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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 02/05/2026

Fruits of this project are now up! Check out *Good for You, Good for the Earth*, a partnership between the PHC Food Working Group & the Kidney Foundation. We made 5 cooking videos & a recipe booklet for plant-forward dishes that support kidney & planetary health: kidneywellnesshub.ca/resilient-ki...

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Eating Well for Kidney Health — Kidney Wellness Hub

Find kidney-friendly recipes and cooking tips designed to support kidney health. Explore low-sodium, low-potassium, and balanced meals that are delicious, easy to prepare, and tailored for kidney dise...

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Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

For any editing project, there's inevitably one edit that makes me think: "Whatever else I've done, this one edit should make the clients happy they hired me." This time it was discovering that the chapters were numbered incorrectly! Feel free to share your similar moments. #amediting

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River (they/them) 🧜🏾‍♂️ @rivercopyedits.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I love how welcoming and encouraging the editing community is. Freelancing is definitely hard, but it's made so much easier by having people in your corner who've been through it and can offer resources and advice. You all are amazing at what you do!!!

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I’m raising $ for The Trevor Project, an org serving LGBTQ+ youth. For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1. Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏 bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...

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Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers

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Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The students who've sent me kind end-of-year notes have boosted me more than they could possibly know. This goes beyond education, of course. If you appreciate someone, let them know!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So many of our loudest First Amendment enthusiasts have no idea that freedom of assembly is right there in it, on equal footing with freedom of the press or freedom of religion

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

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WIRED @wired.com · 27/05/2025

"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well... - AI companies are scraping your data - Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes - And yeah, a new era of government surveillance... A starter guide to protecting you online life:

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A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations

Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/05/2025

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

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Lebanexican @lebanexican.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

From fall 2001, now a classic

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

President Declines Gift (1925)

President Declines Gift of Holiday Apple Pie

WASHINGTON, Oct 27 - AP - President and Mrs. Coolidge have declined an offer from the Girls' Club of Vermont University of a large apple pie for the White House Thanksgiving dinner. Although no reason was given for declining the pie, apparently it was refused because acceptance might have been taken as an endorsement by the president of the proposed apple week to be held about that time.

This might be regarded as a precent for endorsement of similar movements in other parts of the country. The telegram tendering the pie said it was designed to be a part of the apple week program.

--The Fresno Bee, 27 Oct 1925

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm not saying the news wire photographers kept intentionally lining Trump's head up with the Easter Bunny's ears, but they were absolutely doing that

From Getty Images: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters durning the White House Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The White House is expecting thousands of children and adults to participate in the annual tradition of rolling colored eggs down the White House lawn, which was started by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Eliot @eliotedits.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Bonus, it's weirdly satisfying to suggest your library system purchase a book and then see it appear in the catalog (and then in your hands).

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 14/04/2025

just observed an author crowing about driving their publisher crazy because they just kept making changes in pass after pass all the way to the printer deadline and I'm thinking not in my g.d. house on my g.d. watch you didn't

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis" It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/03/2025

Just a reminder that anyone can nominate books for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Only a week left to do so -- nominations close at midnight Pacific on March 31.

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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

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Dotty Eyes (aka Patty Boyd), she/her @dottyeyes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sickening. How small-minded and unimaginative to think that accomplishments by people who are not white males cannot be true accomplishments and need to be reviewed. wapo.st/4iv3aIe

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Anger, then relief after Pentagon restores Navajo code talker webpages

Navajo Nation leaders and families of code talkers had pushed back against the removals.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Why hyphens matter. As written, this means the dog trainers sniff out disease. Should read "disease-sniffing-dog trainers." A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes Pink skinned baby.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

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Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"I only hurt people from a distance. How does that make me a bad person?" 🙄

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 12/03/2025

Last time I checked there are exactly zero measles vaccine-related hospitalizations or deaths in 2025, but there are 223 of measles cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths in Texas alone www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

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Measles Outbreak – March 11, 2025 | Texas DSHS

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Look out your window, my dude. They're already shutting down the government.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

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Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We're accepting session proposals thru 4/7 for the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference! Do you have a fresh presentation to share with fellow editors? Send us your ideas now to be a part of the friendliest editing conference around: 11/8 in Seattle & online! www.edsguild.org/blog/call-for-sessions

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What's in Store for Red Pencil 2025? — Northwest Editors Guild

The Northwest Editors Guild's 9th biennial Red Pencil Conference will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025! This year's theme is Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry. The 2025 R...

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Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Some of these I get (I don't agree, but I get)....but Colorado friends, you'd better be jumping on those phones and visiting those offices, because W.T.F.

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Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Government spending is not simply spending. It's investment, and that's what we should call it. Government Investments yield all kinds of positive returns, financial and otherwise—with returns often yielding multiple times the initial outlay.

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

One way to think about this administration is: Trump's last full year in office was a global pandemic with no known cure that filled hospitals with dying patients and shut down the entire in-person economy. And firms think the current business environment has *more* uncertainty.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/03/2025

Or to, uh, support the media that's already here and not just kowtowing to the new regimes. There are a bunch of small, independent media properties that could do absolute wonders with a tiny amount of the money that billionaires threw at politics last year.

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Go read this. It's important. "The NIH funds more than 60,000 proposals annually. It supported 99 percent of drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010-2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades” " 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Inside the Collapse at the NIH

Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/02/2025

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger than a billion.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/02/2025

Trump and Musk claim they’re saving billions through DOGE’s mass purge of federal bureaucracy. Instead, the administration has spent $710 billion in its first month, nearly a billion more than Joe Biden.

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Turns Out, Trump and DOGE Haven’t Actually Saved Any Money

Government spending has continued.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Genuinely incredible piece of reporting here that makes the story completely unimpeachable. They sat in the back of an immigration courtroom and watched the guy pull out his personal phone and post to his racist account DURING the hearing!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The political juggernaut that members of Congress from both parties are cowering in fear of

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/02/2025

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

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