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"I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well." Today has been her birthday.

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 161: On this day history, Ronald Reagan famously demanded a certain wall come down. The initial response was...not enthusiastic. Why We Build the Wall - Hadestown www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VD...

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Today’s @askamanager.org features the greatest first comment response to an “ask the readers” prompt ever. www.askamanager.org/2025/06/lets...

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I can’t be sure, but I think @ponder719.bsky.social might be excited about this.

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two years ago today I encountered this all-timer of marquee placement at the movie theater:

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 160: On this day in history, the Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. It probably didn't go exactly like this, but it should've. But, Mr. Adams - 1776 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVuP...

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For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 159: Happy birthday, Maurice Sendak! Chicken Soup with Rice - Really Rosie youtu.be/NbtXdZ0Dz6M

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Pay for factually reported local news. It affects your life every day.

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 158: Belated happy birthday, Cole Porter! You’re the Top - Anything Goes youtu.be/If6gfh6NFyw

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Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with “Cities are where very, very large numbers of Americans live” discourse, with real Census data and everything.

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The way we describe events affects how our audience processes them. Thinking of disparity between the Walker v City of Birmingham majority opinion’s statement of the facts and Justice Brennan’s dissent. Majority: “Violence occurred. Members of the crowd threw rocks that injured a newspaperman” 1/

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 157: Tonys tonight! A Musical - Something Rotten www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ6x...

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 156: Mood of the day. Blackout - In the Heights www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G-U...

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one reason for this is how few US newsrooms are willing to interview and hire immigrant and international journalists due to legal costs for work visas, and how often non-white immigrant perspectives are considered 'bias' instead of expertise

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Oh God no.

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Although the Houston ICE arrestee is described in the story as part of the Afghan army, his attorney identifies him as a veteran of the Kandahar Strike Force—aka the QSF or NDS-03, the CIA’s Afghan surrogate force in Kandahar. Here’s a 2021 story of mine about NDS-03’s very difficult escape:

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AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

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Extraordinarily difficult to listen to. My translation: "Help me Help me Help me BRAYAN Ay, no Help me Help Help Ay, no [In the background, a sound like a child shouting back to him. I make out what could be the word "papa" but I can’t tell if it’s just pareidolia] Help Help Help Help me Help me"

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I’ve been wearing a rainbow bracelet the last couple days for Pride Month and yesterday two people commented on it in a way that made me feel like I was secretly in this video, it’s really lovely youtu.be/UVepoXddTW4?... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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The award was created partially in response to Faith, a civilian cat who looked after St Augustine & St Faith, next to St Paul’s. In late Aug 1940 she had a kitten, Panda. On 6 Sept 1940 she demanded the Vicar open the basement door. He did & found she disappeared. He missed them.

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I remember a teacher in Hebrew school telling us we should call ourselves American Jews rather than Jewish-American, to put the emphasis on the Jewish part. I wasn't able to articulate it then, but I'm pretty sure that's the moment I started drifting away from organized practice.

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In other disaster-related news, today marks 45 years since publication of the @science.org article by Walter & Luis Alvarez, Frank Asaro, & Helen Michel arguing that the dinosaurs were killed off by the impact of a massive asteroid or comet: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSci 🔭 🧪

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HOLY SHIT IT WORKED Did not know that!! Thank you!!

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 153: Happy birthday, Harvey Fierstein! Timeless to Me - Hairspray www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt57...

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Bells ring across Philly in honor of gun violence victims – NBC10 Philadelphia www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/t...

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Anyone who thinks winning Musk over to their side is the play right now needs to take a good hard look at those stats.

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ICE immigrant detention center detainees were recently left without access to basic necessities after a third-party service software outage. Human rights shouldn't be left up to glitches. uk-times.com/some-ice-det...

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It is a truth universally and frustratingly acknowledged by every fundraiser that dire peril is good for donations.

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This is fun!

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 152: I will resist the urge to get topical and instead wish Rick Riordan a happy birthday. The Campfire Song - The Lightning Thief www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCL0...

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Irony is the 311 app asking you to identify the cars in the captcha when reporting a vehicle parked in the bike lane

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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The next Sharknado movie plot just dropped

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I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

1. she's lying. it's to stifle activism and discourse as she cracks down on human rights advocates 2. this would be a great opportunity for @bsky.app to get more Africans on here. ahem ahem.

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Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 151: Today in history, Congress approved the 19th Amendment. Keep Marching - Suffs www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPyK...

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Well this is maybe the best thing to have happened to me in this neighborhood ever #SpreadLove

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Hey, chat, is it good when a judge begins a ruling by extensively quoting "The Trial"?

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