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One thing I’d like to know is where we think we are heading that we’ve apparently decided we can’t slow down enough to read and write and learn things and spend time with each other. What’s the collective project and vision for the future that’s worth rushing ahead.

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This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

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"in this confusing time for young men" Não queria fazer uma pergunta retórica porque sei que vocês não se aguentam, mas qual é a confusão que o Tate desfaz? Os meninos estavam em dúvida se mulheres deveriam ser tratadas como seres humanos e, finalmente, apareceu alguém para determinar que não?

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From a 1931 restaurant guide of Chicago

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From the 1915 annual report of the United Charities of Chicago

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AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

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If you believe in #PublicMedia, now is the time to show it.

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Yes! No Democrat support for crypto.

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Courts delivered wins for Pennsylvania voters Friday in two different right-wing disenfranchisement efforts.🥳 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS Trump executive order targeting my former law firm, Perkins Coie. Executive Order 14230, entitled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore null and void

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Your School House Rock moment...🤔

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

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Data obtained by the Tribune shows that attendance rates fell at all schools across Chicago Public Schools the week Donald Trump was sworn in. Over 50% of students attending the 10 schools that experienced the biggest attendance drops are Latino, according to enrollment data.

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the fraction of parents reading to their 0-4 year old kids frequently has apparently fallen by 23 POINTS since 2012 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

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U.S. Senate Dems seek Trump administration report on human rights in El Salvador prison missouriindependent.com/2025/05/02/r...

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

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Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

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This is a big deal—not just a process-based ruling, but a holding that Trump’s Alien Enemy Act proclamation is substantively invalid on its face. This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.

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Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this excellent set of notes on SKIN TONES by @deluxepeach over on the blue bird :) #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #gameart #tutorial #indiegame #comicart #characterdesign #illustration

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

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we need to spend more time with @repdangoldman.bsky.social's clip. not a single penny toward disaster relief but TONS OF YOUR CASH to "protect" drumpf's golf habit 🧢 @mrsquirrel.bsky.social @zentrixter.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 258 comments

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

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Federal workers discover treatments and cures for diseases. They keep us safe from disasters and emergencies of all kinds. What’s more, they take care that the laws are faithfully executed every day even when the president is trying to thwart and destroy the laws and the Constitution.

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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217 Today: The federal library department has put almost all of its staff on leave. What does that mean for your town’s library?

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The Libraries are seeking donations of red dresses for a Red Dress display outside Goodell Hall, running from May 5–9. The Red Dress display honors the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (#MMIWG) movement. (1/3)

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It's Independent Bookstore Day, so remember that red states are pushing bills that would force booksellers to cover displays related to pride, hide books like "1984" and effectively ban "Banned Book" sections — all under the guise of protecting minors from "pornography" www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Americans Believe Russian Disinformation ‘To Alarming Degree’ "Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% of Democrats."

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Thank you to all the dedicated Tx advocates who waited 12 hours(again) to testify against public library censorship and SB2101. We 💕 your care for families who love reading.

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"That's a refreshing question," the White House Press Secretary says to a far-right conspiracy theorist who posted child sex abuse material and Hitler's speeches on Twitter.

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Really great to see the Coalition for Independent Tech Research weighing in on the unethical Reddit experiment. independenttechresearch.org/a-case-for-e...

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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

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Seen elsewhere: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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More than 1,000 AmeriCorps volunteers are assigned to projects in Colorado including wildfire mitigation, tutoring students and climate advocacy work coloradosun.com/2025/04/29/c...

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Today’s edition of Why Haven’t You Subscribed to the Print Edition of @theonion.com yet: every single ad in the latest issue is a lil shower of pee on Mr Roll Of Nickels. Two faves:

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The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in St. Isidore v. Drummond this morning. It is a case that could blow up public education and the separation of church and state as we know it. 🧵

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Not to be a Wednesday morning quarterback, but if the president is saying something not just false but stupid, it's probably a good idea to keep asking questions. (Do you know what Photoshop is? Who told you this guy had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles? Who gave you the blown-up picture?)

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NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

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