If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?

YES YOU DID

it’s teacher appreciation week and all i want is for my students to be on time, with a pencil, and to genuinely try. is that too much to ask?

it was 80 degrees 2 days ago….

I’m only 32 but jfc I want to retire already. 😭

first thing i did after arriving in Virginia was to go to #Wawa… only to find out that THEY GOT RID OF THE MIXED BERRY SMOOTHIE !! 😭😭😭 HOW DARE YOU WAWA HOW DARRREEEE YOOOOUUUUUU 😭💔

Everyone in the Midwest bracing for impact. Stay safe everyone !!

For posterity’s sake. Mark my words: when something bad happens at the school that I work at, just know that all of the teachers have been complaining/BEGGING for something to be done to fix this place. The children are in charge, not the adults.

The time change where we lose an hour should be considered a war crime.

Everyone please read this.

This is so clearly corrupt. Also note it is coming from a news source that doesn’t prostrate itself for access. FWIW, we are now @wired.com subscribers.

The Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee on Friday tabled two bills seeking to put limitations on public libraries. via @dailymontanan.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/mont...

Forced sterilization of people with disabilities isn't a relic of the past—it's still happening. 30 states & D.C. have eugenics laws allowing forced sterilizations, with new laws passed as recently as 2019. More from Julia Métraux at @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As abortion bans increase maternal & infant mortality, Trump admin. shuttered the CDC's PRAMS, a program collecting maternal health data since 1988, for promoting "DEI." This racist action dismisses the realities of medical racism, which systemically & disproportionately harms Black pregnant people.

“May be” is doing a lot of work here

Companies doing moderation: not a free speech issue People blocking you for saying mean things: not a free speech issue Fact checks: not a free speech issue This right here? THIS is an attack, by the government, on your constitutional right to protest against oppression.

The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.

Trump: DOGE, which is headed by Elon Musk... DOJ lawyers, who've said that's not the case in court, 🤯

Palestinian women come forward with allegations of sexual violence by Israeli forces, @kylietcheung.bsky.social writes. While Western media pushes unsubstantiated claims of a campaign of sexual violence led by Hamas, Palestinian survivors are punished for reporting Israeli soldiers for abuse.

What's it gonna take for everyone to realize the occupant of the white house is fundamentally anti-American?

DOGE isn't firing people to make government more efficient. Let's just get that one out of the way and move on.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

sonic I would die for your slushies but your damn food needs work

Mitch McConnell voted WITH dems against RFK? These certainly are unprecedented times.

I am ashamed to be an American these days.

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

Tennessee lawmakers are taking on a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that children who are in the country without permanent legal status have the right to a public education. via @tennesseelookout.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tenn...

In May 2023, Harold Thompson killed his partner Gabriela Gonzalez for having an abortion. Pregnancy is the most dangerous time for people experiencing domestic violence. TX is forcing victims to remain pregnant while also relaxing gun laws in recent years: via @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

⚠️ ALARMING: The Trump administration is scrubbing reproductive health care information from the CDC website. Oh, and by the way, the site also suggests “adoption” when people search for "abortion."

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate

a friend sent me this today and it’s the best thing i have seen all week

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things.

JUST IN: The details on FBI employees comes in response to a Justice Department memo last week, asking for names of all current and former FBI personnel who worked on Jan. 6 cases or the prosecution of Hamas leaders.

If you’ve taken the oath to serve, today would be a good day to honor it.

🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours: 1️⃣ “Impeach Scott Bessent, the treacherous Treasury Secretary” (+4,450) 2️⃣ “Elon Musk is not elected & should not have access to government computer systems” (+3,553) 3️⃣ “Reject Vought Nomination to Uphold Democratic Checks and Balances” (+2,146)

Institutions that can sustain a body blow now is your time to step up

"They used us. During the campaign, the elected officials from the Republican Party, they actually told us that he was not going to touch the documented people. They said, 'No, it is with undocumented people.'" www.npr.org/2025/02/04/n...

This background radiation of anxiety is a gnawing hum.

Do me a solid, please tell your elected officials NO. I’m a teacher. We are begging you.

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person