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Nicole Blair

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Teaching Professor of Literature and Composition at UW Tacoma; happily married; author of academic books; singer-songwriter at Curtain Call Records; women’s rights advocate; love nature, travel, animals, art, poetry. NO DMS!

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Ellen Gleditsch worked with Marie Curie, established radium's half-life, proved isotopes exist, then became Norway's 2nd female professor in 1929. During WWII she hid scientists in her home. What modern scientist inspires you most? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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14.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 51    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0
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What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

15.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 22941    🔁 9962    💬 877    📌 684
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I am co-leading a study abroad in Rome and it is kicking my butt…the word “tired” does not begin to describe. The exhilaration of watching students’ reactions to their encounters, however, makes it all worth it. 😎

23.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes, what the fuck???

23.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 8255    🔁 4171    💬 905    📌 485
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"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"

Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.

23.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 25886    🔁 7684    💬 1232    📌 307

“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.”

-Virginia Woolf

18.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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👇👇

03.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 14849    🔁 5079    💬 374    📌 183

Trump said he would use the shut down to fire Democrats in Civil Service and rescind medical care for others. The Roberts Court needs a spanking.

01.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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ME: "Jesus, why does your close friend Speaker Mike Johnson relentlessly bear false witness?"

JESUS: "WHO???"

01.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 9366    🔁 2039    💬 401    📌 95
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PLAYBOOK: “.. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown? Those Democratic attack lines almost write themselves.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

02.10.2025 11:17 — 👍 4553    🔁 1909    💬 269    📌 145
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Hanging on by my fingernails.

02.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

02.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 20611    🔁 6564    💬 1195    📌 316

Bad news for educators across the country. 🤬

02.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same. She has a good point in this situation. I would like to know more about her position in this instance.

02.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is a clear violation of the Hatch Act. I’ve seen other federal websites with similar displays. Please report it to your legislators, who have sworn to uphold the Constitution.

01.10.2025 23:31 — 👍 111    🔁 49    💬 8    📌 6

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

02.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 11266    🔁 2069    💬 528    📌 119

It's a crime spree!!

02.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

26.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 17670    🔁 5168    💬 683    📌 245

Dear World: a quarter of us voted for him. Most of us disapprove of him. Most of us are embarrassed by him. He does not represent us.

23.09.2025 15:17 — 👍 5680    🔁 1227    💬 116    📌 89

Don’t like a TV show? Don’t watch it. I liked Jimmy Kimmel, so I watched. I hate Fox News, so I don’t. Problem solved.

20.09.2025 12:31 — 👍 11347    🔁 2325    💬 531    📌 122

The Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of a key annual report that is central to future inflation data.

I’m sure it’s because the numbers are really, really good.

20.09.2025 10:54 — 👍 6755    🔁 1908    💬 318    📌 105
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Free thought and free choice are the first things to disappear under a dictatorship.

19.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 314    🔁 104    💬 8    📌 3
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Agree with Lawrence ! Chump is
"Stupid is as Stupid Does".........

20.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 6865    🔁 2280    💬 229    📌 101
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And by “none of us”, he means *you*, white people.

19.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 183    🔁 63    💬 10    📌 4
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Ossoff: "There are families in NE Georgia now who will not have local access to child birth services ... I mean, we are the wealthiest country in the world. We should be building new hospitals. We should be building new clinics."

19.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 9894    🔁 2707    💬 327    📌 78

Same

14.09.2025 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Guns, Division, and Violence in America | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich Guns, Division, and Violence in America | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

youtu.be/CVs1QmWYFmE

13.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel like I am losing my mind at all of this laudatory rhetoric about Charlie Kirk. You don’t have to celebrate violence to acknowledge that the man espoused contemptible views and contributed directly to the current climate in which we find ourselves.

11.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 38    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

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