Matt

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Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

404 Media
Democrats Lay Out Demands on Immigration Agents as Shutdown Nears - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AizDUMUkuQ9iGOdeuU0nwmw
This very predictable by the Democratic party- no meaningful action, just pointless reforms. Let’s make ICE wear body cameras- as ICE agents literally video themselves shooting and harassing people. It’s comical stupidity
Democrats Lay Out Demands on Immigration Agents as Shutdown Nears — The Wall Street Journal

Some Republicans express interest in reworking Homeland Security bill, but GOP leaders want to avoid altering legislation

How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit

YouTube
Also:
• Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_and_deportation_controversies_in_the_second_Trump_administration
• List of deaths in ICE detention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detention
• List of shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immigration_agents_in_the_second_Trump_administration
• Targeting of political opponents and civil society under the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting_of_political_opponents_and_civil_society_under_the_second_Trump_administration
Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

ABOLISH ICE and let’s maintain the fundamental human right of free movement instead. Borders are arbitrary and fascism is bad
They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil

Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.

Mother Jones

Garnishing wages to pay back federal student loans is remarkably dumb. NO ONE benefits- “taxpayers” do not fund federal spending and do not fund federal student loans

Even if student loans are paid back, that $ is evaporating- from bank accounts and the economy

“Taxpayers” only lose out by having reduced aggregate demand and thus have to live in an economy where many people cannot afford anything. No one is bailing out student loan borrowers - just dampening the economy (destroying lives)

A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.

An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”

These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

ProPublica
great article showing how important statistical literacy is when coming across legacy media narratives
The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion

After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

On Data and Democracy