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50 Ways to Rest. “Wander slowly around the block. Look at the...

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NYC is getting a new subway map, based on the 1972 Unimark/Vignelli...

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The championship match of the 2025 Tournament of Books pits Percival Everett’s...

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It Is All Just So Very Very Stupid

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M. Gessen: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has...

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Nature poll of 1600 US scientists: 75% are considering leaving the country,...

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Clickens! Judge paintings of chickens based on characteristics like persistence, altruism, petulance,...

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Lots of great comments from students, parents, and faculty in “The End...

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Timothy Snyder: “The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not...

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An E-Bike Transformed My Family’s Life. “I felt connected to our neighborhood...

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Margaret Sullivan on “the need for straight talk right now. Enough with...

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This ProPublica story about ICE deportation flights, with intel from flight attendants...

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Oh man, rest in peace to Val Kilmer....

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“Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his more than 25-hour long...

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Hands Off! A Day of Action and Protest on April 5.

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A two-part online training event on the Fundamentals of Organizing. It kicked...

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The record for the longest individual speech in the Senate belongs to...

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Mercator Extreme is a fun tool that you can use to choose...

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With a headline like this, how can you resist? On the Best...

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“A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the...

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No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore. “Immigration agents...

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Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her...

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Here’s What Life Was Like Before the Affordable Care Act

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Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. “They...

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John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

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Tressie McMillan Cottom: AI is mid tech for mid tasks. “The use...

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Senator Cory Booker is holding the floor of the Senate and says...

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If you need a distraction: 368 Chickens. Line up the chickens to...

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The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or...

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The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be...

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What Will America Look Like in 10 Years?

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While...

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A thread from Berkeley political science professor Omar Wasow about how protests...

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The End of College Life?

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and...

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Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are buying The Rumpus. “They are committed...

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“The federal government isn’t just pressuring universities over speech — it’s literally...

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From the Center for Third World Organizing, an Organizing 101 bootcamp, “a...

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Multi-Player plays a grid of multiple copies of a single YouTube video,...

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Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech

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Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Ways to Spot a Fake Masterpiece. I’ve always...

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TV Garden: stream television channels from all over the world for free....

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Steve Coogan Plays Four Roles in Dr. Strangelove Stage Adaptation

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March 2025 Anti-Trans National Risk Assessment Map. “The risk level for transgender...

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Apple has added the Lumon Terminal Pro computer to their devices lineup,...

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The Design of the New Swiss Passport

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Finally got around to reading Craig Mod’s “rules” for running his membership...

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The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be...

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Scaling Laws and the Speed of Animals

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Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason...

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