@sldarrow.bsky.social
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NEW: Illinois lawmakers ban schools from using police to ticket and fine students for minor misbehavior. This does not happen without the amazing reporting from @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social of @propublica.org and @chicagotribune.com.
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School
The legislation comes after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to i...
www.propublica.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
NEW: Illinois lawmakers ban schools from using police to ticket and fine students for minor misbehavior. This does not happen without the amazing reporting from @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social of @propublica.org and @chicagotribune.com.
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
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President Trump's pause on infrastructure funding won't just negatively impact our roads and highways, it will devastate our neighborhoods.
Trump’s Infrastructure Funding Pause Impacts More than Highways
America’s infrastructure is crumbling beneath our feet. We must reorient our thinking, writes Deborah N. Archer.
time.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
President Trump's pause on infrastructure funding won't just negatively impact our roads and highways, it will devastate our neighborhoods.
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"To conflate Jews with the state is very dangerous, and what it ends up doing, in a really perverse way, is it dehumanizes Palestinians. "
Has Zionism Become an Idol?
In his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, Peter Beinart argues that worshipping the state of Israel elevates Jews over Palestinians.
sojo.net
April 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"To conflate Jews with the state is very dangerous, and what it ends up doing, in a really perverse way, is it dehumanizes Palestinians. "
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🏳️⚧️ "As a young person, I learned that to be trans was to be lonely, to be excluded, to be unhappy. As a trans adult I learned that I had been lied to."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/they-said-we-couldnt-have-it-but-trans-joy-is-our-reality/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/they-said-we-couldnt-have-it-but-trans-joy-is-our-reality/
They said we couldn't have it - but trans joy is our reality
Being trans is brilliant. It is joyful, wondrous, loving - and they can't take that away from us.
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🏳️⚧️ "As a young person, I learned that to be trans was to be lonely, to be excluded, to be unhappy. As a trans adult I learned that I had been lied to."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/they-said-we-couldnt-have-it-but-trans-joy-is-our-reality/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/they-said-we-couldnt-have-it-but-trans-joy-is-our-reality/
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Jewish Academics & Holocaust Scholars stand beside Professors Cemal Kafadar & Rosie Bsheer; Denounce Harvard for legimitizing Trump's "cynical weaponization of antisemitism."
Read the full statement: app.box.com/s/yxg6i0hs89...
Read the full statement: app.box.com/s/yxg6i0hs89...
April 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Jewish Academics & Holocaust Scholars stand beside Professors Cemal Kafadar & Rosie Bsheer; Denounce Harvard for legimitizing Trump's "cynical weaponization of antisemitism."
Read the full statement: app.box.com/s/yxg6i0hs89...
Read the full statement: app.box.com/s/yxg6i0hs89...
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I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
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Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:
March 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:
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If you are keen on media literacy and understanding exactly how propaganda is being deployed to destroy democracy the world over this pod is a must listen!
On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social...
I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine.
@beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley
Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.
I speak with @willoremus.com about Musk's propaganda machine.
@beccalew.bsky.social discusses the authoritarian roots of Silicon Valley
Brooke interviews @elysegraham.bsky.social about how scholars and librarians helped win World War II.
February 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you are keen on media literacy and understanding exactly how propaganda is being deployed to destroy democracy the world over this pod is a must listen!
Like MH says
It’s amazing to me that people still question whether or not Trump is a stooge for Putin.
US objects to calling out ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 statement on Ukraine
Trump administration splits with allies on holding Moscow responsible for war
www.ft.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Like MH says
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I feel like im screaming into a void whenever I try to encourage ppl to mask in crowded spaces but like…Can we care about each other a lil??? please??? Masking up inside of a cramped ass, flying germ infested tube is a VERY easy way to keep yourself and ur community safe! Plz consider! 😩🤲🏾
Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!
February 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I feel like im screaming into a void whenever I try to encourage ppl to mask in crowded spaces but like…Can we care about each other a lil??? please??? Masking up inside of a cramped ass, flying germ infested tube is a VERY easy way to keep yourself and ur community safe! Plz consider! 😩🤲🏾
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Tons of news headlines on Trump wanting to "take over" Gaza, that its people would have to "relocate" so the US will have an “ownership position," but somehow not one of them saying EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND A WAR CRIME.
February 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Tons of news headlines on Trump wanting to "take over" Gaza, that its people would have to "relocate" so the US will have an “ownership position," but somehow not one of them saying EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND A WAR CRIME.
I’m with you Jen Rubin
MERITOCRACY my ass. DEI for White, incompetent, ethically compromised men: contrarian.substack.com/p/the-greate...
