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#SundayCivics episode card: Porch Light Series (PLS) 5. Photo of Saqib Bhatti Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Action Center on Race & the Economy on blue background, white lettering.

Tune in @urbanviewradio.bsky.social channel 126 at 9am for a NEW episode of #SundayCivics! @ljoywilliams.bsky.social brings Saqib Bhatti, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Action Center on Race & the Economy, to the front of the class. #PorchLightSeries

Earlier today, the NAACP New York State Conference moved to intervene in the DOJ lawsuit against New York to block the release of sensitive voter data.

✊🏾 Learn more: www.nysnaacp.org/blog/breakin...

#NAACPNY #ProtectTheVote #VotingRights #DefendDemocracy

Secret Service dismantles telecom threat around UN capable of crippling cell service in NYC The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York

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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.

Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.

(Published Jan. 2024)
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Awesome show Sis!! 🔥 Go listen!!! Whew!

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Millionaires tax revenue reaches $1.8 billion, on pace to double estimates Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year, the Department of Revenue said Monday in a ...

"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year."

It's going to be used for education and transportation.

See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone.
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

When you strip away humanity

The great @ljoywilliams.bsky.social State Conf President of NY State along with a fan aka our Branch President Edward Paul as they prep at the 2025 Civic Engagement Summit ahead of this year's 2025 NAACP Natl Convention #gwinnettnaacp

*braider

Are you a hair braided in charlotte? Looking for someone to come to a hotel near the convention center for a style

I try to make my shows evergreen so that whenever you listen, you learn

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The ads need to drop immediately and run through to the midterms laying the blame on the Republicans who voted for this.
- Every time a rural hospital closes
- With the info of every child and person who lost coverage
- a weekly update on the harm

Mail-in voting rates dropped but early in-person voting is a hit, federal report shows — NPR A new federal survey — taken after every major election — shows in 2024, mail-in voting was down but early, in-person voting was up. And, a shortage of poll workers is a looming problem.

Mail-in voting rates dropped but early in-person voting is a hit, federal report shows - NPR apple.news/AzYDbmIw6RUC...

Around 98,000 Voters Risk Disenfranchisement Under New North Carolina Plan Read more here.

Shameful. I expect they will be sued.👇

"Nearly 100,000 North Carolina voters will be required to take an additional step to verify their identity or risk being disenfranchised under a plan approved by the GOP-controlled state board of elections Tuesday." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As Black New Yorkers Move Out, N.Y.C. Politics May Be Reshaped

As Black New Yorkers Move Out, N.Y.C. Politics May Be Reshaped www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

The Polls Are Open!

If you did not early vote today is the last day to vote in NYC. Find your polling site at findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Stay hydrated, stay cool and GO VOTE!!!

I sued and won the case that struck down the law banning this in my state 😊

If y’all see the water kids outside today and tomorrow tell them I got some paid work for them on Election Day.

So this administration continues to strip Congress of all its power, now committing acts of war without Congressional approval?

And Congress does…

Thank you @marcelias.bsky.social. Now that I am state president of NAACP, I am putting our litigation work to use and we are activating to comfort voters this Tuesday

I am glad that today the governor signed a new law repealing New York's ban on providing food and water to people waiting in line to vote. However, it should be clearly noted that this was the result of successful litigation brought by the Brooklyn NAACP -- which the state fought and lost in court.

Opinion | The Economics of Slavery — The Wall Street Journal Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

Opinion | The Economics of Slavery - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/AvUu6HMMUTfK...

😱 I’M IN A NASA DOCUMENTARY!!!!

It’s a quick cameo but still the coolest thing EVER!!!

“Every mission, innovation and breakthrough is recorded to inspire and inform future generations” #JWST

NASA+ Documentary “Cosmic Dawn” Reveals Untold Story of James Webb Space Telescope  - NASA NASA answers this question in its new documentary, “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope.” The agency’s original documentary, which

Babies are in bed and now it’s time to be a space nerd and watch the new @nasawebb.extwitter.link documentary about #JWST www.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump — Vox The rules don’t apply to Trump on the Court’s “shadow docket.” On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order permitting the Department of Government Efficiency, the enigmatic White House enti...

Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump - Vox apple.news/Ag50LZkZWRfy...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump - CBS News apple.news/ARppuZPNjTG-...

How civil rights investigations against schools have changed under Trump admin — The Hill Amid a flurry of civil rights and Title IX investigations, the Trump administration has reopened K-12 schools and universities, signaling a complete 180-degree shift in the interpretation of the manda...

How civil rights investigations against schools have changed under Trump - The Hill apple.news/AUaATBQ_6QD-...