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It matters who ... "... the CDC provided funding for free swim lessons for thousands of kids at high risk of drowning. This included children from some minority groups and those on the autism spectrum, who are 160 times more likely than their peers to die from drowning, ..."
To be fair, they’re not pro-drowning of ALL children. It’s primarily minorities and the neurodivergent: “[T]he CDC provided funding for free swim lessons for thousands of kids at high risk of drowning. This included children from some minority groups and those on the autism spectrum …”
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
"Release the hounds!" The Fall 2025 term begins at Haverford College. That makes it 57th grade for me.
Is he trying to be a journalist or a politician in this response?
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation. But Musk's Boring Company has never completed a major public project in Texas.
MAGA vasectomies? 😉
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
"Keep in mind the labor strife is driven by one man. Trump inherited an economy that added 16 million jobs during the Biden administration." #ETTD www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
"Haverford College’s Michael B. Kim Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership will spend the year on a project called HEAT, which will explore the pressing issue of rising temperatures and extreme heat and the need to address it." www.inquirer.com/education/mo...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
TLDR: Members of the GOP only empathize when it happens to somebody they know directly. While not perfect, progressives/ liberals/ Dems have some empathy. I'm out of f***s to give. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
But they're both art :-)
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Stu Forster
I believe Trump is exactly who Dunning & Krueger were describing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Twice in August the #Phillies have blown a picked off runner between 1st and 2nd, we all learned about a rundown in 6th grade
Their Little League coaches are hiding their heads in shame.
We had this figured out in sixth grade, and it's happened twice this month 🤦
TY
Of course.
So do scientists and other citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
There is no party platform anymore. Just the whims of a madman and the agenda of his handlers.
"Super 8" was better than expected, but I really appreciate the super 8 zombie movie embedded in the credits (having made two super 8 movies for college) 👍
Yes, but "Polka Polka" just slams
This piece links to nine other related essays, including one by @daniellaurison.bsky.social and other professors and educators from the Philly region. I have not finished them, but so far they are right, IMHO -- TY @inquirer.com
TY, I strongly endorse. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
“The Department of History at Lehigh University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of History with a specialization in the United States and the World in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries and an anticipated start date of 1 July 2026.”
It's more cost effective to just make up statistics. 🙄
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Once again, "GOP hypocrisy" is redundant
Racism? Misogyny? Regretfully, both, and more (e.g., hubris, deceit, plus plain old cheating and stupidity) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
But anytime you can mention a song that has the line, "Your sarcophagus is glowing but your esophagus is showing" is a win 😎👍
Book of Mormon, South Park, Family Guy and American Dad ...
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This is quite informative, into the weeds a bit but important.
Oregon nesting ducks
Women don't just support polio eradication—they make it possible. Meet some of the women overcoming social barriers to reach every last child and #EndPolio in Nigeria in this piece by Hanan Zaffar.
I can
Yet I am working in my office ...
Alt-text: A chart that measures the rate of energy produced in terawatts per hour over time that shows nuclear and solar growing, and solar ar more than nuclear for both countries, but China solar grows WAY faster than anything else, especially US solar.
"That's the fact, Jack!"
Think twice before you put anything in a form—even if it looks legit. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
"Quietly waves from under the bus" Dang it, it was right there and I missed it 🤦
“Some hiring technologies incl. features to measure applicants’ biometric data, like vocal cadence or eye contact, during video or audio interviews. That can result in bias against disabled people, incl. autistic & blind individuals, said [@arianaaboulafia.bsky.social]."
(Mike Pence quietly waves from the corner)
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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What a throw! #Phillies
In addition to joining the exclusive list of players to hit 4+ HR in a game, Kyle Schwarber also set a new single-game Phillies RBI record. See the full list: stathead.com/tiny/TTMoM
well, all political careers are going to die, for heaven's sakes
BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.
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"The more media attention a group or individual receives, the more destructive the action, or the more harm inflicted on a victim, the more notoriety is rewarded."
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
No longer a full democracy. The US has already become a (competitive) authoritarian system. And it’s getting worse. The receipts from @donmoyn.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
Found your comment, recommended 👍, thanks for mentioning public transportation that the entire state needs, but certainly in more urban regions like ABE and Philadelphia.
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.
1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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More than 20 years ago, N.C. legislators passed a law requiring that landslide hazards be mapped across 19 mountain counties. But after only four of those counties were mapped, lawmakers gave in to developers who said it could harm property values. (Published May 2025)
Alt-text: picture of Trump at the desk signing with the caption,"Trump writes Netanyahu strongly worded check"
Dear Leader's cabinet meeting A three hour marathon of flattery and groveling anntelnaes.substack.com/p/dear-leade...
I have a friend who collects acoustic instruments, mostly guitars, guessing three dozen ... To date, no casualties or injuries at all, he seems happy.
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When everybody stops pretending and starts getting real — there is an organized play afoot
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
No. God no. 🙄 And I believe the author of the article, while attempting to be critical, is making Bender and Hanna's point.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
you can contact @propublica.org securely. www.propublica.org/tips/
Editorial page of @wsj.com: "Trump is all about short-term tactics and personal political advantage. Institutional integrity bores him. But if he succeeds in taking over the Fed, he and Republicans will own the results and whatever inflation returns." www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
NEW: Trump describes Leo Terrell, head of the antisemitism task force, as a “highly respected” and “incredibly successful” attorney. Documents reveal a distinctly mixed legal track record, marred by malpractice suits and client disputes. By @peterelkind.bsky.social & Katherine Mangan
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Froomkin is not saying there are no stories about these things. He is saying that the major news producers "obscure reality under a haze of incremental stories, each one presented as if what is going on is fairly normal. As if it’s just politics." @froomkin.bsky.social
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
I think a lot of people in tech are probably feeling something close to despair about what to do about LLMs, since it’s clear that those with power are not going to relent with their advocacy, and they have enough uses that they’ve gained critical mass, yet the harms & risks are so wildly egregious…
impossible to overstate how quickly republicans wouldve moved to impeach obama or biden had they said this and they wouldve certainly gotten dem support, and this quote would be the only thing being discussed in the media until it happened
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