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As we're fighting with the feds over racist policies, don't forget we're also fighting with our local city government over racist policies.

An ICE watch zine (Chicago edition) being handed out today.

E-bow the Letter And also Camera

"They just use your mind and you never get the credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it" Happy Labor Day

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

The regime cannot erase Ida B Wells-Barnett or U.S. Black history. They will try and they will fail. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

More brain rot AI sludge.

josh long's office has sent letters to kids with cluster placements indicated on their IEPs to try going to their neighborhood schools [where they definitely won't be served, hence the cluster designation] because cps fucked up student assignment huge violations for least restrictive environment

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Wait, what? This "report" from AEI is ridiculous in so many ways. Also, teacher educators in states controlled by GOP legislators and governors should seriously expect these insane policy ideas to be mandated soon (and be ready to resist). www.aei.org/research-pro...

Zuck has no vision for the future, just a skimpy business plan to sell AI “superintelligence” as a self-help software subscription service. Damn the environment.

Plyler v Doe (1982) is still law, though many states have been pushing cases so they can get SCOTUS to strike down another precedent. Looks like RFK Jr wants in on that action, too.

Entertainment should be apolitical & align exactly with my values.

Are religious schools able to endorse candidates to their students & families?

So many districts & states rushed into requiring coding courses for kids because that was the future. Except it’s no longer the future, and we’re rushing heading into this new future. Our past is littered with so many discarded futures.

If you believe that democracy can only work if its citizens are all share the same culture & are like-minded, then you’re just a supremacist. And the list of internal enemies will never grow shorter.

Intelligence is part of human agency. AI is a product. It is not intelligent.

From the same people who lionized Scalia’s obnoxious & pugnacious approach to job.

I read every ED statement in the Mach Man voice.

Gunning for that Pulitzer in race science reporting.

K12 #teachers! The white supremacists in the admin cancelled this amazing NEH workshop so the scholars are offering it as a free teach-in. And you can earn CEUs!

We’re on the front end AI slop wars where some AIs will be used to churn out text, models, & fake research to manipulate AI systems used to make decisions. And the amount of slop generated will be in proportion to the value & importance of those decisions. All of which destroys our environment.

At least it’s a smart move to keep speaking long enough to get coverage in the morning news programs. Can he keep it going until 9am pst?

If anyone can be stripped of their legal citizenship at anytime, then citizenship has no meaning. It’s a complete inversion of “the comment of the governed” when the state gets to choose who it governs.

Call of Duty: Cosplay Gestapo

"In effect, today’s move reflects the Trump administration advancing its budget priorities a year early, before Congress has considered them...Questions about the changes, the letter says, must go to the Office of Management and Budget, not the Education Department."

The government delivers mail to my house 6 days a week.

“Many school districts, and particularly the most resource strapped, cannot afford to engage in costly litigation over opt-out rights" - Sotomayor This is really important! One Project 2025 strategy is changing policy and practice by counting on the risk/liability aversion of institutions.

Jeffries, Schumer, & Gillibrand should step up to defend their own constituents from this bile instead of going at Mamdani?

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Our crossing guard greets every child by name each morning as she stops 4 lanes of traffic on Western.

I’m tired of living in a pre-apocalyptic hellscape.

How will NYC ever survive a socialist mayor with a funny name?

If you'll be in Chicago this summer, walking tour season is in full swing. You should organize a self-guided tour using our guidebook Lifting As They Climbed [it's actually great!]. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2003-l...

“The Pallbearer” Ugh. But I know my partner would say “Friends Forever” because she still throws that one in my face 20 years later. Not sure why she didn’t bail then.

Wars of choice really are the way to do it. This way, you know exactly what’s going to happen. Otherwise, why would you choose it?

Approaching a priest and seeking absolution in the bathroom cuz you feel bad about doing a fascism is wild

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The veto:

This is the plan - white vigilante violence to make black and brown live precarious.

A good listen today.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

From historian Christopher Wilson's “It was Not the 'News' that Traveled Slowly—it was 'Power.'” www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee... #Juneteenth

Finally read the decision & Roberts filled the majority opinion with references to the gender binary that is ahistorical & scientifically bullshit. But he’s playing a long game. Along with ACB’s concurrence, they’ve lead out a roadmap for anti-trans laws.

My man Jay did the deep dive into ACB’s absolutely fucked up concurrence in the anti-trans case https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrmetti-barrett-concurrence-supreme-court-opinion-recap/

this is the most bullshit logic that I have ever seen and my rage CAN NOT BE CONTAINED. the supreme court does not need to be deciding WHAT MEDICAL CONDITIONS ARE TREATABLE and no one should ignore this just because this time it wasn't yours, holy shit

Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB