@readtosurvive
A Literary Agent/Book Coach with 45 years experience in both U Press and trade publishing, UCLA English PhD, Pitzer College BA, dog parent, teacher, married LGBTQ advocate. Democrat as long as this GOP exists. Independents, please pick a side.
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Columbia pledged
“it will significantly expand fitness, dining, & student spaces & hire faculty to support the Core Curriculum for while gradually adding more undergraduates over 3 years. They did not
admit students had demanded such plans be guaranteed
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Finding out that an increase in early colorectal cancer shows what these young adults under 50 have something older patients who used to be do not Young people have stiff colon tissue, known to help cancer cells grow. Why? We need more trials to discover or treat.
Short version: “yes you did.”
Kind of essential to all Pathological Narcicists.
Started with the pretense that ICE is fighting criminals — which pretends that makes ICE that “a good man with a gun” whose weapon is already drawn faster than a criminals.
Oh How I wish this every day?
Americans will not let go of their gun fetish. Fits in great with their "self-reliance" fetish. Or their government doesn't work fetish. Or their worship of oligarchs fetish. They got all the wrong ones.
bluesky is actually pretty close to being on the web. the biggest missing piece is inbound RSS. they already support outbound, it could use a review and tuneup, but that half is already there.
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NYT ownership and its high level executives simply do not believe that Muslims should be allowed to hold elected office in the United States.
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There are still materials we meed to manufacture in order for AI to work in the organic world as humans do: eg fabrics.
6. The court’s logic is hypocritical: it says the ban applies equally to everyone, even though only trans people seek this care for gender dysphoria. As Sotomayor noted in Skrmetti, that is like banning interracial marriage for everyone and calling it equal treatment.
The lies perpetuated now for Trans women and Men about gender dysphoria being a choice of disliking one gender or another is exactly where Psychiatry was until 1972 about Lesbians and Gay men feeling a “normal” sexual desire for the a partner of the same gender — not to mention legal marriages.
Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!
Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.
If we already won, why is our navy too scared to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz?
0ver 50% of voters say they will be less likely vote in 2026 to reelect any Congressional Rep who supports Trump’s Iraq War.
Ditto for any Presidential candidate of any Party for President in the 2028 Election.
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"Once we had this (Genetic Atlas) we could start giving T cells much clearer instructions while avoiding the pathways that cause them to burn out," says Kaech.
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Geothermal self supporting Energy is most cost effective in many climates when installed simultaneously with new construction, not retrofitted.
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Excellent Florida Teacher founded Micro-classrooms (first created for homeschoolers) now adopted as an option within a Florida public school for project- based kindergarten & 1st Grade joint class.
Not a Charter School. A different classroom style and parental choice.
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Ice lies about who is “illegal” and it takes a Rep from Congress 3 trips to a Texas detention facility to free the family!
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No prep to evacuate because they don’t care who survives either Ice in US or bombs abroad?
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We need to use the research by Foundations like Pew have already been gathering on property taxes and increasingly expensive weather disasters, because the Current ruling party in DC is ignoring or lying about them.
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Without its trees the Tropical Amazon environment will fail to support the cornucopia of flora and fauna that has supplied life giving Oxygen, miraculous plant-based medications, and rainfall that feeds rivers throughout the Western Hemisphere for millennia.
Explaining Green Open Access can be tricky — but we’ve got a new resource to help. A simple guide that explains what Green Open Access is and the difference between types of repositories. Take a look and feel free to reuse it in your own Open Access support. bit.ly/47f1fnm
All book publishers — especially University Presses for whom accurate Metadata is an essential but expensive sales tool should have discounted access to this service even though none can afford to make all their books are Open Access.
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We live in a time of crimes against civilian human rights abetted by our country and founded in honor of the sins against the people of the first religion to forbid “murder” with the help of our “Christian Nation” bigots who want to write their God’s command — but not obey— in every American school.
For those not legal voters when Nixon resigned, “pledging fealty” to a Political Leader might be accurate, but no professional editor before Trump would ever have allowed a NYT news story to use it in a story about Congress without “quotation” mark if about an elected President in a Democracy.
No, just another way Trump steals from us.
