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...

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.

“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...

Juxtaposition 🎅🏼

"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

Air pollution likely killed millions of Indians over a decade, study finds
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film "Surveilled"

California Thanksgiving 🌊✨❤️🎄

"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 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?

www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/...

#JennyHolzer #conceptualart #criticalthinking

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.

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...

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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:

The fall of the Roman Empire but very stupid and everyone has phones.