Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first
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- i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
- KOSA is being reintroduced today. It's always been a dangerous censorship bill. But in this environment, with Trump weaponizing every aspect of the Federal government to suppress speech he doesn't like, KOSA is a catastrophic attack on human rights. We have to stop it. StopKOSA.com
- Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.
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- It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”
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- The is the most detailed polling we've seen today on specific policies Trump has taken related to antisemitism, highest levels of approval among Jewish voters for withholding federal funding to universities at 25% (with 49% saying they think this policy will make antisemitism *worse*)
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- NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
- "For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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- The Episcopal Church says it's terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners now classified as refugees by the Trump admin. "We are not able to take this step." www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
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- As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable. Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
- Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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- Trump just ended a Biden-era program because its title contained the word "equity." But many red states *want* to participate in this program. They'd submitted plans to access its funds partly to expand internet to rural voters. Now they might not get it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- Sitting at my desk weeping. Thank you @helendecruz.net for offering us a reminder that wonder and awe are critically important, just at a moment when we are being pressured to stop dreaming. Last fall I wrote about Helen's work in my @newscientist.com column: www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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- Saying goodbye now. I'm in hospice care
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- It's never a bad time to remind everyone:
- RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
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- The first e-transmitted disease will be Stancil’s Hyperpostia and I am not ready for that
- I really think we should more actively compare LLMs like "ChatGPT" to wikipedia. "It's a really cool tool if you know how to use it." I think a big part of "containing the power" is demystifying it. "This could be a cool tool in your kit, if you know how to use it. But it's just a tool." Etc.
- Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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- Yall: "Stop saying the Pope is Black." Me: "No"
- I hope someone can tell me what was controversial about this
- It has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.
