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nhannahjones.bsky.social
Elon Musk ran an unofficial government agency and sat at the right hand of the President as he waged the broadest attack on civil rights in a century and is openly agreeing with and boosting white supremacists. Yet he earned a $1 trillion pay package and news coverage that rarely mentions this.
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Oh my god.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."

Bovino was there.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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jillbarshay.bsky.social
My story today, "Talk nerdy to me," explains why. (4/4)
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Talk nerdy to me: Teachers who use math vocabulary help students do better in math
Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices
hechingerreport.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“Trump and his administration have lied, consolidated power, and committed war crimes to seize Venezuelan oil and pursue regime change for their imperialistic agenda in the Western Hemisphere,” said Rep. @ramirez.house.gov. “Trump must be impeached.”
January 4, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This is how it's done. If incumbent Democrats won't do the job, their primary challengers can and will use this to make sure someone else does
fpwellman.bsky.social Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 5d
The Republican Congress has chosen to give away its authority and power and now we are being told Trump plans to occupy Venezuela. We don't cry for Maduro. We demand the following of our laws and Constitution. He is already threatening Mexico and Cuba will be next. Ann Wagner is silent.
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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mandercorn.bsky.social
It’s here: my 2025 Research Roundup.

If there’s one central theme this year, it’s connectivity. The research confirms we are ecologically situated, rhythmically attuned, and socially dependent learners.

Here is what we learned this year. write.as/manderson/wh...

#research #ecology #education
What We Learned from Research in 2025
I haven’t written many posts in 2025; here are the measly few I’ve managed to squeak out: Literacy Is Not Just for ELA: The Power of Co...
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January 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies.

Full statement below:
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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svecrumba.bsky.social
Republicans think releasing the Jack Smith deposition on New Year's Eve will make it get lost in the fray. Prove them wrong by spreading the word; here are some key takeaways to get us started. www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-2...
5 eye-popping claims Jack Smith made during his deposition with House GOP
House Republicans finally released on Wednesday the long-awaited transcript of former special counsel Jack Smith's deposition before the House Judiciary Committee. The 255-page document was released o...
www.rawstory.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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simplyskye.bsky.social
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
AOC speaking to reporters
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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karlbode.com
Greene's insane conspiratorial bigotry is framed as "unrepentant pugilism" by the Times, who clearly wants to aid her faux-religious image rehab for her Presidential run

I'd genuinely be embarrassed to work at this paper
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
I knew this was gonna happen, and absolutely the fuck not. she‘s an antisemitic fascist trying to rebrand herself. Bye.
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
(!) Just weeks before Jeffrey Epstein was dead, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was apparently monitoring Julie Brown, a journalist who has led coverage on Epstein.

Why?
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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joshmcelwee.org
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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beyerstein.bsky.social
I had to double check on PBS’s feed to make sure this wasn’t AI. Rubio looks so fucked up, I assumed it must be fake. But no, it’s real.
jules.su Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 17d
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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mattortega.com
A candidate running on dismantling ICE, you say?
Fight for Justice Abolish ICE! mattortega.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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jaywillis.net
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
That shady effort to delay the Olympic wage? Apparently Karen Bass was "instrumental in making that happen" 😮‍💨

LAT reporting she arranged a meeting between VICA president Stuart Waldman — and LA28 board member, it should be noted! — and MHD, who then introduced the motion to slow the wage increase
Waldman told The Times that he is supporting the mayor in his personal capacity, though VICA has not yet endorsed. In 2022, Waldman and VICA supported Caruso, and Waldman spoke at some Caruso events. He said he switched to Bass this time partly because of his unhappiness with the $30-minimum wage for airport and hotel workers passed by the City Council earlier this year. Businesses cannot move quickly enough to raise worker wages without laying off other workers, he said. Waldman said that Bass arranged for him to meet with Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who then introduced a motion that would phase in the minimum wage increase over a longer period. The current law brings the wage up to $30 by 2028, while Harris-Dawson wants the $30 minimum to start in 2030. “Bass was instrumental in making that happen, and we appreciate that,” Waldman said. Harris-Dawson, a Bass ally, was at the campaign kickoff but did not make a speech.
December 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.

www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Headline from Forbes: 8 Ways The National Center For Atmospheric Research Helps You, By Marshall Shepherd
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM