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Recovered academic, higher ed adjacent; recovering NYCer, DC adjacent
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maura quint
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Mike Luckovich
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BeijingPalmer
6 days ago
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
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Mamdani and Virginia governor/AG PLUS Cheney dying, what a day.
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Cheney's Toy
YouTube video by James McMurtry - Topic
https://youtu.be/v4na4t-i9Iw?si=j0I-pD_vA2sZjkjG
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Coates is Odd This Day
11 days ago
Still terrifying
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I donât know what I thought a cuttlefish looked like, but it wasnât that.
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11 days ago
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The Oz He destroyed his stone Yes YES The despair is out
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12 days ago
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So THIS is where the term âredneckâ comes from???
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Mo Ryan
12 days ago
We Are Lady Parts is just a blast and every single person on planet Earth should watch it, the end.
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Sexy forestry supplies
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16 days ago
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Ben Conarck
19 days ago
New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill manâs cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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How a Maryland prisoner died an âexcruciatingâ death from dehydration
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/maryland-prisoner-lamont-mealy-dehydration-death-R25BQ2NNMJBWJHOAA3KUTSMQ7Q/
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David Farrier
18 days ago
there's a lot of talk of erotic horny chat gpt and sora slop, but this piece on webworm today from
@tworuru.com
gets into the infuriatingly deluded and dangerous headspace of those pushing on this "AI" (it's not AI) pathway:
www.webworm.co/newgods/
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This is ⌠something.
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Comfortably Numb
20 days ago
The West Wing is now just the Wing.
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Rainesford Stauffer
21 days ago
âOver the past two decades, the number of news desert counties â areas that lack consistent local reporting â has grown steadily. This past year was no exception: in this report, we are tracking 213 U.S. counties without any local news source, up from 206 last year.â
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The State of Local News
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/2025/report/#executive-summary
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Heather Randell
22 days ago
âBy 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as IndiaâŚaccording to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.â đ:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-backlash-mexico-ireland.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u08.gFCF.0b4qxDw7nfWf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Melody Schreiber
28 days ago
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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âInstability and confusionâ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says âthey didnât think through what they were doingâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/cdc-job-cuts-partial-reversal
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Rebecca Spang
22 days ago
Hi all. A little clarification: the Purdue student journalists did OFFER to do this but "Unfortunately and understandably, the IDS declined the offer, fearing expulsion of its student leaders and more firings of its professional staff." They printed and delivered a statement of solidarity instead
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Gabrielle Hecht đľđˇ got a few spoons back from Zohran's triumph
23 days ago
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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The longer it takes Vandy, the more embarrassed I am to have a degree from them.
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24 days ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
25 days ago
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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Kasey Gifford
29 days ago
We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.
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Christopher Hale
25 days ago
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate â and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francisâs legacy.
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NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Deiâs structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lettersfromleo/p/new-pope-leo-set-to-break-up-opus?r=1e7ix&utm_medium=ios
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And here I thought they would all say yes. Sometimes I like being wrong.
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Jess Calarco
27 days ago
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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Trying to buy a kindle book. Every time I click âbuy now,â it gives me this error.
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How is no one who is talking about the new Halloween season of Is It Cake? talking about Annabelâs injury?
about 1 month ago
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NOOOOOOOOO
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Jonathan Cohn
about 1 month ago
REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...
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REI Co-Opâs Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe
REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/business/rei-boston-store-close-ufcw/
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Esther Schindler
about 1 month ago
I just saw someone use the abbreviation âAI;DRâ and Iâll be laughing for a while.
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Is wearing an author-related shirt to that authorâs event a faux pas like it would be for a concert?
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southpaw
about 1 month ago
I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
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USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven yearsâ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/usc-sold-dead-bodies-to-us-military-to-train-idf-medical-personnel/
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
about 1 month ago
obligatory sturgeon mention content
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Data needs the world over are competing for the title of
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I got three of these notices from Pinterest today. No idea why. I deleted two old boards of memes, and everything left is like haircuts, cool furniture, that kind of thing.
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Jason Kuznicki
about 1 month ago
The focus on healthcare subsidies right now, while our constitutional system falls apart, will shock and confuse future historians.
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Moose Allain
about 1 month ago
It's not the Napoleonic sea battle reenactments that count so much as the French ships you make along the way.
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Stan Oklobdzija
about 1 month ago
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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Mike Wiser
about 2 months ago
I keep trying to get people to recognize that my having a PhD says a lot more about me being stubborn than me being smart.
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Laura Bassett
about 2 months ago
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers canât find them and theyâve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html
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stage7 đłď¸ââ§ď¸ đłď¸âđ
about 2 months ago
Happy
#Bisibility
Day to those who celebrate. đđâ¤ď¸
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Nooooooo
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McSweeney's
about 2 months ago
IT IS TIME.
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Itâs Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. Weâre celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...
https://buff.ly/nTsaTRf
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John Mullahy
about 2 months ago
âI think the only reason why you wouldnât measure it isâŚbecause it basically allows you to pretend like we donât have this food insecurity problem.â
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become âoverly politicized.â
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-administration-cancels-annual-hunger-survey-ca3d3793?st=gEjfjz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Laura Sell
about 2 months ago
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Is the Authoritarianâs Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas/2025/09/19/censorship-authoritarians-dream
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These guys are younger than me, and Iâm not under any illusion that I look 25, but geez do I look younger than them.
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about 2 months ago
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KLM
about 2 months ago
forums. bring back forums. also kids should roam free
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