Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School The legislation comes after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to i...

NEW: Illinois lawmakers ban schools from using police to ticket and fine students for minor misbehavior. This does not happen without the amazing reporting from @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social of @propublica.org and @chicagotribune.com.

www.propublica.org/article/illi...

Trump’s Infrastructure Funding Pause Impacts More than Highways America’s infrastructure is crumbling beneath our feet. We must reorient our thinking, writes Deborah N. Archer.

President Trump's pause on infrastructure funding won't just negatively impact our roads and highways, it will devastate our neighborhoods.

Has Zionism Become an Idol? In his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, Peter Beinart argues that worshipping the state of Israel elevates Jews over Palestinians.

"To conflate Jews with the state is very dangerous, and what it ends up doing, in a really perverse way, is it dehumanizes Palestinians. "

They said we couldn't have it - but trans joy is our reality Being trans is brilliant. It is joyful, wondrous, loving - and they can't take that away from us.

🏳️‍⚧️ "As a young person, I learned that to be trans was to be lonely, to be excluded, to be unhappy. As a trans adult I learned that I had been lied to."

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/they-said-we-couldnt-have-it-but-trans-joy-is-our-reality/

Jewish Academics & Holocaust Scholars stand beside Professors Cemal Kafadar & Rosie Bsheer; Denounce Harvard for legimitizing Trump's "cynical weaponization of antisemitism."

Read the full statement: app.box.com/s/yxg6i0hs89...

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

This should not be happening!

Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:

So wrong

There are no walls in a global environment. This is harmful global policy

If you are keen on media literacy and understanding exactly how propaganda is being deployed to destroy democracy the world over this pod is a must listen!

Like MH says

I feel like im screaming into a void whenever I try to encourage ppl to mask in crowded spaces but like…Can we care about each other a lil??? please??? Masking up inside of a cramped ass, flying germ infested tube is a VERY easy way to keep yourself and ur community safe! Plz consider! 😩🤲🏾

Well said

Tons of news headlines on Trump wanting to "take over" Gaza, that its people would have to "relocate" so the US will have an “ownership position," but somehow not one of them saying EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND A WAR CRIME.

I’m with you Jen Rubin

Bishop Budde does the work

KFF graphic featuring a quote from Samantha Artiga, KFF vice president and director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program. It says, “During the first Trump administration, restrictive immigration policies and increased enforcement activity led to increased fears among immigrant families across immigration statuses that had negative effects on health and well-being, employment, and daily life.”

⚡ KFF’s @sartiga.bsky.social writes about the likely health-related impacts of President Trump’s recent immigration policy changes. #QuickTake on.kff.org/4hrREfN

a penguin is holding a hammer next to a button that says ban ALT: a penguin is holding a hammer next to a button that says ban

We should be banning NDAs not books. Until we greatly limit the use of NDAs, powerful people will continue to use them as a weapon of silence -- leveraging their power to cover up wrongdoing. Protecting trade secrets is one thing, covering up bad behavior is another
#WomeinSTEM #WomeninTech

Coming to a blue city near you?

What the far right is building is global apartheid, just so you know.

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford; 3/6/1857; Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v. John F. A. Sandford; Appellate Jurisdiction Case ...

America used to tolerate such conditions, which the pre-civil war Supreme Court affirmed in its notorious Dred Scott ruling, which found that African Americans literally could not be citizens, and had no rights a white man needed to respect. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

You might want to read the 14th Amendment. The Leonard Leo majority on the Supreme Court invalidated Section 3 and now Trump is seeking to nuke Section One… constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests ...

This is Donald Trump’s vision of America: Parents arrested by ICE picking up their kids from school, community members targeted coming out of church.

It’s cruel and does nothing to make us safer.

Diverse-Owned Bookstores You Can Support Right Now Note: Updated January 2024. By Fin Leary If you’re shopping for books to give as end-of-year or even as thank-goodness-2020-is-over gifts, consider shopping small and give back to an independ…

Good morning party people! I found us another list of indie bookstores to support! 🥳🥳There’s sublists in here for Black owned, Latinx owned, Indigenous owned, Disabled owned, LGBTQ+ owned etc etc! Check it out 💙📚 🤓

This was reported. A lot. Not just by @motherjones.com etc, but by the biggest outlets. The bigger question is: why didn’t people see/believe/care about that reporting.

Stop blaming reporting entities for information ecosystem issues outside of their control.

Also…subscribe to some stuff ffs.

Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!