Sharon
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I don't really know what I'm doing anymore.
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“We need to be able to get the principals on the record” doesn’t apply to Levi’s, Smith College or Washington University.
What’s more troubling is that Weiss apparently didn’t even try to get the other side. If she had and they refused to talk, that’d be in the stories
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
What’s more troubling is that Weiss apparently didn’t even try to get the other side. If she had and they refused to talk, that’d be in the stories
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“We need to be able to get the principals on the record” doesn’t apply to Levi’s, Smith College or Washington University.
What’s more troubling is that Weiss apparently didn’t even try to get the other side. If she had and they refused to talk, that’d be in the stories
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
What’s more troubling is that Weiss apparently didn’t even try to get the other side. If she had and they refused to talk, that’d be in the stories
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
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Agents illegally detained dozens of US citizens and demanded that they prove their citizenship. We need to defend our private property rights against trespassing government agents.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Agents illegally detained dozens of US citizens and demanded that they prove their citizenship. We need to defend our private property rights against trespassing government agents.
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Her work as a park ranger focused on sharing her personal experiences and the untold stories of Black Americans and women who served on the home front during World War II. After working at the agency for more than 15 years, she retired in 2022 at the age of 100.
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Her work as a park ranger focused on sharing her personal experiences and the untold stories of Black Americans and women who served on the home front during World War II. After working at the agency for more than 15 years, she retired in 2022 at the age of 100.
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Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the country's oldest National Park Service ranger, has died at the age of 104.
Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California.
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California.
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the country's oldest National Park Service ranger, has died at the age of 104.
Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California.
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California.
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
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Fair. But this pic is fantastic. Like a painting. I can’t stop looking at it.
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Fair. But this pic is fantastic. Like a painting. I can’t stop looking at it.
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Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.
Trump says he’s appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland.
Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.
Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.
December 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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A CBS News source tells me this tonight about 60 Minutes abruptly yanking the CECOT story:
"It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."
"It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A CBS News source tells me this tonight about 60 Minutes abruptly yanking the CECOT story:
"It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."
"It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."
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If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32
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It basically impossible for me to accept that they honestly decided it “needed more reporting” literally 2 hours before it was set to air. The only thing that makes any sense is interference from ownership/management.
Given CBS’s ownership and the Trump regime’s censorious nature, that segment must have been rigorously reported, carefully written and edited and reviewed at a dozen different levels. Then it was heavily promoted before being killed a couple of hours before it aired. These people are so clumsy.
December 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It basically impossible for me to accept that they honestly decided it “needed more reporting” literally 2 hours before it was set to air. The only thing that makes any sense is interference from ownership/management.
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The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
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Most of driving is reasoning and even though humans are awful drivers and selfish pricks they can problem solve in ways robots can't
Failed Waymo robot blocking emergency services during a widespread emergency:
Grant St at Sacramento, heart of Chinatown, San Francisco
I've been warning about this scenario for ~7 yrs. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. SFPD will prob have to drive this out of the way.
OP:tiktok.joolyana
Grant St at Sacramento, heart of Chinatown, San Francisco
I've been warning about this scenario for ~7 yrs. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. SFPD will prob have to drive this out of the way.
OP:tiktok.joolyana
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Most of driving is reasoning and even though humans are awful drivers and selfish pricks they can problem solve in ways robots can't
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This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all!
🧵 9 of 9
🧵 9 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all!
🧵 9 of 9
🧵 9 of 9
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
"Reading demographics from a pathology slide is thought of as a 'mission impossible' for a human pathologist, so the bias in pathology AI was a surprise to us."
www.yahoo.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.
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It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
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Not just a warning-- a handy visual guide for what to do. This is A+ public health communication!
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Not just a warning-- a handy visual guide for what to do. This is A+ public health communication!
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Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
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Years ago the Supreme Court ruled that anyone under age 18 could have a legally mandated bedtime as anyone under the age of 18 is a child.
So this weekend, as the press talks about these "young women" in the files, ask yourselves "Could they have a bedtime?"
Because THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN!
So this weekend, as the press talks about these "young women" in the files, ask yourselves "Could they have a bedtime?"
Because THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN!
December 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Years ago the Supreme Court ruled that anyone under age 18 could have a legally mandated bedtime as anyone under the age of 18 is a child.
So this weekend, as the press talks about these "young women" in the files, ask yourselves "Could they have a bedtime?"
Because THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN!
So this weekend, as the press talks about these "young women" in the files, ask yourselves "Could they have a bedtime?"
Because THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN!