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engled101.bsky.social

Student and teacher seeking knowledge and understanding

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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40 years ago today, Philadelphia police bombed a neighborhood killing 11 Black people, including 5 Black children. The only person who went to prison was Ramona Africa, a Black woman who survived the bombing. Chances are this is the first you've heard about it. www.qasimrashid.com/p/today-mark...

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

My dad told me that trickle down economics means you laid down in a rich man pees on you. Trump’s trickle down economics is him pissing all over the world.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

submitted 11 days ago • 157 comments

On International Worker's Day, a reminder that we are not $36T in debt because working people rely on welfare & pay too little in taxes, but because billionaires avoid paying taxes & rely on corporate welfare. Tax billionaires. Protect working people. Save our economy. Save our democracy. #MayDay

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

submitted 38 days ago • 383 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

submitted 40 days ago • 716 comments

submitted 41 days ago • 553 comments

Free speech is gone

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

submitted 50 days ago • 103 comments

Fuck this shit!!!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 61 days ago • 3118 comments

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

submitted 76 days ago • 119 comments

I will not be silent.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

@algreen.house.gov thank you for taking a stand

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Yup side with a brutal dictator and you are not the good guy.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

No surprise here.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Republican congressional members have ceded their power. We are in a constitutional crisis.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 99 days ago • 1878 comments

Bad ass!!!

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submitted 106 days ago • 631 comments

#solidarity

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t believe that this is where we are in this nation, where representatives of our government members of Congress cannot access the treasury department yet he who shall not be named and is unqualified and his unqualified minions are in there!!!

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