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Coalition for Responsible Home Education @responsiblehs.bsky.social · 29d

We are pleased to welcome Tess Ulrey of St. Joseph, Michigan as the new executive director at CRHE – a groundbreaking hire for the organization as the first full-time, permanent ED in CRHE’s 12-year history! Learn more about her here: responsiblehomeschooling.org/our-team/

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Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · Sep 4

The frustration: the expense & the lack of clarity & purpose on the mission to deploy at home.

There is no purpose other than power. This is not ok.

“I feel like maybe they would get a little boost in morale if they could just get a little bit more details.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

With no end in sight, National Guardsmen deployed to DC grow weary | CNN Politics

With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other.

www.cnn.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 19

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

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NLIHC @nlihc.org · Aug 13

From this week's #MemoToMembers: #NLIHC urges HUD to reverse plans to drop seven fair housing cases involving disparate impact discrimination. Weakening this protection risks allowing harmful housing practices to persist without accountability. More here: nlihc.org/resource/n...

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Aug 2

Shout out to the policy team @nlihc.org for this analysis of the bipartisan Senate housing bill!

NLIHC @nlihc.org · Aug 1

The bipartisan #ROADtoHousingAct 2025 was recently released. Check out #NLIHC’s analysis of this bill nlihc.org/sites/defaul... via @politico.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jul 24

Heat kills. A bill just reintroduced in Congress can save lives. Urge your members of Congress to back federal heat bill introduced on July 16th. Go to:
act.seiu.org/a/heat2025?m... #WeFeedYou #Calor

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A bill just reintroduced in Congress can save lives.

E-mail your Congressmembers today

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · Jul 22

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake, they said it was fhqwhgads

NYConnor @roxconn.bsky.social · Jul 21

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” well I asked Harley Cameron and then she pulled out a puppet of me and the puppet asked my question back in a mocking tone

✨ Kato Garrigues (He/She) ✨ COMMS OPEN @kgarriguesart.bsky.social · Jul 18

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well i asked hangman adam page and he called me a dumbass

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Jul 17

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jul 16

Does the Speaker not have a Ten Commandments idol - sorry, MONUMENT- posted where he can read no. 3?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 13

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 13

Philosophy professor & US Citizen Jonathan Caravello has been brutally detained & effectively disappeared for trying to help a legal observer remove a teargas canister from under their wheelchair during an ICE raid on a California farm.

…is a sentence I've now had to write. What… in the actual fuck

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 12

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous

Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Jul 12

Remember when the Trump admin tried to shut down the Social Security call line — falsely claiming 40% of callers were “fraudsters”?

Now they’re scrambling to fix it, because millions of Americans rely on it.

You can’t gut a vital agency and then pretend to care when it breaks.

Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line

The agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Jul 11

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jul 12

From a Biden appointee to whomever needs to hear it: don't be a bottleneck. If you insisted something cross your desk on its way out, block time on your calendar to read it, for goodness' sake.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · Jul 11

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jul 12

Gimme that old time tree-plantin' politics.

David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jul 12

Planting trees was good enough for the jobs program serving my Okie ancestors during the Depression.

Emma Kelly @evkelly.bsky.social · Jul 12

One of the more maddening things that emerged during this week’s DC trip was that apparently Noem doesn’t approve of FEMA disaster prevention $$$ being used to plant trees. Trees are one of the cheapest AND most effective flood mitigation tools that exists, esp. in areas with mining/logging damage

Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · Jul 12

I do not know how disaster survivors will ever make it through recovery in this administration — many couldn’t do it when there were people who cared in power— it’s infinitely worse now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Jul 11

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jul 12

Book bans are a bad look for the parents' rights extremists.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 11

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jul 11

Trump promised he'd target "criminal" immigrants. Instead of pursuing gangbangers and drug-dealers, he's rounding up grandmas, gardeners, cancer-stricken kids, construction workers.
He's stripping those here *legally* of their documents.
Even some GOP lawmakers have now begun to criticize him:

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Jul 11

i posted this thread on the other app last yr but wanted to put it over here bc ive been thinking again about the iraq war and the "torture debate" which was really an eye opening event politically for me....

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights @theyoungcenter.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 The Senate budget bill lets the government detain immigrant families indefinitely in unlicensed facilities.

This is a direct threat to children’s health and safety. Congress must reject this cruelty. 📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jun 25

Nothing whatsoever.

Coalition for Responsible Home Education @responsiblehs.bsky.social · Jun 25

Q2: What were you taught about LGBTQ+ history, culture, and identity as a homeschooled kid? #HomeschoolChat

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's on!

Coalition for Responsible Home Education @responsiblehs.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hello, and welcome to #HomeschoolChat, a discussion by homeschooled people, for homeschooled people. Today, we’re going to talk about our experiences within the LGBTQ+ and homeschool communities.

The Coalition for Responsible Home Education presents #HomeschoolChat: LGBTQ+ issues and homeschooling. Join our community of formerly homeschooled adults to discuss the connections between homeschooling and LGBTQ+ issues. June 25, 2025, 7 p.m. ET.

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jun 15

Last Summer I would see so many more more people on the Mall any day I biked my son to museum camp.

Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · Jun 14

About an hour until parade start time in D.C., and there are plenty of prime viewing spots wide open, particularly toward the beginning of the route.

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David Gonzalez Rice @dgonzrice.bsky.social · Jun 8

#iceprotests