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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1h

Can’t wait to be on the other side of this pile!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1h

I always think of @icpetrie.bsky.social when I get ready to fold the laundry, that is the power and legacy of a decade on Twitter.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1h

Can't wait!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1h

Katy is the best!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3h

And hi Safe Libraries Guy. Feel free to screenshot and tell twitter that I'm having a meltdown.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3h

The entire Republican party is united behind this guy and his violent buffoonery. How anybody continues to vote for these people is a mystery to me. Is it that important to you that kids don't learn how to read? That people go hungry and sick? That Marxist lesbians get put in their place?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like 80% of it is getting yourself to the meeting, staying to the end, and going back next time. Grateful for you too!

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 4h

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4h

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 4h

Go to the meeting. Stay in it. When they ask for volunteers, say yes. Do the thing you said you were going to do. Go to the next meeting.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 4h

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4h

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 4h

I was lucky to visit with South Carolina library workers three times during my term of ALA service. Some the most fierce defenders of the rights of children I have ever met. Solidarity!

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

**NEW**

Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy.

bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

Image of lady justice beside a stack of books.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 4h

“Speak English or die.” Wow. This #BannedBooksWeek let’s also think about linguistic hegemony—what languages don’t get published & read. Lingít is an endangered language of the Tlingit people of the Pacific NW Coast. What does it sound like? Give these recordings a listen! tinyurl.com/4h4xkvwp

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 4h

LISTEN: The Trump administration is using the federal shutdown to snatch away money it’s already committed to huge New York transit projects that are already ongoing.

LISTEN: An $18 Billion Transit Cut Is No Way to Cut Through Gridlock

A weekday newsletter to keep you up on New York.

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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 5h

For the first time, housing code violations issued by the city at NYCHA properties are now publicly available—giving public housing residents information about their buildings that tenants in privately-owned properties have long had access to. citylimits.org/city-issued-...

City-Issued Violations at NYCHA Developments Are Now Public, Following Legal Settlement - City Limits

NYCHA residents can now look up housing code violations for their buildings online, something tenants in privately-owned properties have long been able to do.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 19h

"What I do know is that we need the #humanities now, perhaps more than we have ever needed them, because we live in a time when so many of us have forgotten this crucial truth: We are a fangless, clawless, furless species, & we survive only in community." - @margaretrenkl.bsky.social #NEH #Tennessee

Opinion: With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

The letter of the law is as plain as can be—federal workers, including furloughed workers, are entitled to their backpay following a shutdown.

Another baseless attempt to try and scare & intimidate workers by an administration run by crooks and cowards.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

A draft White House memo, reported by Axios, reinterprets the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, or GEFTA, to stiff federal workers on furlough amid the longest shutdown in U.S. history. trib.al/fWCjnLQ

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

California's governor says Hollywood-Burbank airport has no air traffic controllers this evening due to the federal government shutdown. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/ne...

Hollywood Burbank Airport without air traffic controllers Monday night due to staffing shortages

The Hollywood Burbank Airport will be operating without air traffic controllers on Monday night, which could create considerable delays for travelers.

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Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Teaching 200 Children in Gaza’s Refugee Camps

Before the war, I worked as an English language teacher at a kindergarten in the Gaza Strip. In the evenings, I gave private lessons to students at my own educational centre beneath my house. I had been working since university,

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Bad Bitches Love Nujabes @play-on-verbs.blacksky.app · 2d

sometimes he makes moves I disagree with but Mayor Johnson has shown that he serves the city of Chicago and not a political career

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d

A direct attack on New York City schoolchildren. Disgusting and craven.

New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 2d

The #Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding #transgender students.

Trump administration cancels NYC magnet school funding over transgender student policies

The Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding transgender students.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 2d

New post! It's the second installment in our series on the significance of federal data. This one on teaching students where data comes from! 🐣

#FederalData

Guest Post: Eggs Don’t Grow on Trees and Neither Does Data: How to Teach K-12 Students Where Data Comes From

Second in a series of posts about federal data and the Federal Statistical System.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 2d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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