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Nylce Prada Myers
@nylcep.bsky.social
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Dreamer, reader, procrastinator, pilgrim, perpetual student, sometime teacher...lucky human
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Good. Grief.

This has to be some sort of red herring.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.

Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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He's talking like a man who realizes he won the lottery. He got wealthy doing the thing he loved and would be willing to do for much much less.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
😳😱😫

But good luck!🍀 If you just put yourself in the “have fun” mindset and laugh off the horror, you’ll be fine.
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“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt

Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.

A ballroom.
O. Good. Grief.
Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.
Author @jodipicoult.bsky.social is being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a high school musical.

“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...
“Tangerine Palpatine” is way too apt. How had I never heard this particular moniker? Thank you.
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The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us?

Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
Twin Cities area voters, please read this before heading to the polls and puzzling over the school board candidates on the ballot.
Thank you for this article. I care deeply about what’s going on in our schools, but it is not always easy to find the information I need since I’m not a parent.
Ya think?!?
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
I will never forget the olfactory assault that was the last afternoon class of my first day as a middle school teacher. The kids were returning to homeroom from gym class on a hot August day. Lord, have mercy.
I wish I’d had a teacher like you when I was a kid. What an unforgettable year of learning your lucky kiddos are embarking on!
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One of Jorge Ruiz’s lawyers believes there was an underlying bias that permeated the case from the first moments after the car crash, when an Alabama state trooper threatened to take Ruiz to jail if he did not speak English.

By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
How a Fatal Car Crash Tested Alabama’s Justice System
A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder after a fatal car accident in Alabama. His lawyers have come to believe that one factor changed the course of the case, starting in the first moments...
www.propublica.org
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Our government is engaged in child trafficking. They transported a kid across state lines, something even a parent is not allowed to do without the express permission of the other parent. Someone in the GOP needs to explain how this makes this country safe. 2/2
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
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"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."
The Assault on Children
MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io
Who’da thunk it?
Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.
“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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This is a travesty, a betrayal of our future. Public schools, while far from perfect, embody this nation’s best ideals: to serve and advance “liberty and justice for ALL.”
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"If we follow the example of our South African siblings, we in the U.S. need to articulate a prophetic theology that refuses to be neutral or apolitical, and is committed to explicitly naming and condemning the powers that prohibit justice."
My latest for @sojo.net:
sojo.net/articles/opi...
We Aren’t the First Christians To Face a Kairos Moment
Forty years ago, South African Christians showed us how to resist repressive regimes and twisted theologies.
sojo.net