@meldredge.bsky.social
Retired educator; still passionate about experiential education.
Former Career & Technical Education Director.
Love nature.
Former Career & Technical Education Director.
Love nature.
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SPECIAL: We got this conversation up as fast as possible because Tim Snyder's analysis of the Trump administration's agenda and methods is so important. Also: Why No Kings matters, and what’s at stake in Ukraine. This is, if I may say so, a must-watch.
youtu.be/qq-V_k3HPLY?...
youtu.be/qq-V_k3HPLY?...
Timothy Snyder on the Trump Administration at Home, and What’s at Stake in Ukraine
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
SPECIAL: We got this conversation up as fast as possible because Tim Snyder's analysis of the Trump administration's agenda and methods is so important. Also: Why No Kings matters, and what’s at stake in Ukraine. This is, if I may say so, a must-watch.
youtu.be/qq-V_k3HPLY?...
youtu.be/qq-V_k3HPLY?...
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An AI deepfake was submitted as evidence in a California court.
This appears to be one of the first instances - but likely won't be the last.
Think about the repercussions: people could be wrongly convicted.
We MUST regulate this technology before it destroys lives.
This appears to be one of the first instances - but likely won't be the last.
Think about the repercussions: people could be wrongly convicted.
We MUST regulate this technology before it destroys lives.
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
An AI deepfake was submitted as evidence in a California court.
This appears to be one of the first instances - but likely won't be the last.
Think about the repercussions: people could be wrongly convicted.
We MUST regulate this technology before it destroys lives.
This appears to be one of the first instances - but likely won't be the last.
Think about the repercussions: people could be wrongly convicted.
We MUST regulate this technology before it destroys lives.
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Immigrants aren’t taking jobs, they are creating jobs for millions in the US.
From the 2025 Fortune 500, 46.2% of companies (231 out of 500) had an immigrant founder or a second-generation immigrant founder.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/
From the 2025 Fortune 500, 46.2% of companies (231 out of 500) had an immigrant founder or a second-generation immigrant founder.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/
Nearly Half of Fortune 500 Companies in 2025 Were Founded by Immigrants or Their Children - American Immigration Council
In 2025, more than 46% of Fortune 500 companies—a total of 231 out of 500—were founded by immigrants or their children.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Immigrants aren’t taking jobs, they are creating jobs for millions in the US.
From the 2025 Fortune 500, 46.2% of companies (231 out of 500) had an immigrant founder or a second-generation immigrant founder.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/
From the 2025 Fortune 500, 46.2% of companies (231 out of 500) had an immigrant founder or a second-generation immigrant founder.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/
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PSA: The No Kings PAC is not affiliated with and had no role in putting on the 10/18 mobilization. If you get a spammy text from them claiming your donation will be 5x matched, know that it's not from anyone involved in the No Kings protest (and please direct your angry emails to them, not us)
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
PSA: The No Kings PAC is not affiliated with and had no role in putting on the 10/18 mobilization. If you get a spammy text from them claiming your donation will be 5x matched, know that it's not from anyone involved in the No Kings protest (and please direct your angry emails to them, not us)
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While Shedd Aquarium and the Coral Restoration Foundation are leading coral transplantations and associated coral spawning research in the Dry Tortugas, Wet Tribe is performing a regional ocean acidification study. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #CoralResearch #OceanAcidification
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
While Shedd Aquarium and the Coral Restoration Foundation are leading coral transplantations and associated coral spawning research in the Dry Tortugas, Wet Tribe is performing a regional ocean acidification study. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #CoralResearch #OceanAcidification
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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Illinois is truly in the Middle of Everything, with a tourism industry that's booming like never before.
With yet another record-breaking year, we really have something for everyone as a world-class destination — and we are proud to welcome visitors from across the globe.
With yet another record-breaking year, we really have something for everyone as a world-class destination — and we are proud to welcome visitors from across the globe.
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Illinois is truly in the Middle of Everything, with a tourism industry that's booming like never before.
With yet another record-breaking year, we really have something for everyone as a world-class destination — and we are proud to welcome visitors from across the globe.
With yet another record-breaking year, we really have something for everyone as a world-class destination — and we are proud to welcome visitors from across the globe.
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JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Now we build on the momentum. ezralevin.substack.com/p/whats-come...
What's comes after the largest peaceful protest in American history?
Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
ezralevin.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Now we build on the momentum. ezralevin.substack.com/p/whats-come...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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October 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Amen, Governor Pritzker!
Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Amen, Governor Pritzker!
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
October 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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"We do ultimately depend on the common sense and common courage of the people. “No Kings” is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. It’s up to us to keep it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...
It’s Getting Worse.
The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.
www.thebulwark.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"We do ultimately depend on the common sense and common courage of the people. “No Kings” is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. It’s up to us to keep it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...
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If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.
October 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
October 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
Bryan Stevenson is amazing. I heard him speak at our large (mostly white) church, then read his incredible book. I’m grateful for his strong voice of reason. There is so much to learn.
Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bryan Stevenson is amazing. I heard him speak at our large (mostly white) church, then read his incredible book. I’m grateful for his strong voice of reason. There is so much to learn.
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