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Julie Wash
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That’s my dog’s eye.
MLIS ‘90 SUNY Buffalo
BA UNC CH ‘83
Question. Take time.
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How Trump and the GOP are Aligning with Putin and Betraying Our Allies

Putin continues playing Trump as Steve Witkoff is being sent to affirm a "peace plan" engineered in Moscow that will abandon Ukraine and US allies.

With @levparnas.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I have an undergrad who is doing work on how different news networks used different terms over the past 15 years. Here is "woke" at Fox News and in official congressional e-newsletters
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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i often joke to my students that they should just tattoo themselves with article 19 of the international covenant on civil and political rights, since the freedom of expression is the cornerstone of so much of our work (& of democracy).

well they went ahead and did it! 💯😆
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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"For more than 50 years, chains like Wawa, Sheetz, and Love’s Travel Stops have defined when and where people refuel. As EVs reshape mobility, they are among the retailers embracing charging. Wawa has installed more than 210 chargers, while Sheetz provides more than 650."
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How gas stations can become the best place to charge your EV
Fuel retailers are betting that fast chargers, clean bathrooms, and good snacks can keep their gas stations central to how Americans refuel.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Rare truth for good. Thank you to all who called.
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This is how we win.
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."

They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Dems need to keep repeating it, and they need to say what mean. “You can refuse illegal orders,

examples of illegal orders are: intentionally harming or targeting civilians, engaging in unauthorized domestic LE actions, falsifying records, or anything else that clearly violates the US constitution”
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It was always the intent to destroy. There has been no reduction in spend, the money is going somewhere 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
And who else might they have ignored?
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"Thus did Harvard allow the public to believe that just one faculty member had been responsible for the millions Epstein had secured to Harvard  —  or at least, just one faculty member would be punished for the relationships that had inspired that money."
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Seems like data.
NY FED: The rejection rate for all types of credit (auto loan, credit card, credit card limit increase, mortgage, mortgage refinance) over past 12 months rose to a series high of 24.8% in October.

(via Liz Ann Sonders)
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?

Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Too stupid for tech.

Dept of D’oh.
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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⚖️Polluters on trial: how climate science is rocking the courtroom

Following a raft of disappointing climate pledges at #COP30, what role can climate science play in holding major polluters to account? 🧵

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November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Bracing analysis of the rise of the far-right in Germany: "there are widespread right-wing extremist networks within the security services, the police, and the armed forces. Europe-wide networks of fascists are operating unhindered. Something is brewing. If we don't react now, it will be too late."
»Wir haben vor der AfD gewarnt, als sie am Horizont auftauchte. Keine Reaktion. Im Gegenteil – ihre Vertreter:innen saßen in jeder Talkshow, bevor die AfD auch nur ein einziges Landtagsmandat hatte. Mit dem Erfolg, dass sie nun eine einflussreiche Partei ist.« www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024...
Rechtsextremismus: Wir haben Euch gewarnt
Ein brennendes Haus in Solingen. Eine vierköpfige Familie stirbt in den Flammen. Brandstiftung. Die Schlagzeilen sind nicht von 1993, sondern von jetzt. Schon wieder.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Australia was in the BELEM DECLARATION ON THE TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS for about 24 hours, before its Prime Minister declared that you need to extract more gas to help the transition away from fossil fuels.

Enjoy my latest for @thepointau.bsky.social :)

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November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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So they lobbied the government intensely, got what they wanted and now they’re happy. Imagine the reverse of this headline ‘renters happy with new rent reforms’ that would and will never happen as long as we have these agents of capital reping for the lads. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Donald Trump *IS* the most openly corrupt president in American history,”
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Say it.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence. It was intentional misconduct. They both must be disbarred.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM