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I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

The media is now obsessed with remorseful Trump voters, white voters, who are now losing their jobs or upset about inflation. I don’t want to hear from them. I want to hear from the Black voters who stood in line for hours, only to be turned away because their name was purged from the rolls.

submitted 15 days ago • 69 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

submitted 28 days ago • 146 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 29 days ago • 2224 comments

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

submitted 42 days ago • 229 comments

Drake's gonna be the first person to ever lose a Super Bowl halftime show.

submitted 43 days ago • 24 comments

This is what the "banality of evil" looks like in real time. It will take more than just 270 elected democrats in the House and Senate to stop. But I know that the overwhelming majority of Americans are better than this. The times have found us all. Resist.

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

Yes. Thanks. Do the things that are effective. (Though @fritschner.bsky.social I think political leaders could align behind a list of these (effective) things regular people like me can do from home, and repeat, repeat, repeat. Regular people need a little more direction from a known leader).

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Russ Vought devised these illegal holds on funding for disaster relief, medical research, student aid, child care, nutrition, and foreign assistance, as well as purges of the federal workforce. If confirmed as OMB Director he’ll keep this up for four years. The Senate should reject his nomination.

submitted 55 days ago • 55 comments

Yikes.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Oh wow. I didn’t think this would happen.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Johnson's speech is meanness and nonsense served up in a nice suit

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

David McGrath: How I found love and meaning one Christmas by my dad about my mom.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Today the Senate passed the Social Security Fairness Act, restoring earned Social Security benefits for millions of educators, firefighters, police officers and retired public employees. www.aft.org/press-releas...

submitted 93 days ago • 139 comments

Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.

submitted 95 days ago • 249 comments

The World Health Organization gathered data from 139 countries for its first-ever report on how to prevent drowning.

submitted 100 days ago • 26 comments

I can’t help but shake the sense that the through line with all these assassins and mass shooters isn’t their politics but the easily obtained guns they have in their hands when they engage in the assassination or mass shooting. I imagine the gun industry loves our fascination with the wrong thing.

submitted 104 days ago • 6 comments

Oh, wow, this is amazing! This was a 13 year fight. Hell yeah.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Read, and reflect on how hard people had to fight, at every level, personally and politically, to address it.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/28/o...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

David McGrath: In honor of the holiday, I am grateful for these outstanding Americans Happy Thanksgiving from my dad.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Read this. These are things those of us laboring in public education understand.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

This is an easy resolution to make & fulfill: never buy a book from Amazon again. Ideally never shop there at all, but at the very least do not permit them to carry out their 30-year mission to destroy the bookselling business. Shop local or online at bookshop.org. It's just as easy & so important.

submitted 130 days ago • 11 comments

Yes, lead. Thanks for this and the lines from Paine. And for always asking hard questions. And sometimes giving hard answers.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

#HappyThanksgiving by my dad www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 486 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great challenge to the "girl dinner" discourse ("girl math", "girl job" etc.). www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 509 days ago • 1 comment

Cop slowly patrolling the neighborhood while kids trick or treat. Heard someone tell their kid “tell him thanks for keeping us safe.” So I had my niece walk by and say “end qualified immunity.”

submitted 509 days ago • 12 comments