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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 6d

What connects the Irish Famine, the Choctaw Trail of Tears, and seasonal stories of survival?

In this new article, Shelley Angelie Saggar from the @sharinglands.bsky.social project explores the intertwined histories of Indigenous and Irish food cultures.

Recipes for Resilience

Discover the history of the Choctaw gift that symbolizes generosity and connection between Indigenous and Irish communities.

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Greg O'Brien @profobrien.bsky.social · 6d

apnews.com/article/indi... decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities

Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dashed the hopes of Native American communities that long sought the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 7d

TV Whiskey Pete is one of the most embarrassing fools ever to serve in the U.S. government. It's a national humiliation to see this idiot strutting and fidgeting before our nation's top military men and women, every one of whom are his moral and intellectual superior yet required to sit and listen.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to co-author this study led by @nathanlo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on the devastating consequences of not vaccinating pregnant women vs Covid

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Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US

This decision analytical model study estimates the number of avertable COVID-19 hospitalizations in US infants younger than 6 months and pregnant persons with vaccinations during pregnancy.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 9d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

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Greg O'Brien @profobrien.bsky.social · 12d

He should go to Pine Ridge and say this shit.

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 12d

What’s next? Calley posthumously being awarded the DSC? The excusal of atrocities during conflict is a pillar of MAGA national security.

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Greg O'Brien @profobrien.bsky.social · 12d

He should go to Pine Ridge and say this shit.

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 12d

What’s next? Calley posthumously being awarded the DSC? The excusal of atrocities during conflict is a pillar of MAGA national security.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13d

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

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Matt Hartman @themhartman.bsky.social · 15d

breaking news from unc: former provost chris clemens is suing the university for open meetings and public records violations during their discussion about delaying tenure votes

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings

Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15d

Seems too on the nose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 15d

Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.

Instead of cuts, Social Security can afford to INCREASE benefits if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!

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Thomas A. Carlson @medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe we should refer to "generative AI" as "calculated mediocrity."

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Greg O'Brien @profobrien.bsky.social · 16d

Bloat at the top, insufficient resources at the bottom

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16d

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

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The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 16d

70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up.

C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.”

allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

Portrait photo of John G. Hutton, General Engineering Lab of General Electric

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Boboloca @boboloca.bsky.social · 16d

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · Aug 2

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Post from "The Rundown"

July 18 at 5:30 PM
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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online.
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery.
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18d

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Aug 29

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

The Author Who Warned America: Sarah Kendzior

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19d

Full interview now available on our website ⤵️
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“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & More

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to h...

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 19d

As pressure on universities heats up, one academic union has published guidelines to help its members stay safe

Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’

Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21d

The fact that the folks who want to get rich off of AI are lazy, grifting charlatans - or that we don’t seem to want to adequately fund higher ed anymore - doesn’t mean that what makes for high quality teaching & learning has changed. & it’s bad that so many in the academy are pretending otherwise.

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Politico @politico.com · 21d

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi

The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 25d

(Jerry Lewis voice): GROYPERS

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