Alison
@mapsanddata.bsky.social
Data nerd passionate about public education, bike routes, housing, neighborhoods, kayaks, plants, cats, dogs, and just getting things done to make life better.
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Republicans have the money to do a DNA test on all immigrants, but they can’t find the money to test the years of backlogged rape kits.
Republicans protect rapists.
Republicans protect rapists.
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Republicans have the money to do a DNA test on all immigrants, but they can’t find the money to test the years of backlogged rape kits.
Republicans protect rapists.
Republicans protect rapists.
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
Is it normal/acceptable for charter school buildings to be mortgaged this much to the directors of the charter school & their families & friends? projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
Career Academy Of South Bend Inc, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Is it normal/acceptable for charter school buildings to be mortgaged this much to the directors of the charter school & their families & friends? projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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The suggestion here is essentially that, if a gerrymander is done for partisan gain, allowing that to occur is a more important goal than preventing disenfranchisement based on race. The implications for minority voting rights are staggering.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The suggestion here is essentially that, if a gerrymander is done for partisan gain, allowing that to occur is a more important goal than preventing disenfranchisement based on race. The implications for minority voting rights are staggering.
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One thing about the Biden admin. is that, two or three levels down, there were tons of smart, focused, pro-social people doing great things that never rose to the level of a headline.
Conversely, an enormous amount of the damage Trumpies are doing never makes the news.
Conversely, an enormous amount of the damage Trumpies are doing never makes the news.
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One thing about the Biden admin. is that, two or three levels down, there were tons of smart, focused, pro-social people doing great things that never rose to the level of a headline.
Conversely, an enormous amount of the damage Trumpies are doing never makes the news.
Conversely, an enormous amount of the damage Trumpies are doing never makes the news.
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Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 84.
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 84.
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Eighty years ago, Allies hauled Nazi brass like Göring and Hess into Nuremberg's courtroom 600, birthing war crimes and crimes against humanity charges that reshaped global justice, from Syria to Ukraine. #NurembergTrials #Germany
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Eighty years ago, Allies hauled Nazi brass like Göring and Hess into Nuremberg's courtroom 600, birthing war crimes and crimes against humanity charges that reshaped global justice, from Syria to Ukraine. #NurembergTrials #Germany
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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I’d choose 2 diff ones.
1) Require every state to have an independent districting commission and open primaries. It’s time to stop disenfranchising 40% of voters.
2) Kill Citizens United! Corporations are not people and money is not free speech!
1) Require every state to have an independent districting commission and open primaries. It’s time to stop disenfranchising 40% of voters.
2) Kill Citizens United! Corporations are not people and money is not free speech!
the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’d choose 2 diff ones.
1) Require every state to have an independent districting commission and open primaries. It’s time to stop disenfranchising 40% of voters.
2) Kill Citizens United! Corporations are not people and money is not free speech!
1) Require every state to have an independent districting commission and open primaries. It’s time to stop disenfranchising 40% of voters.
2) Kill Citizens United! Corporations are not people and money is not free speech!
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After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com
Artist Gary Tyler turns 40 years of wrongful imprisonment into powerful textiles
An exhibition of Tyler’s quilts captures scenes of humanity from within the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary.
laist.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com
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I resent that AI has stolen my peace and my time.
I spend endless amounts of time trying to determine what is real, then I spend even more time trying to help others see what is real.
I remember when hobbies were still a thing. Who has time for them now?
I spend endless amounts of time trying to determine what is real, then I spend even more time trying to help others see what is real.
I remember when hobbies were still a thing. Who has time for them now?
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I resent that AI has stolen my peace and my time.
I spend endless amounts of time trying to determine what is real, then I spend even more time trying to help others see what is real.
I remember when hobbies were still a thing. Who has time for them now?
I spend endless amounts of time trying to determine what is real, then I spend even more time trying to help others see what is real.
I remember when hobbies were still a thing. Who has time for them now?
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In Mendocino, river restoration pays off for salmon
Coho love the newly ‘messy’ streams.
Coho love the newly ‘messy’ streams.
In Mendocino, river restoration pays off for salmon
Coho love the newly ‘messy’ streams.
www.hcn.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
In Mendocino, river restoration pays off for salmon
Coho love the newly ‘messy’ streams.
Coho love the newly ‘messy’ streams.
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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Good question, Junior!
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Good question, Junior!
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Am I the only one irritated by politicians saying they're going to enact x y or x policy on DAY ONE? Because no you're not. Get your parking pass, ID badge, and lil lumbar support pillow for your office chair. Don't be ridiculous.
October 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Am I the only one irritated by politicians saying they're going to enact x y or x policy on DAY ONE? Because no you're not. Get your parking pass, ID badge, and lil lumbar support pillow for your office chair. Don't be ridiculous.
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The 119 Congress is what happens when instead of electing level headed representatives you go groupies who ran on “our candidate is never wrong now watch me shoot this woke beer with a machine gun”.
Expecting them to legislate is like expecting the kid lighting his farts on fire to start flying.
Expecting them to legislate is like expecting the kid lighting his farts on fire to start flying.
a man with glasses and the words " it 's true " behind him
ALT: a man with glasses and the words " it 's true " behind him
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October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The 119 Congress is what happens when instead of electing level headed representatives you go groupies who ran on “our candidate is never wrong now watch me shoot this woke beer with a machine gun”.
Expecting them to legislate is like expecting the kid lighting his farts on fire to start flying.
Expecting them to legislate is like expecting the kid lighting his farts on fire to start flying.
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The Treasure Valley press corps is just tearing up the #WilderRaid coverage. Great, deadline accountability reporting from multiple outlets www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...
FBI modifies statement on reports of zip-tied minors in Wilder raid after questions from Idaho News 6
During our coverage of the raid, Idaho News 6 obtained a photo that shows a 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties. Idaho News 6 replied to the FBI statement with the aforementioned photo.
www.kivitv.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Treasure Valley press corps is just tearing up the #WilderRaid coverage. Great, deadline accountability reporting from multiple outlets www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...
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NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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He has a point. I can't remember a SecDef inviting a reporter to their classified Signal chat either.
KARL: Why is the Defense Secretary afraid to interact with journalists who cover him?
JOHNSON: I reject the premise
KARL: The guy has only had 2 briefings and he basically forced the press out
JOHNSON: I can't remember a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent and out in the open
JOHNSON: I reject the premise
KARL: The guy has only had 2 briefings and he basically forced the press out
JOHNSON: I can't remember a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent and out in the open
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
He has a point. I can't remember a SecDef inviting a reporter to their classified Signal chat either.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social