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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone stops shoving AI products down my throat?

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 1d

MTG: I don’t like this law, but am for it because I don’t want my own children’s health premiums to double.

So… you do like it?

Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 1d

Ok ok fine. I’ll go to bed.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago, scientists warned us that Covid would create an "unfathomable" crisis of longterm illness that included diseases not typically diagnosed as "Long Covid." Now a fight over exploding healthcare costs has shut down the government. These two things are connected.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that you need to get sick more to stay healthy is anti vax, anti science propaganda, and it’s frankly annoying how often I hear it from the liberal supposedly pro science crowd

Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry…. But at this point if you fall for “ your kid is always sick because they haven’t been sick enough…”

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

“Often when people online claim that the studies about Long COVID “can’t be true,” their evidence is that we’d be seeing a catastrophic level of damage around us by now were their findings accurate- and I’d argue that you can’t see what you refuse to see.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein blocked SC from giving DOJ voter data.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ condemned Goodstein's ruling.

Yesterday Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists requiring force."

Today Judge Goodstein's home is on fire, investigated for arson.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it.

Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.

He's now charged with murder.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Since childhood, Joshua Roman's life revolved around the cello. But when long COVID forced him to set his instrument aside, he had to rethink his approach to life, faith and music.

What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change : TED Radio Hour

Since childhood, Joshua Roman's life revolved around the cello. But when long COVID forced him to set his cello aside, he had to rethink his approach to life, faith and music.TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign-up at plus.npr.org/ted.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 3d

Gen z, don’t listen to any jerks telling you you don’t deserve a life outside of work

Fortune @fortune.com · 3d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 3d

Well, this is the sweetest

Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 3d

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

I increasingly hate interacting with substack links because of the way it tries to force me to use the app and subscribe and agh I just want to read but anyway here is a piece that is correct about Ezra Klein

open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion

Abortion *is* a big tent issue

open.substack.com

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 4d

Me before having a kid: I will never cut the crusts off bread for my child, they will learn to eat the crust.

Me after 6 years of parenting: let me eat these crusts from my child’s toast for my breakfast for the 400th time.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 4d

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 4d

It appears that two hedge fund leaders are behind the letter that the Trump administration sent to nine selective universities this week.

Ideas from Mr. Rowan’s group were quietly circulating in higher education circles by early March, when a handful of administrators and lawyers passed around an unsigned draft of what was then labeled a “university support and eligibility agreement.” Some knew that Mr. Rowan was helping to drive the document as others speculated about its origins. And just about all of them were left to wonder whether the document would become a blueprint for the Trump administration.

What emerged from the government on Wednesday closely resembled the Rowan group’s wintertime document.

Crucial portions of the government’s proposal this week are repeated verbatim from the draft document. The two documents, for example, stipulate that “all monies advanced by the U.S. government during the year of any violation shall be returned to the U.S. government.”

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 4d

“Someone with $500,000 in wealth could spend $50 worry-free, according to the rule.”

Ok cool the rest of us will just worry every time we buy anything we need or not buy anything we need.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

Shoutout to @nicollewallace.bsky.social for not sugar-coating anything and saying on the air that an ICE agent said “fuck them kids” while handcuffing them naked in Chicago after an apartment raid.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 4d

With deportation continuing apace amid the federal government shutdown, advocates speculated that the latest scheme to pay off immigrant children was deliberately timed by ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to minimize public attention.

ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation

ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 4d

Not psychosis, evil.

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Eddy Conroy He/Him @econroy.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone wants a real time example of what the “compact for higher Ed” would do to institutions that sign on, they can look to New College in Florida.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

Disabled and Covid Cautious people: “Don’t ban masks we’re in a pandemic and they’re a critical tool to protect ourselves”

Government: “Too bad. Masks are criminalized”.

ICE: “Don’t ban masks we need to hide our faces while we torture people”

Government: “Mask bans are unconstitutional”

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 5d

Woman accomplishes a thing. Still doesn’t deserve to be named in the media, apparently.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 5d

Some good news in higher ed. People deserve to know if they invest their time, energy, and money in higher Ed that it won’t all be a waste and leave them worse off.

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Judge Upholds Biden-Era Gainful Employment Rule

A federal judge rejected an effort to overturn the gainful-employment rule, which was put in place during the Biden administration.

www.insidehighered.com

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