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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier this week, Lofty Pigeon Books hosted a book launch for SANCTUARY SCHOOL by @chandlermiranda.bsky.social! This title highlights the many ways that K–12 schools can provide safe educational spaces and relevant, responsive resources for immigrant students. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4cK6ey7

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 2d

won’t someone please think of the poor white guy who was only worth…<quickly checks> a paltry $60 million dollars when he died.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Just for the avoidance of doubt, this is inexcusably racist and a sin against God.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

F Newsom.
That trans people deserve human rights IS a kitchen table issue.

Human rights are a basic, centrist platform piece.

Eroding the rights of vulnerable people to court bigots so they can say a different reason why they’re voting for fascism is how you keep losing elections, @democrats.org

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

their physical plants to climate change. But it absolutely uses expert, vetted code on back end.

(Full disclosure, I’m married to one of the founders so I’ve see it evolve, but it is very useful.)

www.fastcompany.com/91387732/vib...

Meet vibe coding's nerdy but sane sibling

Forget vibe coding. Aboard uses AI to turbocharge the planning and discovery phases of enterprise software development.

www.fastcompany.com

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

Aboard is doing this: and one of main goals is to make custom software for good works accessible. SalesF**e etc have gotten so big that nonprofits can’t adapt their products to your needs like you used to. I’m using aboard to make custom facilities walkthroughs to help warehouses, nonprofits adapt

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

“Bucking tradition”?!?!
-violating state sovereignty
-violating multiple court orders
-turning the military on the citizenry
-encouraging soldiers to violate the Geneva Convention

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 5d

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented.

How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?

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hallowellie maybe 🕷️ @ellie.thecancellations.com · 7d

A reminder for folks who agree: good reporting has expenses. I just chipped in, can you? unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

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The Homesick Montanan @homesickmontanan.bsky.social · 7d

The complementary tactic to requiring someone to be “grateful” is “see what you made me do?” They often are used together.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

size of contracts is *mind boggling.

The caffeine is not hitting today and the people keep talking to me and then my brain just goes ffffftttt.

Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

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the size of the NYC contracts for this garbage is drivel. And some principals insist the teachers use it. Some wave it off, but with the charterization of some districts, it's bad.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

That's our usual strategy. One kid told me I'm no longer allowed to correct the worksheets in red pen and send them back to the teachers. Apparently, that was utterly embarrassing.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

and decoding it is EXHAUSTING. The instructions aren't clear language and they're barely given books to read.

Not to toot my own horn, but I'm kinda smart, but when these kids need help on homework, I can't figure out what the questions are asking. And the drivel is so boring to read.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

I wonder how much of it is that most of what these kids are given to work with is not written by teachers or even educators. It's slop lessons for curriculae generated by Pearson or other massive contractors & they don't use literature or other primary sources, they use non-copyrighted drivel

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

This is a pretty comprehensive breakdown of why NO UNIVERSITIES SHOULD SIGN THE “COMPACT.”

No news orgs signed the pentagon rules and they withdrew them.

The most compelling reason to me is that it gives legal teeth to all sorts of first amendment violations and trans human rights abuses.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 9d

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

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Joshua Lenon @joshualenon.bsky.social · 8d

Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 8d

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 8d

I did this last week in person when a “Debate Me” asshat started following me with her camera out harassing me with questions about my pro immigrant shirt.

I looked at her calmly, said “I know who you are, and I’m not going to talk to you.”

Starving her of oxygen completely defused situation.

Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies

I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it

and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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