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Broadening our writing, and mentoring, BASE One thing that sometimes comes as a surprise to folks as they learn to write, and even more as they learn to mentor writers, is that the technical part of writing is only one piece of the challenge…

Here's a way to us Helen Sword's "Writing BASE" exercise to think differently (and better, I think!) about mentoring students in writing.

Mentoring writing is really hard! Finding ways to make it easier (and better) is worth a bunch of thought.

Imagine being the one guy to take this moment as the opportunity to come out as a Republican ...

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

Here are five of @flaminghydra.com's recent hits, newly unlocked for you to try!!

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@josie.zone on Bonapartism vs. fascism

'No, We Definitely Knew How Bad It Would Be'
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Of course Trump is looting our tax contributions: the Trump family fortune is based on looting our tax $.

Trump owes his political career to mass theft of public $:

If his father hadn't stolen $413,000,000 by ripping off federal housing funds, plus tax evasion, there'd be no POTUS Trump.

DO NOT ASK REPUBLICANS IF THEY'RE PEDOPHILES OTHERWISE THEY'LL GET EVEN MORE RACIST!

'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'

Israeli officials are pressing Christian and Druze Lebanese civilians not to provide shelter for Shia Lebanese civilians as they target them (h/t @nytimes.com).

A dark, dark repetition of history.

For shame that we live in a world where we have not learned from its lessons.

AGREED! Let's ask our next Democratic Presidential candidate to make it a campaign pledge! Aside from prosecuting (or executing - up to the populace) every last one of them, there will need to be a huge re-commitment to International Law and Global Order!

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Bringing this back, with an update.
Ennis just had surgery to remove cancerous tumors from his larynx. Cherise hasn't been able to get her job back. If you can send any $ their way, it would be deeply appreciated.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Call for Proposals for International Teams in the Space & Earth Sciences The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern (Switzerland) and ISSI-BJ in Beijing (China) invite proposals for establishing International Teams to conduct, at their respective meeting faci...

Annual @issibern.ch call for proposals for establishing International Teams to conduct collaborative research in the Space and Earth Sciences (Astrophysics, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, or Earth Sciences) at their respective meeting facilities. Deadline: March 13
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That's an exceptionally weird way to spell "black women." The NYT should check their style guide.

Just left STIPC Detention Center. This is a prison. YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX

Just left STIPC Detention Center. This is a prison.

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Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?

There has never been a more corrupt President.
Trump family accepted a half-billion-dollars with a UAE government official, right before his inauguration for 49% of Trump family’s crypto company.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Senate Democrats" is the collective noun for a group of people who are illiterate at reading rooms

Not even a year. 😳👇

it isn’t all terrible.

Democratic members of Congress are demanding access to Ghislaine Maxwell after reports of her again recieving preferential treatment in prison.
That alone tells you oversight has been missing for years.

an administration that understood it needed at least *some* public opinion on its side would dump bovino immediately

The game plan: Subpoena her, drag her before Congress, make her repeat her venal lies under penalty of perjury

This is the website for the Minn based rap artist who was pinned down in the street today, as he screamed “you’re going to have to kill me.”

Brave man.

The Trump regime thought everyone secretly agreed with them: they were wrong. They thought everyone would cower when they arrived in cities in force: they were wrong. They thought everyone would stop fighting back when they started killing people: they are wrong.

Fascism always does this.

National Guard has fully arrived.
Franklin and Nicollet.