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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

learner, listener, writer, reader, farmer's daughter, daydream believer Appleton, WI Joined March 2008
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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

2 months ago

Phone free schools cause --increased laughter in hallways --very loud lunchrooms --increases in books checked out of school library

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Karen Vaites @karenvaites

2 months ago

One year into cell phone bans, Dallas schools see 24% increase in library book checkouts. 👏👏👏 "Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts. Dallas ISD

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

2 months ago

@LindseyGrahamSC @SenKatieBritt @SenEricSchmitt @WhiteHouse I thought the number one job of any government is to take care of its people.

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Kelly Kasulis Cho @KasulisK

5 months ago

It’s a sad day for journalism & a sad day for me. 14 years into my career & I was just laid off from @washingtonpost along w/ the whole Seoul office. I have given this profession my all. Luckily, I have more to give. Hire me— you won’t regret it! Kekasulis at gmail dot com 🙏🏻

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Aaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis

5 months ago

I often refrain from saying anything here that I’ve already seen posted or reposted by someone else. So while I was tempted yesterday to say it was the worst day of my nearly 18 years at The Post, it had already been said - and said well by many others. But today, for the record, since there is not one mention of it in the print edition delivered to my home in the nation’s capital: leaders at The Washington Post yesterday laid off 300 journalists. They closed bureaus around the globe, leaving fewer eyes on vital power centers and hostile regimes. They vastly shrunk our ability to cover the District of Columbia and the surrounding area. They abandoned the coverage of sports teams central to the region’s identity and at a time when upheaval and online sports gambling has become pervasive. They fired a stunning number of talented colleagues who make sense of the world around us in technology, business, education, climate, health and more. They fired journalists who take and select photos, edit video, produce audio, sketch graphics and who conceive and create other forms of digital story telling. They fired Pulitzer winning investigative reporters who spent the last year writing about the growing political influence of billionaires and dedicated editors and unsung heroes who every day save our copy from errors. It was, by any metric, a Washington Post-worthy news story, a story of gross corporate fiscal mismanagement, of a loss of independent media - of the buckling, critics would say; “restructuring,”  Post leaders would say - of an American institution. In the newsroom, there are goodbyes to come for so many journalists I’ve been proud to call colleagues. Sadly, it was not a one-day story, readers will soon see.

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

5 months ago

@chicoharlan So sorry. I'm a subscriber and former journalist and am just devastated today.

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Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25

5 months ago

The Washington Post, The East Wing of the White House, The Kennedy Center, The NIH…. A lot of institutions getting burned to ground that likely won’t come back.

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

5 months ago

@BenMullin I was in that position twice in my news career. Denied and unable to get the severance everyone who was laid off received. Denied and forced to carry on and did. It's not a living, it's a calling. Now I have a job. It's not journalism, but it's not heartbreaking either.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

5 months ago

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5 @JeffBezos

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(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman

5 months ago

Detail from inside the gutting of the Washington Post: 300 journalists or so will be fired this AM at 8:30 AM (right now…). They’ll be cut off from newsroom computer access at 9 AM. Word got out about this yesterday afternoon. Dozens of reporters & journalists worked late last night & early this AM to finish stories they had in process before being shut out. That’s who works at the Post. No surprise. One last story. — 30 —

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

5 months ago

@GwynnieTheP00 @rokajoska @DiscussingFilm 💯I was in tears!

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

7 months ago

@sciencegirl Trumpism

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

11 months ago

@IdeasFactory009 @thejobchick This seems criminal. Stealing your time and work.

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

11 months ago

@mitchellvii Not the point, really.

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

a year ago

@rtjr @northsidenotch So by this logic, they have nothing to lose now. Should be taking chances and studying up to prove people wrong. I mean, we beat the Yankees in spring training and looked not bad. Underdogs they are always, but they have heart.

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

a year ago

@SuryaGanguli @desailabcwru @NIH THIS. So ridiculous.☝️

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Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom

a year ago

This is a serious escalation of Trump's anti-constitutional behavior, but one he warned he'd do.

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

a year ago

"The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned, citing what she described as an improper demand by officials appointed by President Trump's administration to launch a criminal probe." ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-prose…

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Sara Snyder @practicalgal

a year ago

@RepTonyWied Not if Elon Musk has anything to do with it. He is sure to cut off needed funding considering it wasteful. Be the one to make sure he doesn't.

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Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom

a year ago

Read/copy/repost if you can From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

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Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep

2 years ago

Well, I guess the consequences of this election are already being felt. A story about Trump voters in Pennsylvania. The owner of a large company called a meeting for all his employees. He informed them that they won't be getting their Christmas bonuses this year. He explained that the company has to buy a year's worth of product before the Trump's tariffs hit in January. They said they thought the tariffs were paid by the foreign companies. He then explained to his employees that the tariffs are paid by the American companies who import these foreign goods. Sometimes, you get exactly what you vote for.

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