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In a time when the president is trying to destroy #highered, are @educause.bsky.social and @aceducation.bsky.social resisting? No. Instead here is a servile letter asking to repeal the ADA update that will help disabled college students. www.acenet.edu/Documents/Le... #academicsky #a11y

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"ICE raids have robbed us of family members and our collective sense of security and belonging," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley said at the event. "We are here to say, 'hands off our neighbors. Stop tearing families apart.' "

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@bostonglobe.com please do a story on how much this terror campaign is costing U.S. taxpayers. What does it cost to: -detain an individual per day -transfer someone to another state/location -rent an airline for deportations -send someone to a 3rd country How much per masked "agent" per day?

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does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

submitted 221 days ago • 347 comments

The proposals to reduce the maximum Pell Grant by nearly $1,700 and redefine full-time as 15 credit hours would force states to either change their definition or come up with additional funds after budgets have already passed. Blue states will protest; red states will squirm but say nothing.

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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if any other country suddenly moved to expel half a million - HALF A MILLION - nonwhite immigrants, reporters would call that a crime against humanity. forced transfer of population falls under that designation; it's also one of the defining aspects of genocide. i'm incandescently angry over this.

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Again, speed cameras make a lot of sense as a solution to police using traffic as a pretext for racist exploitation/violence. Issue is entrusting these systems to the police only reintroduces the very problems of the police in the first place.

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“We can argue about the specifics and the size of the error bars, but we’re not talking about dozens of people [dying]…We’re talking about tens of thousands of people.”

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Five yrs out “demonstrators say they are still contending w/ intense trauma and long-lasting injuries... What’s more, settlement money has been swallowed by mounting medical debt, legal fees & other costs associated w/ being wounded.” Our dear Linda Tirado and so many others stories featured here

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They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 12 days ago • 167 comments

if I see one person suggest that trans people are acceptable losses in exchange for other stuff, it’s on sight that is evil and it is also loser reasoning we fight this WHOLE bill there is nothing to compromise here, especially not on vital lifesaving care for trans people

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 12 days ago • 127 comments

Not only do I not need or want this tax cut, but there is absolutely NOTHING I could do with that money that would even come close to Medicaid and Medicare's positive impact on my community. The GOP is trying to take away my 99% discount on watching out for my neighbors and I'm mad about it.

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If anyone was wondering, construction (of systems of care for the ones that have been abandoned or destroyed) have to at minimum be built in PARALLEL to whatever civil disobedient response you are imagining. GOT to. No way around it. Everything from elder care to food supply to waste management.

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🧵 Today's revocation of Harvard's ability to enroll international is awful for many reasons, chief among them the human cost as @jeremywallace.bsky.social notes. It's also an attack on the US economy. But maybe less obvious: it is terrible national security policy. It makes Americans less safe. 1/

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Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

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This is it. We're here. I understand that Dems may have no realistic way to actually stop this, but this is the political hill to die on right now and if there was ever a time to throw everything they have at one issue this is it cc: libertarians "states rights" conservatives faith leaders

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Oh. Fuck.

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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers. They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

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GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

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It is unconscionable and immoral for the world to allow this horror to take place. 2.2 million people are trapped with no food, water, aid, medicine, and baby formula. This genocide must end and we must stop being complicit in the mass slaughter of babies and civilians.

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All, this should alarm the hell out of all of us. Rep. McIver has been charged by the DOJ after the visit to the ICE facility earlier this month.

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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 17 days ago • 164 comments

We are now a country where the government just regularly threatens to imprison opposition officials for speech it doesn't like. Feels worth repeating every now and again.

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.

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Three years ago, we released “American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century.” The report describes the surveillance apparatus that Trump is using to target immigrants, activists and anyone else who challenges his agenda. We’re re-releasing it today with a new foreword.

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This is the Worcester arrest:

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At WBUR this week I wrote about how the Somerville Theatre’s “F—k the Nazis” series is fun for the whole family.

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"Trim plays Bach or Chopin to calm Kseniia Petrova until the jail line clicks off at the 15-minute mark and she – a shy 30-year-old Harvard scientist with no history of immigration violations or criminality – retreats to the bunk where she has slept for nearly three months in immigration detention."

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