Gary AckermanI’ve come to enjoy the reaction of adults (including teachers, principals, etc., parents, business people...) who learn the purpose of public education is not to create people just like them. #edchat #education #school
Michele Somerville
@Mmsnypoet
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She/her. BLM. Writer, poet, teacher, ecclesiology punk, New Yorker. Books: Glamourous Life, Black Irish, WISEGAL. MFA, CUNY (BK), MTS, Harvard. Essays: New York Times, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Religion Dispatches.
https://indietheology.substack.com/about
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Democracy Matters 
It's called boycotts, dumb ass!
Fox Business host on 'shocking decline' in consumer spending: 'The boom times are over'
https://thehill.com/business/5183167-fox-business-host-on-shocking-decline-in-consumer-spending-the-boom-times-are-over/
Petty. Wrong. Illegal.
Federal prosecutors who worked on the Eric Adams case escorted out of workplace
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/federal-prosecutors-worked-eric-adams-case-escorted-workplace-rcna195398
#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Federal prosecutors who worked on the Eric Adams case escorted out of workplace
Two federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York who worked on the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams were placed on leave Friday and escorted out of the building by federal law enforcement officials, multiple current and former law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩Some high quality eyebleach for you
The duck nested in the school courtyard, so her and her hatchlings needed a proper send off since they can't fly away
😍
edit: thanks to @fliggerit for finding the story behind this scene
The duck does this every year- flies into a courtyard, lays her eggs, but the hatchlings can't fly out.
So there is now an annual ritual at the school where they clear the way for the escape.
Jefferson Elementary School, Goshen Indiana
“Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined Alito’s dissent.” #USAID
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-usaid-foreign-billions-30b8bde0b16c0bd68f8b690f14923c50
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-usaid-foreign-billions-30b8bde0b16c0bd68f8b690f14923c50
Supreme Court reinstates order requiring Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid
A sharply divided Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid. By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the court told U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to clarify his earlier order that required the Republican administration to release nearly $2 billion in aid for work that had already been done. Justice Samuel Alito led four conservative justices in dissent, saying Ali lacks the authority to order the payments. Alito wrote that he is stunned the court is rewarding “an act of judicial hubris.”
MillicentNow that Twitter has tanked I just remembered Mastadon haven't been in years- any writers here? #writerscommunity
William Lindsey 
"Quite literally every single line of this State of the Union is a lie and/or has a factual error."
~ Mythili Sampathkumar
#Trump #Republicans #StateoftheUnion #UpIsDown #DownIsUp
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https://bsky.app/profile/mythilisk.bsky.social/post/3ljlx75hcfs2s
"President Trump’s repugnant withdrawal of American support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion continues apace, even if America can’t bring itself to believe that it’s cutting and running:
Trump has now cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the Financial Times reports.
Trump’s cessation of U.S. military aid leaves Ukraine vulnerable to Russian air attacks."
~ David Kurtz
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #betrayal #PutinsPoodle
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/donald-trump-personally-thanks-john
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought a limited rapprochement with Trump after being ambushed in the Oval Office.
Vice President JD Vance sparked fury in Britain fury by calling it a “random country” and mocking its Ukraine peacekeeping plan.
For the second time in two weeks, Trump nominees to the Pentagon deflected when asking during their Senate confirmation hearings whether Russia had invaded Ukraine."
Jason StiffI've been a meteorologist for over 30 years, I worked for the National Weather Service my 4 undergraduate years, and I loved it.
There are NO good reasons for firing hardworking, already understaffed NWS/NOAA personnel, and it WILL cost lives!
The potential "savings" are so small compared to the benefit we get from the NWS saving lives and property daily.
STOP this madness, trump and musk! You have no idea how far-reaching the ramifications of this are.
