Lorie Barber 🚫👑
@barberchicago.bsky.social
Board Member, Woodridge School District 68 | School/Bulk Order Manager, The Silver Unicorn Bookstore 🦄 | Co-founder, LITapalooza | Books in kids’ hands always and forever. ❤️📚
And by new demands, they mean AI.
Americans nationwide are getting sticker shock when they open their electricity bills.
But the driver of those higher prices isn’t necessarily the cost of electricity, itself. Instead, aging grids and new demand are racking up fees for replacing and updating infrastructure. https://cnn.it/3Mfg6GR
But the driver of those higher prices isn’t necessarily the cost of electricity, itself. Instead, aging grids and new demand are racking up fees for replacing and updating infrastructure. https://cnn.it/3Mfg6GR
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
And by new demands, they mean AI.
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Since President Trump's second inauguration, the number of local police departments agreeing to coordinate with ICE has grown by more than 600%.
Deputizing police to be deportation agents doesn't make us safer. Communities nationwide are fighting back.
Deputizing police to be deportation agents doesn't make us safer. Communities nationwide are fighting back.
Why local police officers are helping Trump with ICE raids
Trump has placed a huge bet that thousands of local cops can help.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Since President Trump's second inauguration, the number of local police departments agreeing to coordinate with ICE has grown by more than 600%.
Deputizing police to be deportation agents doesn't make us safer. Communities nationwide are fighting back.
Deputizing police to be deportation agents doesn't make us safer. Communities nationwide are fighting back.
Does anyone have good news u would like to share? I would like to read little nuggets of good so please RT with something that made u happy recently
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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More than 100 children affected by immigration enforcement in the Chicago-area will be receiving gifts this holiday season as part of a community gift-giving effort.
Operation Midway Bliss redefines blitz with gift drive for families affected by immigration enforcement
More than 100 children affected by immigration enforcement in the Chicago-area will be receiving gifts this holiday season as part of a community gift-giving effort.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
More than 100 children affected by immigration enforcement in the Chicago-area will be receiving gifts this holiday season as part of a community gift-giving effort.
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Since Nov. 5, Trump has removed tariffs for several goods imported from at least 7 countries. It seems like he's rushing to close trade deals in case the administration’s tariffs leverage is taken off the table by SCOTUS talkingpointsmemo.com/news/it-sure...
It Sure Looks Like the Trump Admin Is Prepping for SCOTUS To Demolish Its Tariff Policy
President Donald Trump’s foreign trade policy has been marked by contradiction from...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Since Nov. 5, Trump has removed tariffs for several goods imported from at least 7 countries. It seems like he's rushing to close trade deals in case the administration’s tariffs leverage is taken off the table by SCOTUS talkingpointsmemo.com/news/it-sure...
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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time.com/7335723/auto...
I just…
*screams into the void*
*screams into the void*
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I just…
*screams into the void*
*screams into the void*
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Commentary: I’m a teacher in an American school who is inundated by AI-generated work masquerading as human thought. But I still go to work.
Adam Patric Miller: As a teacher, I’m seeing the death of American education
I’m a teacher in an American school who is inundated by AI-generated work masquerading as human thought. But I still go to work.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Commentary: I’m a teacher in an American school who is inundated by AI-generated work masquerading as human thought. But I still go to work.
You’ll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You’ll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
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A harbinger of what’s to come for K-12 schools if it is infiltrated by AI. Fake teachers grading fake work and accusing student work of being fake while faking their work— all in service of billionaires and their profit and political goals.
"Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A harbinger of what’s to come for K-12 schools if it is infiltrated by AI. Fake teachers grading fake work and accusing student work of being fake while faking their work— all in service of billionaires and their profit and political goals.
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Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today. n.pr/4ohnG12
In a new book, Rep. Jim Clyburn highlights the Black politicians who paved the way for him
Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today. n.pr/4ohnG12
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Remember when Trump’s sons announced a made-in-the-USA smartphone and a new wireless service, Trump Mobile?
Three months later, the phone’s ship date keeps getting delayed with no explanation — although the company continues to collect $100 deposits.
The grift never ends.
Three months later, the phone’s ship date keeps getting delayed with no explanation — although the company continues to collect $100 deposits.
The grift never ends.
The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Remember when Trump’s sons announced a made-in-the-USA smartphone and a new wireless service, Trump Mobile?
Three months later, the phone’s ship date keeps getting delayed with no explanation — although the company continues to collect $100 deposits.
The grift never ends.
Three months later, the phone’s ship date keeps getting delayed with no explanation — although the company continues to collect $100 deposits.
The grift never ends.
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heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
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People think tyrants rage because they're strong.
But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.
Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.
~ Bruce Fanger ~
But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.
Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.
~ Bruce Fanger ~
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
People think tyrants rage because they're strong.
But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.
Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.
~ Bruce Fanger ~
But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.
Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.
Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.
Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.
~ Bruce Fanger ~
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Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.
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Larry Summers is immediately stepping back from his teaching duties at Harvard as the school investigates his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Larry Summers to step back from teaching and Harvard Kennedy School post as university investigates ties to Epstein - The Boston Globe
Summers is also going on leave from his role as director of the Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
trib.al
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Larry Summers is immediately stepping back from his teaching duties at Harvard as the school investigates his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Brilliant and heartbreaking and a tremendous read.
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Brilliant and heartbreaking and a tremendous read.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
“A little solidarity would go a long way—but it would also threaten the proximity to power.”
THIS PART.
THIS PART.
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“A little solidarity would go a long way—but it would also threaten the proximity to power.”
THIS PART.
THIS PART.
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Trump now losing gerrymandering war he started:
-federal court blocks Texas gerrymander
-California passes prop 50
-Utah court creates new Dem district
-VA begins new map process
-Indiana, Kansas scrap redistricting effort
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
-federal court blocks Texas gerrymander
-California passes prop 50
-Utah court creates new Dem district
-VA begins new map process
-Indiana, Kansas scrap redistricting effort
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A Trump-appointed judge just blocked Trump’s Texas gerrymander
Trump could lose the redistricting war he started.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"“Elections have consequences.”
That's what West Shore School Board [PA] Chair Kelly Brent said after the board tabled three policies — including a restrictive book policy and an anti-LGBTQ+ bathroom policy — that had been priorities of the outgoing far-right majority."
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That's what West Shore School Board [PA] Chair Kelly Brent said after the board tabled three policies — including a restrictive book policy and an anti-LGBTQ+ bathroom policy — that had been priorities of the outgoing far-right majority."
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November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"“Elections have consequences.”
That's what West Shore School Board [PA] Chair Kelly Brent said after the board tabled three policies — including a restrictive book policy and an anti-LGBTQ+ bathroom policy — that had been priorities of the outgoing far-right majority."
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That's what West Shore School Board [PA] Chair Kelly Brent said after the board tabled three policies — including a restrictive book policy and an anti-LGBTQ+ bathroom policy — that had been priorities of the outgoing far-right majority."
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Trump has more threats for Republicans who don’t want to rig the midterms for him.
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump has more threats for Republicans who don’t want to rig the midterms for him.