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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Great article

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.

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It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line The House speaker has yet to see any issue with ICE’s behavior in Chicago.

There is NO line.

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IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content

The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

The Dangers of using AI to Grade Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.

A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

So far I've got to say that living under an authoritarian regime is not great, 0/10 can't recommend.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Oh my — she and HRC must have written the same book! Same feedback from pundits. Or maybe they’re both just….women.

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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The blacklist capitulation by movie studios in response to the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt proves that there is NO history of corporations prioritizing values or free speech over profits. #JimmyKimmel

FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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Man Found Hanging in Tree in Vicksburg, Hours After DSU Hanging The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging in a tree in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, hours after officials found a student hanging in a tree on the Delta State University campus 100 miles away.

Police say there is no connection.

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This. Times a thousand. Again and again.

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

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YouTube video by Robert Reich The Secret Behind High Gas Prices

Big Oil spent nearly half a BILLION dollars in last year’s election cycle.

Now, they’re coming to collect — and they’re getting a big return on investment. Watch. youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?...