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Public school parent. User of thread. Rage level somewhere between Banner and Wanda. San Francisco. I am once again asking you to pay attention to what is happening at the National Archives
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🏳️‍🌈 season is just around the corner! Meet Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent, top gay in the White House. #lgbt🌈 #logcabinrepublicans #tariffs

We coulda had this

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Not reading That Article but is just Better Baby/Fitter Family contests all over again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenic...

That is quite the edit

I ran for local office as a DSA+registered Dem to defund the sheriff & his jail in 2020 and when the cops started launching flaming cans of tear gas at my head and like 999 other people's heads a few months later, guess what the local Dem party did lol they tried to get me off the ballot is what

Today, California issued responses to letters from the U.S. Department of Education regarding compliance with Title VI and FERPA. These responses will be visible on the CDE’s “Responses to 2025 Federal Actions” web page, which will continue to be updated: www.cde.ca.gov/nr/fa/

I’m sure Newsom is itching to cave on these threats but he has to contend with Tony Thurmond, who’s running for governor

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Xiaobo the red panda, really expressing today's mood. [via Lincoln Park Zoo]

San Francisco Democrats want to eliminate the city's health plan for uninsured workers: "Eric Kingsbury, a member of the San Francisco Democratic Party board, said he’s writing a resolution to put Democrats on record seeking to repeal the healthcare fund." sfstandard.com/2025/04/11/s...

Lego is on the BDS list so we haven't given them any money for well over a year, but this still makes me sad.

Folks this summer is likely to be terrible for young people re both summer employment opportunities & also basic summer programming [given cuts at the Federal level that will trickle to the state level]. What are you planning so that young people can have some money in their pockets &/or some fun?

Ncuti Gatwa has recorded a row of 'Jeopardy' clues for tomorrow's game show tomorrow on ABC at 7pm ET.

Narrator: SSF and PEEF funds do not roll over. Duchon is going to make SFUSD lose millions.

House Republicans have passed a bill aiming to curtail federal judges’ ability to impose nationwide injunctions on local, state or federal governments, in response to Trump's executive orders being blocked due to oftentimes flatly violating the law or U.S. Constitution.

“So I would put my job on the line in the protection of our students and our workforce.” - LAUSD Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho

“The infrastructure of care, prevention and research that has developed over the 40-plus years of this epidemic is virtually being eliminated or drastically reduced to the point that the progress that we have made." 19thnews.org/2025/04/hiv-...

You should stop scrolling and read this

That time Garry Tan caused a bank run www.wired.com/story/silico...

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SFUSD is at risk of losing roughly $90 million in city funds that it's been receiving for more than two decades, because the Board asleep at the wheel. www.ppssf.org/news/2025/4/...

1. Trump has officially defunded school lunches in Maine for kids and disabled adults because of transgender people. Trump is holding the funds hostage and will allow kids to go hungry unless Maine discriminates. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey @sfchronicle.com who asked for this edit, removing what Biafra said about the mayor?

How dare the Chron not put Jello Biafra’s name in the headline www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The rightwing tech billionaires and corporate landlords behind Oakland’s astroturf network. Map: phoenixprojectnow.com #darkmoney #broligarchy #oaklandelections @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social

I thought this headline was sarcasm but now I’m wondering how SFPD is categorizing all the other shootings in the neighborhood

“ Is San Francisco’s new catchphrase “Welcome to San Francisco: The city of clean streets and dirty buttcheeks?” brokeassstuart.com/2025/04/08/b...

The Atlantic continues somehow not being The Onion

Someday the Chronicle will finally rid itself of @jilltucker.bsky.social . Until then SF residents will have to endure her misinformation when it comes to our public schools, as in her latest about SFUSD’s Special Education debacle (🧵): archive.ph/2025.04.07-1...

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

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