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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 59m

More CDC Cuts 💣💥

Gone is the Employee Assistance Program. They help staff deal with many things, among them coping with the trauma of being the victim of a terrorist attack 2 months ago.

Also gone, every policy and communications role left, eliminating any communication function at CDC.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 21h

Gutted, and I only saw her on screen. You have that personal, working memory, so I know "gutted" doesn't begin to work. My condolences, @nicholehiltz.bsky.social, and I know her memory is a blessing.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

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Timeline cleanse. If this is on your #FYP, I'm as baffled as you are. I'm on a radio comedy show Wednesday nights. The Magnificent Glass Pelican. Do you want the house tour?

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

No, he is 54. Something in me just thought 62 sounded funnier. Maybe because he's younger thsn I am (I'm 56), so I needed to make him older than me for comedy purposes.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

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Timeline cleanse. If this is on your #FYP, I'm as baffled as you are. I'm on a radio comedy show Wednesday nights. The Magnificent Glass Pelican. Do you want the house tour?

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

The doctor:

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The doctor:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

If/when they circumcise him in his placenta (which he thinks is a Tesla vehicle) and then give him handfuls of Tylenol, then he catches autism.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

62-year-old male has opinions about how 18-to-21-year-old women style themselves. These opinions should be the unheard mumblings of a guy who's had the same seat at the bar since '97 & has not had anyone beside him on either side of his barstool since '98. Not a guest slot on Fox News' opinion show.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome, @andreapitzer.bsky.social!

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

I know. He's younger than I am (56). "62" just felt funnier for me when I typed it.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

They fact-checked the least important inane statement from him! Building materials. Nothing about his claim that the city is "burning down," which is not true. What, if there's a housefire in Portland, OR., any single day, we can't correct him, as a building in the city would be "burning down?"

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 1d

the new york times has helpfully clarified that buildings in oregon are made out of modern construction materials.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

I forgot about Love and Rockets. They should have been bigger. Their song is now active in my brain.

That's a funny close-encounter story. Did you and your friends take one of his demos? Or was he just forcing them on people? We all start somewhere. He had to climb up from his childhood mansion ...

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

62-year-old male has opinions about how 18-to-21-year-old women style themselves. These opinions should be the unheard mumblings of a guy who's had the same seat at the bar since '97 & has not had anyone beside him on either side of his barstool since '98. Not a guest slot on Fox News' opinion show.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

62-year-old male has opinions about how 18-to-21-year-old women style themselves. These opinions should be the unheard mumblings of a guy who's had the same seat at the bar since '97 & has not had anyone beside him on either side of his barstool since '98. Not a guest slot on Fox News' opinion show.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 1d

They fact-checked the least important inane statement from him! Building materials. Nothing about his claim that the city is "burning down," which is not true. What, if there's a housefire in Portland, OR., any single day, we can't correct him, as a building in the city would be "burning down?"

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 1d

the new york times has helpfully clarified that buildings in oregon are made out of modern construction materials.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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