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I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

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In case folks didn't know: This is also how Wes Anderson has been moving, lately. If you've been noticing Wes' last few movies have been EPECIALLY Wes Anderson-y? He has a patron. A billionaire who has basically said "I love your art, do what you want, I'll pay for it."

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Romans suffer massive cortisol spike after Jesus brutally resurrectionmoggs them

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Just saw over on Instagram that @firestorm.coop, a really awesome worker-owned radical bookstore and mutual aid hub in Asheville, NC, is struggling financially and needs support to stay open. I highly recommend buying books from them, and becoming a sustainer on Patreon if you can!

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

in an article full of great points and great quotes, this stood out for me the most one of the best articulations I’ve read re: ai being anti human

Closing out: keep Palestinians connected to the world!!!! Their words, hearts, and voices rely on internet to reach us, and Crips for eSIMs is still sustaining data connectivity. But the project is deep in the red. Can you click "monthly" on a 5? That's the cost of one month's data. bit.ly/esimsUK

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“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute “Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...

Every kidlit publishing group/imprint that shutters is terrible sign of things to come. You don't have adult readers if you kill the joy of reading in children and teens.

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companies are always claiming that they HAVE to get into AI, unionbusting, return to office, underpaying workers, etc to keep the lights on—and then they flop anyway and don't turn a profit... almost as if respecting and valuing workers is not a lofty, impossible ideal, but a good business model!!

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regardless of how they act it is dangerous and wrong to accept the presence of ICE in airports (really, anywhere).

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

uhhh… if I’m reading this right it looks like the former NYPD department chief is… bragging about not enforcing traffic laws against drivers listening to far-right talk radio?

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If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

I love not using AI. I love making things by hand, writing, chatting, petting my cats, looking at ducks, making friends with crows. Not using AI is very fun.

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

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Everybody's asking

This facility was opened by Obama. I say that not to downplay what’s happening now but to emphasize that family detention was horrific from the moment it began.

h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.

Soon CBS, CNN, & TikTok will all be owned by Trump-megadonor Larry Ellison.   Trump's billionaire buddies are buying up more of our media & jeopardizing our independent press.   State Attorneys General have the power to stop this merger, they must act. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

ALA is disappointed that the House Committee on Education & Workforce moved forward dangerous federal book banning legislation yesterday. HR 7661 contains vague, confusing, and overly broad language, inviting government censorship. More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/03... (1/2)

What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it.

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A week after American and Israeli forces began their assault on Iran, Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that the cost of the war had already exceeded $11.3bn in its first six days. But that figure is only part of the story 🧵

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

23 years ago today: Israel killed American peace activist Rachel Corrie by running her over with an armored bulldozer. She was wearing a high visibility vest and protesting Israel’s destruction of homes in Gaza. An Israeli court ruled the incident was an accident. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_...

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