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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 5h

Test data analysis from the decades before international studies became more systematic shows that US schools are performing about the same as they always have while becoming increasingly diverse & losing funding. US schools aren’t perfect, but they are remarkably consistent over time.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

'I'm not fearful, I'm fearless':
NY AG Letitia James responds to indictment

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 5h

Again, respectfully, the data doesn’t back that up. US public education wasn’t inclusive in the 1960s & 1970s, with thousands of children left out of schools. Comparative international data didn’t really exist then, but the data we do have shows achievement improved from 1971-2017.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 6h

I respectfully disagree. I’ve been a social studies educator for 25 years & k-12 social studies isn’t meant to be whitewashed or watered down. I teach undergrad elementary social studies methods & our work is centered on teaching inquiry based, justice oriented, and inclusive k-6 social studies.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is why Trump & Republicans went into the shutdown so confident. They banked on the Democratic Party’s weak reputation and assumed they would cave.

Well that’s not happening. Democrats are on the right side of the healthcare fight, and rank-and-file Dems want this battle because it’s worth it.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 18h

Jim Banks doesn’t care about paying our military or protecting air travel.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Sen. Jim Banks: "I hear from hoosiers every day who understand that the government in Washington is way too big, and they think about all the wasteful bureaucracy and bureaucrats in Washington DC, so in that case a government shutdown means less government and in many ways we're okay with that."

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 18h

I missed that!🤣🤣🤣

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 18h

Cool story, John. He’s had 10 years to come up with a plan and hasn’t bothered. But y’all shut down the government and it isn’t polling the way you hoped, so now I guess he has to say something. (not to be confused with actually doing something)

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 1d

Part of Resistance is making abusive authority uncomfortable.
OMG Robby performs an absolute resistance banger
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 20h

I live in Lisa McClain’s district, Mike. She’s refuses to hold town halls or respond to her constituents, things she can do in DC or here.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Just zero shame, these people....

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA.
Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Sickening.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Dorothee V. Plessis @dorotheevplessis.bsky.social · 1d

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 1d

While holding a Subway sub 👏👏👏 (I tried to get a screenshot with different lyrics, but that’s the part with the sub 🤷🏼‍♀️)l

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, because the issue with the post was the question about Bondi’s performance and not the weaponization of the DOJ by a twice-impeached felon cosplaying as the president 😐

Section of WSJ article about Trump’s post to Bondi on indicting Comey

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Em Fillips @emfillips.bsky.social · 1d

Gee, I wonder where they got that idea…😐

Police dog being used against peaceful Civil Rights protesters in Birmingham, AL, 1962

Police dog attacking peaceful Black Civil Rights protester in Birmingham, AL, 1962

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