The Greatest DEI Disaster Ever
Democratic Senators--especially the women--shed a glaring light on a sketchy, uninformed nominee who has no business lording over the Pentagon
contrarian.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I’m with you Jen Rubin
Bishop Budde does the work
January 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Bishop Budde does the work
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⚡ KFF’s @sartiga.bsky.social writes about the likely health-related impacts of President Trump’s recent immigration policy changes. #QuickTake on.kff.org/4hrREfN
January 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
⚡ KFF’s @sartiga.bsky.social writes about the likely health-related impacts of President Trump’s recent immigration policy changes. #QuickTake on.kff.org/4hrREfN
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We should be banning NDAs not books. Until we greatly limit the use of NDAs, powerful people will continue to use them as a weapon of silence -- leveraging their power to cover up wrongdoing. Protecting trade secrets is one thing, covering up bad behavior is another
#WomeinSTEM #WomeninTech
#WomeinSTEM #WomeninTech
a penguin is holding a hammer next to a button that says ban
ALT: a penguin is holding a hammer next to a button that says ban
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We should be banning NDAs not books. Until we greatly limit the use of NDAs, powerful people will continue to use them as a weapon of silence -- leveraging their power to cover up wrongdoing. Protecting trade secrets is one thing, covering up bad behavior is another
#WomeinSTEM #WomeninTech
#WomeinSTEM #WomeninTech
Coming to a blue city near you?
And off we go… pix11.com/news/local-n...
‘Newark will not stand by idly’: Mayor responds after ICE raid
NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — An establishment in Newark was raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Thursday, according to Mayor Ras Baraka. The raid comes after President Dona…
pix11.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Coming to a blue city near you?
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What the far right is building is global apartheid, just so you know.
January 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What the far right is building is global apartheid, just so you know.
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America used to tolerate such conditions, which the pre-civil war Supreme Court affirmed in its notorious Dred Scott ruling, which found that African Americans literally could not be citizens, and had no rights a white man needed to respect. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford; 3/6/1857; Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v. John F. A. Sandford; Appellate Jurisdiction Case ...
www.archives.gov
January 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
America used to tolerate such conditions, which the pre-civil war Supreme Court affirmed in its notorious Dred Scott ruling, which found that African Americans literally could not be citizens, and had no rights a white man needed to respect. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
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You might want to read the 14th Amendment. The Leonard Leo majority on the Supreme Court invalidated Section 3 and now Trump is seeking to nuke Section One… constitution.congress.gov/constitution...
constitution.congress.gov
January 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
You might want to read the 14th Amendment. The Leonard Leo majority on the Supreme Court invalidated Section 3 and now Trump is seeking to nuke Section One… constitution.congress.gov/constitution...
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This is Donald Trump’s vision of America: Parents arrested by ICE picking up their kids from school, community members targeted coming out of church.
It’s cruel and does nothing to make us safer.
It’s cruel and does nothing to make us safer.
Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches
Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests ...
apnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is Donald Trump’s vision of America: Parents arrested by ICE picking up their kids from school, community members targeted coming out of church.
It’s cruel and does nothing to make us safer.
It’s cruel and does nothing to make us safer.
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Good morning party people! I found us another list of indie bookstores to support! 🥳🥳There’s sublists in here for Black owned, Latinx owned, Indigenous owned, Disabled owned, LGBTQ+ owned etc etc! Check it out 💙📚 🤓
Diverse-Owned Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
Note: Updated January 2024. By Fin Leary If you’re shopping for books to give as end-of-year or even as thank-goodness-2020-is-over gifts, consider shopping small and give back to an independ…
diversebooks.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Good morning party people! I found us another list of indie bookstores to support! 🥳🥳There’s sublists in here for Black owned, Latinx owned, Indigenous owned, Disabled owned, LGBTQ+ owned etc etc! Check it out 💙📚 🤓
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This was reported. A lot. Not just by @motherjones.com etc, but by the biggest outlets. The bigger question is: why didn’t people see/believe/care about that reporting.
Stop blaming reporting entities for information ecosystem issues outside of their control.
Also…subscribe to some stuff ffs.
Stop blaming reporting entities for information ecosystem issues outside of their control.
Also…subscribe to some stuff ffs.
project 2025 is probably the media's single largest failure I think. there's a lot of grey areas and you can't please everyone, but it is factually true that they are doing large parts of it, people said they were going to do this, they lied about not doing it, and that could have been reported.
January 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This was reported. A lot. Not just by @motherjones.com etc, but by the biggest outlets. The bigger question is: why didn’t people see/believe/care about that reporting.
Stop blaming reporting entities for information ecosystem issues outside of their control.
Also…subscribe to some stuff ffs.
Stop blaming reporting entities for information ecosystem issues outside of their control.
Also…subscribe to some stuff ffs.