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Boston area middle school special education math teacher (ret.)
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

submitted 11 hours ago • 661 comments

Same!

submitted 16 hours ago • 33 comments

This is real.

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

submitted 2 days ago • 493 comments

Let's say Harris won last year and Vance was holding 10k-20k person rallies where he railed against left-wing "oligarchy." Would the CW be that this was crazy and a waste of time? Or would we be seeing NYT op-eds and A1s about what "oligarchy" is and why the GOP base was on fire about it?

submitted 5 days ago • 118 comments

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

submitted 8 days ago • 3280 comments

Here's the secret of "university indoctrination." Professors aren't doing it. Your little darlings are finally meeting a diverse group of people and realising that the stereotypes you've been feeding them are closed-minded garbage.

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.

submitted 10 days ago • 549 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

@aoc.bsky.social My daughter, Lucy Welch, the Sugarbush snow reporter, is at the same restaurant you are at this moment

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

DAVID BROOKS SAYS GENERAL STRIKE NOW AND BILL KRISTOL SAYS ABOLISH ICE

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 14 days ago • 666 comments

Every single college newspaper in the country should print her piece, exactly as she wrote it, under their own by-lines

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Previously, the arrests of pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses would’ve drawn instant attention from the DHS civil rights office’s First Amendment watchdogs, attorneys in the compliance branch said. That guardrail is gone. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

There's a school of thought which suggests that the only way to disable the fascist movement is to stop shielding MAGA voters from the consequences of their actions. Well, now that the GOP administration is disabling disease surveillance, response, and even basic research, there's no shield. 1/ 🧵

submitted 73 days ago • 16 comments

Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

submitted 32 days ago • 749 comments

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

submitted 35 days ago • 93 comments

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

submitted 35 days ago • 554 comments

The Anti-Newsom

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

There's a whole tier of Democratic politicians who think the way to solve fascism is to say stuff you would have said eight years ago, but with a curse word in it.

submitted 40 days ago • 92 comments

Some of you are about the re-learn what the actual purpose of policing in the U.S. is.

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

So it wasn't the US Marshals at all. It was the DC Metro police who provided DOGE with the muscle to roust the staff of the US Institute for Peace out fo their offices. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-me...

submitted 43 days ago • 196 comments