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The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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After centuries of speculation, archaeologists in Peru have confirmed the existence of an underground tunnel network, thought to have been built by the Incas.

The groundbreaking discovery was found over a mile of the network of streets, underneath the historic city of Cusco near Machu Picchu.
Hidden underground tunnel system built by Incas found beneath Cusco
Tunnels mentioned historical accounts in in the sixteenth century
www.independent.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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“As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement on Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.” It’s GLOBAL WARMING, not just “climate change.” Pls get it right

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/c...
The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Juxtaposition 🎅🏼
A front page for the ages.
December 24, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
December 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Air pollution likely killed millions of Indians over a decade, study finds
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Air pollution likely killed millions of Indians over a decade, study finds
Some 3.8 million deaths from 2009 to 2019 can be linked to air pollution levels staying above national air quality guidelines
www.independent.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film "Surveilled"
A Spy in Your Pocket? Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled”
We look at the world of high-tech surveillance with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O’Neill about their new HBO documentary Surveilled, which is now available for...
www.democracynow.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:45 PM
California Thanksgiving 🌊✨❤️🎄
November 28, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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"The more easily understood and the less challenging your message, the wider your appeal will be so an age that amplifies the most popular information, as we do now, will be an age of demagogues." Heather Marsh explaining stigmergy, democracy & Trump in 2017.

georgiebc.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/t...
The evolution of democracy
Transcript (more or less) from The evolution of democracy: Explaining Trump, Brexit and the Colombia peace deal, a keynote to launch the Inteligencia Colectiva para la Democracia in Madrid, Novembe…
georgiebc.wordpress.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:05 PM
The nation’s first religious school entirely funded by taxpayers…

Doesn’t the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prevent public schools from promoting or establishing any religion, ensuring that public institutions remain neutral and separate from religion?
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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OK is ranked 48th in the nation in public education, yet the Superintendent purchased 500 Trump Bibles for classrooms. White evangelicals will bring about the downfall of America.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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The regressive Taliban regime has imposed a new ban preventing women from "hearing the voices" of other women, marking yet another assault on fundamental human rights. #opDeatheaters #Afghanistan

observerdiplomat.com/taliban-bans...
Taliban forbids women from 'hearing each others voices' - Observer Diplomat
The Taliban's latest decree forbids "hearing voices" between women in Afghanistan, marking an unprecedented restriction on basic human interaction
observerdiplomat.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Hermosa Beach, CA
November 17, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Charles Schulz on Being a Good Citizen

In 1970 as part of a class project, 10-year-old Joel Linton wrote to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz to ask him, “What do you think makes a good citizen?” Schulz replied with this letter:
November 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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The fall of the Roman Empire but very stupid and everyone has phones.
November 13, 2024 at 2:53 AM
November 12, 2024 at 6:53 PM