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Happy Friday everyone. Thanks for reading NPR.org this week. Wanted to take a second to also remind you: I interviewed whistleblower Dan Berulis to accompany my lengthy written story on NLRB. Hear from him in his own words: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5355...

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imagine coming home to find your cat gnawing on this.

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#ThePitt Friday the 11th @scifri.bsky.social will have the medical adviser to The Pitt! NPR stations + podcast. can’t wait! I want to know how they did the birth scene!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Raging grannies! Yes! That's my friends and I. We've been raging since the era of civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests, so we're really good at it. And PISSED OFF.

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Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil. As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course. (📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

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What are these pols paying one another for, anyway? I sometimes reimburse friends if, say, we go out to dinner together. But these reveals sound like they go well beyond that. I don't have nearly everyone I know on my Venmo.

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I think this is now the 27th Club Championship Trump has allegedly won at his courses, by my count.

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Bert and Ernie are an ad, not part of the story. However...

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Why is there an ad for a Saville Road tailoring a movie theater in Oakland CA?

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Read this somewhere -- social security system was programmed in COBOL, obsolete even when I learned programming as an undergrad. If required data is missing, it seems COBOL can't leave the field empty. Someone decided to default to 150 for age. So anyone would know not that was not genuine value.

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A few years ago, I went to a presentation by a Berkeley colleague who had done research with IRS data. IRS databases are not accessible from the internet. He could not download data -- had to work in the IRS DC office. There are strong safeguards of access but Musk's children are ignoring them.

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When I worked in public libraries, unqualified men were repeatedly hired into top jobs. The women who worked for them actually ran the organization. The anti-DEI group claims that DEI hires unqualified minorities over qualified ones. Would they now consider those men DEI hires?

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Why are we not seeing this in this country?

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Washington Post has gotten leaks from DOGE, it appears. Gift link. wapo.st/4jVWqEd

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

People supporting Trump’s cuts to medical research apparently think they & people they care about will never develop cancer, heart disease, and so on. They’ll live forever. No children will be born with genetic defects. And so on.

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#superbowl Trump will have no idea what Kendrik Lamar was saying, even if he was paying attention, which is unlikely. I thought it a waste of time - but hate to agree with MAGA.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Cuts to research funding: remember that much of the on-the-ground work is done by PhD students and post-docs who will be the next generation of researchers. Cuts now will reverberate for decades as the scientific workforce is not renewed.

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EVERYBODY should follow Alt National Park Service. They are reporting on shocking and illegal actions of Musk's people, and not just at NPS. Facebook and Bluesky.

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