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i want to teach through exploration. learn through trying it out. and love because in the end, it's really all we can do. all views are solely my own.
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Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 263 comments

Take away any ability for the ‘people’ to learn… take away the possibility of a democracy to exist.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m not the least bit naïve, but I never thought I would see this happening to my country in my lifetime…

submitted 15 hours ago • 1083 comments

“The offer of early retirement and the dismissal of probationary employees are the two main ways the FAA is trimming its workforce. Both are blunt instruments that threaten to sacrifice key talent.” theatln.tc/4ssupjk3

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"Joy is the Resistance." - Dawn Hunter (great reminder overheard on a great webinar from @publichealthlaw.bsky.social)

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Real change doesn’t come from the top down. It comes when workers unite and demand it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In case anyone was wondering, empathy is strength and apathy is weakness. That is all.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Book banning and the whole school censorship movement comes down to one question: Do we have the stones to teach an accurate, comprehensive version of our whole history or are we so soft that we must revise and sanitize it? In my view, the truth is what makes us stronger.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

This. Is. Insanity. Is the Ag Department going to require (per edict) that all of this food now go into a stockpile that only certain people will have access to?? Fall in line with the regime. Get some food. Forget about those starving kiddos next door.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

They are systematically working to create a world that dystopian novels only dared to dream of (and never thought would truly come to fruition). We must pick up these books, words, identities and flood the populace with understanding that these artifacts are not detrimental to society, but needed!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

submitted 3 days ago • 1382 comments

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

submitted 3 days ago • 451 comments

I'd rather we fund cancer research than Elon's exploding rockets. I'd rather we fund critical services for our veterans than Elon's swasticars for our embassies. I'd rather we stop oligarchs from using our treasury as their personal piggy bank.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

"our nation has always been at its best when it widens the circle of belonging and equality to take care of more people and not less. and our nation has been at its worst when we've been discriminating." - @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social 🫶

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ending the federal role in education is like burning books, but on steroids. It’s what you do when you’re afraid of ideas and people who can think for themselves.

submitted 8 days ago • 159 comments

Watching Trump supporters on the business channels today is kinda funny. Voices raised, trying to spin the downturn. People not being able to pay their bills, people losing their jobs randomly, prices going up…is not.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

submitted 7 days ago • 1094 comments

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

submitted 11 days ago • 1033 comments

I just can't with a reporter asking Zelensky why he doesn't wear a suit... and then saying that a "lot of American people" don't respect him because he doesn't wear a suit. What. In. The. Actual. Heck???? His country is fighting a war. His focus shouldn't be on what he's wearing.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Hot. Damn. Mess.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk has siphoned off more money in taxpayer dollars since November than the entire USAID annual budget. He is the real welfare queen. #fireelon

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Every Republican Congressperson from Missouri voted to cut Medicaid. 30% of Missourians are on Medicaid.

submitted 12 days ago • 169 comments

I’ll go ahead and say the current bills are much more focused on sales of tobacco (ie local jurisdictions that have enacted 21+) - but it is one slippery slope that I want nothing to do with!!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Remember when you used to go into restaurants and everything smelled like smoke?? Yeah... Missouri wants to preempt any local tobacco ordinances that have been lawfully put into place, thus backtracking clean air initiatives, smoke free spaces/places, etc. #Tobacco #Missouri #Preemption #MoLeg

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Marjorie Taylor Greene said "Federal workers deserve to lose their jobs." Majorie Taylor Greene is a _ _ _ _! I'll bet even 99.9999% of the women reading this filled in the slots correctly.

submitted 14 days ago • 1044 comments

Banned books are the best books.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Another place to erase women... college athletics. And within the understanding of a law that helped create space(s) for women in college athletics - Title IX.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

submitted 29 days ago • 2367 comments

Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. "But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.

submitted 29 days ago • 88 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 303 comments

Yep. And that move us back decades in relation to body positivity. The scale at the beginning pushes it WAY OVER any level of okay-ness.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah... let's talk about this hims&hers ad... this is AWFUL. Are we back to a place of body-shaming and saying that the number on the scale is who we are??? Cringeworthy. And tone deaf. *Super Bowl

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy" KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #superbowl

submitted 30 days ago • 168 comments

Funny... most of the touching moments they showed in that He Gets Us (i.e., Jesus) Super Bowl commercial are not quite as possible with the silly state of our government... (and don't clap back with separation of church/state... declaring a "Christian America" undid that)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Is it typical for news outlets to run commercials during the Super Bowl?? Can't say that's one I remember... (and also, seriously Fox News for ALL? bull-freaking-crap)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Loving the opening with Brad Pitt for the Super Bowl. Bringing it back to the need to work together as a team... for something bigger... Huddle Up!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Pro-lifers: Abortion is murder! All babies must be born. *Baby is born* Pro-lifers: Universal school meals ❌ Common-sense gun control to prevent mass shootings ❌ Affordable childcare ❌ Paid family leave ❌ Child tax credits ❌ Social welfare programs (SNAP, Medicaid, housing assistance) ❌

submitted 32 days ago • 117 comments

Waking up each day. I think to myself - "crap, what happened while I was sleeping that could have the potential to erode society even further?" This is not who/what America was founded on. This is a direct dismantling of what America was founded on. AND IT IS NOT OKAY! (ps: how are those eggs 🥚?)

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school. Trump should stop him.

submitted 35 days ago • 720 comments