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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

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On a new Kicker: Nashville’s Phil Williams’s most viral moments have been his unflappable encounters with extremists and neo-Nazis. With host @joshuahersh. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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In college we had an experiment like this, for an A on extra credit (think 10 points added to your final grade so not a guaranteed A, but a letter grade higher worth of points) and my section did vote for it. The other section didn't. Guess the difference in socioeconomic makeup...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

The GOP Medicaid cuts will leave 8.6 million more Americans uninsured by 2034. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

This is a small thing but a U.S. pension fund just became the first to stop buying Tesla stock www.businessinsider.com/pennsylvania...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Happy May Day all www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

How do you save the Library of Alexandria Work. Also Spreasheets and GitHub pull requests

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

How many employees is Microsoft going to fire in its attempts to make back its investments in AI? The "low performer" language is so unnecessary.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Howard University students launched a solidarity encampment, DC and campus police threaten arrests. It's a direct attack on peaceful protest and student power. Howard students demand justice— they’re calling on community to mobilize and defend the encampment. Show up. Speak out. Stand with them.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Beautiful, heartfelt essay

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

"Efficiency"

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Didn't even realize I caught the Columbia sign too in this.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Nice one-two combo

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Short and to the point

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Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.

submitted 72 days ago • 11 comments

This should be a much, much bigger story. And once again I tell you: Their singular mission is to decimate everyone but them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

submitted 77 days ago • 37 comments

TN bill would make it a crime to hide or harbor undocumented immigrants is making its way through the state legislature in Tennessee. This could endanger mixed-status families as well as churches/non-profits that traditionally help people no matter their status tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/20/t...

submitted 79 days ago • 45 comments

Imagine the burning of the Library of Alexandria x 10000000

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 83 days ago • 711 comments

Has to be done: youtu.be/OCbuRA_D3KU?...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a paper as part of my MLIS studies about the intentional destruction of archives during war time. It was done to erase the history of local people from the records to better lay claim to territory. Happened during WWII, in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Crimea. This WaPo framing is so off the mark.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

submitted 90 days ago • 450 comments

“The political press may not understand what's happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who've spent decades studying how technology and power interact? We see it and we can't look away.”

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

This is so good. “Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira said. “But, it wasn’t.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Gift article to this series of exit interviews with recently fired Inspectors General. I admit, much like many other people from the sounds of it, I didn't appreciate or fully understand their role in government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

submitted 98 days ago • 27 comments

Sad to share the news that our colleagues at 18F were illegally fired overnight (emails coming in around 1am Sat.). About 90 people. 18Fers are technologists, like USDSers, and often would be co-deployed or work across different parts of the same agency.

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 100 days ago • 431 comments

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...

submitted 102 days ago • 579 comments