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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 12h

Ferrets

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 13h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15h

Cargill makes a great point here. Cinemas lost a lot of Dads in the pandemic. We upgraded our home theater systems and we got comfy as FUCK; even with big “cinema experience” blockbusters, for all but the biggest event movies we’ll wait for Blu-ray. Take risks on NEW stories for new generations!

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16h

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 17h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Bob Ratz @ratman1967.bsky.social · 15h

This doesn't just affect rural areas. All those rural people who survive the 2+ hour transport are going to drown the capacity of remaining hospitals. There will be pain, injury, and death for everyone to share.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 13h

One does not simply -turn away- a Procession.
I've been a lapsed Catholic for twenty years and I flinched at that thought.
The presence and solemnity and dignity can be important even for Non-Catholics that witness or take part in it.
Good on this congregation.
Have mercy on their souls indeed.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 13h

The Congressional and Senatorial majorities, too.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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hyla @hylabuns.bsky.social · 14h

bunny name of the day: Quadratic Formula

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Old Man J @oldmanj.bsky.social · 21h

You put your right claim in, you put your left claim in, you leave the context out and you turn yourself about. You do the okey dokie and you pat yourself on the back. That’s what it’s all about

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 21h

Abolition of ICE and prosecution of agents for criminal violation of the rights of Americans is at this point the MODERATE position.

ICE, as an agency, does not need to exist. Its sole purpose is and has always been this type of brutality. It cannot be reformed and is fundamentally unnecessary.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 22h

If a battery cannot be handled by a median public operator, swapping will require more compromises than it delivers advantages. Its use case is *extremely* niche and the convenience is dubious at best.

RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 22h

Ugh, I see we have a new wave of "battery swap stations for EVs" hype articles and friends: that's one of the worst ways to support EV charging for anything bigger than a scooter.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 23h

A lot of US things are outdated this way for much the same reason: we largely let corpos who are "natural near-monopolies" self regulate.
A business is not naturally innovative. Innovation costs money. Advancement costs money. Expenses make number go down.
Advertising & lobbying are far cheaper.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23h

One of the things that strikes me on visiting the US is how antiquated the banking is, in a lot of ways. No, I don’t have a Venmo, if I want to transfer money to someone electronically I use my banking app. I have no idea when I last used my cheque book. Why are you taking my card? I need to sign!?

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 23h

With what money, Donny? We're supposedly broke.

Whomever comes after needs to pledge to tear down these fake monuments.
This arch, the Rose Garden, the fucking ballroom. All of it.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

--actual white supremacists seized on the gesture as an actual literal signal to each other because now they had plausible deniability: "That's something 4chan made up, it's just the ok symbol, don't be ridiculous and oversensitive!"

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's like the 4chan false-flag repurposing of the "ok" hand shape as a white power gesture: it was originally a false flag "let's try to get people to believe this ridiculous thing" like the whole "end Father's Day" op, but the second they tried to spread the fake idea--

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 1d

If an activity can be traced to a particular policy, then the senior leadership approvers need to also be held accountable via steep fines.
Don't let someone who approved a bad policy & did nothing to stop it when it "goes bad" escape accountability & fob off the fines on their employees

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