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At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

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The GOP is trying to defund Medicaid and SNAP in order to make billionaires richer. If you’re represented by a Republican, make sure they hear from you: indivisible.org/resource/cal... And use our toolkit to take action and raise awareness about Trump’s Tax Scam: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I am currently on a sandy beach with a drink. That’s the post.

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NEW from me — ICE is actively searching for job candidates with backgrounds in construction management and engineering via a third party recruitment agency. This comes on the heels of the @aclu.org uncovering ICE's plan to expand their detention facilities in 10 states. My report:

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Please please please NYC Dem voters: VOTE IN JUNE. Low primary turn out got us Adams. TURN OUT AND VOTE Rank Zohran 1. DO NOT RANK CUOMO. Rank others based on your own research.

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Not wanting victims of war to starve to death is not antisemitism. Hiring white supremacists, N*zi sympathizers, and Holocaust deniers to positions in your government is antisemitism. Words mean things. Co-opting words to silence dissent against your autocratic goals does not redefine them.

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RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing. Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign. Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to sign an executive order preventing state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless required for medical care or legal matters. “Every Illinoisan deserves ... the freedom to live without fear of surveillance.”

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NYers voting in Dem primary in a few weeks, please: 1. DO NOT RANK CUOMO AT ALL 2. Rank Zohran #1 3. Fill all other slots with people you decide who are NOT Cuomo 4. Refer back to point 1

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Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule.

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This week, New York Times bestselling author @samiraahmed.bsky.social’s next young adult novel arrives, THE SINGULAR LIFE OF ARIA PATEL. Now more than ever, we need to be making sure young people know about books like these and have access to books like these. Happy book birthday week, Samira!

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This is what an ICE deportation operation looks like currently in Trump’s America www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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First, they arrested a sitting judge. Then they threatened a sitting Governor. Now, they've taken it a step further by arresting a sitting mayor of Newark, NJ, Ras Baraka, who dared to stand up against their billion-dollar detention deal that's ripping families apart.

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested by federal officials Friday during a protest at a newly opened immigration detention facility in his city, officials said.

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Can we please do to Amazon what we are doing to Target? You really can decide to stop giving your money to a man who uses his billions to send Katy Perry to space, kill independent journalism, and fund the end of civilization. You really can stop.

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Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

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Our tax dollars are being used for THIS ⬇️

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EVERCORE: ".. We estimate that 350,000 Federal workers are impacted by DOGE actions to date—representing roughly 15% of Federal workers .. 250,000 are announced layoffs [which require] a 60-day notice period .. so they could not begin until May/June at the earliest unless agencies received waivers."

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May 9th is today! Still plenty of time to register for our Freedom Read-In! Links to register for the morning session & afternoon session in the thread below!

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whispers Decades of Catholic single-issue abortion voters helped to create today’s Republican hellscape, but cool the new pope doesn’t like JD Vance.

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She was an excellent Librarian of Congress, was beloved by so many and reminded us all about the power of reading and the joy books bring to our lives. Trump firing her is no surprise but it's still BS. Truly terrible.

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Trans service members kept us safe for the years before Tr*mp 1 and after, when Biden permitted them again. SCOTUS halting a lower court stay during appeals has no basis in fact, only hate.

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@thejosevilson.com ok so you are great and all… but your wife is phenomenal! Just had the pleasure of being in a breakout room with her to end today’s @theedcollab.bsky.social conference. She shared your hello and I sent mine back to you. Change agent family. I see what you’re up to over there.

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Register now for our free, online, K-12 Literacy Conference. This Saturday! 📣 Gathering.TheEdCollab.com

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when I say they're dismantling the entirety of consumer protection, I genuinely mean they're dismantling the entirety of consumer protection

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BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issues a TRO blocking the Trump administration from "dissolv[ing]" the Institute of Museum and Library Services, placing any more employees on administrative leave, or terminating any grants in the coming days.

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NEW: a federal district court judge in Texas (appointed by Trump) joins a growing chorus of judges to declare that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is ILLEGAL. He bars the Trump admin from using the law to detain or remove any person held in the Southern District of Texas.

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Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...

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McMahon is such a narcissist that she believes she is doing a good job in a role she has no business being in. She does not have the qualifications to be a part time substitute teacher. Subs care more and have more paperwork to clear before entering a school that this dangerous woman.

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BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. @liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown. Details TK

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The actions of the Trump admin are unprecedented, so the way we defend our people must change, too. We have legal rights in these situations and ways we can respond — if we're ready. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/rumeys...

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SATURDAY! Our 23rd online K-12 Literacy Conference is free on May 3! View the schedule and Register at: gathering.theedcollab.com

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Can’t wait for Saturday!

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@leeandlow.bsky.social's New Voices Award writing contest is open for submissions! Lee & Low Books is seeking unpublished authors of color or Indigenous/Native writers hoping to break into the publishing industry for the first time with a picture book manuscript. 💻 bit.ly/NewVoicesAwa...

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Can’t wait for Saturday!

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propaganda works. It works on billionaires in their group chats. It works on CEOs. It works on you. We need comprehensive media reform or this country will not survive.

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Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

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Come hang out!!

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One thing about me, I’m going to keep fighting for kids, for learning, for the essential calling of education. Small minded men and women cannot win. They may have short term encroachments, but hell if we let them prevail. Too much is at stake. Too much promise and love and joy to lose.

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We can’t fund social security, Medicaid, libraries, schools, food safety inspectors, CDC, emergency weather reporting, air traffic controllers, food banks, cancer research…. But over $500,000 of OUR tax dollars are able to go to this?

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