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Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

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A lot of the stuff they teach us in school is about teaching methods of thinking, processes of learning, but instead we get hung up on "when are we gonna need to know this specific thing," and how that specific thing is gonna get us a job or not later.

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Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com

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Facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads

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Against AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...

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The first person in her family to attend high school, my mother ran the TRIO programs at VSU to ensure students like her could go to college. Now those programs are at risk. The Congressional Black Caucus is fighting the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Black people are the patriots White America pretends to be; always have been. 🇺🇸

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Black people die earlier than any other race because we live under white racism; it wears us down, raises our cortisol levels, and literally kills us.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

The Trump administration has halted $1 billion in funding for mental health services for children, claiming that the programs, which were established under a bipartisan law aimed at curbing gun violence in schools, are no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.”

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

submitted 6 days ago • 571 comments

He warned you how evil he would be, but you wouldn't listen to us. He gave them hats and flags and told them we were the enemy of the people and what they were seeing wasn't really happening. He told them America was broken and only he could fix it. And in 100 days he has irrevocably destroyed us.

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

Confederate monuments were never about “remembering history." They’re warnings and threats that have been allowed.

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the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters

submitted 8 days ago • 1682 comments

An extremely tense exchange at the Supreme Court this morning in a case about school disability accommodations: Renowned advocate Lisa Blatt accused her opponents of “lying,” prompting Justice Gorsuch to scold her from the bench. But she was indignant and unrepentant. Here’s the first part:

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

Let’s please make sure that our community has ACCURATE information? I understand the concern but let’s be strategic and on point in identifying imminent threats. Please circulate. @esglaude.bsky.social www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?

submitted 10 days ago • 136 comments

The Trump Administration's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education will only further erode equality of education, upend protections for some of our most vulnerable students and widen the educational opportunities gap for students from low-income families.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

An antidote to facism is more community.

submitted 11 days ago • 54 comments

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

submitted 11 days ago • 356 comments

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people and American workers over the course of decades.

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

Smh

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Pam Bondi says ICE agents can enter ANYBODY’S home without a warrant to find “illegals.” Baby girl fuck you. Grown men are NOT coming into my house looking for a goddamn thing. I’ll sue you bitches to the STRATOSPHERE Signed, Someone who already sued the Dept. of Corrections and won.

submitted 11 days ago • 824 comments

In just 100 days, the Trump Administration has pushed forward a series of executive actions that put everyday people—and our democracy—at risk. This is about more than politics. It’s about people. #100DaysAndBeyond #ApathyIsNotAnOption #TogetherWeFight

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 12 days ago • 447 comments

This 🧵 is diving into Head Start as its currently on the chopping block in the proposed budget. Head Start is an incredible program that is much more involved and influential than people may realize. And if the regime gets its way, this cut would result in generations of harm.

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In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

submitted 16 days ago • 92 comments

Predominantly Black churches are supporting the effort to preserve the Smithsonian African American history museum after President Trump's order alleging Smithsonian exhibits had disparaged the nation’s history via a “divisive, race-centered ideology.”

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"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/y3RevJzO

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Black churches are stepping up to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture against Trump's attacks.

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK was not harsh enough toward zuck

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

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Bad EO on disparate impact. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ryan Coogler’s horror movie has shattered box office records—and the myth that audiences don’t care about original stories. www.wired.com/story/sinner...

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You aren’t just loving your child. You’re setting the example that teaches them how to love. The concept is on such vivid display in this video, shared to IG by mariaagrazia. (Thread 🧵)

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Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments

DOGE has been upending the federal government, laying off workers, canceling contracts and effectively shuttering entire agencies. Its unprecedented actions have raised lots of legal questions. We answered some of the biggest here:

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If cruelty is the point, then its resistance must be compassion. If harm is the point, then its resistance must be healing. If overwhelm is the point, then its resistance must be clarity. If fear is the point, then its resistance must be courage. Don't agonize, humanize. Empathize. Organize.

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I'm Cosa Nostradamus -- I predict organized crime! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

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What would he do if he were doing everything for Putin? I dare anyone come up with an answer besides what he's actually doing.

submitted 15 days ago • 109 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

submitted 14 days ago • 88 comments

A lot of people in power are demonstrating that they don’t actually believe in the premise of the Declaration of Independence or the republic as a concept. They believe that some people are created superior, and it is offensive and wrong for superiors to live bound by the needs of those below them.

submitted 15 days ago • 63 comments