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Living the Blue life in a red state. #GBR
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October 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Rolling Stones
Paul McCartney
Rhianna
Shakira
The Weeknd
The Who
Coldplay
U2
Phil Collins
Enrique Iglesias

All have performed at the halftime show

None of them are US citizens.

Bad Bunny on the other hand is a citizen.
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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“I’m not a politician — I’m a worker who’s had enough.”Dan Osborn nearly won a U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska as an independent. Now he’s back. We talked unions, income inequality, and what it really means to be free from party control.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/dan-osborn...
August 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
June 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
farmingdale-observer.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in
AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...
www.gazettenet.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I am pleased to announce that my department (EAS at Nebraska) is hiring a teaching postdoc for AY 2025-2026 in the area of Earth Materials! I'm not on the committee but am spreading the word to my mineralogy/petrology networks on behalf of the committee. See ad for more details.
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (https://eas.unl.edu) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has an opening for a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in Earth Sciences. We are seekin...
employment.unl.edu
April 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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😂😂😂😂
April 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I hope car dealers start adding a line item onto the window stickers for the 25% new tariffs and specifically label it Trump Tariff so people can see exactly how much more we are being taxed because of this
March 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.
"You've gotta be more thankful" -- remarkable scenes out of the White House as Trump and JD Vance team up to do Putin's bidding and demean Zelenskyy
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Fuck you Donald Trump. I stand with Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Just deleted Google maps from my phone and changed the default search to DuckDuckGo. Sorry Google, you’re just too inaccurate regarding the Gulf of Mexico.
February 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion
December 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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A widespread power outage has caused the University of Nebraska at Omaha to cancel its Wednesday classes on the Dodge Street campus.

From @kevincoleomaha.bsky.social:
Power outage causes UNO to cancel classes on Dodge Street campus
A widespread power outage has caused the University of Nebraska at Omaha to cancel its Wednesday classes on the Dodge Street campus.
omaha.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:46 PM
First post. Gonna see if I can drop Twitter and have a new home here.
a dog is dancing in a room with the words happy dance written on the bottom .
ALT: a dog is dancing in a room with the words happy dance written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:49 PM