ReeZenPhD
@reezenphd.bsky.social
RPCV (Moldova 2003-5). International traveler. Thespian. Reader. Retired English Professor. SCUBA.
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I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
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In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.
David needs folks to lend a hand. https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-gerrolds-health-and-leukemia-fundraiser?lang=en_GB&ts=1765731124&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOs_FtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6KKiZ2rx4-CeehknGhy0m7jAsLfQXTijNNB--x4dSYOZovtFMCTh0YuSl10w_aem_bDanHCEMaHX8JsZvYYD7Jg
Donate to David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser, organized by David Gerrold
Here is a thank you just for coming this far, a link to a short collec… David Gerrold needs your support for David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser
www.gofundme.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.
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Just going to point out that it would take less than a half of a percent of Bill Gates' estimated worth to float NCAR until a new administration can restore funding.
December 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just going to point out that it would take less than a half of a percent of Bill Gates' estimated worth to float NCAR until a new administration can restore funding.
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"Mr. Darcy, a man with an estate of £10,000 per annum, was reduced to a man well below his station by his lust. He threw Elizabeth on his bed with the vigor of a militia officer with a salary of a mere £100."
The Deleted Sex Scene from Pride and Prejudice
Dancing was the first step to falling in love, and falling in love was the first step to lying down in tandem. Not soon after Elizabeth had persuad...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"Mr. Darcy, a man with an estate of £10,000 per annum, was reduced to a man well below his station by his lust. He threw Elizabeth on his bed with the vigor of a militia officer with a salary of a mere £100."
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Merry Christmas, veterans!
Donald Trump is cutting 35,000 heath care positions at the VA, "including doctors, nurses and support staff."
Donald Trump is cutting 35,000 heath care positions at the VA, "including doctors, nurses and support staff."
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Merry Christmas, veterans!
Donald Trump is cutting 35,000 heath care positions at the VA, "including doctors, nurses and support staff."
Donald Trump is cutting 35,000 heath care positions at the VA, "including doctors, nurses and support staff."
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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What better way to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday than by sharing, for the first time, the long-rumored deleted sex scene from Pride and Prejudice?
The Deleted Sex Scene from Pride and Prejudice
Dancing was the first step to falling in love, and falling in love was the first step to lying down in tandem. Not soon after Elizabeth had persuad...
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
What better way to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday than by sharing, for the first time, the long-rumored deleted sex scene from Pride and Prejudice?
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From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
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The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.
December 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.
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Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Fifteen: This is Spinal Tap
For more than two weeks, I had it on my schedule to write about This is Spinal Tap today, December 15, 2025. The day before this, director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer were (allegedly) m…
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December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/t...
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Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven.
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven.
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
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The measles vaccine protected Americans for 55 years before this loser regime decided to trash it for absolutely no good reason.
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The measles vaccine protected Americans for 55 years before this loser regime decided to trash it for absolutely no good reason.
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David Bowie opens The Concert for New York City, a benefit for September 11 first responders, with a song that took a long, last symbolic look at an America which would be forsaken and irreversibly transformed by the decades long War on Terror.
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David⚡️Bowie - America (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
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December 12, 2024 at 11:38 PM
David Bowie opens The Concert for New York City, a benefit for September 11 first responders, with a song that took a long, last symbolic look at an America which would be forsaken and irreversibly transformed by the decades long War on Terror.
youtu.be/afifZfUkU8I?...
youtu.be/afifZfUkU8I?...
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ICE agents pulled over Rep. Ilhan Omar's son and asked him to provide proof of citizenship, the Somalia-born Democrat said in an interview today.
"They are racially profiling": Ilhan Omar says ICE pulled her son over
"They are looking for young men who look Somali that they think are undocumented," she told CBS Minnesota affiliate WCCO.
www.axios.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
ICE agents pulled over Rep. Ilhan Omar's son and asked him to provide proof of citizenship, the Somalia-born Democrat said in an interview today.
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What do you call it when a foreign power’s agents target and damage your transportation infrastructure, drinking water and food safety?
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
What do you call it when a foreign power’s agents target and damage your transportation infrastructure, drinking water and food safety?
Please god!
“It’s not a secret. There’s no sugarcoating it. It’s a pending, looming disaster heading our way.”
“We are facing almost certain defeat.”
“The chances are Republicans will go down and will go down hard.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-han...
“We are facing almost certain defeat.”
“The chances are Republicans will go down and will go down hard.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-han...
Trump’s Hand-Picked RNC Chair Predicts Doom
This is not your usual party committee script.
www.thebulwark.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Please god!
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war on Catholicism
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
war on Catholicism
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In addition to 5 years of social media history, CBP would also require tourists to provide all phone numbers used over that period, any email addresses used in the past decade, DNA and iris scans, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members
Including children
Including children
December 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In addition to 5 years of social media history, CBP would also require tourists to provide all phone numbers used over that period, any email addresses used in the past decade, DNA and iris scans, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members
Including children
Including children
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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This story is my best attempt to convey the reality of what's happening in Manhattan's immigration courts right now.
It is, as one regular court accompanier told me, "not a space to be in." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
It is, as one regular court accompanier told me, "not a space to be in." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This story is my best attempt to convey the reality of what's happening in Manhattan's immigration courts right now.
It is, as one regular court accompanier told me, "not a space to be in." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
It is, as one regular court accompanier told me, "not a space to be in." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
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Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
Her novels, including A Village Affair and Other People’s Children, drew on what Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times’
British novelist Joanna Trollope, whose portrayals of British domestic life made her one of the nation’s most widely read authors, has died at the age of 82.
Trollope published more than 30 novels during a writing career that began in 1980. Her early works, written under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey, were historical romances, but from the mid-1980s onward, she turned to contemporary fiction, a shift that would define her reputation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
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It is openly a bid to support the far-right in Central and Eastern Europe.
@dicknixon.bsky.social thoughts sir? www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It is openly a bid to support the far-right in Central and Eastern Europe.
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No one is going to want to come here
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
No one is going to want to come here
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Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
December 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
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All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.