LJC

The “clever” sounding Liberty Justice Center (LJC) based in Austin Texas, is on the attack against the members of the Chicago Teachers Union by suing the CTU. The Liberty Justice Center often represents the Illinois Policy Institute and hate group Awake Illinois

What does the Illinois Policy Institute, Liberty Justice Center, Awake Illinois, Paul Vallas and many other neoliberal education privatizers have in common besides being emboldened by Trump and Project 2025? Spoiler-they are deeply connected 🧵

A woman's place is in her union!

For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.

Are Chicago police using CrimeTracer? - Chicago Reader The city says it paid $700,000 for a “law enforcement search engine” from the maker of ShotSpotter. But are police using it? No one will say.

It *appears* the Chicago Police have a new surveillance tool. We say that b/c the Mayor's office won't confirm the details. This follows a long history of agencies secretly entering into "trials" for surveillance that become permanent. Brandon Johnson is complicit.

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Thinking about this a lot

Trump is trying to gut libraries. Fight back with ALA. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association

Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.

The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.

Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

CORE leaders

CORE leaders

CORE leaders

Check out our CORE leaders talking to members and speaking with @jessehagopian.bsky.social
during the Teaching in the Age of Trump event at the CTU tonight.

Black students need to learn accurate and truthful history to change inequalities. That's why the @ctulocal1.bsky.social #ContractForBlackLives includes demands for academic freedom for teachers to teach Black history. #BlackLivesMatterInSchools.

All the love and solidarity to these workers

I love how the increasingly fascistic government thinks it somehow sounds *better* that an 11 year old cannot post anti-Trump sentiments without the literal Secret Service showing up than to admit when ICE agents are attempting to raid public schools. That's their save?

‘Less than slaves’: The Palestinians detained by Israel despite ceasefire Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas.

"Every day, the occupation [army] arrests 30 to 40 or even 50 new prisoners."

Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig

Literally doesn’t matter if it was ICE or the Secret Service. Federal Agents went to a Chicago Public Elementary School today to get a child and cause fear and chaos.

Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.

Time found that nearly 2/3’s of Trump’s orders mirror proposals from #Project2025

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Jan. 25, 1941: A. Philip Randolph and March on Washington A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, made the official call for a march on Washington, with the demand to end segregation in defense industries.

"Unless this war [WWII] sounds the death knell to the old Anglo-American empire. . . of exploitation for the profit and power of a monopoly capitalist economy, it will have been fought in vain."

#tdih 1941 A. Philip Randolph calls for March on Washington
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Call Target customer service at 800-440-0680 to complain about DEI rollbacks. Be nice to call agents bc they didn’t do this 🩷 let’s flood the call center!

ADL: Look guys, we can’t be just calling everyone who does a Seig Heil Hitler

Also ADL: The Pope is Hamas

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Three-column table highlighting differences between district public schools and charter schools' requirements versus those of private schools receiving public funds in Arizona. Private schools don't meet any of the requirements listed, while public schools meet all of them. The five requirements listed here are: answer to a board of public officials, follow public records and open meetings laws, make finances and budgets public, undergo academic and financial audits, and mandate that teachers be qualified.

In Arizona, private school parents can speak at public school board meetings and vote in board elections. But public school parents can’t freely attend a private school governing body’s meetings, even if the school is funded with taxpayer dollars.

Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4

Oddly enough, this is a real movement: In response to X/Twitter announcing they are using user content to train AI, Korean users began describing "destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick" as a healthy and wholesome traditional activity in order to contaminate the AI training data.

i have been told that if you don’t support this, it’s because you hate jewish people, but if you love jewish people, how could you ever wish to see them alienate themselves from their humanity to this degree

It's crazy to see people who have never before cared about CPS, suddenly discover that it exists

not voting should count as a vote for no president. that way we wouldn’t have to have a president

Trump Wants To Deport Them. Chicago Is Scaling Back Help. Meet The Migrants Stuck In Limbo The over 51,000 migrants who have arrived in Chicago since 2022 face a dwindling safety net and backlogs in work permit and immigration cases. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's border czar said deportations w...

BCC's Mina Bloom and Francia Garcia Hernandez spoke to recently arrived migrants, advocates, and nonprofit service providers about increasingly desperate circumstances many families face as short-term aid runs out and work permits fail to materialize fast enough. So many disconnects between systems.

“We discovered that, on average, a law enforcement officer has been charged with a crime involving child sexual abuse twice a week, every week, for 18 years.”

How Billionaires Have Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.

NEW: A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying a tax on investment income.

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Go let the senator know what you think about him voting to take away the healthcare of servicemembers' trans kids

19,000 Children Have Been Hospitalized for Malnutrition in Gaza in Last 4 Months The UN has also reported that there are at least 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza who can’t access essentials like food.

The UN has also reported that there are at least 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza who can’t access essentials like food.