Former Director, Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, University of Pittsburgh. Professional resources, personal perspectives

Joined May 2015
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What is on fire in Washington DC, visible from the airport? (DCA)
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Laura Roop retweeted
Israel is not our ally. They're a foreign government that has stolen our nuclear secrets, nuclear triggers and uranium. And they built weapons of mass destruction with them. They also stole our most sensitive intelligence through Jonathan Pollard. They have robbed us of $320 billion. They made us waste $8 trillion fighting their wars in the Middle East. The way they pulled off these heists is by legally bribing almost our entire Congress and being the top donor to presidents from both parties. Their co-conspirators are the national media who cover up all these crimes and pretend that Israel is an innocent victim who desperately needs our help. When they are the exact opposite. They are an aggressive empire that takes our money and military and uses it to attack their neighbors and take their land. We have to stop this inflitration of our country by a foreign nation that has taken control of the power structure in Washington. We are occupied.
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In other words, when Altman, Musk, Andreessen and others attempted to sell everyone on a world without work and abundant wealth created by AI controlled robotics, everyone freaked out. Now Altman is going to push another fantasy that there will be additional jobs that are created that apparently will not be affected by the long-planned post-work world these cultists are creating. What you should realize at this point is that none of these utopian wizards should be in charge of your (our) future.
JUST IN: Sam Altman says AI probably won’t trigger the “jobs apocalypse” he once predicted.
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The Holy Spirit challenges us today regarding our relationship with technology and the ongoing digital revolution. Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it can also divide, exclude and generate new forms of injustice. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Pope Leo XIV’s address in English at the publication of his Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Do listen to all of it. It is very good.
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#BREAKING: Laurie Garrett: “Can I add one very important set of data points? In 2024, our USAID commitment to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was more than a BILLION dollars. Last year, brace yourself, $67 million. Nearly every single hospital, clinic, pharmacy in all of DRC was wholly or partially dependent on USAID & HHS support to maintain supplies and to deliver what people needed, and that’s GONE. Pharmacies are empty, stores are empty, the clinics are gone…so even if you didn’t have #Ebola, according to humanitarian organizations…300,000 MORE people have DIED in the DRC since USAID was cut, 300,000.”😢
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Absolute disaster for the Pentagon. Rep. Betty McCollum exposes how the Trump administration has completely lost track of a staggering one trillion dollars. She reveals massive financial black holes, confirming the Army and Navy are literally missing billions in funding.
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Massive bombshell. Top Senator Coons exposes the Trump administration for secretly diverting European military donations directly into their own Pentagon accounts. He confirms Washington hasn't spent a single dime of the allocated funds, completely betraying allies.
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Laura Roop retweeted
In 2020 in Detroit, Trump supporters — banging on windows and hurling insults and provocations — tried to storm the room where Detroit’s absentee ballots were processed and counted by mostly Black women. So, when @MikeRogersForMI says this last month👇👇👇 ‘You know what, let's put police officers — retired or off-duty police officers— as our poll watchers in Detroit.' Because, go ahead: Try to intimidate them. Please." "Because they're very good about intimidating our Republican poll watchers. Remember when they put paper over all the windows?" When Mike Rogers says this👆👆👆 who are the “they” whom he alleges “intimidated” Republican poll watchers with *checks notes* paper? Never mind that a Republican-led oversight hearing in the Michigan Senate (and hundreds of other audits) declared that the 2020 vote was accurate. Why is Mike Rogers prepping another campaign to discredit Detroit’s poll workers? Here’s the scene from the poll workers POV👇
Insider: @MikeRogersForMI wants cops to monitor Detroit election workers for GOP @DetroitChamber poll reveals early 2028 presidential frontrunners in Michigan Teachers unions, school groups oppose Trump tax credit Endorsement watch: @AbdulElSayed gets nurses, @HaleyforMI wins over key trade union Tweet of the Week: @PeterMeijer detroitnews.com/story/news/p… via @nannburke @CraigDMauger @detroitnews
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NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly. 1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting. No fertilizer. No crops. No food. Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025. 160,000 farms closed since 2017. Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year. They're not struggling. They're being wiped out. And the media is busy covering everything else. The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨
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Replying to @PaulRudnickNY
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You will not see @CNN or @MSNOWNews covering this. The @BBC is doing their job. This should be a lead story on all US networks.
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency bbc.in/4tkKWyi
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Laura Roop retweeted
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

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Is anyone talking about the MATERNITY HOSPITAL Israel hit in Lebanon with over 300 casualties? Or are we all just immune to it yet?
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Please, if you do not live in Ireland, keep sharing posts about the situation on the ground. The Irish Government have deployed the Military to break up protests today, and they might “temporarily” shut down the Internet to stop footage from getting out. It’s getting bad. 🙏
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America is now on the clock. We have two weeks to remove Donald Trump from office through the 25th Amendment or impeachment. Not saying that will happen, only saying that a nation with even a shred of decency would get to work on it immediately.
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Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment
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25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.
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It’s a war crime to bomb schools, power plants and bridges.
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🚨BREAKING: Lawrence O'Donnell looked America in the eye tonight and said on live TV what many are thinking about Donald Trump's profane, perverse, filthy outburst on Easter Sunday to commit war crimes. "The 25th Amendment was written for yesterday at 8:03am."
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