Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Terry

Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 1d

By far the most likely outcome if you attend a rally, especially a big one, is that you'll experience feelings of joy and solidarity to a degree that can make you giddy. It's the best antidote for the fear, anger and depression resulting from all this constant bullshit. It's a great feeling. Go.

RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

I know there’s been an effort to make this seem scary and risky, but if we all show up, friends and neighbors in tow, it will be effective. Let’s show up for the brave people in Chicago, Portland, DC and LA.

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend folks

www.nokings.org#map

3 20 66

Reposted by Terry

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Someone involved with education policy flagged for me that getting rid of OSERS will disproportionately hurt students with disabilities in red states vs students with disabilities in blue states.

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

If you join any Facebook group for parents of kids with disabilities the first thing that hits you is how geographically and politically diverse our population is, and how protective we are of our kids. This is a moral fuckup but also just a massive political one.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

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.

2 9 33

Reposted by Terry

it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/can...

Immigration Hotline.

17 440 810

Reposted by Terry

RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 2d

Concert 🎵 for a Tiger 🐅 ❤️💙

46 150 780

Terry @terrybones.bsky.social · 2d

'Music has charms to soothe the savage breast'

20

Reposted by Terry

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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

34 860 2.4K

Reposted by Terry

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Here’s how tariffs work. Your costs go up, and that money gets transferred to the wealthy.

Whether you’re progressive, liberal, leftist, libertarian, communist, socialist, moderate, democrat, conservative, Christian, atheist, Gen Z, Boomer… we have the same enemy. It’s the oligarchs.

No Kings

53 810 2.8K

Reposted by Terry

Mary Gemignani @marygemignani.bsky.social · 2d

I had a great day birding yesterday. Sandhills and Great Blue Herons and Squirrels. Pics to come.

Here's one more of that wonderful brief close encounter with the Red-tailed Hawk.

Have a great new week!
#birds #Red-tailedHawk

A red-tailed hawk taking off from a rather low perch on a city sign. It's wings are spread and it's face and red tail are in good focus. The bird is just a few feet higher that the photographer.

14 33 270

Reposted by Terry

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

If you work at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and have been RIF'd, I'd love to speak to you. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I will need to verify your identity, but will conceal and protect your identity.

58 110