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Kathleen P
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writer, editor, philanthropic advisor .... and lifelong Dodger fan founder of @thegivingtake (IG) ~ trying to reconcile the passion with the practical ~
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“If you don’t set your own agenda, someone else will.”
-Melinda French Gates
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NEW: With the opening of the Springsteen biopic, in my OUR LAND newsletter, I'm re-upping an essay I wrote on "the Springsteen generation" that explains his appeal to tail-end Baby Boomers and his longevity as an artist.

link.motherjones.com/public/42194...

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Useless trivia: There have only been two 18+ inning games in World Series history, both at Dodger Stadium and Brad Paisley sang the National Anthem at both of them

www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.
nyti.ms
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At some point you just have to declare the other AL slot vacant and hold some kind of conclave, right?
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
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Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.
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cmon man, Astros fans can’t read
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Elite colleges are infamous for funneling students into the Big Three—consulting, tech, and finance—high-paying fields that perpetuate status and wealth.

To some young people, it feels like entrapment: “They get you before you could be exposed to other jobs.”
America’s elite colleges are perpetual inequality machines. It doesn't have to be this way.
Rather than steer the nation's top students toward the most lucrative careers, schools could help them build meaningful lives.
www.motherjones.com