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Real photos, not AI-generated, of Honey Bees Drinking Water I love the one at lower left; it looks like bees grazing on a hillside by a lake :)
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Photos of Honey bees (Apis mellifera) drinking
Images of Honey bees (Apis mellifera) drinking water at a bird bath in British Columbia, Canada
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Hal
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“Judge blocks Trump’s push to deport Abrego Garcia, rebukes DOJ for trying to “dictate” court - Fox News ‘“A U.S. judge in Maryland rejected the 47's attempt to deport
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Judge blocks Trump’s push to deport Abrego Garcia, rebukes DOJ for trying to ‘dictate’ court — Fox News
A U.S. judge blocked Abrego Garcia's removal to Liberia, for now, further delaying a 13-month case that has spanned two continents and multiple federal court districts.
https://apple.news/AGVWllJGHTOO1k5KI52NgJg
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Prisonculture
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I would like to uplift and remind all of us that people across the country are organizing against detention and are fighting the warehouse concentration camps. You can get connected to the work by joining a mass call on 4/14 -
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention · Indivisible
The Trump administration is converting warehouses across the country into mass detention facilities — and communities are already fighting back. Join Indivisible, Detention Watch Network, Disappeared ...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/932124/
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Marisa Kabas
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you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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United Farm Workers
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"Ernesto" works weeding young lettuce in the Tehachapi CA area. "It's a very tiring job. We're pressured a lot to move as fast as we can. We earn minimum wage. We are only working 5 hrs/day. But they pressure us to do the same amount of work as it would take in 8 hrs."
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madeline odent
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Robert Reich
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Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
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Tanisha
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The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
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AFT
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This National Public Health Week, we recognize the importance of programs and policies that reduce disease, injury and pollution—and our need to keep the Trump Administration from gutting it all.
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National Public Health Week
Join us in Celebrating National Public Health Week, April 6 - 12, 2026. APHA brings communities nationwide together to honor the contributions of public health and shine a light on the issues shaping ...
https://www.apha.org/initiatives/national-public-health-week
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ProPublica Guild
3 days ago
Our members are on the picket line today demanding a fair contract now! We want a fair disciplinary process, layoff protections & guardrails on artificial intelligence. Support us by donating to our strike fund:
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Action Together New Jersey
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Peggy Stuart
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Take heart — people are in the streets. Chicago marched through the Loop demanding accountability. You can’t bully the world into peace. You can’t terrorize people in the name of humanity.
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MUN Faculty Association
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Memorial isn’t just a university to people. It’s where things start.And right now, people are worried about what’s being lost. Keep sharing your stories. They matter more than ever.
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MUN Faculty Association
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These are the kinds of stories we keep hearing. A course that changed someone’s life. A reason someone stayed in Newfoundland and Labrador. A degree that helped build a career, a business, a future. A hope that the next generation gets the same chance. 1/2
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MUN Faculty Association
9 days ago
Provinces across Canada are investing in post-secondary education. Ontario. Saskatchewan. Meanwhile, Newfoundland and Labrador’s only university faces cuts, fewer courses, and larger classes. The NL budget is coming. This government has a clear choice to make.
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MUNFA Grenfell
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Canada Post is a Crown corporation with a public service mandate. We must protect and strengthen Canada Post as a vital public service now and for future generations!
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Thank you for supporting our public post office and CUPW!
Thank you for taking action to stop Canada Post’s Transformation Plan! We are grateful that you have added your voice to our call for the Federal Government to hold a fully transparent public mandate ...
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MeidasTouch
3 days ago
MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Chris Taylor, the Democratic-backed candidate, has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The result expands the court’s liberal majority to 5–2, extending its current ideological balance for years to come.
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Katie Mack
3 days ago
Calling all physics/astronomy science communicators! Applications are open for the 2026
#Scicomm
Collider at
@perimeterinstitute.ca
! A great opportunity for folks doing all kinds of astro/phys engagement to meet, network, and share expertise on connecting the public with science! ⚛️🧪🔭🎢
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"to believe history is inevitable is to strip individuals of their agency and to render the concepts of responsibility and justice empty fictions. Historical change happens because people make choices and do things."
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Adopting AI is a social contract - University Affairs
Integrating artificial intelligence into our societies and personal lives binds us to certain futures and forecloses the possibility of others. Are we ready to accept the consequences?
