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It's been a while since I've last checked in and so much has happened. Sharing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's wonderful piece on the #UCLA #Trump showdown #highered kareem.substack.com/i/168780238/...
The Attack on UCLA Will Have Devastating Consequences on Americans
August 15, 2025
kareem.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Listen to #NYC #teens on #public #education issues, especially at the end. #kids needing to #teach themselves is a REAL PROBLEM I've met #college #students who needed to teach themselves algebra to pass the regents because their #HS could not keep a math teacher www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Voting age, disengaged: NYC’s youth and the mayoral ballot
NYC youth: Are you ready for the 2025 mayoral election? Tune in to the season finale of P.S. Weekly for unfiltered candidate takes, key issues, and how to make your voice heard.
www.chalkbeat.org
June 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Last weeks to see #American #painter Harry Willson Watrous #painting The Drop Sinister at the #MorganLibrary in #NYC before it returns to the Portland #Museum #race #racism
April 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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As we leave you tonight, we are energized to see pushback working. We will remain vigilant.

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
www.statnews.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.
April 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
April 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state may be you."
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state…
www.democracynow.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban!

It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare!

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You'll want to read this one.
Ohio Appeals Court Rules Trans Care Is Healthcare, Strikes Down Ban For Trans Youth
The ruling was in part based on a 2011 Amendment in the state guaranteeing healthcare freedom, originally meant to challenge Obamacare.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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1. Yesterday, ten Democrats capitulated on an Republican budget, empowering the worst of Musk and Trump, and gutting medicaid.

It is a foreshadowing of LGBTQ+ and trans fights to come.

I ask: Where is the line which Dems will NOT vote for one of these bills?

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Where Is The Line? Democratic Budget Capitulation Foreshadows LGBTQ+ Fights To Come
Yesterday, several Democrats excused a vote that will allow the Trump administration to gut Medicaid and empower Musk and Trump to consolidate power.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Join me in Portland OR for Halloween! Please check out the CFP Crafters of Laughter: Innovation in Early Modern Comic Imagery, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Portland, OR, Oct 30-Nov 1 2025

Full CFP here: bit.ly/4kPKG6C

Salvator Rosa's drawing of a Witches Sabbath to inspire you
March 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM