Thomas
@tommy3320.bsky.social
Philly, he/him, tech, dread-optimist. Found my new home.
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People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.
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CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down (Politico)
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October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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For Taste: A personal essay about stews, Covid, witches, memory, and TikTok Trends. All hail, mouthbone soup. tastecooking.com/stew-kids-on...
Stew Kids on the Block
The rise of the stewfluencer is more than a TikTok trend. It’s a way of life.
tastecooking.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
For Taste: A personal essay about stews, Covid, witches, memory, and TikTok Trends. All hail, mouthbone soup. tastecooking.com/stew-kids-on...
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That is like asking Charles Manson to devote his attention to family to foster care
Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” https://theatln.tc/6RCOGO23
August 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That is like asking Charles Manson to devote his attention to family to foster care
New tagline for Columbia: Trump University 2.0 --you can't keep a good scam down!
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New tagline for Columbia: Trump University 2.0 --you can't keep a good scam down!
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You can text "Hello" to 741741 any time and talk to a crisis counselor. It's free and available 24/7 in the US and Canada. It doesn't matter what kind of crisis you're experiencing; if it's a crisis to you, it's a crisis to them.
June 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
You can text "Hello" to 741741 any time and talk to a crisis counselor. It's free and available 24/7 in the US and Canada. It doesn't matter what kind of crisis you're experiencing; if it's a crisis to you, it's a crisis to them.
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oops the Anxious Gen Z Workplace Trend Tone button on my keyboard got stuck and now I need to go take a microvacation www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Day in the Life of the Gen Z Worker
Are you sure these are new workplace trends? Are you sure you aren’t just describing a routine phenomenon in an alarmed way?
www.theatlantic.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
oops the Anxious Gen Z Workplace Trend Tone button on my keyboard got stuck and now I need to go take a microvacation www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
New Public Enemy!
BLACK SKIES OVER PROJECT (Apartment) 2025
PUBLIC ENEMY drop surprise new album,!!
We hear you and we here to still Fight the Power with ya as The Hits Keep On Comin
You can’t stream it but you can pay what you want for the next 72 hours at bandcamp.
publicenemy.bandcamp.com/album/black-...
PUBLIC ENEMY drop surprise new album,!!
We hear you and we here to still Fight the Power with ya as The Hits Keep On Comin
You can’t stream it but you can pay what you want for the next 72 hours at bandcamp.
publicenemy.bandcamp.com/album/black-...
June 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
New Public Enemy!
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We need to take wins where we can get them. Brock Hrehor reports on a bill that just passed in Philly that increases penalties for wage theft by adding damages, and shifts the burden of proof to employers.
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
How Philadelphia Secured Basic Rights for 750,000 Workers
As Trump kneecaps workers’ rights across the country, the city’s political and labor leaders have forged an alternative that furnishes new safeguards for Philadelphians.
prospect.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We need to take wins where we can get them. Brock Hrehor reports on a bill that just passed in Philly that increases penalties for wage theft by adding damages, and shifts the burden of proof to employers.
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
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RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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Not to sound like Mister Rogers but I’m grateful for people who hear about someone struggling and help in all the ways they are able. It’s not transactional – it’s just what cool people do. In today’s America, that’s an act of rebellion and we fucken love you.
June 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Not to sound like Mister Rogers but I’m grateful for people who hear about someone struggling and help in all the ways they are able. It’s not transactional – it’s just what cool people do. In today’s America, that’s an act of rebellion and we fucken love you.
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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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“The physician looked at her and said: “Idaho is not a safe place to be pregnant right now.” Then, as the devastating truth sank in, he added: “If you were my daughter, I’d have told you not to get pregnant in this state.””
Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety
Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“The physician looked at her and said: “Idaho is not a safe place to be pregnant right now.” Then, as the devastating truth sank in, he added: “If you were my daughter, I’d have told you not to get pregnant in this state.””
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Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
May 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
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Ciabatta not fuck with them, they don't knead to put up with naan of your shit. You butter believe they'll crumb right at you and you'll be toast, your loaf over. Do you want your mama putting flours on your grave? Crust me, that's just how they roll. Okay, challah at you later.
May 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ciabatta not fuck with them, they don't knead to put up with naan of your shit. You butter believe they'll crumb right at you and you'll be toast, your loaf over. Do you want your mama putting flours on your grave? Crust me, that's just how they roll. Okay, challah at you later.
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Video by “thebartlett” on IG.
Officer Ricardo A. Lawerence is seen in the video assaulting a student protester at Brooklyn college. This officer has a long rap sheet of police misconduct.
Ricardo would later lose his belt and nearly LOST his GUN in the area. NYPD finest.
Officer Ricardo A. Lawerence is seen in the video assaulting a student protester at Brooklyn college. This officer has a long rap sheet of police misconduct.
Ricardo would later lose his belt and nearly LOST his GUN in the area. NYPD finest.
May 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Video by “thebartlett” on IG.
Officer Ricardo A. Lawerence is seen in the video assaulting a student protester at Brooklyn college. This officer has a long rap sheet of police misconduct.
Ricardo would later lose his belt and nearly LOST his GUN in the area. NYPD finest.
Officer Ricardo A. Lawerence is seen in the video assaulting a student protester at Brooklyn college. This officer has a long rap sheet of police misconduct.
Ricardo would later lose his belt and nearly LOST his GUN in the area. NYPD finest.
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Stop calling them “deportations.” Deportation requires due process of law and simply removes the person from our country.
These people were abducted, trafficked, and enslaved in a concentration camp.
These people were abducted, trafficked, and enslaved in a concentration camp.
May 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Stop calling them “deportations.” Deportation requires due process of law and simply removes the person from our country.
These people were abducted, trafficked, and enslaved in a concentration camp.
These people were abducted, trafficked, and enslaved in a concentration camp.
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**If you work or worked for the Department of Education, use Signal to directly contact reporter @jsmithrichards.bsky.social at jsmithrichards.93 or reporter @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88.
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
**If you work or worked for the Department of Education, use Signal to directly contact reporter @jsmithrichards.bsky.social at jsmithrichards.93 or reporter @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88.
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We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities.
Here's how to reach out.
Here's how to reach out.
Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students,…
www.propublica.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities.
Here's how to reach out.
Here's how to reach out.
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Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file…
projects.propublica.org
April 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Has Trump tried to appoint himself Pope yet?
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Has Trump tried to appoint himself Pope yet?