American here -- what is a Hobnob?!

Southern University, other HBCUs close due to ‘potential threat’ Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

NSF STEM K-12 (STEM K-12)

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed:

Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs.

Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

My Rigby!

The Trump administration will “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in another blow to international students and higher education institutions across the United States.

More details: cnn.it/4mA4yM0

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Premodern Gender Historian: Almost all surviving sources about that period are from elite men. I certainly was doing work then but it was not considered important or relevant by the chroniclers or may have been in perishable foods or textiles.

That leaves Rear Window. I don't make the rules.
(Don't pick Vertigo. Didn't age well.)

#MyFavoriteMurder talked about a (long ago) mysterious death between Vermillion, SD and Alcester, and honestly, I'm just surprised there haven't been more. There's probably 6 people and 4,275 cows living in between there, and nothing else but highway.

Good! Proud of them!

📢 Rumor has it the DOGE Traitor Tots were spotted at AmeriCorps.

First they gutted Peace Corps—now AmeriCorps is in their sights.

Because in Trump’s world, the best way to "cut waste" is to go after VOLUNTEERS strengthening communities at home and abroad 🙃.

LOL

The real threat to American jobs…

Got one that listed two different termination days.

Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth's office U.S. officials say the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office to review and get rid of books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

U.S. officials say the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office to review and get rid of books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Hello from MN. Next up, we're sending you surprise snow.

What's something on your #bucketlist?

Cats are pretty sure we got a storm door just for their benefit. They're not entirely wrong.

The grants his report highlighted definitely looked like they were selected by AI, because they made very little sense, and provided a small amount of levity in the grants world with their inaccuracy.

If you want to be inclusive, you can't make fun of a man for wearing eyeliner.
You CAN make fun of him for being a scumbag.

And don't you forget it.

👇🏻

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Who else is enjoying some stress-cleaning?

because they have to scan vouchers BEFORE scanning WIC items. Before all that, you have to gamble on whether the cashier chose knows how to ring up WIC items. And you have to be at a store that takes WIC - not Aldi (then).

A decade ago, anyway, buying WIC items usually meant a separate transaction. It meant planning ahead while shopping and keeping a group of WIC items in one corner of your cart. Sending them through checkout first, making sure the cashier knew it was a WIC transaction before they started scanning, 4/

what kinds and whether fresh or canned or frozen, but obviously the same $7 will buy more canned than fresh.
* Your $X fruit voucher is $X. You can either try to get really close to X without going over (and forfeit the rest) or pay the overage in yet another transaction. Because,
3/