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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 11h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 1d

Also these are child actors, and it’s low budget. It was totally fine for what it was.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 1d

You betcha!

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 1d

Formal review of the play is in from the 3rd grader. Highlights:
- 4/10
- “Too cringe”
- “When Charlotte made her third web she was like 50 feet away from the web. Let’s get a little not so cringe.”
- “At least the bus ride was fun.”

Part of a worksheet. The top has printed on it: “Our field trip to the theater to see Charlotte’s Web October 8, 2025.” Below that, a child has written: “too cringe,“ drawn a spider, and written 4/10.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 1d

Alarmed by how quickly and easily “ope!” entered my vocabulary after moving to Minnesota.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 1d

Wisconsin train ride as the trees drop their leaves

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

“What we don’t want to become the norm is where people think, ‘OK, there’s a new administration, now everyone in the old administration gets prosecuted. That’s an incredibly dangerous cycle where nobody wins.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

www.nbcnews.com

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 2d

Credulous rubes at one of our supposedly most prestigious academic institutions.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah brother

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 2d

We had a very good laugh about it when he got home from school. And he said the ham Lunchable was A+.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 2d

Kavanaugh Stop

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 3d

“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda said to the officers in the video.

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 3d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is showing other Dems how to stand up to fascist bullies.

You don't reach across the aisle and tell them you want to be friends. You don't negotiate with limp-dicked wannabe dictators and terrorists who threaten your freedom.

Fuck you, come and get me.

That's where you start.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 3d

I chaperoned my oldest kid’s field trip to see Charlotte’s Web today at a local theatre. About halfway through the play, I realized I’d put a ham lunchable in his lunchbox. My b, bro! 🫣

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. One of the obvious foreseeable consequences here, on top of generally discouraging large groups of people from going to their polls bc it might put their lives in danger.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 4d

Noooooerrrrr

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 4d

Lar Lar Bonito and Munchkin

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 4d

A grey and black cat with a white cat. Both look up at the camera. The white cat has his front paws resting in the grey cat’s fur.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t love it!

AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Well, you can hear planes trying to land themselves in Burbank tonight. Cross fingers no issues.

https://www.liveatc.net/hlisten.php?mount=kbur3_gnd_twr&icao=kbur
#bur #aviation

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