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    9 hours ago

    Spotted at UMBC. Heart broke a little.

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    11 hours ago

    Update: Teachers walked out b/c they said not a single toilet was working this morning. Toilets are now fixed, and walkout is over. But teachers said if this happened in any other part of the city, officials would have closed school

    The entire staff at Anacostia High in DC have walked out of school this morning in protest of bad conditions in the building they say the school system is ignoring
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    10 hours ago

    Corn, ethanol, pork, soybeans, “brewing or distilling dregs and waste.” It’s almost like Chinese tariffs are trying to target Iowa, whose former governor is now the US ambassador there

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    14 hours ago

    50 years ago today, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed while standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis. Here's The Post’s front page report from the next day, April 5, 1968: “Dr. King Is Slain in Memphis.”

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    Apr 3

    The fates. They have aligned. – at Union Station

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  6. Apr 2

    "To have my personal reputation and integrity and those of my family attacked this way is beyond horrible." -Jill McCabe

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    Apr 2

    Yep. What's especially fascinating is that finance/econ is gendered male in our culture. I notice they say Erica "helps" rather than tells.

    Replying to @tressiemcphd
    Coding all AI “assistants” who only exist to fulfill demands, as women. What could go wrong with that...
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    Mar 30

    Alyson Stoner: What It Was Like to Fall in Love With a Woman

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  9. Apr 2

    Intersection of two of my favorite things

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    Apr 2

    Through 1st quarter of the year, homicides are down 28% in Baltimore compared to same time last yr. YTD (Yr-end total): 2018: 57 2017: 79 (342) 2016: 56 (317) 2015: 51 (342) 2014: 44 (211) 2013: 49 (235) 2012: 41 (217) 2011: 44 (197) 2010: 40 (223) 2009: 53 (240) 2008: 51 (234)

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    Apr 2

    A Sinclair journalist, who has been trying to resist from inside the newsroom — but who doesn’t have a union — explains why it’s so hard for TV anchors to refuse the Sinclair’s editorial edicts. They have contracts that penalize them if they quit.

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    Apr 2

    For updates from Oklahoma today, make sure to follow my colleague -->

    On a bus with teachers from Muskogee, Okla. headed to Oklahoma City so they can rally for education funding. Our driver? The AP US History teacher. He drives buses on the side b/c of a driver shortage.
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    Apr 2

    Facebook's repeated insistence that they mean well but just constantly blindsided--despite giant warning signs and a chorus of people trying to warn them--isn't an apology, it is an admission that they are not equipped to handle this kind of power.

    brings to mind this piece from what i can't even believe is already three years old
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    Apr 2

    USCIS to retired Army officer: you should've filed adoption paperwork from Afghanistan, so now your daughter will be deported (but thank you for your service)

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    Mar 29

    For 's travel week, I spent 5 days in Nashville, writing about its transformation into one big bachelorette party & the effects of the new "experience-oriented" brand of tourism:

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    Apr 1

    Several thousand people have held a rally in a town outside Moscow, demanding the closure of a landfill site that has been emitting toxic fumes and calling for the resignation of the regional governor.

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  17. Mar 31

    relatedly, if Twitter folks have recommendations for things to do/see in or Miami, I am all ears!

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  18. Mar 31

    have finally booked everything for my vacation at the end of April/beginning of May and am ~*~uncontrollably excited~*~

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    "...sequestering carbon in soil can produce a double dividend: It reduces climate change by extracting carbon from the atmosphere, and it restores the health of degraded soil and increases agricultural yields."

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    7 Dec 2017

    Moments in my life where I was worried chamber/instrumental music had nothing left to say and friends saved me: 's hamlet in 2009. 's string quartet a few years later. and Victoria Cheah's 'i watched her smile her hand' this year:

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