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Multiple tech firms confirmed layoffs this week, adding thousands more employees to a wave of downsizing that has now affected more than 200,000 workers globally since last year.
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The University of Florida is a gem. It has an outstanding research faculty and thousands of bright, motivated students. DeSantis is destroying it in a matter of months.
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And there’s more coming, including a plan to give authority over faculty hires to the president instead of those faculty search committees where the process is “hidden” tampabay.com/news/education
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Faculty, staff, and student email accounts at UF are being searched with almost NO explanation or show of support from above; many finding out after the fact. People are understandably scared, especially untenured or soft-money folks.
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I was notified recently my email will be searched because of my service on a DEI committee. This is higher education in Florida twitter.com/nicolegravina/…
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🔥WHOA‼️MAGA will sh*t themselves when they learn that the only crime Durham found was Trump’s financial crime via a tip from Italian authorities‼️The crime was so serious that Barr let Durham investigate it- and of course we never heard about it till now.
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A message from a parallel universe – one in which publicly pleading with Republicans to return to bipartisan cooperation “in good faith” has any discernible effect other than demonstrating to the world how desperately you are clinging to a “normalcy” that is long dead.
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130: # of blue slips Ds returned for Trump district court nominees.
12: # of blue slips Rs have returned for Biden district court nominees.
We need to do better.
I ask my colleagues to follow the examples of Sens. Graham, Grassley, Young, and Braun – and work in good faith.
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"Rather than searching for a dubious authenticity, essence, or nationalism, Corky suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and also did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity." #longreads
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Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well.
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' of Harvard said the debates around shadow banning highlight the two big issues plaguing tech companies.
“We can’t agree on what we want,” he said, “and we don’t trust anyone who tells us they can handle it.”'
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“Shadow banning is the worry by any user that they are howling into the void, that they have been placed in a bubble and it’s undisclosed.”
@zittrain on social media platforms limiting post visibility for @nytimes
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Closing the loop on this one, my story for on Meta's reinstatement of Donald Trump's accounts, featuring thoughts from , and , among others fastcompany.com/90840411/donal
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Guess who just wrote 1,000 words with five voices in it on you know who’s potential return to Facebook between 11:30 and midnight
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The funniest thing about all of this is that it has become increasingly clear that Pamela Paul, former head of the NYTBR, has NO idea what book criticism does or is for.
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The UK is in a startling degree of crisis which foreigners are just beginning to pay attention to. A long thread on the state of the NHS, the price of prolonged austerity, the future of "Stagnation Nation" and what it means for the rest of the world (1/x).
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and then every night those fox news viewers tune in to tucker where he says the ukraine war is part of a jewish plot to take over the world.
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"Benjamin Hall urged 'Fox & Friends' viewers to 'never give up,' as he made an emotional return to live television on Thursday following the horrific attack that left him severely injured while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine..." foxnews.com/media/fox-news
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., you ran out the clock & now everyone sees what you’ve been trying so desperately to hide—that you’ve failed in almost every way imaginable to build anything meaningful whatsoever for New York’s Democratic Party. ⏰
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So far as I can tell there has been zip, zero, nada from the NY Democratic party in the way of postmortems or reforms. A national embarrassment. twitter.com/Redistrict/sta…
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Happy goat.. 😂
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The confounding partisanship allegiance to gas stoves, red meat, guns, and avoiding vaccinations is starting to seem more and more like a problem that will solve itself
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Priorities 🫠 bodies are dangerous, but let's re-platform the guy who tried to overturn democracy
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Breaking News: Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram access will be reinstated in the coming weeks, ending a two-year ban, Meta said.
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✨Come work with us !✨ Multiple positions open on the education and child policy teams.
First up: a Research Analyst position (new MA or BA + experience) on the PK-12 team: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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Backlash grows against DeSantis decision to block AP African American studies class
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Gift link to my NYT piece on why the Harry/Meghan stuff is not mere celebrity kerfuffle and what the *actual* news there.
Maybe this is why Spare sold so well, despite the dismissive media coverage that largely skipped over the actual matter at hand.
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Unforgivable. reveal ’s Treasury licenced a Russian warlord to dodge our sanctions to use our courts to silence our journalists
But why are English courts the strike point of choice?
Because we’re the world’s lawfare capital.
That. Must. Change. 👇
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Labour's Clive Efford challenges PM on Russians "dodging sanctions" to take legal action in London, saying the Treasury allowed Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin "to use our courts to try to silence a British journalist" when Rishi Sunak was chancellor
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This week revealed the govt enabled a sanctioned Putin mercenary to launch a legal assault on a British journalist.
It's unacceptable that the govt failed to enforce its own sanctions regime.
I asked the Minister to investigate these claims urgently.
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Our investigation exposing the UK government’s facilitation of #Prigozhin to circumvent sanctions and target a British journalist in London’s courts has hit the political agenda. Here are some video highlights #SLAPPs #Londongrad 🧵
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This AM, both and then reflected on former Mayor Giuliani's and former President Clinton's approaches to crime and how they've shaped modern NYC.
LISTEN:
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These revelations of child labor in US slaughterhouses keep getting bigger and hardly anyone — even among labor journalists — is covering it. This would be big news in an Amazon warehouse.
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No doubt ex-FBI agent and traitor McGonigle had accomplices deep in government helping him. The treason goes much deeper than what we've seen so far w/ Deripaska paying him. It's a live Russian cell that must be killed off.
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Marked an MA research paper today on the history of the compact disc. So strange to read a paper whose history I've lived through.
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Teacher shot by 6-year-old texted a loved one "about an hour" before she was shot, saying that the student said he had a gun in his backpack & administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping.
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If you love the Travelling Wilburys' debut LP, you'll dig these letters even more.
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Platforms: you don't need to amplify the twice impeached former president who led a coup against the United States. I can't believe that I need to remind you of that fact, but here we are.
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Breaking News: Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram access will be reinstated in the coming weeks, ending a two-year ban, Meta said.
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Cool. Now do women’s rights, especially birth control and abortion.
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BREAKING: An immense step forward. Pope Francis calls for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide: "Declaring such laws 'unjust,' Francis said the Catholic Church can and should work to put an end to them. 'It must do this. It must do this.'"
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BREAKING: An immense step forward. Pope Francis calls for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide: "Declaring such laws 'unjust,' Francis said the Catholic Church can and should work to put an end to them. 'It must do this. It must do this.'"
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Y'all, after two years working on this, tomorrow is premiere day for the greatest story never told, #1619hulu #1619project six-part docuseries on . The first 2 eps DEMOCRACY & RACE drop. I'm so excited & nervous. Who's hosting a watch party? Please let a sister know! 🖤✊🏽
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Time to go back to criticizing Zuck for threatening democracy and encouraging violence.
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We need to understand why the FBI failed in 2016 to address the essence of an ongoing Russian influence operation. The character of that operation suggests that it would have been the responsibility of an FBI section whose head is now accused of taking Russian money. 15/20
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What is money? In researching crypto and blockchain, realized she didn’t fully know the answer. That’s why she recommends “Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing” by
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Hateful messages, including giant swastikas, were projected onto buildings in multiple locations in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. Jacksonville just passed an ordinance outlawing projecting messages onto buildings without the consent of the building owners.
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Great news! Tonight (or early this morning), the Jacksonville City Council passed an ordinance making it a crime to project messages on buildings w/out the owner’s consent. A good/content neutral bill under the 1st Amd. A strong statement against hate in Jacksonville. #ILoveJax
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