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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

submitted 22 days ago • 78 comments

Breaking News: A divided Supreme Court rejected a plan to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.

submitted 29 days ago • 322 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Yay!

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bigeasymagazine.com/2025/05/11/p...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Atlanta. We do not need tiny tourist clown cars. We need mass transit that benefits Atlanta residents and commuters. When is the mayor going to stop caving to business interests and move forward real sustainable transit options for the people who actually live and work here?

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

positing to americans that some problems are not solvable by individual action but rather are collective social endeavors is like talking with a megaphone full of soup, it gets messy so fast

submitted 50 days ago • 44 comments

IT’S HERE. The Platlanta x How I’d Fix Atlanta @austinlouisray.bsky.social collab you didn’t know you needed. Buy a shirt. Contribute to a great cause (El Refugio). ATLiens on Bluesky, you are pretty much the target audience for this. Let’s go crazy. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/lets-do-some...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

This one is huge.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

So many cardinals hopping around my house today, think they’re stating their own conclave. Let’s hope it ends well.

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submitted 60 days ago • 141 comments

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 68 days ago • 198 comments

Just a reminder: no referendum vote is required for spending gobs of public money on widening roads for car capacity. Meanwhile if we want to expand transit we have to vote on special taxes and then pray the money actually gets used as promised. www.constructionequipmentguide.com/gdot-to-begi...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

submitted 78 days ago • 14 comments

Great listen/watch - thanks Dr. Katie Acosta for engaging with Dr. Sig Giordano for this conversation open.spotify.com/episode/0fMV...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.

submitted 78 days ago • 78 comments

“How will we feel the effect of the closing of the Department of Education?” You won’t. Probably. When you pull the stopper out of the bathtub the waterline appears to hold. For a time.

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Reminder that @globalvoices.org has a whole special coverage section dedicated to the impacts of the cuts to the global aid sector: globalvoices.org/special/crum...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

When I am constantly running, there is no time for being. When there is no time for being, there is no time for listening. Walking on Water

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️

submitted 90 days ago • 37 comments

No one who's trying to destroy the Department of Education has ever spent three minutes in a public school, and neither have their children or their grandchildren. None of the people destroying any of our valued public services have ever relied on them.

submitted 91 days ago • 52 comments

Atlanta area! This is the last week to comment on the proposed redesign of the MARTA bus network. Public comment closes March 16. Explore and comment here! If you live or travel in Fulton or DeKalb Counties, we need to hear from you. Please share! www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetwork

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

submitted 106 days ago • 8 comments

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

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submitted 112 days ago • 1496 comments

This piece breaking down what California receives (back) from the federal government for public schools is helpful for seeing in detail what's being threatened in every state. #EduSky

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 118 days ago • 245 comments

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

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Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 130 days ago • 377 comments

Breaking News: President Trump has ordered a sweeping review of federal funding for all nongovernmental organizations in order to “stop funding to #NGOs that undermine the national interest” nonprofitquarterly.org/trump-issues... #nonprofitsky #npsky

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

submitted 135 days ago • 66 comments

Never called your representatives before? Not sure what to say about the issues you care about? @5calls.org is a great place to start - who to call and ideas and scripts of what to say on a wide variety of topics.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

I knew they were gong to do project 2025, I just didn’t realize that Elon and his merry band of pre-teens would be the ones implementing it.

submitted 135 days ago • 279 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 137 days ago • 208 comments

Lawmakers. You're not getting it. Make so much noise. Show up everywhere. Bring the FBI to arrest Elon even if you know they won't do it. Make a scene. Make accusations. Make threats. Throw sand in the gears. Refuse to cooperate. Take attention away from Trump & Musk. Be loud & public about it.

submitted 136 days ago • 3 comments

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

submitted 136 days ago • 230 comments

“Then the elected officials tried to walk into USAID headquarters, only to have security turn them away, allegedly on Musk’s orders. This is the moment where we remind everyone that ELON MUSK IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR A (REAL) GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.” www.wonkette.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 136 days ago • 13 comments