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'Shame on UVA': Student producer fired for asking hard questions A student journalist at UVA was fired for asking hard questions of UVA interim President Paul Mahoney and refusing to apologize.

I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus disease Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the South Ethiopia Region, the first of its kind in the country, following laboratory testing of samples from a clus...

The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease.
It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia.
#IDsky 🧪

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National school bus driver shortage persists, despite recent gains • Iowa Capital Dispatch School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, according to a new study.

School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, but there still aren’t as many drivers as there were in 2019, according to a new study, Stateline reports.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

tag yourself, I'm the paragraph where the board suggests Ryan should sit down with an outside lawyer to think through his options and then it turns out that the lawyer is actually representing the board (a fact that she reveals only when he asks her to her face)

Tariffs are taxes on Americans.

Also:

Illinois Democratic Senate hopefuls target President Donald Trump’s immigration policies at labor forum At Illinois AFL-CIO and Chicago Federation of Labor forum, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly each blamed Trump for voter concerns over affordability.

At Illinois AFL-CIO and Chicago Federation of Labor forum, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly each blamed Trump for voter concerns over affordability.

The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump An analysis of documents released this week by Congress shows President Trump was mentioned in more than half of the messages.

Congress released a cache of documents this week that were recently turned over by Epstein’s estate. Among them: more than 2,300 email threads that the convicted sex offender either sent or received between 2008 and 2019.

The so-called “Strike Papyrus” written by Amunnakht The scribe Amennakht is the author of this papyrus in the hieratic script. It is a report concerning a strike held during the reign of King Ramesses III in the village of Deir el-Medina. The workers protested because they had not received their regular food rations, which constituted payment for their work in the Valley of the kings. “Year 29, secondo month of the Inundation, day 10. Today the work squadron passed the control post shouting “we are hungry!” It is 18 days this month that (the men) go and sit at the back of the funerary temple of Tuthmosis III”. Despite various attempt at conciliation, the protest lasted a number of days. To the officials who tried to persuade them to return to work, the workers replied: “We are here because of the famine and thirst. We are not accustomed to not having unguents, fish, and greens. Write to the pharaoh our perfect lord, take note of our words, and write to the vizier, our superior, because we are in need of our provisions”. Inv. no. : Cat. 1880 TPOP Material: Plant fiber / Papyurs Date: 1187–1157 BCE Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Twentieth Dynasty Reign: Ramesses III Provenance: Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina Acquisition: Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824 Museum location: Museum / Floor 1 / Room 06 DEM / Central wall Selected bibliography: Andreu, Guillemette (a cura di)-Andreu, Guillemette, Gli artisti del faraone: Deir el-Medina e le Valli dei Re e delle Regine, Milano 2003, p. 187. Cline, Eric H.-O'Connor, David (ed.)-Cline H., Eric-O'Connor, David, Ramesses III: the life and times of Egypt's last hero, Ann Arbor 2012, pp. 67, 112, 118, 120–122, 136, 141, 352. Edgerton, William F., “The strikes in Ramses III's twenty-ninth year”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 10 (1951), pp. 137–145. Gabler, Kathrin, “Methods of identification among the Deir el-Medina workmen and their service personnel: the use of names, titles, patronyms and identity marks in administrativ…

November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...

Jeffery Epstein hanging out in Trump Tower ~1 week after the 2016 election, cool cool

It's only twenty thousand. How long could it take?

Cats not liable for killing birds, according to secret finding by cats.

Are those all Gannett publications?

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

new meme

Implication: There are more documents than what House Republicans released this afternoon.

U.S. Insurers Are Binging on Private Credit, Moody’s Says A handful of insurers are buying much of the investments, which are hard to trade and have relatively low credit ratings.

Exclusive: Some U.S. life insurers are parking more than half the fixed-income assets they need to fund policies and annuities in hard-to-trade private credit, according to new research by Moody’s Ratings.

The USPS is a vital public service that serves every single community. Wells Fargo created a report outlining how they could break it up and sell it off - that would destroy jobs, raise prices, and gut service. Postal workers and the public are fighting back — and we won’t be sold out.

New Epstein emails appear to reveal more Trump ties Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released several emails from the estate of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that refer to President Trump.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released several emails from the estate of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that refer to President Trump. n.pr/4p7hqKa

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

"...Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump 'knew about the girls,' many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. In another, Mr. Epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their relationship as Mr. Trump was becoming a national political figure."

The AI Boom Is Looking More and More Fragile AI stocks have swung downward as doubt rises about sustainability and payoff.

Heard on the Street: Perfect isn’t good enough, and any sign of weakness is a disaster. That’s investors’ current mood about the AI boom.

What Causes the Northern Lights? The aurora borealis is usually seen near the Arctic, but solar winds and magnetic turbulence are sparking some of the best light shows in centuries throughout the US.

The aurora borealis is usually seen near the Arctic, but solar winds and magnetic turbulence are sparking some of the best light shows in centuries throughout the US. www.wired.com/story/the-ph...

The same spreadsheet showing the average cost of a glass of milk as $0.25. It does not quantify how large the glass is nor where it was purchased.

Also, at what restaurant can you get a glass of milk for $0.25?

A spreadsheet with columns "DATASET", "DESCRIPTION", "TIMESTAMP", and "VALUE". Every entry under Dataset is "Cheeseburger Index". Entries under DESCRIPTION are "Average Cost of a Cheeseburger", "Average Cost of French Fries", or "Average Cost of Soda". Entries under TIMESTAMP are the first day of a month between September 2024 and September 2025. Entries under "VALUE" are in dollars.

Looking at the DoorDash State of Commerce Report.

This is not a dataset. This is an executive summary of a dataset with no underlying data.

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

David Cook named 17th Iowa State University president • Iowa Capital Dispatch David Cook was selected by the Iowa Board of Regents Tuesday to lead Iowa State University as president, succeeding Wendy Wintersteen.

BREAKING: North Dakota State University President David Cook has been named the new president of Iowa State University, Brooklyn Draisey reports via Report for America. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/11/11/d...

Bright scarlet sheets of light in the night sky.

Who all is watching the Aurora tonight?

They're SO intense tonight.

A 98-year-old woman died after this raid. The police chief who executed it, and resigned over it, will not face criminal trial.

I consume a massive amount of political news. And in every story the reporter contacts the specific Trump admin spokesperson for comment and the response is always a venomous personal insult followed by praise for Trump or a cabinet official. I realize that has always been standard journalistic