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Happy Women's Day to all the Women and Ciswomen

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'We look for talent first and will not use quotas or DEI standards in our hiring practices.' Dude, no one is under the impression that you were using quotas. Less than 15% of your staff are from marginalized groups. You just wanted to share that you are spineless toadiers, which we already knew.

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The specks on strawberries are not seeds, but are actually fruits, called achenes. Each achene houses one seed. The red tasty thing you eat is an accessory to these fruits. Like a delicious handbag.

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Things my employer has done in the past 2 weeks: defunded all ERGs, terminated programs that support marginalized folks entering tech, now require 3 months notice for any PTO, added a default app that generates transcriptions of all zoom meetings, but don't worry because they also...

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

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BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

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It’s been almost a year since Ryan Hamilton went viral with his story about carrying his pregnant wife from a puddle of blood on their bathroom floor into his truck to drive to a Texas hospital for the fourth time seeking care.

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No work is mysterious and important enough for 60 hours a week

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democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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My fellow Americans I have bad news: boycotts need to be targeted to work. And the target needs to know your demands so that they can be met once sufficient pain is delivered. No one will notice a diffuse boycott of The Economy. There remains no substitute for joining a group and making plans.

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I made a quilt! I call it Cabin by the River. I craft in textiles now!

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#quiltcon!! I am here! It's the largest gathering of modern quilters in the world. It is clear that I dramatically underestimated the amount of people that will travel internationally to geek out about crafts 😁💪🥳

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My favorite quilt I've made to date!! It is The Hat - an aperiodic monotile discovered in 2023! I loved planning the pattern for this and figuring out how to make it feel pleasingly cartoony! #quiltcon

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I am in Phoenix this week for #QuiltCon !! Here's my first queen size quilt, as currently seen on my bed up in Boston

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The Democratic party needs to immediately appoint and support Shadow Cabinet Secretaries able to give press conferences and issue statements every single day.

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Editorial note: fascism is not insanity, and the language of mental illness should not be used to describe the hearts and minds of evil men.

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"Stop romanticizing toxic tropes in fiction" Bro literally never heard of 'Romanticism' (1790 - c. 1850) and how it's a deliberate rejection of order, harmony, balance, and rationality and celebrates the irrational, personal, emotional, weird, occult, and monstrous by design, how embarrassing 😞

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I still remember way back before Musk was illegally destroying US foreign aid that time when he claimed he’d give $6B to the UK WFP if they could tell him how it would solve world hunger & then he ignored the response & gave $5.7B to his own charity & no one ever found out where it went from there

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Is there any way I can pay someone to do the labor of finding local efforts that I can support with actions or contributions or anything? I am fighting paralysis, but sincerely want to act and can afford to compensate someone to do this step for me. Please share, I think there are folk like me

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If you have a community fridge/pantry, sign up to fill it! 30 minutes and $30 at Aldi and my neighbors can eat today. A tangible immediate good

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"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

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I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up

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The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962

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Yesterday, I broke down Trump’s executive orders targeting immigrant communities. Today, let’s talk Trump’s executive orders targeting minorities – I.E., every person that isn’t a white, cis, straight, able-bodied man. (1/3)

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@mcuban.bsky.social had asked what he could do in the era of the convicted felon Donald Trump. Here's an example. "Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework…"

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Protect Trans and NB Kids

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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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More relevant than ever.

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You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?

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This advice is important now, and will be even more important in two weeks, when the next administration is going to flood the zone with horribleness, with the intent of overwhelming everyone into compliance. Pick your battles and keep your focus. Trust others are doing the same elsewhere.

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Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

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