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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2h

The lake sturgeon (a 100-year-living, 90-kg relic from the age of dinosaurs) is returning to Missouri’s rivers after near-extinction from dams and pollution. The revival of a keystone species and signalling broader recovery of the Mississippi basin’s river systems.
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Ancient fish species makes historic comeback in Missouri rivers

The Missouri Department of Conservation reported that lake sturgeon are spawning in large numbers.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 36m

And look I think it also has way worse consequences in communities of color bc it makes us want to marginalize and oppress our own people.

It's just a thing that I am hearing like 20x more than usual these days

White friends, please go get your cousins. In exchange I'll stay on the Ka$h sitch

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 49m

A helpful heuristic

Daniel Kaluuya and Bradley Whitford in Get Out. Famously, Whitfords character expressed his good guyness by saying “By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I could.”

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 58m

I understand why it's tempting but if that's a thought that's forming in your head remember that you're moving through the discomfort of being judged based on one characteristic and not on being a whole ass human...which is the baseline experience for a lot of people.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1h

Tired: white people letting me know I'm one of the good ones

Wired: white people letting me know they're one of the good ones

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Friday! It's a great day to take your phone off face/fingerprint lock.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 7h

“If nothing else, I imagine God must laugh sometimes when someone prays to win a game. God sees a lot of horrible stuff going on. Sometimes he needs a good laugh. I’d like to think I give him a chuckle every time I say into that microphone, ‘Amen and Go Ramblers!’”

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9h

BREAKING: Sister Jean Dolores Bertha Schmidt, chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team during its Cinderella run to the 2018 NCAA Final Four — has died.

Sister Jean, Loyola University hoops chaplain who captured nation's heart during Cinderella run, dies at 106

Sister Jean emanated a certain love and grit that sunk into students on and off the court — and made for great TV.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

My 4 year old had her first lockdown drill today.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

Taught today on administrative burden in health. We discussed Medicaid work requirements in AR, GA, and the OBBBA. And I had the students get in groups to brainstorm strategies that states could adopt in implementing this new (bad) policy that would minimize burden and wrongful coverage losses.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

And beyond excited for Tonika Johnson 💖

I got to participate in a project of hers a while back and it was an incredible experience

Tonika Lewis Johnson | 2025 MacArthur Fellow

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

I am not related to Nabarun Dasgupta but I am excited for him like I am

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 1d

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

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Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform you that I'm posting about public finance again

Michael Caine in the Prestige. He is holding a bird and in this scene he is talking about how magic tricks work, specifically about the way magicians try to divert your attention to make you see what they want you to see

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

I took a class in grad school about financial management for public sector and healthcare orgs and this is not really how any of that works.

Of course, they know that!

The frame is meant to lead your eye away from the structure of healthcare funding which is something we can all hate together.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

Welp... the kids appear to have the label maker again

A small stack of Fiestaware. There is a printed label from a label maker on top of a yellow plate that says "FUCK"

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

“No one is wired to live with sustained stressors and traumas in our life,” Hilado said. “Prolonged chronic stress [and]exposure to trauma does change how we see ourselves, how we see the people around us, how we see our futures.”

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

A mental health expert offers coping tips for those experiencing stress from immigration operations, as the climate has created widespread fear and uncertainty.

Expert says threats of militarization and immigration enforcement fuel anxieties

One mental health expert offers tips on how to cope with the stress of immigration operations in the Chicago region.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

The Baby’s First Years (BFY) study is a first-of-its-kind randomized controlled trial focused on understanding the causal impact of providing an unconditional cash transfer to low-income mothers during their children’s early years.

Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · 2d

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IRP Research Analyst - BFY

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Job Category: Academic Staff Employment…

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

The one time I met Paul Vallas was at a conference and after a very brief conversation he showed me a plan for a "reform school" project he was pitching.

The man was carrying plans for a jail for children on his person and just...showing it to people.

That guy came really close to being mayor.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

I bet there's lots of people who came to your event or will be at the next one who would love to connect you with whatever they're doing. And probably people who are showing up for the first time to do a thing who are feeling connected bc they met you. Just a guess.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

I think that's pretty typical for the hard part and it's also the work. It's like ok I did one thing what's the next thing? And everything is changing. Plugged in can be jumping into something or connecting/extending something or whatever you want it to be.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

You did something really awesome based on what you know how to do and created a model for other people who wouldn't know how to start.

I guess I just wanted to say thank you and that it's ok not to be everything.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 3d

And over time it gets easier to do really out there things. Choosing your choices in a world that doesn't make sense isn't going to look coherent from the outside. That's why you have to sit with your big moments and think "well, I suppose the constant is me and I guess this is what I'm about"

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 3d

The world is an unknowable place.

I mean...get in the time machine and tell past me "so that time you adopted a teenager" or "during your campaign for city council" or "and then after you dropped out of high school and college" and in the abstract it's baffling but it mostly made sense at the time

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