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Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

The agency plays a critical role in supporting students with disabilities, guiding families, funding key programs, and ensuring that states meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Israeli officials are openly defying Trump’s so-called Gaza “peace plan.” The defense minister says bombing will continue after hostages are returned and that Gaza’s tunnels will be destroyed “under U.S. supervision”. Call it what it is, it’s not peace, but a US backed siege.

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022. Time, how does it work

The future is great, huh? "A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed." www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.: —Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks —Bribes from ABC & CBS —TikTok sale to Ellison —Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base —Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

Remember,Trump reneged on an agreement to pay medical expenses for his disabled relative and told his nephew in 2020, “Those people,” Fred Trump said his uncle told him, “the shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.” www.disabilityscoop.com/2024/07/25/t....

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

The fascists goal is not just power to dominate society but the ability to rewrite history and reality itself. Those who try to control history are attempting to control the present and future.

The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of democracy, said Simon Tisdall in his article for The Guardian Meanwhile, Russia actively exploits far-right forces across Europe to advance its geopolitical aims, particularly to weaken support for Ukraine euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/f...

WHAT IN THE HELL! funeral service and how a society treats its dead are indicative of how a society works overall. you can NOT come for those who caretake our most reverent spaces.

Earlier this year, two Republicans were sworn in less than 24 hours after their elections. It’s been 20 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her race and Speaker Johnson’s still dragging his feet. It’s time to swear her in.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Not even kidding: we shouldn't be able to put someone in an American prison without conferring citizenship on them. To hold people to our highly fallible court system without them enjoying any benefits of the state is unconscionable.

all hail left shark. which reminds me- if you haven’t yet tried explaining “left shark” to your gen z/gen alpha kid, you should. it’s a really fun pop culture share.

TRUTH

Whoops! You’re not RIF’d after all .

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland. Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

Interactive genomic sequencing dataviz, code, acknowledgements and more info here: github.com/Mike-Honey/c... 🧵 ends

With the NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" and XFG.* "Stratus" variants carving up dominance around the globe, it is time to ponder which variant might drive the next wave. The leading contender at this point is PY.1.1.1. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #PY_1_1_1 #XFG_1_1 🧵

1,000 TROOPS: TN National Guard vet, who is protesting the Trump-@GovBillLee military/police takeover in Memphis, says deployment order is for a year. Takes us to the November election… Commercial Appeal reported the same troop number. www.tiktok.com/@itsrachelda...

Imagine that

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

This 71 year old retiree isn’t getting a dime from Soros. Neither is my 100 yr old mother-in-law. We’ll out there on the 18th!

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Paulo Zampolli ran a modeling agency and introduced Melania to Trump at the Kit Kat Club. bsky.app/profile/edhi...

The average fit factor FF for a surgical mask is 3. Many score 300 on an Aura N95. Which makes it two orders of magnitude better. Yes this is predictive of real world outcomes

The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/7voNtjk

If you’re not anti-fascist, you’re a fascist. To be clear.

in all the things that never happened- this never happened the hardest. everyone needs a quick visit to see that this is bullshit, apparently.

🤣 yassssss! this.

sounds like someone needs to put delusional gramps on a helicopter ride around oregon

Study: Quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7 T in COVID-19: brainstem effects and outcome associations. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19. "Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

is the girlfriend in the room now? did you get this winning warrant? how can you be such a moron?

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

Approaching WW2 levels of fascism in 3…2…1…

Twelve Federal Aviation Administration facilities saw staffing shortages Monday night. Burbank, Phoenix and Denver had the worst staffing problems. Newark, Jacksonville, Chicago, DC, and Indianapolis and other locations were also short staffed due to the government shutdown.

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

This is hazardous - being hogtied like this makes it difficult to breathe, because all your weight and pressure is on your chest, and it’s hard to expand your lungs. I’ve seen people pass out from being hogtied, and without QUICK intervention, bad things happen. Positional asphyxia is real.

Thanks, Donald Trump! Burbank Airport has ZERO air traffic controllers from 4:15pm to 10pm today because of YOUR government shutdown.

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it. Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."