The Biden-Harris admin has canceled $175 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million people.

Project 2025 seeks to get rid of student loan forgiveness programs and income driven payment plans.

The result? Monthly student loan payments could triple for many borrowers.

“Looking back, it’s clear to me that there was a lot of outside money and coordination. It made the race more political than local."

Top story: Historically low-budget, non-partisan school board #elections have been turned into expensive, highly-politicized battlegrounds, thanks to the influence of outside money and professional Republican political consultants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-board-pacs-consultants-right-wing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

#news #politics #USpol #Texas #Republicans #schools #education #democracy #corruption

Need to point this out.

As a murderer stabbed a Muslim woman named Dr. Talat Khan to death, witnesses report that 17 Texans pulled out their firearms. 17! The murderer stabbed her, stopped to check her pulse, confirmed she was alive, & went back to stabbing her to death.

And 17 "good guys with guns" did nothing.

A reminder that the "good guy with a gun" myth is a propaganda point to sell more guns. It does nothing beyond an anecdote to save lives.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12688199/pulse-talat-khan-miles-fridrich-texas.html

There’s big #weather happening today so for those who don’t know, TV station WeatherNation is owned by the same entity operating alt-right conspiracy channel Real America’s Voice. The two even share production facilities in the Denver area.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/20/weathernation-real-americas-voice-bannon/

What Covid can do to the lungs

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/31/health/covid-lung-damage.html?searchResultPosition=2

U.S. maternal mortality rates are startlingly high, nearly doubling from 2018 to 2021 to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to CDC data.

For non-Hispanic Black women, the rate was far higher, at 69.9 deaths per 100,000 births in 2021. https://t.co/xdZNgMzu1G

This is a warning about Meta and Threads.

Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.

I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.

#abortionrights #pregnant #threads