Amy Laura Hall
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If Oregon’s world-famous Hood to Coast relay race gave a prize to the team having the most fun, it’d be hard to beat #IBEW Local 280 Power Rangers. bit.ly/4ilEOkF
Fueled by Solidarity, Oregon Members Power Through 196-Mile Relay Run
If Oregon’s world-famous Hood to Coast relay race gave a prize to the team having the most fun, it’d be hard to beat the Local 280 Power Rangers.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If Oregon’s world-famous Hood to Coast relay race gave a prize to the team having the most fun, it’d be hard to beat #IBEW Local 280 Power Rangers. bit.ly/4ilEOkF
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I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
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Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye
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November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
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"Maximize profit at all costs," or "maintain a fine product loved by all," can't have both
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"Maximize profit at all costs," or "maintain a fine product loved by all," can't have both
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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This SO TRUE--UNC has failed its students, with only a handful of folks (thanks @aaup.org, SUNRISE, TransparUNCy, our Faculty and SBP, plus our Staff leaders) speaking up.
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This SO TRUE--UNC has failed its students, with only a handful of folks (thanks @aaup.org, SUNRISE, TransparUNCy, our Faculty and SBP, plus our Staff leaders) speaking up.
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“International students and members of the community are not anxious and concerned.
They are terrified.“
They are terrified.“
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“International students and members of the community are not anxious and concerned.
They are terrified.“
They are terrified.“
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Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
#DefendHigherEd
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
#DefendHigherEd
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
#DefendHigherEd
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
#DefendHigherEd
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Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
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Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
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I was so worried about where this would go until Michael went "if you're an archaeologist, you're screaming right now". I was!!
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I was so worried about where this would go until Michael went "if you're an archaeologist, you're screaming right now". I was!!
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Finally got round to seeing the new #Frankenstein which I enjoyed, but considering it was supposed to be a faithful rendering of Mary Shelley’s novel I was disappointed at the omission of the dance scene.
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Finally got round to seeing the new #Frankenstein which I enjoyed, but considering it was supposed to be a faithful rendering of Mary Shelley’s novel I was disappointed at the omission of the dance scene.
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Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents -- like IvankaNews and MAGANationX -- have been identified as originating in places such as Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and Nigeria.
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents -- like IvankaNews and MAGANationX -- have been identified as originating in places such as Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and Nigeria.
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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RIP, Udo Kier. You were magnificent ! youtu.be/u6urMHA7KX0
Mr. Hans performs Der Adler (My Own Private Idaho)
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November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
RIP, Udo Kier. You were magnificent ! youtu.be/u6urMHA7KX0
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Packed house! We could've spent the whole time close reading "In a Station of the Metro." Literature lives. There is a hunger.
This morning, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I, along with Robert LeBlanc, gave a workshop on close reading @ncte.org — and then got to hang out in person for a bit too!
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Packed house! We could've spent the whole time close reading "In a Station of the Metro." Literature lives. There is a hunger.
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Surveying CCC, English Journal, College English, etc., and the NCTE program, and the CVs at many uni programs, *literature* has long vanished as a keyword in writing studies, rhet/comp, ELA, etc. Anybody know of anybody in those fields explicitly interested in *literature* (beyond sff, fandom, YA)?
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Surveying CCC, English Journal, College English, etc., and the NCTE program, and the CVs at many uni programs, *literature* has long vanished as a keyword in writing studies, rhet/comp, ELA, etc. Anybody know of anybody in those fields explicitly interested in *literature* (beyond sff, fandom, YA)?
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The Nation's Jeet Heer (X: @HeerJeet, @jeetheer.bsky.social) writes: “It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—not because he didn’t have it in him, but because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Nation's Jeet Heer (X: @HeerJeet, @jeetheer.bsky.social) writes: “It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—not because he didn’t have it in him, but because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...