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This is the thing. Manufacturing jobs 100 years ago were dangerous, precarious, and poorly paid. Manufacturing jobs 70 years ago were a golden ticket to the middle class. The jobs didn't change. What changed was the New Deal and unions.

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Two great articles by Quakers in two days: Quaker parenting www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

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Two great articles by Quakers in the last two days: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/s...

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A great article by Gail Cornwall in @theatlantic.com on Quaker attitudes toward child-raising and schooling, chock-full of links to great Quaker resources (including two @friendsjournal.org articles and a Quakerspeak video).

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And @corybooker.com namechecks Quakers! About 10 minutes before breaking the record.

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This is all going down in the Congressional Record, right? Senator @corybooker.com is quoting more intellectual giants after 24 hours straight than any political speech I ever heard.

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Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.

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I am fed up with fictional characters who are "almost sixty, [but] his posture was still erect and his stride still vigorous and graceful" or "on the downside of sixty, ... [her] skin lined like the joints of an aged leather garment."

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The best part of following a lot of writers is that sometimes they write epic stories of their days, about their mortal trials and tribulations, that in the hands of a lesser writer, would be just a lot of skeets in a row instead of a saga worthy of reading all the way to the end.

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Now attending the public event at Coleman Library to hear community ideas about new transit oriented development around the Germantown SEPTA station. 💯 Can recommend.

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Why does Lincoln have the best and most relevant quotes www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

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At a lunchtime Diplochat with @wacphila.bsky.social Ambassador David Cohen saluting the "solid and spectacular relationship" between the U.S. and Canada, and between Québec and Pennsylvania. $4-5 billion annually in trade between QC and PA alone #wacphl

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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'It's morally disgusting': Trump torched for lying Ukraine 'should have never started' Putin's war

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Can recommend 100%

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Hey, I'm doing a radio show tonight! Which is Wednesday! 5-8 pm ET on 103.3 fm WPRB. listen.wprb.com

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The whole thing!

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Takeaway from R&FPW @cfr.org : US pulling out of international commitments creates a vacuum that will be filled by other actors (other countries, other religious groups, other economic interests) & defeats the purpose of making the US more secure, more prosperous, and more of a great power

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Panel on Sustaining Bipartisan Religious Engagement in U S. Foreign Policy at Council on Foreign Relations in NYC: Samah Norquist, Melissa Rogers, Knox Thames, Peter Mandeville

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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Amazing shows tonight on WPRB. Thank you Jon Weingart for Music You Can't Hear on the Radio (very seldom, very seldom) and DJ Ringworm for Legend of the Destruction of Kash wprb.com

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BREAKING: Quaker meetings sue Trump admin to keep ICE out of houses of worship. We represent them in challenging this harmful policy, which reverses decades of protections and has already sowed fear in many congregations. Read the full statement: democracyforward.org/updates/sensitive-locations/

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Mind opening

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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Here is how to disable Copilot in Word on a Mac. My version was slightly different. It was this: Expand "Word" menu > Preferences > Personal Settings > Privacy > go down to "Connected Experiences" and click Manage Connected Experiences > uncheck all the boxes > restart Word (cont'd)

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St. Francis of Assisi. A man for our times www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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My healthy kitchen resolution this year is to put leftovers into rewashed glass jars instead of plastic. Unless it's going in the freezer. Then I think plastic is better than broken glass in the bottom of the freezer drawer.

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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

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I’ve always thought of Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover as twin spirits. Two of the smartest men to become president; two of the most politically tone deaf, too. And both were driven by their faith to give back to the public, though Hoover’s good work all came before entering politics.

submitted 97 days ago • 70 comments

Worth reading the whole saga. I'm wiping tears from laughing so hard.

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