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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 5h

So far, no interest as far as I can see.

CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 5h

My students nearing graduation are getting ads for 50k signing bonuses and student loan forgiveness.
My students, like the vast majority of college kids in the US are not Ivy League but work 2-3 & take out big loans for college.

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry Canadians

The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Forbids Toronto From Playing In World Series

CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 15h

Omg yes!

CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 15h

I wish you lived in my neighborhood Charles, you are an awesome neighbor

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 16h

Do you have favorite trees in the neighborhood you live in?
Or am I am weirdo …?

(Note: it’s a good time to look at trees right now in the northern US!!)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 18h

Dan should get the parade just for the f-bomb

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 18h

Have a happy lil life, Milton!!

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 19h

We are all Dan Dickerson

www.freep.com/story/sports...

Frustrated Dan Dickerson drops f-bomb on hot mic after Detroit Tigers' Game 5 ALDS loss

Detroit Tigers radio announcer Dan Dickerson was caught swearing into a hot mic during a commercial break following the team's ALDS Game 5 loss.

www.freep.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 1d

Tigers thanks for asking

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am so chuffed about this! I saw his basket art at the Chicago Art Institute earlier this year and was so moved, just blown away. This man is incredibly talented.

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn’t that great, settle down

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 1d

Those of us who served in the military know that dogs were some of the best partners we could ever wish for, and many were real heroes. For Kristi Noem's CBP agents to be shooting a family dog in this way -- and then leaving the scene -- is disgusting.

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CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 1d

And the suffering grows

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

A shelling and drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a shelter in a besieged city in the Darfur region, killing at least 53 people, a doctors’ group said Saturday. The onslaught was the latest in Sudan’s more than two-year war.
https://to.pbs.org/46PT1CE