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Congrats to #Howard's swim team for winning the 2025 Northeast Conference Championship...again. #HU #YouKnow

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We can debate what the best system is for a particular country, but what this usefully underscores is that, when unpopular people get elected to national office, it’s a problem of political architecture, not just the natural consequence of “democracy.”

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EM is elite at being such an annoying simp that he got rich because other rich people used him for money but also gave him money to go away. You need a combination of family money, desperation, lack of social awareness and luck to get there.

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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

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Read this if you feel doomery

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Have literally memed ourselves into oblivion…

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It’s not just Texas. Measles vax rates are down in NYC as well. Most recent data: Just 81% of kids here got their first MMR dose by 24 months (down from 94% pre-pandemic) NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles

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“At the time of that incident [in Sept.], there were $19k in unpaid tickets from D.C. traffic cameras on the SUV. As of Friday, the fines topped $33k. Custis got six speed camera tickets in January alone — twice within a mile of where he hit Paisley.” Even after jail time! Take away his license!

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the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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now just time for a LISA bsky.app/profile/andr... (it's usually the off-diagonals that are most interesting :) knaaptime.com/urban_analys...)

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Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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Dem senators remain the most credulous rubes on the face of the earth

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We are going to have to start doing fucking wheatpaste flu shot campaigns in our neighborhoods, I'm not even kidding

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choropleths are a gateway drug to spatial analysis bsky.app/profile/knaa...

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With respect, it is certainly partisan. It just happened to be something that both parties have agreed upon. This has been a unilateral shift that is all too common amongst reactionary movements. A deep distrust of intellectuals and higher education. We should be clear.

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Like most Trump apparatchiks, Justin Shubow is a weird little bully with psychosexual issues, and I appreciate that Dana Jacobson shows him stumbling in the face of mild pushback.

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If it can be fought in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, it can be fought anywhere.

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this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

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Our accreditation boards for planning have already debated in this, but we’ll see what the next year holds

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That’s just good practice and I’ll dies on this hill. Teach your students to not have spaces in their file names. As a GIS instructor, I’m BEGGING you

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Underscores FTW

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We’re rally gonna “both sides” this until throwing a heil salute is the new okay sign of maga hat, huh?

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Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

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I do think part of the problem the ostensibly reasonable "centre right" has is that they still believe things that are manifestly untrue. This just didn't happen!

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those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least

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Oh bravo @lastpositivist.bsky.social ! Yes this was totally interesting. Very adept analysis. Funny thing — you mention the Song Dynasty, which reminded me: the Hundred Eyes idea grew directly out of the Eastern Depot of Ming Dynasty fame. This was a vestige from an early ideation process, when—

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Hail to the thief. Stealing money from blue states, plundering our own country like it's conquered territory

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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Looks like the word of the day is “Führerprinzip”.

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OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

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when Trump burst onto the scene just saying “I’m going to do the best things,” all the savvy pundits laughed - your lies need to be better than that! but they do not

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jesus

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Are you still adding cancelled projects to the list @kklevine.bsky.social and @alexkarner.bsky.social ? Our "Racial and Socioeconomic Inequities in Active Transportation Safety" just got cancelled. @keawilson.bsky.social this is one of the projects I mentioned apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBN...

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This is a deeply concerning (and frankly, mystifying) development at the CDC that has totally flown under the radar. PRAMS provides basic public health surveillance of maternal-child health outcomes and they have quietly shut it down.

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