looks like if a few more folx contribute they'll be able to close this out very very soon. can you get them there?

How is Trump citing security as the reason to outlaw collective bargaining of federal workers when his order notably excludes law enforcement? "'Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain,' the White House fact sheet states" The bullshit is so brazen www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

Several scholars of color and marginalized academics have said this several times on Twitter and here, but many people remain there because that’s where their communities reside and there are huge exit costs. Not everyone has the PRIVILEGE to leave a community behind.

My mom is now in memory care. She's not known beyond our town. She was a beloved special ed tchr. She started a free cmty 🎄 dinner that now feeds ~1000 ppl. She started a prgm where local tradespeople do free repairs on seniors' homes. She org'd a team that creates winter warmth kits. I cld go on ❤️

Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in: -California -Colorado -Illinois -Massachusetts -New Jersey -New York -Ohio -Oregon -Pennsylvania -Missouri -Texas -Washington The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.

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Yesterday, 4 student protestors were arrested at UCLA TWO HOURS *after* the ending of a peaceful protest for violation of campus time-place-manner (TPM) rules. That is: 4 student protestors were *arrested* for using megaphones and creating a picket line. dailybruin.com/2024/11/19/p...

2023 AAA Roundtable: Tech from the South as Method and Challenge. exhausted but thrilled. first time organizing something like this and the energy was great. what a cool group @vuribede.bsky.social and I put together 🌟

hi Bluesky sorry it’s been a minute, *gestures at news environment*, I went to Florida for 5 days and wrote the kind of long magazine essay that jschool students dream of, and I genuinely think you might learn something new from these young Floridians @teenvogue.bsky.social

Just in case anyone missed it, the below came from Netanyahu's twitter account (making the colonial politics of what's happening real clear), then they deleted the tweet while Israel was bombing a hospital in Gaza, which killed 1000 people. None of this can pass

At least four people have been shot on the campus of Morgan State University, authorities say