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🚨 They launched a DEI snitch line—now it’s backfiring! Flood it with real discrimination complaints—racism, LGBTQ+ bias, and school privatization scams. Overwhelm US Dept of Ed! See how to flip the script 👉 cloakinginequity.com/2025/03/02/u... #StopDEI #EducationJustice #PublicSchoolsMatter

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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

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The "hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today" chant is perfectly suited to reuse with RFK instead, just a thought

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Critically important work. Also a reminder that research scientists need to do local and widely distributed backups of all data and papers before the window of opportunity closes.

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The federal government is methodically hunting and rooting out LGBTQIA+ people from service (with the help of alt right trolls) and this is the best NYT could muster. It’s pathetic and dangerous.

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1. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites. Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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NEW: “For higher education to survive the current onslaught, it must fight,” writes PEN America’s @jeremycyoung.bsky.social. “Nothing on a college campus is more worth fighting for than the freedom of ideas from government control.” Read more @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/hand...

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Wtf Dick Durbin

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🧵 Thread ahead. For over a decade, the evidence shows that social media platforms, especially Meta and Google, have profited financially from spreading misinformation because they sell highly engaging content to advertisers. Below are some examples of how they profit from spreading misinformation.

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Oh shit oh fuck youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM

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supporting your public library is so sexy

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my kinda home decor

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Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

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⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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How i feel when i get to pay property taxes to the Heart of the Union, the Great State of Illinois

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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“When truth becomes an option, the whole ethics edifice collapses.”

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When Korbin Albert gives up the ball

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Hello Federal Workers, I'd like to introduce you to Christmas in Russia (this is an obscure reference that only teachers in Chicago will understand)

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Woody Guthrie

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No Trans Erasure! Shut it down!!

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And since we’re sharing dope live performances from the past, how about Joni Mitchell, Mama Cass, and Mary Travers covering “I Shall Be Released” youtu.be/sEZFt5ZZj9s?...

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Yeah these signs aren’t gonna last long lol.

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AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

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This is such a huge regional flex. You're telling me central Brooklyn has eggs?!?

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🚀 We made a zine! "𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱: 𝗔 𝗭𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘀" is our answer to the notion that Big Ideas are best shared through accessible, creative, and impactful formats. 🔗 ds.io/cloud-native... by @kiricarini.com & @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

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I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

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I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

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open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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“The one thing we can all do right now and every day is refuse to cooperate with the cultural pressure to conform.” Defintely needed to read this this morning. www.salon.com/2025/02/20/s...

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Don't fall for the misleading headlines suggesting Trump is cutting the defense budget. He's not cutting the budget, just good programs.

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Red States are criminalizing school librarians to try and eliminate access to diverse books. @chipubschools.bsky.social already did that by cutting library positions. @ctulocal1.bsky.social wants a contract that returns a librarian to every school & protects students’ freedom to read.

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📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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South Dakota is ALSO working on passing laws to criminalize librarians! Why the fuck aren’t more people getting mad? I feel like only a few of us are screaming about this. #booksky

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Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

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Kinda proud of our IL governor. It feels less scary to live in 2025. #twill #fy26budget @jbpritzker.bsky.social

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Such bald efforts are happening at every level of government: “Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s attempt to get rid of diversity initiatives in the workplace is really a segregationist attempt to get rid of diverse people in the workplace.” #MOMSky ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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On Audre Lorde’s birthday, I’m thinking about her Kitchen Table Press. She (second from left), Barbara Smith, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett came together to establish a press centering feminist and lesbians of color — and it shook the publishing industry. #bhm

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newrepublic.com/article/1916...

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This is re: Trump's EO to ban trans persons from the military. Reyes is a federal judge. If I got this etherized in court I'd walk into the fucking sea. bsky.app/profile/mike...

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Call for IMMEDIATE action: LCSH is officially proposing changes from "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" and "Denali" to "Mt. Mckinley": classweb.org/tentative-su... Send feedback to [email protected] by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes

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Bad news from LCSH. This will percolate down to libraries as well, as we use these subject headings.

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