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Larry O. Dean

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Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist https://www.larryodean.com

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Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.
13.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty and staff to promote economic security and quality education.

please contact the president of Texas State University, Kelly Damphousse, and urge him to respect academic freedom and the first amendment and restore Professor Tom Alter to teaching.

president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121.

aaup-texas.org/blog?blog=y

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Prescription drug coverage options are shrinking for Medicare shoppers Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.
12.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
12.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Envoy Savagely Booed During Awkward Ceasefire Celebration Jeers erupted in Tel Aviv as Steve Witkoff stumbled through an address.
12.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.
12.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."
11.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
11.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nobel Peace Winner María Corina Machado Gushes Over Trump María Corina Machado threw plenty of praise President Donald Trump's way as she broke down on Saturday why exactly she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to him.
11.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building CORAL GABLES, FL—Saying that she had given the decision considerable thought, local high school senior Katie Simmons told reporters Monday that she would be applying to Bristol College, a school where...
11.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Answer to Trump’s Anti-Worker Shutdown Is Solidarity and Labor Militancy The GOP’s assault on federal employees amid the government shutdown is far more extreme than Reagan’s PATCO union busting. The labor movement needs a more effective response this time.
11.10.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
11.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI drones are America's newest cops AI-powered drones can do some police work — but using them raises new questions about surveillance and privacy.
11.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer Plus, when did claret get so good and why did Shackleton's ship Endurance sink? Historical updates aplenty.
11.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chicago high school students preserve mariachi music, tradition Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen is the only Chicago Public School that offers Mariachi as a class. Since 1994, the school has been building the next generation of Mariachi stars.
11.10.2025 04:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Allegations against Paul Ingrassia, a key Trump nominee, become even more serious Ingrassia’s odds of being confirmed as the next head of the Office of Special Counsel were poor. His chances now appear even worse.
11.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
10.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...
10.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pastor struck by ICE disputes Trump administration’s ‘false’ account of protest Rev. David Black disputes Homeland Security officials blaming ‘agitators’ and ‘rioters’ for blocking ICE facility
10.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.
10.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Unions Ask for Immediate Court Block on Shutdown Layoffs (1) Federal employee unions asked a judge to immediately block the White House from ordering agencies to cut workers during the government shutdown.
10.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.
10.10.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...
10.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MIT is 1st school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits "With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.
10.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Cyber Cuts Raise National Security Alarms Months of layoffs, funding cuts and lapsed programs leaves U.S. cybersecurity capabilities dangerously thin, experts say. The government shutdown isn’t helping.
10.10.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual credit courses.
10.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Risks from AI use are growing alongside its popularity in schools Greater school use increases the likelihood of data breaches, bullying and other issues, a Center for Democracy and Technology survey said.
10.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs A judge has blocked new requirements for teen pregnancy prevention grantees. The case is a victory for Planned Parenthood affiliates who sued President Donald Trump's administration over policy guidan...
10.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.
10.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
10.10.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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