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Matt Nocella
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Local gov. Education. Star Wars.
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edforwarddc.bsky.social
DC students are making strides in math, yet challenges remain post-pandemic. @empowerk12.bsky.social, the DC Education Research Collaborative, and the DME are collaborating to enhance math instruction across the city, including holding the inaugural DC Math Summit and launching the DC Math Hub.
Leading the way toward math recovery - Education Forward DC
Student performance on DC’s annual math assessments showed slight improvement over the past year, but achievement has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. In discussions with school leaders, a common...
edforwarddc.org
May 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Good to see: Rep Jamie Raskin tells me Dems will introduce a resolution calling on Trump to come to Congress for approval of his $400 million luxury jet gift from Qatar—and challenge Rs to join.

On the pod, Raskin is very good on why this is so corrupt:
newrepublic.com/article/1951...
Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood
As Trump corruptly accepts a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from Qatar, Representative Jamie Raskin explains why this is an “outrageous abuse” of the Constitution—and what Democrats will do now.
newrepublic.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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After the horrific killing of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Uvalde, Republican and Democratic Senators came together to end these senseless tragedies and passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health
Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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fritschner.bsky.social
Going to print this out and frame it on my wall
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
“Also, we’re ending the environmental and regulatory standards”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 1
Miller: "If you had a choice between a doll from China that might have lead paint from it that is not as well constructed, as a doll made in America that has a highly environmental and regulatory standard & those two products are both on Amazon, that yes, you probably would be willing to pay more."
May 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
DONALD TRUMP, AUGUST 14, 2024: "When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand-new Trump economic boom"

DAY 101:
U.S. economy shrinks at 0.3% rate in first Trump-era GDP report
April 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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smith.senate.gov
Photo from the White House website that reads “The Most Transparent Administration in History!”
April 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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jamellebouie.net
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
WASHINGTON (AP) - Retail sales rise 1.4% in March as shoppers stock up on goods out of fears tariffs will drive higher prices.
April 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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nytimes.com
A top adviser of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, a U.S. defense official said.
Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe
Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.
Chart showing global stocks plunging because of Trump tariffs
April 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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nytimes.com
The New York State Education Department on Friday issued a defiant response to the Trump administration’s threats to pull federal funding from public schools over certain diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order
New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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April 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) this week broke the record for the longest Senate speech in modern history, coming in at more than 25 hours.

Here are the other senators whose speeches on the floor have lasted more than 20 hours.
How Cory Booker’s record-long Senate speech compares to others in history
Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on the Senate floor in past decades.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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hunterw.bsky.social
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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theatlantic.com
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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maustermuhle.bsky.social
NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...
Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools
Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.
51st.news
March 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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chenderson.bsky.social
DC has been spending at FY25 levels for 6 months now. If the House GOP CR is approved as drafted, here’s what DC would have to cut:

- $63m from the police & firefighters retirement system
- $38m from fire & emergency management
- $23m from the Department of Corrections
- $75m from MPD
March 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Judge McConnell blocks Trump administration temporarily from blocking grants/loans to 22 states and DC that sued over funding "pause." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Conclusion Consistent with the findings above, and to keep the status quo, the Court hereby ORDERS that a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER is entered in this case until this Court rules on the States' forthcoming motion for a preliminary injunction, which the States shall file expeditiously. During the pendency of the Temporary Restraining Order, Defendants shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate Defendants' compliance with awards and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the States, and Defendants shall not impede the States' access to such awards and obligations, except on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Jan 30
trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
effinvicta.bsky.social A Snowy Holid-Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · Jan 30
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) says kids should get jobs instead of receiving free school lunches. The school lunch program serves grades preK-12, meaning it includes children as young as 4. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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smith.senate.gov
Thanks. This clarifies nothing.
Tweet from the White House Press Secretary: “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.”
January 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM