Missouri budget negotiators agree to spend $50 million on private school scholarship program • Missouri Independent After a sharp, brief fight in which Democrats were outnumbered by majority Republicans, Missouri budget negotiators agreed to spend $50 million to expand the MOScholars program.

We are 49th in the nation for starting teacher pay but they found 50 million to send to private religious schools…

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When you finally find out

This is a spectacular display of incompetence.

some people go on vacations to sightsee and go on beautiful hikes but nancy mace flies around the country looking at bathrooms

Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future.

And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.

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Elon Musk doing fascist Erdogan's bidding has banned / censored popular opposition candidate @ekremimamoglu.com's account inside of Turkey.

Freedom of speech for some, suppression for everyone else.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record.

Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history.
 
Today, we’re seeing the results.

Toyota Says Tariffs Will Erase $1.3 Billion in Profits in Just 2 Months

Breaking News: Toyota said U.S. tariffs would cost it $1.3 billion in profits for April and May, and leave the auto industry “in extreme flux.”

Is this who we are?

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The corruption is staggering. So brazen.

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Salt Lake City and Boise make pride flags official city emblems, skirting flag ban laws The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho, adopted new city flags this week that show support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of new laws passed by their states’ Republican-con...

Resistance at its finest, we need actions like this on all fronts…

The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City & Boise adopted new city flags this week showing support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of their states’ Republican-controlled Legislatures.

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American Theater in Canton, NY: where the marquee has more backbone than a lot of CEOs right now.

Story about boyfriend of Trump voter being deported.

ICE came for him. Karma came for her.

Casual

Bird populations are declining all across North America They are "like the canary in the coal mine," one researcher cautions.

Some of the study results suggest that we are “seeing fundamental changes to the environments around us.”

from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

There are a group of people who are competing to come up with the cruelest possible way to treat immigrants and all of them deserve to be jailed for life

Tesla Sales Fall in Germany and U.K. to Lowest Point in 2 Years

Tesla sales in Germany and Britain fell to their lowest point in more than two years in April, cementing a wider trend of Europeans shunning the U.S. automaker.