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"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities.

This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.

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Lol. The most toxic part of our oligarchy would collapse, and the oligarchs would have you believe that means you, too. But it very much does not.

As Musk’s xAI Data Centers Encroach on Southaven, North Mississippi Residents Push Back As Elon Musk’s xAI expands its data centers into Southaven, Mississippi, residents are decrying noise pollution and raising concerns over emissions.

“Not all money is good money, mayor,” said Shannon Samsa. “If nothing changes, the legacy left behind won't be beautification projects or skate parks; it will be a moment residents realize their health, their peace of mind, and their trust sold off.”

Sex pest solidarity.

Fare-free transit helps everyone get around faster, makes service more reliable, and saves you money.

Our new agreement with the @mbta.com keeps Bus Routes 23, 28, and 29 fare-free through June and talks are underway to keep this successful program going.

Turns out we do know how to increase mobility via transit. We simply have to have the will to prioritize it.

“Why is a man who showed such complicity and cravenness still presiding over vulnerable college students, in a position that requires not only trust but moral character?” Grateful for this lucid essay on @bardcollege.bsky.social president and Epstein friend Leon Botstein, from @katemanne.bsky.social

Infuriating.

Ruby Freeman said it best, “do you know what it’s like to be targeted by the President of the United States?”

I was at a singalong and missed this week's roll. Aiming for next week!

Disastrous. No adequate words, atm, for just how ruinous this is for those of us with rheumatoid autoimmune musculoskeletal disease and others. This is outrageous.

You can read about the work NIAMS does, did?

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Instituting as much precarity as possible to consolidate and leverage power. 😒

Higher Ed, in particular, should have fought 2FA on personal phones and removing our office phones tooth and nail for this reason.

I usually have little tolerance for holiday-themed social media posts and less for political ads, but I ♥️ this. 🚍🚍👻🌹🌹

Save the date! DC's independent bookstore day crawl is 4/25/26! You'll wanna come by the store early to grab a copy of the newsletter for a dollar off on the front page!

in this article, it says: "By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week."

I work at a newspaper. Writing IS my fucking job! This is like saying "by removing patients from a doctor's workload..."

I wanna buy that student a coffee.

yes.

Trump’s Version of “Domestic Terrorism” vs. the First Amendment The administration has given itself permission to prosecute people and organizations for their political views.

Trump backed off calling Renee Good & Alex Pretti domestic terrorists because people didn't like it. But as I wrote, the admin is still doubling down on the use of domestic terrorism investigations to scare Americans away from using their First Amendment rights. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:

1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI

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It's also just not evident based. For all the evidence Cass had tried to amass, this speculation that kids who might have ceased being trans are being frozen in time rather than helped to develop their growing minds, identity and agency by exploring and expressing it actively has zero evidence.

I find the responses here pretty compelling! Point taken, fuck these things

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie Smith.

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73

EChO is announced the 2026 TranspoBINGO winner!!! The crowd is jovial.

A throwback - ECho wins an award during the first year of TranspoBINGO.

Tam is announced a winner and looks pleasantly surprised!

All the prize winners - both for play and via our raffle. It was SO MUCH FUN!

👑 #TranspoBINGO 2026 Award Winners👑

🏆High Score: @echo4dc.bsky.social: most squares completed (+ a Year One winner)!

✨Level Up: @tamjguy.bsky.social: stretched beyond usual travel habits & tried something new.

🎭Playmaker: @mangymona.bsky.social: brought creativity, joy & imagination to the game.

Heather Cox Richardson and Allison Gill Discuss Republican Spying and Weaponized Justice Watch now | A recording from Allison Gill's live video

Heather Cox Richardson points out that Pam Bondi’s bizarre testimony makes more sense when you realize she couldn’t talk about the Epstein files without perjuring herself. Watch our discussion here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: “I was trafficked to a lot of types of different men — billionaires, royalty… he used me as a form of blackmail so these people would owe him favors.”

Epstein survivors believe the Trump DoJ illegally released the names of survivors in an effort to intimidate them.

What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.

Am so happy to have escaped that particular part of LA living, but I feel that SIGH in my soul.

This is why *all* researchers need reflexivity--not just qualitative ones.

Our training and our backgrounds and our preexisting beliefs shape the research questions we ask, the methods decisions we make (eg, variables, models, or missing data strategies), and the way we interpret findings.