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School voucher programs like the one Idaho just created are pitched as enabling “school choice” but in reality tend to benefit families that have already chosen private schools, research has found. By @audreydutton.bsky.social

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.

trump is engaged in an open war against women who report domestic violence and assault and the media just don't consider it newsworthy. non profits that work on this are getting defunded left and right. the final nail in the coffin will be defunding legal services corp.

Jackie Robinson was born on this date in 1919. In light of his birthday and today’s white backlash to Black success, I’ll note that if not for the NFL’s ban on Black players, 1934-1945, Jackie Robinson might never have made MLB history — because he would have been in the NFL!

NEW: Whooping cough is killing babies. It’s not just measles cases that are soaring as vaccine rates decline. And the Trump administration recently cut $11 billion from state and local agencies on the front lines of protecting Americans from outbreaks. www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

NEW: The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

A 54% tariff on imports from China will likely see rising prices on smartphones, laptops and basically all electronics in the coming months. “Buy it now. Do not wait, it makes no sense to do that,” Jason Miller, a professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University tells WIRED.

Breaking: The Supreme Court just vacated Judge James Boasberg's order — allowing the Trump admin to deport Venezuelan migrants under the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

There are situations in which tariffs are a useful tool to address a trade deficit. Then there are situations where you accuse a bunch of penguins on an uninhabited island of currency manipulation. Guess which one we’re living in? www.wired.com/story/trump-...

In 2018, Trump tweeted: "Because of Tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 trillion in debt that has been accumulated." That’s not how it played out. (Published 2021)

Five weeks ago, Mary Kate Cornett was a first-year business major dating another Ole Miss student. Then a spurious claim about her and her boyfriend’s father spread — and was amplified by Pat McAfee, Barstool personalities and others. http://dlvr.it/TJtKS4

EPA lost on sacks: 2024: 2205 2023: 2364 2022: 2106 2021: 2151 2020: 2094 EPA lost on interceptions: 2024: 1588 2023: 1770 2022: 1694 2021: 1830 2021: 1726 Drives w/ 1+ sacks since '20: 1.03 pts/drive, -1.2 EPA/drive Drives with 0 sacks since '20: 2.26 pts/drive, .2 EPA/drive

This is extremely important as Ben Johnson takes over as #Bears head coach: passing game EPA now matters more than turnover margin 🔊

This weekend, the so-called "Tesla Shield" came out to defend Elon Musk and counter the #TeslaTakedown protests. Among those taking part: • MAGA • Proud Boys • Armed Militias • And a guy dressed as Hitler www.wired.com/story/proud-...

With Twitter down yet again, here’s a starter pack with all our #Bears content creators who are over here on Bluesky. Give us all a follow! #NFL

NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX, a major military contractor, secretly allows investment from China. Court records reveal execs there see $ from China as fraught but will let it in if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Caymans. www.propublica.org/article/elon... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.