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I’m just a guy who’s trying to keep informed. Not being very articulate myself, I hope to share posts of those who’ve said it better than I could.
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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We need the best educated workforce in the world.

We need the best teachers in the world.

We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.

No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
April 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.

No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.

That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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JUST IN: Dow drops over 1,200 points at open over global trade war fears following new tariffs
Dow drops over 1,200 points at open on trade war fears over new tariffs
President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on imported goods, which were higher and broader than many expected. The new import taxes are expected to raise prices and slow growth in the U.S., while pus...
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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No lies told here.
March 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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“When Mister Rogers’s testimony came up at the hearing last week, one witness said that Congress shouldn’t have listened to him.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...
Cutting Off NPR and PBS (Gift Article)
Republicans say there is no reason for the government to fund the public broadcasters.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM