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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Age verification laws for social media go far beyond just impacting people under 18 or restricting adult content — they make it harder for all of us to access information and speak freely online.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Age verification laws for social media go far beyond just impacting people under 18 or restricting adult content — they make it harder for all of us to access information and speak freely online.
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I have said this before and will keep saying it but scholarly/expert communities—and I very much include musicology in this—need to be establishing ways to continue knowledge preservation and transmission without the academy for the next while
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
August 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I have said this before and will keep saying it but scholarly/expert communities—and I very much include musicology in this—need to be establishing ways to continue knowledge preservation and transmission without the academy for the next while
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Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
August 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Why doesn’t Occam’s Razor get applied to the Immaculate Conception?
August 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Why doesn’t Occam’s Razor get applied to the Immaculate Conception?
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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A judge has thrown out the Trump admin’s bid to force Illinois and Chicago to aid its mass deportation agenda, saying it would encroach on autonomy guaranteed to states under the Constitution.
Judge throws out Trump’s lawsuit against Illinois over sanctuary policies
The case is just one in a series of lawsuits DOJ has filed against blue states and cities.
www.politico.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A judge has thrown out the Trump admin’s bid to force Illinois and Chicago to aid its mass deportation agenda, saying it would encroach on autonomy guaranteed to states under the Constitution.
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As seen in NYC www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/s...
July 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
As seen in NYC www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/s...
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Last year, a majority of voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative enacting paid sick leave.
Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it.
Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave
Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it.
Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave
'A Slap in the Face': Missouri's GOP Governor Repeals Voter-Approved Paid Sick Leave | Common Dreams
"The governor's action today demonstrates the absolute disdain Republicans have for working Missourians."
www.commondreams.org
July 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Last year, a majority of voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative enacting paid sick leave.
Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it.
Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave
Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it.
Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave
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BREAKING: the NYPD is issuing criminal summonses to cyclists, as opposed to traffic tickets received by drivers.
With this crackdown, the Adams administration is putting New Yorkers at risk of arrest, jail, and deportation for riding a bike.
Statement:
With this crackdown, the Adams administration is putting New Yorkers at risk of arrest, jail, and deportation for riding a bike.
Statement:
Statement from Transportation Alternatives After Adams Administration Puts New Yorkers at Risk of Arrest, Jail, and Deportation for Riding a Bike — Transportation Alternatives
The NYPD will now issue criminal summonses as opposed to traffic tickets to cyclists. Drivers will still receive traffic tickets. Crashes involving people on bikes and pedestrians have killed...
transalt.org
May 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
BREAKING: the NYPD is issuing criminal summonses to cyclists, as opposed to traffic tickets received by drivers.
With this crackdown, the Adams administration is putting New Yorkers at risk of arrest, jail, and deportation for riding a bike.
Statement:
With this crackdown, the Adams administration is putting New Yorkers at risk of arrest, jail, and deportation for riding a bike.
Statement:
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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The departure from intellectualism as a collective value is stunning; my brain is never going to comply.
March 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The departure from intellectualism as a collective value is stunning; my brain is never going to comply.