Bloomingdi
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Grandma, Chiefs, Boomer Swiftie, living in FL. Interested in Everything. 🚫DMs
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Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we investigate the surprising health risks of loneliness—and what to do about them
Lone dangers: the physical toll of social isolation
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we investigate the surprising health risks of loneliness—and what to do about them
econ.st
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we investigate the surprising health risks of loneliness—and what to do about them
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DHS has alleged that the posting of “pictures and videos of agents’ faces, license plates, and weapons” was akin to “threatening ICE agents to impede the performance of their duties.”
Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
DHS has alleged that the posting of “pictures and videos of agents’ faces, license plates, and weapons” was akin to “threatening ICE agents to impede the performance of their duties.”
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🚨BREAKING: In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled that Rep. Mike Bost (R) has standing to challenge Illinois’ 14-day grace period for receiving and counting ballots postmarked by Election Day. Full story to come.
Background:
https://bit.ly/4jZiz5f
Background:
https://bit.ly/4jZiz5f
January 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled that Rep. Mike Bost (R) has standing to challenge Illinois’ 14-day grace period for receiving and counting ballots postmarked by Election Day. Full story to come.
Background:
https://bit.ly/4jZiz5f
Background:
https://bit.ly/4jZiz5f
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Environmental and public health advocates call the agency’s action a dangerous abdication of one of its core missions, the AP reports: planetdetroit.org/2026/01/trum...
EPA halts health benefit calculations for air pollution rules
The EPA's decision to exclude health benefits from air pollution rules, focusing only on industry costs, is criticized as a threat to public health.
planetdetroit.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Environmental and public health advocates call the agency’s action a dangerous abdication of one of its core missions, the AP reports: planetdetroit.org/2026/01/trum...
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Unlike a traditional food pantry, the gleaners focus on harvesting food that would otherwise go to waste. That includes backyard fruit, surplus crops on local farms, and even donations from Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.
After the holidays, Eugene-area Gleaners keep neighbors connected through year-round food sharing
Founded in 2009, the organization now has more than 1,200 members and remains entirely volunteer-run.
www.opb.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Unlike a traditional food pantry, the gleaners focus on harvesting food that would otherwise go to waste. That includes backyard fruit, surplus crops on local farms, and even donations from Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Students shouldn't lose their rights when arriving at school.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
Opinion by Mark McCormick: Topeka police seize student phones, demand passcodes, without telling families. Parents cry foul. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/t...
Topeka police seize student phones, demand passcodes, without telling families. Parents cry foul. • Kansas Reflector
When police appeared at Topeka High with a warrant, they had students pulled from class, seized their phones and demanded the passcode.
kansasreflector.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Students shouldn't lose their rights when arriving at school.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
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Social interaction in the classroom is essential preparation for an AI-augmented workplace.#GenZ may be glued to screens, but they're graduating into jobs where human skills matter more than ever. Here’s how one professor tries to prepare her students for success: #HigherEd
How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age
A writer instructor recognizes the role of AI on campus, while elevating social connection and humanity into the college experience.
buff.ly
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Social interaction in the classroom is essential preparation for an AI-augmented workplace.#GenZ may be glued to screens, but they're graduating into jobs where human skills matter more than ever. Here’s how one professor tries to prepare her students for success: #HigherEd
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Orange County, CA:
Our elections are on the list to be monitored on Election Day on Nov 4, 2025. Get those ballots to a drop box today ocvote.gov/elections/ba...
Our elections are on the list to be monitored on Election Day on Nov 4, 2025. Get those ballots to a drop box today ocvote.gov/elections/ba...
October 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Orange County, CA:
Our elections are on the list to be monitored on Election Day on Nov 4, 2025. Get those ballots to a drop box today ocvote.gov/elections/ba...
Our elections are on the list to be monitored on Election Day on Nov 4, 2025. Get those ballots to a drop box today ocvote.gov/elections/ba...
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Why doesn't Discount Tire provide an USB for phone chargers? So easy for them and such a Customer perk. Last time we purchase tires here. Heads up Service Companies, treat your customers with just 1 added perk: USB, coffee, whatever, and we will always return.
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Why doesn't Discount Tire provide an USB for phone chargers? So easy for them and such a Customer perk. Last time we purchase tires here. Heads up Service Companies, treat your customers with just 1 added perk: USB, coffee, whatever, and we will always return.
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The kindness of strangers: I felt self-conscious studying law, then a classmate praised my op-shop suit
The kindness of strangers: I felt self-conscious studying law, then a classmate praised my op-shop suit
It was a nice suit but it hadn’t exactly been tailored to fit me properly. Thanks to her, I walked into class with confidence
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Read more in the Kindness of strangers series
I started law school in 1976. Gough Whitlam had abolished university fees, which meant a lot of older women who previously wouldn’t have been able to afford to study were arriving at uni for the first time.
I was 17 and nursing an otherness of my own. One day in class, our lecturer asked everyone who had attended a private high school to raise their hand. The sea of arms that shot up revealed that, in a class of 30 people, I was the only one who’d come from a state school. The lecturer didn’t do this cruelly – he was making a point about lawyers being privileged people, and how that affects the legal system. But I nonetheless felt very confronted by the different world my peers came from. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The kindness of strangers: I felt self-conscious studying law, then a classmate praised my op-shop suit
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Be productive before you croak
August 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Be productive before you croak
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If you know, you’re old. Like me lol
August 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you know, you’re old. Like me lol
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Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
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United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero -
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero -
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
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How is it that we believe hundreds of WOMEN are lying
and that one MAN is telling the truth?😢
and that one MAN is telling the truth?😢
July 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
How is it that we believe hundreds of WOMEN are lying
and that one MAN is telling the truth?😢
and that one MAN is telling the truth?😢
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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"I completely agree with Nick Fuentes" is a sentence I never thought I'd write.
July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"I completely agree with Nick Fuentes" is a sentence I never thought I'd write.
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NEW: Bessent ADMITS that the accounts created by the billionaire bailout bill are a “backdoor to privatizing social security.”
July 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NEW: Bessent ADMITS that the accounts created by the billionaire bailout bill are a “backdoor to privatizing social security.”
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There are two types of people, those who plant trees for future generations.
And those who leave pollution.
The latter shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government or power.
And those who leave pollution.
The latter shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government or power.
July 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There are two types of people, those who plant trees for future generations.
And those who leave pollution.
The latter shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government or power.
And those who leave pollution.
The latter shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government or power.
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