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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!

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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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New sticker, just in time for HerdCon on March 1st. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1686...

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North Carolina State University announces a hiring freeze in response to federal funding issues. There it is, another step in the dismantling of higher education, barely making the news (because it’s not happening at Harvard). www.wral.com/news/educati...

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You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

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Pardon my French.

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Deleting entire agencies won’t make the issues they work on disappear. Instead, everyone’s quality of life will go to shit.

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Erasing history where it happened. Tough days for National Park Service employees.

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

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Mood as of late !!! 🙊🙉🙈

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I’m reminded of David Halberstam’s book “Best and the Brightest” about the Ivy Leaguers in government whose hubris brought us the Vietnam War debacle. Similar story now, only with 20 year olds in gym shorts instead of 50 year olds in suits, and who reek of Axe body spray rather than pipe smoke.

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NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

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Today in self-care I went to a wine store and a book store. 🍷📚#booksky

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One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.

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A doctor at a VA hospital got the "buyout" email and told a family member that nurses and doctors could easily leave and find other jobs but who would take care of the patients? Just another reminder that people do care about their jobs and the people they serve.

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Even if you believe the most insane TERF nonsense, anti-trans laws make no sense "trans people are mentally ill" do mentally ill people deserve rights? "trans people are disabled" do disabled people deserve rights? "men shouldn't dress like women" should it be illegal for women to wear pants?

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