Rae of Sun
@stegenrae.bsky.social
Good Human. UU. Humanist. Feminist. Homeschooler. Soccer Mom. Scout Mom. Epilepsy Mom. Autism Mom. Dog Mom. Celiac. Wife. Hiker. Gardener. Learner. ADHD Family of Chaos. Kansas Citian. All-Around Nerd. KC Current & Liverpool Fan. Container of Multitudes
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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.
Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
May 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.
Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
I might have to adapt this curriculum for a teen homeschool class next year!
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I might have to adapt this curriculum for a teen homeschool class next year!
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2nd #KC drive, let us please note that there was NOT a dpi call against #Buf on the pass play to Hollywood Brown. #BUFKC #KCvsEverybody
January 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
2nd #KC drive, let us please note that there was NOT a dpi call against #Buf on the pass play to Hollywood Brown. #BUFKC #KCvsEverybody
KC to Evergy: Everyone Deserves Clean Air! url:https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/Missouri?actionId=AR0370357&fbclid=IwY2xjawICGF5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUJotZ7ol1D_Rk6xpvpVh1YrDJvtavQT0Hz-FHdDVD8jqcF4nfacyhouDQ_aem_Yf1_gRoAJpCx6eLyFpnRwA&page=thanks
January 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
KC to Evergy: Everyone Deserves Clean Air! url:https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/Missouri?actionId=AR0370357&fbclid=IwY2xjawICGF5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUJotZ7ol1D_Rk6xpvpVh1YrDJvtavQT0Hz-FHdDVD8jqcF4nfacyhouDQ_aem_Yf1_gRoAJpCx6eLyFpnRwA&page=thanks
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My friend and Pulitzer Prize winning colleague Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post in protest of the killing of a proposed cartoon criticizing the publisher and his billionaire buds. Here's my tribute to Ann.
January 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My friend and Pulitzer Prize winning colleague Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post in protest of the killing of a proposed cartoon criticizing the publisher and his billionaire buds. Here's my tribute to Ann.
Kind of... Yeah. 🤷🏼♀️👍🏼
December 1, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Kind of... Yeah. 🤷🏼♀️👍🏼
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This moment in Bluesky is a great example of how joy itself can be defiance and resistance.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
November 24, 2024 at 10:34 PM
This moment in Bluesky is a great example of how joy itself can be defiance and resistance.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
An awesome & cheap way to battle honeysuckle! 🧑🏼🌾
How to control honeysuckle without herbicides
University of Cincinnati botanist Denis Conover shares advice about how to eradicate invasive Amur honeysuckle without herbicides.
www.uc.edu
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 PM
An awesome & cheap way to battle honeysuckle! 🧑🏼🌾
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I know BlueSky is on to something because all the worst people you know are raging against it
November 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM
I know BlueSky is on to something because all the worst people you know are raging against it
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NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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November 22, 2024 at 2:07 PM
My 9y son's seizures are primarily nocturnal myoclonic and clonic. I believe they usually lead into focal aware seizures before subsiding. <-- That type hasn't been caught on EEG yet.
Needless to say, he's exhausted much of the time but often afraid to go to sleep. 💔💜
Needless to say, he's exhausted much of the time but often afraid to go to sleep. 💔💜
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
My 9y son's seizures are primarily nocturnal myoclonic and clonic. I believe they usually lead into focal aware seizures before subsiding. <-- That type hasn't been caught on EEG yet.
Needless to say, he's exhausted much of the time but often afraid to go to sleep. 💔💜
Needless to say, he's exhausted much of the time but often afraid to go to sleep. 💔💜
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Leak the report. Pass it on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Leak the report. Pass it on.
#kc friends, remember the "officer involved shooting during a domestic violence call in Independence" a couple of weeks ago?
Have you also been wondering why that story faded from the headlines, and why we haven't heard another peep about it??
#endqualifiedimmunity
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Have you also been wondering why that story faded from the headlines, and why we haven't heard another peep about it??
#endqualifiedimmunity
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Incredible reporting by the @kcdefender.bsky.social on one of the worst cases of police murders you’ll read about. Police shoot 2yr old in the head in response to domestic dispute and it appears a full cover-up is underway kansascitydefender.com/justice/inde...
Independence Police Slaughter Mother & 2-Month Old Infant in Botched Domestic Dispute Call
Independence police recklessly kill Maria Pike and shot her 2-month-old infant Destiny Hope in the head. Community demands justice & for police to "stop the coverup"
kansascitydefender.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:38 AM
#kc friends, remember the "officer involved shooting during a domestic violence call in Independence" a couple of weeks ago?
Have you also been wondering why that story faded from the headlines, and why we haven't heard another peep about it??
#endqualifiedimmunity
😢🤬
Have you also been wondering why that story faded from the headlines, and why we haven't heard another peep about it??
#endqualifiedimmunity
😢🤬
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This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
November 21, 2024 at 11:16 PM
This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
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"If and when Trump asks for 'enemies from within,' please mention me. I would rather be rounded up at the beginning of the persecution than silently survive."
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‘I’d Rather Be Persecuted Than Silent’: Rockhurst Fires Teacher for Standing With the Oppressed & Resisting Fascism
James Gillcrist, a professor arrested during the 2020 George Floyd uprisings, was fired from Rockhurst High School for speaking out against Trump’s fascist agenda. His open letter is a fiery call to a...
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November 21, 2024 at 1:30 AM
"If and when Trump asks for 'enemies from within,' please mention me. I would rather be rounded up at the beginning of the persecution than silently survive."
kansascitydefender.com/education/ro...
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Jesuit High School theology and ethics teacher fired for teaching theology and ethics.
Rockhurst High School is a (loaded$) Jesuit prep school here in Kansas City MO
Jesuit High School theology and ethics teacher fired for teaching theology and ethics.
Rockhurst High School is a (loaded$) Jesuit prep school here in Kansas City MO
‘I’d Rather Be Persecuted Than Silent’: Rockhurst Fires Teacher for Standing With the Oppressed & Resisting Fascism
James Gillcrist, a professor arrested during the 2020 George Floyd uprisings, was fired from Rockhurst High School for speaking out against Trump’s fascist agenda. His open letter is a fiery call to a...
kansascitydefender.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
kansascitydefender.com/education/ro...
Jesuit High School theology and ethics teacher fired for teaching theology and ethics.
Rockhurst High School is a (loaded$) Jesuit prep school here in Kansas City MO
Jesuit High School theology and ethics teacher fired for teaching theology and ethics.
Rockhurst High School is a (loaded$) Jesuit prep school here in Kansas City MO
This right here.
November 21, 2024 at 9:58 PM
This right here.
When you look at the rhetoric and actions surrounding elections and government from 1892-1965 in the former Confederate States, you start to see some chilling parallels.
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 3:32 PM
When you look at the rhetoric and actions surrounding elections and government from 1892-1965 in the former Confederate States, you start to see some chilling parallels.
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Flashback post.
November 19, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Flashback post.