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People, politics, and cake interest me. The order in which they interest me depends upon how good the cake tastes. Professionally, I am interested in Mexican, Arizonan and NY trash. I also play the French horn and am partial to horn players in general.
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My grandmother was born in Shanghai, probably around 1916 to a Japanese mother and a Romanian father. Her first name was Matsuo Kido. I never knew that while she was alive. To me, her name was Elizabeth Kempton Bailey. 1/10

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

You want the evolutionary feature that let humans dominate this planet? It's not tool use, it's *education*. The ability to pass information on outside the length of any individual and to create a *corpus* of knowledge that doesn't die with the originator.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Fash trying to figure out how to make NIH/NSF cuts kill the humanities, which don't get NIH/NSF funds.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Hi college presidents "keeping your head down"! Who exactly do you think is going to enroll in your classes this fall if no financial aid has gone out? How long will you be able to stay open without their tuition dollars? Do you see where this is headed? Where it's INTENDED to head?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by President Donald Trump is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because of the White House."

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

JD Vance claimed on X that “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed him & shouted at his daughter. Guess he didn’t realize it was caught on camera. No one yelled at his kid, and they didn’t follow them. Vance & Musk need to quit using children as shields. The public isn’t backing down—we want answers.

submitted 10 days ago • 1176 comments

We learned and played the Ukrainian national anthem to show our American solidarity!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Hard not to think about how the majority of white women voted when you see a headline such as this: "Franchetti's firing has left the military without a single woman in a four-star general or admiral leadership position." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 18 days ago • 55 comments

Every worker deserves a safe a secure retirement. Just this week we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand. So we're asking asset managers to honestly look at their investments in Tesla. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."

submitted 22 days ago • 805 comments

Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

submitted 22 days ago • 460 comments

My letter to the editor of the Palltimes arguing that we deserve better than an oligarchy was published. Write your legislators to talk about this specific point of getting billionaire bucks out of our elections. Also, let's meet in real life if you too want something better! More to come

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Are you happy with your local school district losing 11% of its budget? If not, tell everyone you know, contact your local reps, go to your local school board meeting. Ask them what they plan to do to make up for the shortfall.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments