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Good morning, Bluesky.

Rabbit, rabbit.*

*I’m aware that some people say “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” but I’m superstitious about my stupid superstitions, as my closest friends know I have RIDICULOUS triskaidekaphobia.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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On the one hand, Hegseth keeps ordering murders. On the other hand, that’s what he was appointed to do.
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Faculty voted 595-4 on a resolution objecting to any agreement with Trump along these lines.

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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Meanwhile Harvard sued and got most of its funding restored and this has served as a model for precisely nobody www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Is Cocaine Having a Moment?

The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I can’t help feeling that turkey is a stand-in for something.
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"

Many soldiers raise their hands.

Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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lol lots of vibes about “standing up for academic freedom” and no actual bite to that bark.
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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lol the capitulation of higher ed just makes clear that the academy is built on vibes.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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I'm pretty sure this guy brought in 100 times the drugs of Venezuela as a whole, but what's important for the Trump family is that he kept cocaine prices down by flooding the zone. Sorry he had to murder about 80 fishermen to keep his tough guy image going.
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”

also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
seems suboptimal
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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🤷🏼
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.

It’s almost as if there were signs!

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November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Not a psychologist, teacher, or, for that matter university student.

But I think this is happening because the facade of normal daily life during all this is starting to get too heavy to hold up.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Offering the survivors of a missile strike no quarter and then ordering a second strike to finish them off puts Hegseth in deep, deep water. He gave an illegal order. This is either murder or a war crime. It doesn't matter what your title is, Secretary of Defense, or Fox Talk Show Host. It's murder.
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page

Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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jesus christ man get a job
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:

"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM