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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

Something to celebrate at least.

Republican Congresswoman Failed to Properly Disclose 170 Trades Worth Up to $13.6M Dozens of those trades came in the form of stock sales made on March 18, when key details of Trump’s tariff policies were disclosed.

“Republican Congresswoman Failed to Properly Disclose 170 Trades Worth Up to $13.6M”

@davelevinthal.com for @notus.com

Louis XIV would throw up at the sight of it.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

*good

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

His show has been really god the last few months. He’s really doing a great job putting things out there.

*Some idiot

Someone idiot who thinks Trump cares about him.

I send my daughter a pic of it every day bc I’m so fascinated by it. Minou is in there for hours.

Sleeping inside a shopping bag…every afternoon.

The story they should be writing is why Harvard has produced so many ignorant GOP toadies.

And now there are guns everywhere in the public. Kent State might be “mild” in comparison to what’s possible.

"We took the freedom of speech away." Use this in every single ad.

How kind of them now that they’ve destroyed all infrastructure and starved or murdered much of the population.

Don’t you mean, “Mike Johnson again refused to swear in a publicly elected Democratic representative”?

The right to read…how sad is that.

Liars don’t stop lying just bc they’re lying to another liar.

Please…nothing Trump and his toadies do is based on precedent. And the Nobel will be named before then so it won’t help his cause.

THIS 👇👇👇

Even 2 in 5 Republicans understand Trump is impeding free speech It's not often the case that you will be working on a quick article about something only to have the president of the United States directly validate your thesis. But it happens occasionally, particul...

The day Trump declares that he "took the freedom of speech away," we get polling showing that even 40% of Republicans think that Trump's improperly punished people who say things he disagrees with.
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Can you and the Dems please use ads and social media to wake the public up to this. Speaking on the senate floor isn’t going to impact those that need to hear it.

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

If ICE thinks it's okay to assault a pastor in broad daylight, imagine what they're doing in the dark.

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

Gov. Wes Moore: "On behalf of 6.5 million Marylanders, my message to Trump is this: stop attempting to gut healthcare for working families and end this shutdown now. You're the one causing it. We're the ones feeling it. It needs to end."

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January.

Today it has two.

See how this works?

What is one thing our colleagues lost, miss and cannot escape in #Gaza? Hear our staff reflect on living and working through the genocide.

Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.