Stirling
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Stirling
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Trying to improve some things.
Louisiana
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Good news for high school sports and nonprofit groups when it comes to taxes. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social reports:
Louisiana will honor tax exemptions for nonprofits, school sports after confusion • Louisiana Illuminator
The Louisiana Department of Revenue said the state will continue to recognize sales tax exemptions on K-12 school sports tickets and fundraising events for nonprofit organizations in 2025.
lailluminator.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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some words for the dark times
February 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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February 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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9. The systematic erasure is not without precedent. In the early 1930s, one of the first acts of Nazi power was the looting of the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology, where 30,000 pioneering books on transgender and queer identities were burned.

Sometimes history repeats itself.
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several d...
hmd.org.uk
February 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
February 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Saw a thread the other day on Threads written by @itsjenniferwalter.bsky.social and it really helped me re-frame all the political noise that's been happening lately. Sat down today to make a graphic version in nine cards which hopefully makes it even easier for folks to find and put into practice!
February 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM