Chas490

@chas490.bsky.social

Retired. Moderate Dem from super red Indiana (arggg!). Like music, nature, gardening, IU basketball and football. I don't respond to DMs

Columbia Journalism School just announced that former '60 Minutes' correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley have been appointed Journalists in Residence for the 2026–27 academic year.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Hey, get in line behind *millions* of people, including Native Americans driven from their land and slaughtered, kidnapped Africans who were enslaved and lynched, women treated like property, LGBTQ people demeaned and treated like they didn’t matter, you crybaby, self-indulgent loser.

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‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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“We’re sorry, we let the intern use AI to make this and nobody checked their work before presenting it to serious people from around the world. Who knew AI would create an alternate universe map and get literally everything on the slide wrong? Why do you all have your hands up?”

"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou

A farm worker who is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves sleeves, and a hoodie to protect herself against the lemon thorns and the sun

I worked in the Coachella school district as a speech pathologist. These people are the salt of the earth. They work 100% harder to take care of their kids and put food on the table than everybody in this administration.

Navalny, in prison: “I don’t for a second regret it… the only thing we should fear is we’ll surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves & hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.”

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US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

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