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ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

ProPublica has sued the U.S. Department of Education
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

Says the institution that never thinks it is possible for the US to veer into endless wars. A light at the end of the tunnel ever visible and moving ever closer.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

We make neurodivergents apologize ALL THE TIME

Also women, Black and BIPOC folx, disabled folx, *children* …

My challenge to us? Notice when we are accommodating someone else’s expectations, feel okay pointing that out, and requesting some accommodation from them in return. It’s really okay.

247 days until Election Day

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”

From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

We have a ludicrous situation in the UK.

Imagine it's the Falklands war, we are fighting Argentina we blow up their airbases, Brazil says use ours and we will shoot down missles fired at Argentina.

But no, no Brazil doesn't bomb us.

So we aren't at war.

I mean, who could have predicted that handing over the deadliest military in history to one of the most abusive, corrupt, laziest, incurious, and self-obsessed men in American history during the fall of the empire would be a bad idea

Gaah; autocorrect TAYMOR!

No Other Choice/The Ax Today is the day my late friend Adrean Darce Brent chose as her birthday; she told me once that the process took long enough that she had more than one day that could be considered so, but having t…

Film review, book review, and a friend who would have liked both kalaity.com/2026/03/02/n...

a man wearing headphones is sitting in a chair with his eyes closed . Alt: a man wearing headphones is sitting in a chair with his eyes closed .

These are not positive sounds...

Boss! Autistic woman smashing work goals rewarded with burnout An autistic woman has smashed the glass ceiling only to become too fucking exhausted to reap any of the rewards, it has been confirmed. Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and…

Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and girl-bossing her way through her event photography career only to find she now needs to nap for the entirety of her 30s.

In case you missed yesterday’s review, I covered wanton kilt flicking projected across New York City

The NYtimes and its pundit class manufactured consent for the war in Iraq - later admitting to using corrupt informants - for the genocide in Gaza, and now for the war on Iran.

We have to see these people for who they are: mouthpieces for American imperialism.

The physical media landscape in 2025 and beyond With new labels emerging, the future’s looking bright for DVD and Blu-ray. We talk to some of the companies involved in a disc renaissance…

With new labels emerging, the future’s looking bright for DVD and Blu-ray. We talk to some of the companies involved in a disc renaissance…
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Evergreen.

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

002: Pete Hegseth, Doug Wilson, and the God of War Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle

Want to learn more about Pete Hegseth's God of war, and how his brand of Christianity is driving what the Pentagon is doing? Listen to this episode from a few weeks ago, with @julieingersoll.bsky.social:

redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

In case you're wondering how some sectors of the Christian right are seeing Trump's war in Iran, I've just read several articles seeing a prophetic meaning in a coincidence of Trump's strikes, the assassination of Khameni, and a blood moon occurring on Purim (tomorrow).

I don't think it can be overstated how differently this would be covered under a Democratic President

The thing is .. that’s what a lot of people do!

They feel bad, they feel inadequate about SOMETHING they can’t control on a bigger

And they find someone who makes them feel inadequate but they can try and harm

And they connect the two

And use that prove gems elves powerful

#OtD 2 Mar 1901 US President McKinley signed the Platt Amendment, giving the US control over Cuba after the Spanish-American war. Restricting Cuban govt policy, it demanded leasing of land to the US, such as in Guantanamo, which continues to this day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9206...

See also Julie Taylor’s opera: kalaity.com/2006/07/19/g...

The Board of Peace off to a banger

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

As I was saying. bsky.app/profile/sanh...

Is ‘America First’ Over? Trump promised to stop wars. His grip on his base is being questioned now that he’s started one.

America First was always about bigoted and belligerent unilateralism. Pacifism never had anything to do with it, so could journalists please stop repeating Trump’s framing as if it was real? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters By Reuters March 1, 20262:59 PM ASTUpdated 1 hour ago

Addicted to war crimes.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Historic, hugely significant.

The Lebanese government announces the immediate ban on Hezbollah's military activities

Al-Jadeeed is reporting that Nabih Berri signed off on the government’s statement