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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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Remember... "Courage is contagious." open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

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.

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.

"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 🫶

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.

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.

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

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.

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.

Hot. Damn. Mess.

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

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

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!!

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

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.

Banned books are the best books.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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)

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!

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) ❌

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 🥚?)

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