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/adopting-ai-is-a-social-contract/
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Project Gutenberg
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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore. Brittany Allen
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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…
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ProPublica Guild
3 days ago
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the
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website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line:
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AAUP
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BU President reverses position on Pride flags removal without discussing broader censorship on campus. “The statement did not address the larger pattern of free speech suppression...the admin either does not see those issues as important or does not plan to address them." —Joseph Harris, BU AAUP
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BU president pauses removal of pride flags, reversing position
The pause follows weeks of public backlash by faculty members and others over the administration’s enforcement of a policy it defended as “content neutral.”
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/04/06/bu-president-pride-flags-ban
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Kashana
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Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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This is a clear example of valuing policing over learning in higher ed.
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can free us from this!
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Our institution's guidelines for exams: "There should be at least one invigilator for every 50 students." Our administration: you should be teaching classes of 350 students and have only one lab instructor for 144 students spread over two rooms.
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Accessibility Awareness
4 days ago
Don't use headings to arbitrarily style text. If you apply “Heading 4” style, you add a <h4> heading tag to the item. When screen reader users navigate from heading to heading, the item will be treated as a heading. This will be confusing. Only treat actual headings as headings.
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Erica Ifill
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Dynamic pricing is predatory pricing
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
4 days ago
I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁
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#FutureIsBright
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'The canoe will float!' These MUN students built a concrete boat they hope will come out on top | CBC News
A team of engineering students have spent months making a concrete canoe. They're getting ready to race in a national competition this May.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/concrete-canoe-mun-9.7147434
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Governor JB Pritzker
4 days ago
Donald Trump is trying to rig our next election. Let's be clear: how Illinois chooses to run its elections is up to the state, not the President, as the Constitution sets. We're fighting back.
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Illinois and other Democrat-led states sue against Trump executive order that tightens mail-in voting
Illinois has joined 23 other Democrat-run states in a lawsuit against a Trump administration executive order. The order would establish a national list of eligible voters and restrict mail-in voting t...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2026/04/03/donald-trump-executive-order-national-voter-eligibility-list-mail-in-ballots-lawsuit-24-blue-states
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I picked up this book at the Winterton Boat Museum a while back and I keep returning to it. So many relevant examples, and such a clear vision.
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OCADFA
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Our articles on OCADU funding and finances:
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Common Cause
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We’re suing President Trump... again. This time it’s over an illegal order that threatens voters, election workers, and vote -by-mail. He’s trying to nationalize elections so HE can decide who’s allowed to vote and who isn’t.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
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“the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank, warned that without a reversal, the cuts to science could shrink the U.S. economy by nearly $1 trillion over 10 years.”
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AAUP
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“We’re a university of researchers. If I want to do a single study, I have to show my data but we’re being asked on faith to trust the university’s decisions that affect our everyday lives without any specific data to back up the circumstances.” 🤔
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‘Destruction and disruption’: UNT professors slam program cuts, demand more cost savings data
A group of professors at the University of North Texas are calling for more transparency as the school cuts dozens of degrees amid a projected $45 million shortfall.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/destruction-disruption-unt-professors-slam-225141608.html
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Regina Schrambling
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Texans are at least pushing back against monstrous border wall at Big Bend
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Thousands in Texas protest against border wall through national park: ‘big love for Big Bend’
Rally met with bipartisan support after US border patrol revealed plans for steel wall across parts of beloved parks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/texas-capitol-protest-big-bend-border-wall
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Pam Palmater
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The
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Katie Mack
5 days ago
⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to
@perimeterinstitute.ca
for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!
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Scicomm Collider 2026
The Scicomm Collider workshop will bring together a group of the most innovative science communicators helping to connect the public with topics in physics and astronomy for a three-day workshop aimed...
https://events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2128/
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AAUP
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"We can grow, but we have to put the resources into it and we have to do with work at the administrative level with strategy and with the commitments that requires." —Bill Knight, President of Portland State University AAUP
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
5 days ago
One of the through lines of my new book THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME is the Akan concept of "Sankofa" -- to go back and get what we may have forgotten. I see this through a cosmic lens: the history of space-time is our history! Coming to you tomorrow!!! 📚💙🔭🧪
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The Tennessee Holler
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REP.
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: “Your frustration is real… People in these rural counties have to know we’re fighting for you and your children too. Many in this legislature have sold you out. It’s time for a reckoning in Tennessee.”
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Lourdes Peña-Castillo
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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OH MY GOD I LITERALLY WROTE A BOOK TRIGGERED BY THIS QUESTION I talk about Mr. CK in it, in fact Repair in our personal lives In the public square In institutiuons In systems On the national level Same steps Not impossible But there is WORK that must be DONE friends
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