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Paul Sacco
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I am a professor of social work at the University of Maryland-Baltimore.
Happy #Thanksgiving from my dog.
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Let’s do the same with Trump.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Watching the Ken Burns series on the Revolution and learning that the Marquis de Lafayette was 19 years old and if you need me I will be walking into the ocean.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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@bsky.app - I think you should do what X/Twitter did and show the originating location of people's accounts.

The last 2 days have been interesting. I see recent activity here similar to what goes on in the bad place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Syllabus: Says we have class today
Course website: Says we have class today

Students in my email:
- Do we have class today?
- I won't be in class this week. Can you can accommodate my vacation/travel plans?

Can we just stop trying to have class the week of Thanksgiving?
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Democracy dies in dampness
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sometimes it’s hard to watch Barack Obama just be himself because he is a living reminder of how Presidents are supposed to behave.
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Social Work too 😤
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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#AcademicSky
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump could reshape academic freedom and federal oversight, writes The Guardian today
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hahahahahahahaha!
Far right getting whiplash
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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lets be honest the audience for Olivia Nuzzi is the exact same dudes who were fighting to pay Elizabeth Holmes
And the article in the quoted post is a good indication that the audience for a lot of these pieces is really just other DC pundits they see for drinks
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I am both a patriotic American and a strident Atlanticist and it is for both those reasons that I firmly believe Europe should ice us out of NATO until we have our head back on our shoulders

There is nothing to gain and everything to lose by showing up for handshake photo-ops with our mad king
THIS!!!!!!

(Former FM of Lithuania)
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Another win for #coffee! "Caffeinated Coffee Consumption or Abstinence to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Why are banks above the law?
Evidence shows JPMC severely underreported Epstein’s suspicious transactions to the U.S. government for decades, potentially in violation of federal anti-money laundering laws.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One way to make America healthy again, deal with ultra processed foods!
3 papers @thelancet.com today on the health dangers of ultraprocessed foods and a call for action
The health risks
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“Meritocracy”
“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.”

BRO.
Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Disclosure: I have not read this article… But, not sure how a new diagnostic category improves risk detection.
Despite decades of research, it is still very difficult to know whether someone will try to die by suicide. Clinicians often rely on patients to disclose thoughts of self-harm, but some are lobbying for a new diagnosis called suicide crisis syndrome, or SCS, to better assess the risk.
Clinicians Lobby for a New Way to Assess the Risk of Suicide
Clinicians often rely on patients to disclose thoughts of self-harm, but some are lobbying for a new diagnosis to better assess the risk.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I mean what could possibly go wrong?
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.

The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM