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David Hogg’s Fight for the Future of the Democratic Party Podcast Episode · Reveal · 06/04/2025 · 29m

David Hogg has been forced out of his role as vice chair of the DNC.

His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US.

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Small Colleges Are Banding Together Against a Higher Endowment Tax. This Is Why. These liberal-arts institutions rely on their endowments to fund much of their operations and financial aid.

Congress’s proposed hike in endowment taxes would land particularly hard on small private colleges that rely on endowment returns to support their financial-aid programs and operating expenses. chroni.cl/3FWJIWz

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Youngkin commutes sentence of ex-officer who fatally shot unarmed man Youngkin commuted the sentence Sunday night, writing that the three years of incarceration went beyond the state’s sentencing guidelines.

glenn youngkin easily the commonwealth's worst governor of the 21st century www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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I think a very, very deep recession is unavoidable at this point.

Friends I’m gonna need all of you to go buy Eve Ewing’s new book “Original Sins/ The (Mis)education of Black and Native children and the Construction of American Racism” when it releases officially tomorrow. Truly an incredible and all too timely book

Front cover of a book entitled The Epic Women of Homer. Cover is brown with reproductions of vase paintings of women

I'm super-excited and oh-so-proud that Eirene Allen has written a book!
"The Epic Women of Homer" is available now from the publisher, Pen and Sword (www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Epic-Wom...), and all bookshops.
Go get yourself a copy!
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Call for Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies For much of rhetoric’s history, circulation—the cultural and spatio-temporal flow of texts, ideas, and images through various networks, platforms, and structures—has been less of an explicit area of…

If you're still looking for something to write about for the "Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies" Blog Carnival, perhaps you could write about how this CFP *circulates* on Bluesky.

Full CFP: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/02/04/c...

Proposal deadline is Feb 26th!

A red winter coat and a black beanie hanging above a soapstone woodstove. A tri-colored dog stands in front of the blazing woodstove.

“Hey, why do y’all always have these hangars hanging above your woodstove in the winter?”

#rurallife #winter

‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

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