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I am so proud to be a member of @cecmembership.bsky.social this is my why. We make a difference for all exceptional learners. #CEC2025
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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CEC joins more than 375 national and local organizations in sounding the alarm over the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Education. These cuts target critical agencies and threaten decades of progress protecting the rights of students with disabilities.
exceptionalchildren.org/blog/departm...
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
video.snapstream.net/Play/2rOR29A.... I stand with Council for Exceptional Children
CNN News Central - Trump Administration's Mass Firings Impact Special Education Services
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October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Please re-share, this is an urgent call to all those who care about educating infants, toddlers children, and youth with exceptionalities. Over the weekend the US Department of education issued massive layoffs that virtually dismantling OSEP & RSA exceptionalchildren.org/takeaction
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October 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education. n.pr/48stHUo
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.
October 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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9 October 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Erdos, was born in Miskolc.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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PODCAST | Criminal pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz

German doctors conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Listen about the medical crimes in Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/criminal-pseudomedical-experiments-in-auschwitz/
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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In Ghislaine Maxwell’s Justice Department interview, she comes off as pathetic, loathsome, and utterly lacking in remorse. The entire operation was damage control—an attempt to exculpate President Trump from his own involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department
Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
Hurricane science has come far since Katrina. That progress is now at risk
Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
n.pr
August 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Check out this article from The Palm Beach Post:

Jeffrey Epstein victims in Palm Beach County schools: Board may post sex trafficking fliers

www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/e...
Jeffrey Epstein victims in Palm Beach County schools: Board may post sex trafficking fliers
Information fliers on human trafficking would be placed in private areas of middle and high schools in Palm Beach County.
www.palmbeachpost.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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24 August 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ivonne Stern, was born.

In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
August 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.
Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case
The voting system manufacturer claimed the news channel made false statements about the company.
www.politico.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Members of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy, the closest crime we have to treason itself
Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.”

This is who Trump is sending into our cities to terrorize Black & Brown communities.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZldGb...
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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18 August 1912 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Maria Friedländer-Koen, was born in Watergraafsmeer.

In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her son Max Arnold. They were both probably murdered together in a gas chamber after the selection.
August 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Source: Education Week
August 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Check out this article from The Palm Beach Post:

Housing help: The Breakers unveils renderings for 8-story apartment complex for its workers

It would be nice if this could be done for beginning and early career teachers.
www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...
Housing help: The Breakers unveils renderings for 8-story apartment complex for its workers
The Breakers, the iconic Palm Beach hotel, wants to house more than 100 of its temporary workers in a new apartment complex it’s proposing to build.
www.palmbeachpost.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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14 August 1941 | Saint ft. Maximilian Kolbe OFM was killed with a phenol injection in a starvation cell of Block 11 of the German #Auschwitz I camp. On 29 July 1941, he offered his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape of a prisoner.

Our podcast: youtu.be/lo4FEfUFXAo
August 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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13 August 1908 | German Jew, Kurt Höxter, was born in Frankfurt am Main. He emigrated to Belgium.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 9 September 1942. He did not survive.
August 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office won't pursue charges against US citizen detained by Border Patrol
July 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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27 July 1915 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Elisabeth Kanstein, was born in Arnhem.

She was arrested while trying to get to Switzerland. She was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz in November 1942. She did not survive.
July 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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24 July 1941 | A Slovak Jewish girl, Františka Haberova, was born in Topoľčany.

In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM