Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
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Nah, I think it's going to be a turnout election. Trump voters aren't going to be won over by messaging; they're going to stay home. The strategy should be lighting a fire under blue voters, and you don't do that by going Republican-lite.
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If her fetus is "in her placenta," that woman is in a ton of pain and the pregnancy's a nonstarter anyway. Good lord, don't take medical advice from this man.
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Why doesn't everyone believe me that we have a super secret healthcare plan that totally exists and I just can't talk about it yet when it would matter most?
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People are not going to get all of these separate shots. They're going to say, "What's rubella? Never heard of it. The internet says it leads to mild illness in most people."
And then we get an increase in preventable stillbirths and serious birth defects.
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Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."
Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."
The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.
Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naΓ―ve."
Pope Leo is spitting.
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I grieve for the Post that used to be. This rag is a shameful impostor.
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tl;dl:
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This is the episode you have been waiting for.
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Nah, I think it's going to be a turnout election. Trump voters aren't going to be won over by messaging; they're going to stay home. The strategy should be lighting a fire under blue voters, and you don't do that by going Republican-lite.
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A window into how policy is made in this White House
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π¨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.
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"we took the freedom of speech away"
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Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."
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Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
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Racist, wrong, and irrelevant, all in one soundbite. Quite an accomplishment.
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This! We do not have to nominate Gavin Newsom to get his social media person. Someone who isn't terrible in multiple critical ways can hire her away! (Her name is Camille Zapata.)
08.10.2025 16:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.
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Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!
Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned
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I.... do not understand how electricity works
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soybean farmers are panicking over loss of Chinese buyers, declare possible 'bloodbath'
Trump assault on wind projects hits red states hardest
businesses that depend on government contracts are already feeling the pain of the shutdown
no official jobs numbers during shutdown means Wall Street is turning to alternative measures -- and they show the situation is bad
If the economy could be represented by a giant dashboard of lights, they'd all be flashing red
08.10.2025 12:20 β π 109 π 36 π¬ 4 π 1
Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion.
They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less.
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Bookmark this video. It should be an everyday reminder of what Donald Trump is doing to chicago and the country overall. Stay outraged.
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) β Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as βLove thy neighborβ and βWho w...
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.
Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.
All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
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This chef literally catered events for President Bush in the 2000s. That's how little of a threat he was.
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This chef literally catered events for President Bush in the 2000s. That's how little of a threat he was.
08.10.2025 00:34 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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US military action is done with the American peopleβs money in the American peopleβs name, as is DOJ. The peopleβs elected representatives in Congress have oversight authority. They are 100% entitled to this info.
You know who doesnβt have to disclose legal advice? Personal attorneys and advisors.
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