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I just looked it up. That was me! Thank you!

Thank you for re-signing my book! Great event as always with Lady and Christina!

Cool cool cool cool cool in the first-grade classroom of the future "Everyone Is Welcome Here" is not allowed but "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife" is mandatory

This is SUCH a great way to phrase this. In my town the rich people put their kids in private schools which allows them to dehumanize “public schools” which they will insult loudly, not realizing who they’re actually insulting (or harming with their votes.)

I think this one is for us @janelkw.bsky.social

One more. (It is obvious by this thread I’m missing the social Internet and a place for my ramblings.) I quit Twitter and TikTok fine. Bc those truly did feel like sugar water to me. But Facebook and IG continue to have enough positive elements that I struggle disconnecting completely from them.

YouTube video by vlogbrothers Am I Cigarettes?

Also, as someone who is just a hair older than @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social but who also struggled with smoking in my youth…this video felt almost targeted 🤣

YouTube video by vlogbrothers You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information

I (temporarily?) deactivated my Facebook and IG accounts 2 wks ago after MANY failed attempts over MANY years to control my use of them. @hankgreen.bsky.social & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social convo about social media this week helped how I will think about this struggle going forward.

Iran-Israel latest: Iran warns of ‘everlasting consequences’ after US bombs nuclear sites - follow live US President Donald Trump hails the operation as a

Yes, this is yet another obvious violation of international law by the US Government. However despicable the regime in Iran, you cannot just attack another country. Bombing civilian nuclear facilities is also illegal under several nuclear treaties to which US is Party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

The Hand of Mashyana (The Emari Chronicles Book 1) Amazon.com: The Hand of Mashyana (The Emari Chronicles Book 1) eBook : Hansford, Amber: Kindle Store

My debut novel, The Hand of Mashyana (Book 1 of the Emari Chronicles) is available for pre-order! amzn.to/3Q8QL02 #booksky #debutnovel

Only a small set of movies of the era defy the trope of white savior but sister act does this while also actively combating class and generational stereotypes, advocating for community building while giving you banger after banger as performed by NUNS in SF, in this essay I will…

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

All the numbers Musk claims he is "finding" in his various agency database "audits" have actually been on a public website all along - for the last 20 years. You can search for any spending in any department. Try it for yourself:
usaspending.gov

Musk is a fraud.

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Everyone says that the whole point of pushing all the bad shit at once is to keep us overwhelmed, and therefore inactive. The problem is…it’s working and I am so overwhelmed that I don’t even know what I should be focusing on in terms of action. What’s everyone’s top priority? ITS ALL TOO MUCH.

The Ministry Spending Millions on Those Jesus Super Bowl Ads The nonprofit behind the “He Gets Us” Super Bowl ad campaign is tied to the billionaire Hobby Lobby family — and registered as a church.

“We think it is a bad idea for an organization that is not a church, to say it’s a church in order to avoid transparency and disclosure issues."

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Kim and her dog on the recliner together

The dog on the recliner by himself.

My dog has figured out the loophole to sitting in the recliner… which we don’t normally let him do. He gets into the recliner first by curling up on my lap, which I find adorable. And then he stays there when I get up.

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

NSF has unfrozen funds but is continuing to scour research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

Nature spoke to six NSF staff members, who shared documents detailing plans to search 10,000 flagged grants for DEI language.

For @nature.com w/ @dangaristo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Collins: Is there a tangible concession in your view?

Davidson: Yeah, absolutely. It’s a commitment from Trudeau to help with fentanyl

Collins: He announced that plan six weeks ago.

Davidson: Well, at least he's reiterated it

USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

I really found the Klein "Don't Believe Him" episode reassuring when I listened to it this weekend. But I am starting to feel like it didn't consider Elon and his gamer team working *as* the government when doubting that Trump could do the things he was trying to do.

My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”

I still remember way back before Musk was illegally destroying US foreign aid that time when he claimed he’d give $6B to the UK WFP if they could tell him how it would solve world hunger & then he ignored the response & gave $5.7B to his own charity & no one ever found out where it went from there

We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.

I’m so glad you opted for portrait mode! Those are gorgeous!

My first kid’s guided paint-on-canvas class at the library!