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Gala
@galashine.bsky.social
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City Planning observer interested in inclusive public participation in planning process
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The Patriarchal Curriculum: A Critical Analysis of Gender in Core Planning History & Theory Courses presented by Dr. Bernadette Hanlon #ACSP2025 #KnowltonPlanning @bhanlonurban.bsky.social
My Brothers keepers: Post-Pandemic Community Development Strategies to Support Schools and Youth presentation by Dr. Reece #ACSP2025 #KnowltonPlanning #OhioState
AI: Implications for Planning Theory, Education, and Practice: Dr. Tom Sanchez #ACSP2025
I wonder how much of it is due to sensory processing and absence of accommodation for sensory overload and such
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"Campbell finds that racial sentiment has the single largest influence on white Americans’ tax attitudes, w/ white taxpayers perceiving their tax dollars as aiding nonwhites—a resentful relationship dating to the post–Civil War era. Black + Brown communities, meanwhile [are often] taxed unfairly."
Ways and Means | Los Angeles Review of Books
Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”
lareviewofbooks.org
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In addition, the proposal to terminate "Optional Practical Training," which enables international graduates to stay in the U.S. and transition into employment would worsen shortages of skilled workers in the U.S. & likely reduce int'l enrollment at US colleges/unis bsky.app/profile/mcle...
They're terminating OPT.

Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.

6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com
Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US
The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...
www.piie.com
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Today is tough for me. What's happening at NSF is affecting the employees AND the researchers and folks *like me* whose upcoming work depends on them.

NSF runs ALL AMERICAN BASES in Antarctica. This affects both science and our geopolitical standing on an internationally-negotiated continent. 🧪
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"Many of the people terminated on Tuesday work as program managers and experts who make decisions about funding by aligning research proposals with the right program and matching those proposals to the most qualified reviewers to assess them and make recommendations."

www.wired.com/story/nation...
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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."

"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”

EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.
www.rollingstone.com
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I've been thinking so much about @shannonmattern.bsky.social's chapter on "Bureaucracy" in the book Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon. This highlighted excerpt is ringing so true!

Such an excellent intertwining of "good" design, government, politics, and more.
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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
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As Trump is again bringing up the “tens of millions” of Russians who died in WWII, it is worth underlining that he likely means Soviet not Russian casualties. In reality, Ukraine lost far more people than Russia proportionally, while only a small part of Russia was ever occupied
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🚨 Ohio reports its first probable human case of influenza A(H5).

An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.

With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
odh.ohio.gov/media-center...
Ohio Reports First Human Case of Bird Flu
The overall risk to Ohioans is low, but those in close contact with sick or dead poultry or wild birds should take precautions
odh.ohio.gov
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In light of today's TTS layoffs and general federal unease, I want to mention that my team at New America, the New Practice Lab, just opened five roles across several disciplines - policy, learning + evaluation, design, product, and data engineering.

Quick thread about what we do, and how we work:
We're Hiring
Join the New Practice Lab in delivering for families.
www.newamerica.org
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George Washington Carver was born into slavery and went on to become a renowned artist and scientist.

Leigh-Ann Jackson visited the show about him at CAAM and contributes a terrific dispatch to the @kcrw.com Art Insider on why he matters in post-fire LA. 🌱
email.kcrw.com/george-washi...
it was very hard but worth it: the beauty of nature
to celebrate my BD I did this in Olympic National Park WA 😊🥾🏔️💦
yesterday I’ve won in silent auction a postcard from Vernadsky Arctic Station of Ukraine with Ukrainian scientists signatures & ship stamps🇺🇦all for the victory🙌🏻
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The mythmaking that Putin did with Carlson is what I called "the politics of eternity" in my book "Road to Unfreedom," where I explain its connection to war. Putin has been talking that way for over a decade; it’s all chronicled there.