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Living just west of Chicago, sociologist in education, via Madison, Los Angeles, Northwestern, & San Francisco. Doing research in a large suburban public school district. 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨‍🏫
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There is a fundamental disconnect between the K-12 public school system and the labor market demands faced by parents. Before age 5, after 3:00pm, and during the summer, parents are on their own to find a safe place for their children. I propose a solution: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

"We are here to liberate this city from [democratically elected leaders]" You may not think you're at war with them, but they're at war with you.

For Father’s Day, MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff should ask his dad about if and how the LAPD officers he commissioned were trained in these tactics.

Who is giving orders to this police force? Is it Karen Bass? If not, why not?

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

I do appreciate how difficult he is making it for Reinsdorf to move the team to Nashville.

My most disturbing thing is when my grandparents died from it

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

A lot of east coast media elite types really don’t know the first thing about Los Angeles. youtu.be/WkZ5e94QnWk?...

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Who can spot the good guy in this photo?

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

In Chicago, the zookeepers are trying a bold experiment on the teenage gorillas this summer: letting them go outside for the very first time in their lives. abc7chicago.com/post/gorilla...

About to give up on this highlights magazine word puzzle, anybody know the term for Butler or Maid that ends in “ant” ?

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

Even our best journalists feel the need to frame current events as a hypothetical - because to acknowledge straight-on the facts of what is happening is too much to bear. It’s coping with heartbreak and the end of American democracy.

real contender for the defining quote of american christianity here

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

The LAPD whenever they think no one can see

Very grateful I tuned in. She’s doing Tom Waits’ “Chicago” right now and it’s incredibly good

You, an individual reader, can hold writers accountable. If they publish bad ideas - things that you know to be false, that are proven to be false, that are ugly and demeaning, etc. - you don’t have to read them again. Just stop reading. That’s why they put the authors name near the very top.

The Chinese Communist Party loves to talk about June Fourth, the day the protestors played right into their hands. Go ahead and ask anyone in China about the glory of June Fourth.

Does @msnbc.com have a reporter who can verify whether this is a common pattern or practice of LAPD officers? @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

I grew up in San Francisco. “Fuck LA” was a slogan I grew up with from before the time I could read, sung in the bleachers of Candlestick Park. But I moved to LA in my 20s and it blew my mind. Great city. Great people. youtu.be/KcADqxnQA_4?...

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

I’d love to know more about how universities responded to the World Wide Web and email in the 1990s. At a certain point, universities were pioneers in training the professional class to use email as a primary form of workplace communication, and web search as a basic job function.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

It’s a Nazi bar.