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I don't know exactly why I'm still awake. But I know it was a series of bad decisions.

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

Anne Gray (@netmouse) Fighting for abolition is heavy work. And it gets heavier, not lighter, the more you study it. We'd like to say slavery can never happen again, but the sad truth is, it is still happening. Through hum...

Too long to just cross post: Abolitionism is heavy work.

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Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works

I am somewhat encouraged by the combined refusal of most presses and networks to sign on to the Dept of War's agreement to only print what they officially release about the Pentagon.

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Measles Cases and Outbreaks Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.

Though still only 3 deaths are attributed to measles in the US this year, we're up to 1,563 cases, which is more than 4x the number of cases we saw last year.

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Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Retina A was discovered through research on the skins of uncompensated subjects in PA prisons. This made a white researcher quite rich.

Obama's entire campaign was civil rights activism. Not just the moment of his election, but everything that came before, including his decision to try to be the change so many of us wanted to see.

White people are no doubt forgetting how much abuse he and his family faced as he did that.

YouTube video by The New York Times How Portland Is Reacting to Trump’s National Guard Threat

Reality in Portland.

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YouTube video by America Grows Why These 20 Garden Fruits Were BANNED in the 1950s

I have to wonder how much this crop shift contributed also to the "silent spring" Rachel Carson attributed to DDT. Bird populations are down 30 percent and I suspect the lack of berries is a prime factor.

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Where is the entrepreneurial spirit that in former years might have led Americans to buy these soybeans to manufacture products HERE instead of selling them to China ( where they were frequently processed into products sold back to us).

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Trump considers $10 billion bailout for farmers as tariffs disrupt the market

This reminds me so strongly of the toilet paper "shortages" during the pandemic. People are having trouble affording groceries while farmers are having trouble selling crops for a good price. Our distribution systems are not flexible enough.

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All these people calling for the release of the Epstein Files… Reminds me of the years we spent calling for Trump to release his taxes. At least THAT happened.

No, wait, it DIDN’T.

YouTube video by dreamlion JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

Jane Goodall's last interview.

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I kind of like this idea in this moment, tbh. They fired half the IRS investigators so those left really do need to prioritize the targets they pursue based on the odds that there's criminal fraud.

The military (National guard) has been quite professional, and many trained police would never stoop to the level of these ICE agents. They are hiring willing thugs and sending them out into the streets in facemasks with no real training.

I sat in a meeting earlier this week regarding attendance at a conference in the US, something my colleagues were keen to attend to interact & share medical research. Not one of the 12 was willing to fly into the US, siting personal safety as the reason; that’s what’s going on out there.

Literally my daughter, yesterday.

Chilicon delayed my posting of the Freedom in the Family review by one week, but I posted it last Friday, right before I went on a daylong tour of municipal watershed projects.

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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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this government is fucking with the bonds of union, genuinely insane

meanwhile, on Ghorman…

That sounds so frustrating. "We have all the industry contacts and distribution networks to make this book reach the readers who will love it as much as we do, but that's, like, a lot of work, so we want you to have readers already."

Yes! including dwelling in the world of someone else's imagination for a bit.

Just yesterday I finished reading The Dragon With a Heart Of Chocolate, by Stephanie Burgis. Perfect for this.

I literally just created a group there for the first time earlier today.

It's too easy to just say shit like that, but it has no basis. The Michigan democrats I grew up with, like Senator Carl Levin (and now his son) and state legislator Rebekah Warren, were there to serve the people and worked very hard to do just that.

The Things You Know, The Things You Trust — IfTheresAnyone In the future, everything will stay essentially the same, despite changes. The things you know about the people you love will be enough to rely on, at their core, no matter what the world does.

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"The First Amendment recognizes that a certain amount of expressive disorder not only is inevitable in a society committed to individual freedom, but must itself be protected if that freedom should survive." Justice William J. Brennan, City of Houston v. Hill, in 1999

Dr. Monarez: “Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the science...He said, ‘If I was unwilling to do both, I should resign.’”

Political Commentator Epically Fact-Checks Vance's Baseless Claims About Political Violence

Foiled again, JD.