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One of the best paid family and medical leave programs in the entire country is starting here in Minnesota on January 1st.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One of the best paid family and medical leave programs in the entire country is starting here in Minnesota on January 1st.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
I've been organizing for over 12 years, and we finally got it done.
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More than 1,000 charities submitted federal tax filings without language reflecting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in mission statements from their earlier filings.
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
More than 1,000 charities submitted federal tax filings without language reflecting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in mission statements from their earlier filings.
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him.
“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.
“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.
Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…
www.propublica.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."
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The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.
So we made that list for you 👇
So we made that list for you 👇
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
www.propublica.org
September 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.
So we made that list for you 👇
So we made that list for you 👇
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Library boards play an extremely influential role in defining what the public library should be, what it should do, and who it should serve. But despite their critical role, library boards are missing from all long-running library research surveys. (1/4)
September 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Library boards play an extremely influential role in defining what the public library should be, what it should do, and who it should serve. But despite their critical role, library boards are missing from all long-running library research surveys. (1/4)
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It's that time of year again. I'm trying not to use Amazon, and I've deleted my meta accounts, so my reach is limited. But any help getting some books for my amazing fourth graders, some of whom I also had in kindergarten, is appreciated.
@prisonculture.bsky.social will you repost please? 💙
@prisonculture.bsky.social will you repost please? 💙
It's almost time for a new year. If you would like to help buy books for my students (fabulous fourth graders), you can use this link. Thank you! You'll also be supporting my favorite books store @spokeandwordbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #EduSky
School Year 2025/2026
Bookshop.org Custom Registry
bookshop.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's that time of year again. I'm trying not to use Amazon, and I've deleted my meta accounts, so my reach is limited. But any help getting some books for my amazing fourth graders, some of whom I also had in kindergarten, is appreciated.
@prisonculture.bsky.social will you repost please? 💙
@prisonculture.bsky.social will you repost please? 💙
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I set chrome to default to web search instead of AI search and I am delighted. 😙
May 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I set chrome to default to web search instead of AI search and I am delighted. 😙
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Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
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If you live in Ohio, please contact Governor Dewine's office and urge him to veto the provision that restricts access to library materials. Please also share this to ensure that the word gets out.
#Libraries
members.olc.org/news/Details...
#Libraries
members.olc.org/news/Details...
OLC Raises Alarm Over State Budget Cuts and Provision Segregating Materials
The Ohio Library Council (OLC), representing Ohio’s 251 public library systems, is sounding the alarm over provisions in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-2027 state budget (House Bill 96) that threaten both ...
members.olc.org
June 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you live in Ohio, please contact Governor Dewine's office and urge him to veto the provision that restricts access to library materials. Please also share this to ensure that the word gets out.
#Libraries
members.olc.org/news/Details...
#Libraries
members.olc.org/news/Details...
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“This language is dangerously vague, overly broad, and ultimately unworkable. It opens the door to unconstitutional censorship and undermines the core mission of libraries—to provide free and open access to information.”
Ohio libraries may be required to remove items on sexual orientation from kid's sections
Libraries may be required to keep material on gender identity and sexual orientation away from kids. But librarians say that's unworkable and costly.
www.dispatch.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“This language is dangerously vague, overly broad, and ultimately unworkable. It opens the door to unconstitutional censorship and undermines the core mission of libraries—to provide free and open access to information.”
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10 years ago
#tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S.
Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵
Art by Panhandle Slim
#tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S.
Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵
Art by Panhandle Slim
June 17, 2015: Charleston Church Massacre
Nine African American churchgoers were gunned down inside a church in an act of white supremacist terrorism.
www.zinnedproject.org
June 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
10 years ago
#tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S.
Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵
Art by Panhandle Slim
#tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S.
Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵
Art by Panhandle Slim