comically embarrassing to have gotten into weird philosophy in my 40s like a recently divorced dad getting really into stereo amps but it seems to be essential to remember—and actually feel—that there is an outside; there are other things than this
I got yer delicate rite of passage right here
Lost my tab with the interesting-looking thing about how institutional leadership kinda just generally wants to capitulate before I could read enough of it to find it again. Bah.
unofficial [unbreaking.org](
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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You never know what detail is going to get you, but learning that Turkish diplomats delivered a new hijab to Rümeysa Öztürk in her hellhole Louisiana detention center was mine this morning. [www.propublica.org/article/rume...](
ProPublica
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have...
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ProPublica
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have...
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Hi it's Monday who wants a list of 70 projects tracking things related to the demolition of the US government, is it you [docs.google.com/spreadsheets...](
Google Docs
Unbreaking.org tracker tracker (public)
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Google Docs
Unbreaking.org tracker tracker (public)
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This is so, so good. RE:
Bluesky Social
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) (@inquiline.myatproto.social)
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Good blog post/crap skeet is the new good article/crap headline and it's just as frustrating tbh.
Oh god stop job-number revisions are not a conspiracy. Look at the reporting from literally last year, this is how the data works! [www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...](
PBS News
U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than first reported, sign job market has been slowing
The Labor Department estimated that job growth averaged 174,000 a month in the year that ended in March — a drop of 68,000 a month from the 242,0...
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PBS News
U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than first reported, sign job market has been slowing
The Labor Department estimated that job growth averaged 174,000 a month in the year that ended in March — a drop of 68,000 a month from the 242,0...
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