#knitting #natural_dye #gardening #weaving
Several schools in Arkansas are defiantly teaching AP African American history. The state has warned them that the students will earn no credits.
Republicans continue to describe Black history as "indoctrination" and "teaching children to hate America" -- showing that they might benefit from the course themselves.
I have often wondered why Putin's attack on #Ukraine angers me so deeply.
Walking on the beaches of Lillebælt, I realized it is because of this:
To this day, we Danes still see the concrete fortifications left by the Nazis on our shores, because 1 fascist leader got the insane idea, he had the right to topple our democracy.
He had no right. All he had was the delusion he was somehow supreme to everyone else.
We stopped the fascist in 1945.
We will stop the fascist now.
This week Biden forgave federal student debt for 804,000 borrowers. A judge upheld the decision—proving yet again that Biden has authority to cancel student debt.
Furthermore—if we can bail out Wall Street with $10T & cancel $2.1T in billionaire taxes & cancel $800B in PPP loans—then we can cancel $1.7T in predatory student loans.
We've bailed out corporations and billionaires long enough. Let's elevate working people.
absolutely.
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/110905789158988626
High time to unravel #Reagonomics and the assault on the American Dream through less and less access to college education.
"He had a name, if anyone had cared to ask
Norlan Bayardo Herrera is a 20-year-old Honduran who drowned in the Rio Grande as Greg #Abbott's torture barrier sends desperate refugees to unsafe areas
The humanity of those dying to come to America" #Texas
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/norlan-bayardo-honduran-drowned-rio-grande-20230817.html