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Nothing quite like having to explain (again ) to someone why you can’t make a colleague work when they aren’t being paid/on contract yet. #boundaries

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Feels as good a time as any to let you know that the exhibition going up at JSAAHC next month has an entire section on how early 20th century UVA's Board of Visitors, its Foundation, and profs perpetuated racist housing and land-use practices locally, at every level.

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There would be no public park and all private development without what you call “sociopaths” so this is just an ignorant take. Just sit and eat your food and enjoy the park before the rest of the development and traffic comes.

I’m a driver. I drive in bus only lanes every chance I get, I stop in virtually every bus zone I see, and I am absolutely ecstatic whenever I hear a car gets ticketed for it. Because I drive the bus. Wish you had interviewed a transit operator, we could explain why this is just.

Maybe we could also talk to one of the thousands of bus operators who have had to deal with reckless drivers weaving around their vehicles, forcing sudden stops, and creating needless traffic by driving in lanes clearly marked “ONLY BUS.” Just a thought though 🤔

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And I will be stewing on this all summer during my 3 month writing retreat in the Catskills.

On the one hand, Dick Cheney should be on trial at The Hague. On the other hand, *even* Dick fricking Cheney recognizes that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy as we know it. This is not a left-right issue.

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Periodic reminder that Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service. Pages 674-5. Gulf Coast, vote accordingly.

Yes please

Perhaps DC Public Library could make it as a tote for the holiday pop-up this year?