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I was a faculty member at IU in 2016, and after the election that year, I had to change the way I taught my 200+ student Intro Sociology class, because a handful of students started flooding the class whiteboard app by posting "MAGA" over and over again.

Let's pay back her generosity with lots of holiday orders. I can personally attest that her products make EXCELLENT gifts—my mom is still using her Galaxy wrist brace something like 3 years later!

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

BE AWARE OT THIS, FOLKS

um...
we hear so little about this, don't we?

A little reminder

New ‘stumbling stones’ in Green Valley mark family’s triumph over enslavement | ARLnow.com The two newest "stumbling stones" memorializing people enslaved in Arlington are located near a historic cemetery where the honorees are laid to rest. The congregation of Lomax AME Zion Church was joined...

New 'stumbling stones' in Green Valley mark family's triumph over enslavement

HOLY COW. Basically, as folks note in the comments. Halligan allowed the court reporter to believe they were done for the day but then called the Grand Jury back. There is no judge, etc at these. So very likely she reconvened with no court reporter.

I can't see how charges stand if that's true.

Marcus Cato on Agriculture : 156 : Of the medicinal value of the cabbage: It is the cabbage which surpasses all other vegetables. It may be eaten either cooked or raw; if you eat it raw, dip it into vinegar. It promotes digestion marvellously and is an excellent laxative, and the urine is wholesome for everything. '* If you wish to drink deep at a banquet and to enjoy your dinner, eat as much raw cabbage as vou wish, seasoned with vinegar. before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half a dozen leaves: it will make you feel as if you had not dined, and you can drink as much as you please."

busted: meditations of marcus aurelius

new hotness: cato the elder's cabbage-based binge drinking methods

The Virus That Causes Mono May Also Cause Lupus Early findings indicate that Epstein-Barr Virus may also cause the autoimmune disease lupus

In the light of this, it's important to establish the relationship between reactivation of EBV (which, of course, can be triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection) and the development of new-onset lupus.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

COVID was the ruling classes experiment to see if people would give up on the social contract to prioritize themselves, once they saw people were willing to let disabled, elderly and poor people die for their own convenience, they have slowly taken the mask fully off day by day and now we are here.

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Upgrade Medicare and extend it to all. No one should have a GoFundMe for medical care.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷

‘It’s wrong’: Grandmother detained by ICE to spend Thanksgiving in jail despite legal status Loved ones say a grandmother will be spending Thanksgiving behind bars after being detained by ICE.

Donna Hughes Brown is an Irish citizen who's lived in the US most of her life.

She holds a green card and is married with American kids & grandkids.

ICE grabbed her anyways. The reason? A bad cheque she wrote for $25 decades ago.

It's been paid back.

She will now spend Thanksgiving in custody

You can help the striking Starbucks employees by not buying anything from the company.

Employees were offered a 50 cent wage increase amidst billion dollar profits.

Hit them in the wallet, that’s all they respond to.

Support local independent coffee shops instead!

There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?

For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Antibiotic found hiding in plain sight could treat dangerous infections, early study finds Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen antibiotic that shows promising in treating drug-resistant infections.

If this bears out this is perhaps the biggest health innovation since mRNA vaccines which like lol how crazy. This science interrupted the biological production of antibiotic producing mold and isolated an early molecule in the compound. That rules.

www.livescience.com/health/medic...

@kaine.senate.gov : what she said. You suck, and we will never vote for you again

When you can’t afford health insurance just remember that Sen. Kaine is sleeping well

The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.