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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.

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Thanks @pbs.org for this terrific piece on forgotten/unknown black punk musicians - long overdue

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There are a lot of legitimate criticisms of classical education, but the best criticisms are themselves rooted in classical education and serve to improve and democratize it. Rejection of classical education, however ideologically well intentioned, is a demonstrably failed, reactionary stance

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one thing i am genuinely convinced of (and my most conservative take) is that we need to bring classical education back

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fuck yes

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The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊ This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management! Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

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In recent decades, social programs in the United States have been structured in ways that stymie and suppress solidarity, obscuring the fact of our fundamental interdependence by promoting individualism and competition instead of cooperation and reciprocity. @astra.bsky.social @lhh.bsky.social

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"'We’re bringing attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,' said Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite and military veteran who supplied the flag and helped hang it." www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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Do millennials know how good The Muffs were

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Billie Joe Armstrong voice “not gonna call it the Gulf of America” [power chords]

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Someone finally put it into words

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"It’s getting hard out there for us blue-collar Nantucket lads when all the ships’ owners are catching the Abolitionist Mind Virus."

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"Riddle me this: if this is a colorblind vessel, then why is the only whale Ahab cares about killing the white one? Did you think about that?"

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Was trying to remember why I had mentally bookmarked him and it was because last summer Colombian tabloids spread a rumor he was having an affair with Linda Yepes, a transgender newscaster. Not only did he refuse to deny it but decried transphobia as akin to Nazism

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My first poetry chapbook is out. Pick up copy for any sad boys in your life who pine for the days of cigarettes and punk shows and Sunday morning guilt. #dontcalluspunkbecausewehatethat #poetry #punk bookshop.org/p/books/don-...

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Holy shit, this is huge! @catbiteband.bsky.social and @laurajanegrace.bsky.social covering Operation Ivy. You need to get this, like right now. And 100% of the proceeds are going to help those affected by the LA Wildfires. catbite.bandcamp.com/album/operat...

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It’s the heartwarming story retold every holiday season dangerousminds.net/comments/how...

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If you’ve got grievances with public figures, you don’t post them on the internet. You compile them in an epic poem that imagines the intricate ways they’ll suffer in the afterlife and goes onto become one of the most enduring works of Western literature.

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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

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My first poetry chapbook is out. Pick up copy for any sad boys in your life who pine for the days of cigarettes and punk shows and Sunday morning guilt. #dontcalluspunkbecausewehatethat #poetry #punk bookshop.org/p/books/don-...

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this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer

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Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders.

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Monday Jams: Rancid; Frank Turner; Bad Moves; The Get Up Kids; MF DOOM; Czarface; The Go-Gos #music #musicsky

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But none of us are in heaven yet.

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Sunday Spins: The National; Like Roses; Green Day; Pedro the Lion; Jack Kays; Angie McMahon; Laura Jane Grace; Rapsody; Bad Moves #music #sundayspins

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Today's music spins: Against Me; Otis Redding; Angie McMahon; MF DOOM; Masked Intruder; & Rancid #music

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Read The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin. I can't recommend it highly enough. #thedispossessed #leguin #read

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Read The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin. I can't recommend it highly enough. #thedispossessed #leguin #read

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