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CPS officials revealed a plan to improve the quality of arts instruction in classrooms by developing a arts curriculum and a data-driven system for measuring teaching effectiveness.

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Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 4 hours ago • 51 comments

www.allrecipes.com/walmart-bake...

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"DEI" is not a bad word. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamentally American – a reflection of who we actually are. After centuries of erasure, we've seen progress in representation in recent years, and I don’t want to go back.

submitted 12 hours ago • 184 comments

…y'all need to rehire all those DEI's because it seems like they were the ones who understood how aircraft carrier tie-downs work

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record. Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history. Today, we’re seeing the results.

submitted 9 hours ago • 491 comments

image id: color photo of Jan. 6 insurrectionists storming the capital. at the bottom: "Chicago city council bands Jan 6th rioters from city employment."

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

You can do cool things with A.I. but you can do even cooler things with reality, like what Brussels did with Boulevard Anspach (not A.I.)

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Seriously? Fuck these people. This is important information for me as a consumer. Even if I didn't care about the planet, which I do, I'm gonna care about the size of my power bill. This move helps nobody.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Columbia University: A few minutes before 4 pm EDT, Pro-Palestine students protesters took over the main reading room of Butler Library. Campus security have been trying to move them out. Situation is ongoing. Far from resolved.

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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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my wonderful personal assistant and I did meal prep today, we even made focaccia bread! I can't do the kneading on my own anymore (arthritis). the smell of bread baking is so amazing.

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Tomato recalls: www.allrecipes.com/tomato-recal...

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This article about the impacts of Trump's budget on unhoused people is California-specific but it's applicable across the country. When you cut housing services and assistance, you are putting people out on the street and setting them up for a cycle of increasing vulnerability.

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Regrettably, I was entertained.

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The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.

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CPD Supt. Larry Snelling and COPA agreed that the CPD officers who pulled over Dexter Reed and killed him violated the constitutional rights of at least two other drivers less than three weeks before the fatal shooting should be suspended. to.wttw.com/4iKBtKD

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🎨 If you told me three years ago, I'd be active in a local theatre, I would've LOLed. www.linkedin.com/posts/meryl_... #Arts

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Very cool when people randomly reach out to say they are enjoying something you wrote. Don't be afraid to tell people you enjoy their work, I promise, we don't know. We hope.

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Sen. Eric Schmitt on Trump's half-baked idea to reopen Alcatraz: "President Trump is very smart to put this out there and have a place where the worst of the worst go in this country."

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The reason we depend on the property tax system for revenue in Cook County is because we do not have a progressive income tax. But the Assessor’s office was historically corrupt, and the board of review remains so. Major reforms are needed. The Assessor is trying to fix this but the BoR blocks it.

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"But that doesn't answer the question." See, media? That's all you have to say when Republicans bullshit. And then ask it again. And again and if they refuse to give a straight answer, look right into the camera and say: "This Republican refuses to answer a question and we won't air that."

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submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Doris Day.

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URGENT: This morning in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Why would anyone import American goods knowing there is literally no safety regulation on them to keep em from randomly bursting into flames, poisoning your kid, or simply amputating one of your fingers trying to use it? Who's gonna want the cybertruck of toasters this incentives?

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Ninja water sausage retrieves a bit of toast.

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

If you liked Tina, Alba, Chance and the street dogs I am doing events in the following places in next 2 weeks... Dublin 🇮🇪 London, Manchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 NY, Boston, Chicago, Seattle 🇺🇸 Vancouver 🇨🇦 We are down to the last few tickets and many sold out... (1/2)

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Photos show Mike Waltz checking Signal during yesterday’s cabinet meeting. JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio, among others, appear to be in his unsecured, self-deleting chat. Unreal.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

It’s National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day! As most of you know, I’m a passionate advocate for adoption. Not only to save the lives of superb shelter cats like Fergus & Francie, but to withhold money from the commercial breeding world which has done tremendous harm to the health of so many “purebreds”. 💔

submitted 7 days ago • 315 comments

Again, I am ASTOUNDED that SO MANY people don’t understand that if Walmart or Target can’t stock their shelves, NO STORE will be able to. It doesn’t matter if you are boycotting them. How are people on both sides somehow not grasping this concept?!?

submitted 7 days ago • 908 comments

Two majority Black cities in Alabama now have Black representation in Congress because of court-ordered redistricting. The progress comes as President Trump pulls back federal diversity initiatives.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods… I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.

submitted 6 days ago • 691 comments

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

We're open to submissions this month by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

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To celebrate May Day, I've posted my 2017 story Not Valid for Spain on my website. It's a short read about Canadian labour and anti-fascist history, with robots.

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Tonight, there is a major protest happening in Tuscaloosa after Trump forced his way into the Alabama commencement ceremony. The event will be live streamed and you are going to need to watch @betoorourke.bsky.social and @dougjones.bsky.social. It’s going to be historic. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

May Day is today, & we’re terribly excited. It’s been so long since we had a proper May Day in this town, and it seems like this might be the year. Folks might not know about May Day. So welcome: May Day is one of the Fun Holidays. (Thread)

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This is absolutely terrible. People constantly say that they want to support "alternatives" to policing but they absolutely DO NOT WANT TO RESOURCE THEM. EVER. Cahoots is a gold-standard for non-police community response. 30 YEARS OF PROVEN SUCCESS. www.registerguard.com/story/news/l...

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Your daily horoscope: Today you will feel like a knight - stiff and clunky yet noble in deed, and known for sitting around tables.

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