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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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So, if that's true, is there some kind of shot you could take, to help prevent autism?
Breaking news: A new study says children whose mothers had covid-19 in pregnancy faced higher risk of autism and developmental issues.
Study authors said the findings don't prove that covid-19 causes these conditions, but signal an association with them.
Study authors said the findings don't prove that covid-19 causes these conditions, but signal an association with them.
Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says
A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pand...
wapo.st
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So, if that's true, is there some kind of shot you could take, to help prevent autism?
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If you are in crisis, please call, text, or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If you are in crisis, please call, text, or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
Didn't realize that this was at 75th and South Shore. I used to live right across the street.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Didn't realize that this was at 75th and South Shore. I used to live right across the street.
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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
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Disney learned nothing from Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
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/3 But I could be wrong; perhaps Charlie Kirk talked about how the wave of protests against Israel was a manifestation of free speech that should not be suppressed. However, I don't find TPUSA's professor list to have a particularly free speechy vibe, culturally or otherwise.
September 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
/3 But I could be wrong; perhaps Charlie Kirk talked about how the wave of protests against Israel was a manifestation of free speech that should not be suppressed. However, I don't find TPUSA's professor list to have a particularly free speechy vibe, culturally or otherwise.
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Which is to say a functional democracy can’t just give the people what they want. It has to call people, in their capacity as citizens, to be their better selves and want decent things. And maybe there’s an unseemly whiff of aristocracy around that, but it looks like maybe it’s not optional.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Which is to say a functional democracy can’t just give the people what they want. It has to call people, in their capacity as citizens, to be their better selves and want decent things. And maybe there’s an unseemly whiff of aristocracy around that, but it looks like maybe it’s not optional.
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Good morning & happy Labor Day 🌞
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
Union Strong Worker GIF
ALT: Union Strong Worker GIF
media.tenor.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good morning & happy Labor Day 🌞
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
As Dewey states in The Ethics of Democracy: “But the heart of the matter is found not in voting nor in the counting the votes to see where the majority lies. It is in the process by which the majority is formed.”
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
What in gods name is this
August 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As Dewey states in The Ethics of Democracy: “But the heart of the matter is found not in voting nor in the counting the votes to see where the majority lies. It is in the process by which the majority is formed.”
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.
wagingnonviolence.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:
In this economy?! ;)
Impressive.
Impressive.
Roman Anthony is aware there's a chance he doesn't max out his career earnings with the deal. He doesn't care. He got everything he wanted from this deal. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/s...
August 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In this economy?! ;)
Impressive.
Impressive.
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Students of Columbia in 1776 tore down a statue of King George that was on campus when the declaration of independence was announced there(It was named Kings College) and melted it down to make musket balls. Today that same university sadly decided to hand its balls over to a would be modern king.
July 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Students of Columbia in 1776 tore down a statue of King George that was on campus when the declaration of independence was announced there(It was named Kings College) and melted it down to make musket balls. Today that same university sadly decided to hand its balls over to a would be modern king.
I'm tired of reading/thinking about AI and our students, but this is a good one: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I'm tired of reading/thinking about AI and our students, but this is a good one: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Huh, comparative advantage. Basic idea in economics for hundreds of years, which this administration doesn't understand.
Such quality tailoring is possible because the cost of living is much better in Seoul than, say, New York City or San Francisco. The Assisi team tells me you can get an apartment in Seoul for $1k/ month and dinner for $7. Compare that to $3.5k rent and $25 dinner in San Francisco.
July 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Huh, comparative advantage. Basic idea in economics for hundreds of years, which this administration doesn't understand.
same!
July 2, 1775: Robert Beverley, one of Virginia’s leading planters, writes to his agent in London: “Our publick Affairs are so far from being carried on with Certainty in these times of Anarchy, that the wisest heads amongst us know not in what Train Things are to remain for even a Month at a Time.”
July 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
same!
NEW: Ted Nugent carried firearm into Michigan Capitol despite gun ban, state police say
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
Ted Nugent carried firearm into Michigan Capitol despite gun ban, state police say
"We are still evaluating how the weapons detection alert was missed," Michigan State Police spokeswoman Shanon Banner told The Detroit News.
www.detroitnews.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.
June 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.
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June 17, 1775 (3 p.m.): The British make their attack on the Americans at Breed’s Hill. “One of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived,” in the words of British Gen. John Burgoyne, watching it from Boston, will soon turn into a nightmare, nearly half the redcoats falling as casualties. 1/9
June 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
June 17, 1775 (3 p.m.): The British make their attack on the Americans at Breed’s Hill. “One of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived,” in the words of British Gen. John Burgoyne, watching it from Boston, will soon turn into a nightmare, nearly half the redcoats falling as casualties. 1/9
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New — This banner was displayed outside FEMA headquarters in DC this morning by people wearing Greenpeace shirts, presumably in response to agency leadership canceling its strategic four-year hurricane response plan. The banner has since been taken down.
(Shared with me by witness.)
(Shared with me by witness.)
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New — This banner was displayed outside FEMA headquarters in DC this morning by people wearing Greenpeace shirts, presumably in response to agency leadership canceling its strategic four-year hurricane response plan. The banner has since been taken down.
(Shared with me by witness.)
(Shared with me by witness.)