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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 7m

Wasn’t every vegetarian cookbook from the 70s just mostly a lentil cookbook?

Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 42m

Oh my goodness, this hits hard. Our town displaced a community garden for a pickleball court.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"While your proposal to increase the bed availability in your shelter from 80 to 140 by purchasing accessory dwelling units was a surprisingly resourceful plan, the budget and governance committees have identified pickleball as the issue that voters care about most."

Thank You for Submitting Your Homeless Shelter Application, but We’ve Decided to Use City Funds for Thirty-Five New Pickleball Courts Instead

Thank you for submitting your grant application for a homelessness shelter expansion. We received many competitive proposals, including yours. With...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 3h

stay safe out there folks 🫡

WIRED @wired.com · 3h

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 3h

#SCpol #SCnews South Carolina

Vincent4Congress @vincent4congress.bsky.social · 3h

URGENT:
Do not attend the protest scheduled at Chapin Park in Myrtle Beach on the 18th. It is NOT legitimate. I need you to spread this immediately!!

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 3h

This guy voted for Harris.

There is a divide in public opinion among farmers regarding farm policy between those who voted for Harris and those who did not.

People keep saying, someone should point out to farmers who voted for Trump that his policies are hurting them.

This guy is doing that.

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 5h

This.

Professors, don’t pressure your students to be friends with people who don’t recognize their humanity or who may intend them harm.

Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 8h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 5h

Go, Sunport!

AmyNM69🩷♀️🩷 @amynm69.bsky.social · 6h

Glad my local airport is not playing the Hatch Act violating video.

Albuquerque International Sunport blocks Noem video on government shutdown, joining other airports | News | abqjournal.com share.google/fTbDuF7CcJ5u...

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Jess Fanzo @jessfanzo.bsky.social · 7h

Coming soon! @gainhealth.org Bite Back episode on the Food Systems Dashboard. Stay tuned.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

@repstansbury.bsky.social: "This is gangster activity. The president is trying to shield pedophiles by calling and threatening members of Congress. We need more members of Congress, whether it's the Epstein files, the shutdown, health care, democracy, the rule of law, to just fucking do their jobs."

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2d

The Executive is laying taxes without the consent of Congress.
The Executive is spending money without the consent of Congress.
Other than that, everything is totes normal.

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New Hampshire Bulletin @newhampshirebulletin.com · 1d

"At a forest scale, you know, it’s really not going to be feasible to fight this invasion with chemical pesticides." As the ash faces an end similar to the American chestnut, NH researchers are working to understand what such losses mean across the natural environment. From Molly Rains

What can the emerald ash borer reveal about the long-ago loss of American chestnut? • New Hampshire Bulletin

For more than 70 years, the American chestnut tree has, mostly, been absent from the landscape. But historical accounts of its grandeur and the tons of nutritious seeds it produced every fall have…

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 1d

So who decides for each college? The board?

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, segregate your universities if you want funding.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 1d

Sobering words from the German intelligence services - “We must not sit back and assume that a possible Russian attack would come in 2029 at the earliest. We are already under fire today.”

For deterrence now we must take the necessary decisions now.
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

German spy chief says Russia won't shy from military confrontation | Euractiv

Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jaeger, warned on Monday that Russia posed a direct threat and the current “icy peace” with the EU could erupt at any moment into “heated confrontation”. J...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 2d

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

California Governor Gavin Newsom "vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers."

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Data-center water usage can vary from 110 million gallons to 1.8 billion gallons per year.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 2d

Did we, the elder nerds, fail the world by valuing being smart more than being good?

There’s a lot to unpack there.

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 2d

Looking back, I think Gamer Gate was a historically significant event.

For some, it was the first hint they had of how dysfunctional nerd culture could be.

And it’s hard to understand Thiel, Musk et al without nerd culture as a context.

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 3d

I’m hearing that downtown Pagosa Springs, Colorado, is underwater today after a terrible storm.

My family has had a connection to the town long enough to remember how the flood in 1911 almost ended the place, so I’m worried.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social · 3d

My kingdom for one journalist, just one, to respond with "Isn't it your job to be aware of these things?" or "I just showed you the clips, what is your reaction now to seeing this?"

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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s_m_makai @smmakai.bsky.social · 3d

Though a couple of years old, this is one of the best articles I've come across re Thiel.

www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/b...

The Alarming Rise of Peter Thiel, Tech Mogul and Political Provocateur (Published 2021)

www.nytimes.com

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