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An open letter from an American-owned tour company to our Canadian travel buddies 🍁
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SIGN NOW: Christians stand with Mahmoud Khalil: Mahmoud Khalil is a legal resident who is currently being held in captivity by the Trump administration for exercising his right to free speech. Christians must stand in solidarity with Khalil before more people. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/release...
SIGN NOW: Christians stand with Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil is a legal resident who is currently being held in captivity by the Trump administration for exercising his right to free speech. Christians must stand in solidarity with Khalil before ...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
February 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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1. Trump's immigration crackdown is premised on the idea that the US is experiencing a massive surge in violent crime

According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities

THIS IS A LIE

New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels
Trump's fake crime wave
On January 19, during a rally held in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof” and that it “was up like 40%.” He claimed that violent crime is especially...
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January 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
And this is the guy now in charge of the changes to our govermental programs:

The Unbelievable Tale of When Elon Musk Personally Removed Servers from a Sacramento Data Center medium.com/@noahkingdav...
The Unbelievable Tale of When Elon Musk Personally Removed Servers from a Sacramento Data Center
Back on Christmas Eve of last year, there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data…
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January 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Take on the lies!
Promote BlueSky

youtu.be/ilmq6oXTsQA?...
How to Combat Trump’s Lies
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The administration says it will conduct a comprehensive review of grant recipients' political and social ideology before resuming any funding.

www.everylibrary.org/statement_om... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
STATEMENT: Trump Freezes All Grant Funding to Libraries, Archives, and Museums
While this "pause" will negatively impact millions of Americans, it will also considerably impact libraries.
www.everylibrary.org
January 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
January 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn
Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire.
Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.
wapo.st
January 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
January 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."
In Praise of California
It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Surrender Greenland, or I will send Eric the Stupid and Junior the Con back.
January 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Good for them!
January 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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January 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Waiting for the Barbarians
Poems, Spirituality,
www.poemsthatilove.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Black Forest – Poetry Daily
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January 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
November 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Donald Trump campaigned hard demonizing immigrants, a strategy that helped catapult him into the White House in a U.S. election unlike any other. Now, the nation’s history of deportation and its consequences merit the closest scrutiny.
The Deep Roots of Deportation
In a divided political climate, many now hold their breath, waiting to see if deportation rhetoric becomes reality.
www.texasobserver.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.

www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM