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Scholar of Urban Education Policy: social reproduction, community engagement, law and education. Riffing on: NBA/Art/Cinema/Theater/Politics
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You'll never catch these bourgeois herbs at a protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

The Supreme Court has ruled against allowing Oklahoma’s taxpayer-funded religious charter school

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i know i'm focused on the wrong thing here but I had no idea we were up to four Avatar movies, you absolute degenerates

25% tariff on a whiskey drink 37% tariff on a Vodka drink 85% tariff on a Lager drink 110% tariff on a cider drink 132% tariff on songs that remind you of the good times 138% tariff on songs that remind you of the better times

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BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

Or it could include ray guns, a space elevator and talking polar bears. We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit www.reuters.com/world/europe...

White Sox comms people worked pretty hard to keep teachers far from police and fire.

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

Coordinated resistance works. news.wttw.com/2025/04/10/c...

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Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

“Where’s Alex? Where’s Alex?” Alfredo Orellana, a permanent U.S. resident, is facing deportation as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown expands to people convicted of minor crimes years ago. His family and the family of an autistic young man Orellana was a caregiver for are reeling.

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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

BREAKING: Federal judge in New York issues a temporary restraining order (and certifies a limited class) barring the Trump administration from removing anyone in the Southern District of New York from the U.S. under Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation or transferring them out of S.D.N.Y.

Among those who reported experiencing harassment, women were affected almost twice as much as men by non-sexual forms of personal harassment. theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Amir Makled sat down with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to describe his experience, and what it could mean for other attorneys who are going against the wishes of the Trump administration.

Amid ICE detention, Georgetown professor worried most for his class, colleagues and students say Source: NBC News search.app/7vAxV

Around a thousand protesters marched outside White House border czar Tom Homan’s home in a small New York village, calling for the release of three children and their mother who were detained by immigration agents at a nearby dairy farm late last month.

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England regularly says this about Ireland. It was a common topic about how selfish Ireland was for causing problems during brexit, a problem entirely caused by the UK.

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

stealing 'well it's sort of easy to answer for me because...' for Q&As

Is the 1662 Quaker Act still in force? Or did the cops mistake the Friends Meeting House for their Masonic Lodge?

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated.

The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against Houthis www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/a...

In good news, only two justices argued that guns you make aren't that different from guns you buy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

The same goes for foundations. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.

Just when you though the Department of Ed was closing. They keep using the OCR as an ideological instrument. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

This voucher scam that the right is trying to frame as “school choice” has been used to segregate students for decades. We want safe and welcoming schools for all. www.epi.org/publication/...

Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1936 "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves."

All you need to know about Twitter

This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal. Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return. Now they will be rewarded with deportation.

More than 100 protesters gathered outside a Tesla showroom in the Gold Coast on Saturday afternoon as part of the nationwide “Tesla Takedown” movement, voicing outrage over Elon Musk’s growing influence in the federal government. chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025...

This is so surreally corrupt it’s hard to even grasp. US media is incapable of processing it - directly using the White House to promote a meme coin with hidden ownership structure.

Rising age of fathers another likely factor. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...

Columbia faculty should consider leaving to form a New School where they might freely conduct social research. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Completely obscene.

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

Former astronaut just admitted the space station smalls like "20 years of body odor and stale farts."

Let's bring back the name Scribonia!

Illinois Schools And Child Care Centers Won’t Receive $26.3 Million From USDA Amid Cuts https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/13/illinois-schools-and-child-care-centers-wont-receive-26-3-million-from-usda-amid-cuts/