crazyplatypus.bsky.social
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We are 49th in the nation for starting teacher pay but they found 50 million to send to private religious schools…

missouriindependent.com/2025/05/08/m...
Missouri budget negotiators agree to spend $50 million on private school scholarship program • Missouri Independent
After a sharp, brief fight in which Democrats were outnumbered by majority Republicans, Missouri budget negotiators agreed to spend $50 million to expand the MOScholars program.
missouriindependent.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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When you finally find out
May 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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This is a spectacular display of incompetence.
May 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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May 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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some people go on vacations to sightsee and go on beautiful hikes but nancy mace flies around the country looking at bathrooms
May 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future.

And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.
May 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Elon Musk doing fascist Erdogan's bidding has banned / censored popular opposition candidate @ekremimamoglu.com's account inside of Turkey.

Freedom of speech for some, suppression for everyone else.
May 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record.

Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history.
 
Today, we’re seeing the results.
May 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Breaking News: Toyota said U.S. tariffs would cost it $1.3 billion in profits for April and May, and leave the auto industry “in extreme flux.”
Toyota Says Tariffs Will Erase $1.3 Billion in Profits in Just 2 Months
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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May 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The corruption is staggering. So brazen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
May 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Resistance at its finest, we need actions like this on all fronts…

The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City & Boise adopted new city flags this week showing support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of their states’ Republican-controlled Legislatures.

apnews.com/article/bois...
Salt Lake City and Boise make pride flags official city emblems, skirting flag ban laws
The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho, adopted new city flags this week that show support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of new laws passed by their states’ Republican-con...
apnews.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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American Theater in Canton, NY: where the marquee has more backbone than a lot of CEOs right now.
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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ICE came for him. Karma came for her.
May 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM