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BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington state, overseeing Shilling v. U.S., just blocked the anti-trans military ban nationwide.

600 civilian employees at Tinker Air Force Base face termination amid workforce shakeup | Broken Arrow Sentinel The mass layoffs, which come with little public warning, are expected to have a significant impact on both the operational capacity of the base and the surrounding communities that depend on these fed...

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind.

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The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

Oklahoma elections: Clinton hospital will change owners, Inola voters reject school bond package Voters in two dozen Oklahoma counties went to the polls Tuesday to consider a wide array of issues.

There were a handful of elections around Oklahoma today: Voters in Clinton approved a measure to sell their hospital to a private company. Inola voters rejected a school bond for new elementary school classrooms. Muskogee County will get a new public safety complex.

www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

Perhaps my favorite childhood book. I give it as a gift to every baby in my life.

Israel agrees and wishes everyone a Happy New Year

I’d recommend everyone regardless of medical risk bring a mask on your airplane journey, a disinfectant wipe to clean the seat you’re in and hand sanitizer.

It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health.

Warning signs are everywhere.

Stumbled across one of those "How can we get more women involved in X industry?" articles.

You know what two suggestions you never see in those thinkpieces?

1: Pay women the same as men.
2: Get rid of the toxic men who scare women away from that industry.

Worker standing by The crate of wine grapes they are harvesting at night

It was midnight when this Santa Rosa CA farm worker began harvesting wine grapes. Farm workers harvest the grapes at night because the low temps prevent oxidation & ensures the highest quality wine. #WeFeedYou

Memorial for the women murdered in the Montreal Massacre: Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

Violence against women remains all too common & lately it has come to feel like many of us have little interest in ending it. On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, let’s recommit to ending the structures & tools that make our communities unsafe for women & girls.

Thanks Dylan!

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family.

Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

Agree 1000%

"Performative cruelty to dehumanize and humiliate trans people."

Mine is something I don't have (yet)

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

The reason Elie Weisel said "no one is illegal" is because declaring people as "illegal" is an early step to creating a permission structure for mass dehumanization and genocide.

That's why it matters. We are in the business of words. Accuracy matters in the word business. Intent and context matter

Come sit in the corner with Izzy and me!

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