NEW: Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom. Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups. My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

It's not just the daily grind for someone without wealth resources that inhibits growth and success...it's the pressures of selling your labor and also the lack of resources to address mental emotional and physical health issues that grinds most people down. We don't all live the same 24 hours.

Good to see a leader stand up for his people and their principles...but also sad to see that with this escalation, we're again losing sight of any sort of democratic republic, second time in 249 years, with a civil war in the middle that was about owning slaves. We suck.

Here you go. I made it easier to understand what’s happening.

Trump perfectly stating why free speech is the mark of an evolved society...something from which we're we're steadily diverging

In the 1970s, some were subjected to electroshocks and “conversion therapies” meant to cure love. Those dark times must never return. Today the European Union is taking a stand: conversion therapy has no place in Europe. 1/5

Video shows Palestinian children jumping with joy as a parent chants “Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!” — an Arabic word meaning a long-term truce or ceasefire.

All this is horribly true…defunding all of these ESSENTIAL social institutions that serve our communities every day. But for so many conservatives defunding the police was like blasphemy…an institution that arguably does far less for us than all of the others

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." ~Abraham Lincoln 💙 #WhatGoesAroundComesAround

New video: "BREAKING: Trump is DOING IT…" click below to WATCH👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5FCB0e0McI

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison? MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Of course, why bet against someone who is funded by venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, including Marc Andreessen, who has the ear of the President and other techno feudal lords, and is committed to driving techno-capitalist narratives and feels completely secure in her position?

Sorry, died the government shutdown also mean all authoritarian occupying forces in Portland, Chicago and Venezuela, among others, are also inactive?

I hard co-sign this one.

Life appointments are disastrous. Justices should be appointed for long enough only to be able to make incremental changes...not undo lifetimes of social justice work.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

“Outside the Ganesh Temple, [70 year old] Deepak Mehta said he was excited for Mamdani to become mayor due to his promise to freeze the rent. ‘I will vote for Mamdani because his policies will stop my landlord from causing problems for me,’ he said.” www.newindiaabroad.com/english/news...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide. Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Evidence suggests that compared to the boomers we studied, a larger proportion of Gen X are susceptible to hard falls than their predecessors. This demands a structural solution and a universal basic income might be the answer." UBI is indeed the answer. thehill.com/opinion/fina...

Nearly 100 million jobs could be wiped out by AI over the next decade, a new report by Senate Democrats has revealed.

This is how public information goes from being commodified to being weaponized. We've been in this slide for two generations and all we have to show for it is more social and cultural fragmentation and deepening factions. Journalists shouldn't be objective...they should always speak truth to power.

This is how public information goes from being commodified to being weaponized. We've been in this slide for two generations and all we have to show for it is more social and cultural fragmentation and deepening factions. Journalists shouldn't be objective...they should always speak truth to power.

its right wing propaganda all the way down

Take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans @la-cac.org @aaslala.bsky.social

Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

JUST IN: California and Oregon are suing the Trump administration in an effort to stop him sending hundreds of National Guard troops from the Golden State to Portland, per an amended lawsuit filed today.

“We’ve seen reprehensible behavior by DHS agents against journalists in all three of America’s largest cities. There’s no reason to think it will stop there, so it’s critical that we refuse to normalize this,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told amNewYork.

Furloughs at the DOJ could impact domestic violence grants. Some fear that's the point.

Congressional District Interactive Map: How Much Will ACA Premium Payments Rise if Enhanced Subsidies Expire? | KFF www.kff.org/affordable-c...

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital. “He has Constitutional rights.” “No.” ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

Fascism doesn’t just start with dictators or camps. It begins when people stop caring about the law, excuse rules and protocols, and do whatever pleases the leader. It thrives not on power alone, but on obedience, silence, and the slow erosion of principle and the law.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

"Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing..." You can stop right there. The answer is universal basic income and healthcare, not forcing anyone to do anything.

Wait...what? "...she will be responsible for all public procurement" they said...Diella quickly evaluated the inefficiency of building infrastructure around human needs and resolved the issue by removing the troublesome variable from the equation. Have they never read ANY scifi?

They always say the same basic thing. They are always wrong. And we should do what we have always done and do the thing that needs doing anyway, which this time around is universal basic income and healthcare, and a 4-day workweek.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now is meant to distract you from this.

Chocolate’s hidden cost? Deforestation. In Cameroon, sustainable cacao farming is providing communities with new opportunities and hope, while protecting forests and securing livelihoods. #ForNature

This…is really what happens you green light people who struggle with unexamined early trauma…their egos can be quite charismatic, but they’re still on that humiliation kink

MA residents Torleif and Adnaan Stumo, and everyone else taken from aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla should be immediately freed. It is unconscionable that the Israeli military continues to block humanitarian aid, food, water, and baby formula. End the genocide & surge aid into Gaza NOW.

Gifted programs, though having some individualized positive outcomes for students, generally propagate the social divisions that come from wealth consolidation and selective privilege. he kids who aren't identified as gifted are generally sorted that way due to background characteristics like SES

a gifted kindergarten program does not need to exist and as a kid who was arbitrarily sorted into both gifted and regular track classes throughout my education i think gifted programs enforce race and class divisions and don’t do much else