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cskellum.bsky.social
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We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

submitted 44 days ago • 876 comments

Why are we so ready to hand control over to something that isn’t capable of handling it. It’s a very sophisticated search engine/pattern recognizer/mimic. It’s not intelligent, and it certainly isn’t more intelligent than we are (except for a certain orange politician and his band of thieves).

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

A second lamp in the belfry burns! Old North Church, April 18, 2025 #TwoLanterns #PaulReveresRide250

submitted 51 days ago • 42 comments

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

submitted 60 days ago • 332 comments

amen. All three branches, federal, state, corporations. De-Trumpification

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

he always tells you what his plans are

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Man, I love Boston

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Something old and something (relatively) new for my too-long reading list

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Power derives from the people.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Living in the deep south and being a former long-term GOP volunteer, this is exactly right

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Reading @pempem.bsky.social ‘s excellent How To Kill a City, and the account of what Mayor Abraham Beame and Richard Ravitch did in New York City in the 70s to strip city government to the bare bones and remake the city for the wealthy is chilling. It’s like the blueprint for what Trump is doing now

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Why tf are we even tolerating our lawless president anymore

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.

submitted 66 days ago • 80 comments