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“Any decent society has to be built on trust and love, and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things...to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.” ― Myles Horton
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Scientists warn that the Trump administration's dismantling of climate science in the U.S. will cost lives.
“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Resea...
www.democracynow.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Scientists warn that the Trump administration's dismantling of climate science in the U.S. will cost lives.
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Camps where tens of thousands of politically disfavored people will be concentrated.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Camps where tens of thousands of politically disfavored people will be concentrated.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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"I'm very emotional."
Award-winning immigrant rights' activist Jeanette Vizguerra has finally been released after nearly ten months in ICE detention. We spoke to her the day after her release.
Award-winning immigrant rights' activist Jeanette Vizguerra has finally been released after nearly ten months in ICE detention. We spoke to her the day after her release.
December 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"I'm very emotional."
Award-winning immigrant rights' activist Jeanette Vizguerra has finally been released after nearly ten months in ICE detention. We spoke to her the day after her release.
Award-winning immigrant rights' activist Jeanette Vizguerra has finally been released after nearly ten months in ICE detention. We spoke to her the day after her release.
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Here is a small selection of my favorite books sent to me this year. As you a scrambling for gifts, maybe hit up a local bookstore & pick up one of these. There are lighter reads, heavier reads, a couple cookbooks, the definitive Bruce Lee biography, & even a novel. Or get ‘em from @bookshop.org.
December 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Here is a small selection of my favorite books sent to me this year. As you a scrambling for gifts, maybe hit up a local bookstore & pick up one of these. There are lighter reads, heavier reads, a couple cookbooks, the definitive Bruce Lee biography, & even a novel. Or get ‘em from @bookshop.org.
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legitimately love this guy.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
legitimately love this guy.
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The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.
Remembering Cora Weiss, Longtime Peace & Anti-Nuclear Activist
The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.
www.democracynow.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.
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Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
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This is WILD.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is WILD.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
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“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.
"I know they killed him"
Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3.
I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.
Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3.
I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.
Exclusive: She survived ICE custody; her husband died during detention
Guatemalan widow shared a hug, a tickle and these words with her husband: "Cheer up." It was the last time she saw him alive while they were in ICE custody.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.
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#tdih 1965, students sent home because they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam War.
Four years later, SCOTUS ruled in their favor in Tinker v. Des Moines.
Precedent set by Mississippi case about wearing SNCC voting rights buttons to school.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...
Four years later, SCOTUS ruled in their favor in Tinker v. Des Moines.
Precedent set by Mississippi case about wearing SNCC voting rights buttons to school.
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www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...
Dec. 16, 1965: Students Suspended for Anti-War Armbands
A group of students wore black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban.
www.zinnedproject.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#tdih 1965, students sent home because they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam War.
Four years later, SCOTUS ruled in their favor in Tinker v. Des Moines.
Precedent set by Mississippi case about wearing SNCC voting rights buttons to school.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...
Four years later, SCOTUS ruled in their favor in Tinker v. Des Moines.
Precedent set by Mississippi case about wearing SNCC voting rights buttons to school.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...
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"The woman who took up art at 88..." 🧡 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"The woman who took up art at 88..." 🧡 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Sometimes I think phones have ruined the art of photography. But, on the other hand, without them it’s likely I’d not have this official record of the time I was chased through a wildflower meadow by a small enthusiastic pig.
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Sometimes I think phones have ruined the art of photography. But, on the other hand, without them it’s likely I’d not have this official record of the time I was chased through a wildflower meadow by a small enthusiastic pig.
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"Trump's handling of the economy has him under water with several key groups, including some that are important to his coalition. For example. . . In the suburbs, which are often critical in swing districts, more disapprove by a 60%-33% margin."
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
Trump's economic approval hits a new low at 36%, poll finds
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds 70% of Americans say things have become too unaffordable and have a dim outlook on the economy and President Trump's handling of it.
www.npr.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Trump's handling of the economy has him under water with several key groups, including some that are important to his coalition. For example. . . In the suburbs, which are often critical in swing districts, more disapprove by a 60%-33% margin."
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
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I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.
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'Our land' by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt ##ArtAdvent
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
'Our land' by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt ##ArtAdvent
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Amazing choice made at the Hyatt
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Amazing choice made at the Hyatt
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Cites @hrw.org's report on the torture of the men the US disappeared to CECOT.
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Cites @hrw.org's report on the torture of the men the US disappeared to CECOT.
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"To begin, this inquiry is not some academic exercise. Approximately 137 men were spirited out of this country without a hearing and placed in a high-security prison in El Salvador, where many suffered abuse and possible torture, despite this Court’s order that they should not be disembarked."
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"To begin, this inquiry is not some academic exercise. Approximately 137 men were spirited out of this country without a hearing and placed in a high-security prison in El Salvador, where many suffered abuse and possible torture, despite this Court’s order that they should not be disembarked."
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See the piece below and also this week’s New Yorker podcast with these same three political scientists on the state of American democracy. I continue to learn a lot from them
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
See the piece below and also this week’s New Yorker podcast with these same three political scientists on the state of American democracy. I continue to learn a lot from them
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
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The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
reason.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
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Everyday Americans sitting on grand juries prove to be rational and decent and decent in the face of a broken corrupt cruel regime.
"It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
"It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Everyday Americans sitting on grand juries prove to be rational and decent and decent in the face of a broken corrupt cruel regime.
"It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
"It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
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Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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