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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

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1. A box a teenager checked on a form 20 years ago (that was accurate) isn’t newsworthy.
2. The source clearly had political motives and you hid that.
3. One the byline reporters on the “story” is an avid follower of an open white supremacist.
4. Pictures of tweets? Really? You that lazy?

Those detained at the facility are among the hundreds of people who have been arrested and disappeared by ICE agents after attending their immigration hearings.

All landlords are parasites, this is so fucked up

if it weren’t for fleeting joy I’d have no joy at all

Oof, been thinking about this last part a lot... how some racists are perfectly fine with Black people as long as they're on stage and dressing a certain way singing about certain things

Treating Black ppl as a product or idea to be consumed and not like... whole ass people

The same white boomers who didn't want integrated schools and don't want to fund public education are the first ones to talk about how much they love Motown. Drives me insane.

The Black church was the biggest subsidy of 20th century music bar none. Almost every Black musician learned in church. You know why Motown was a thing? Because Black kids who learned to sing and play by ear in church also got formal music education in Detroit public schools.

This statement by a collective of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues we must oppose the murderous assault that the Israeli and US militaries are carrying out against people in Iran while also refusing to condone the oppression perpetrated by the Iranian government.

(am serious, this is actually from his Truth Social account at truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT..., if you haven't seen it)

The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.

In “The Plot Against America”
Philip Roth (1933-2018)
imagines the United States under the rule of a fascist leader,a fervent defender of "America First."
Two decades after its publication, this alternate history offers a disturbing insight into current events and contemporary political excesses

I think a lot of this comes from the merger of MAGA and Silicon Valley. The tech industry believes it’s the only place capable of innovation and all the other intellectual centers of America - academia, industry, media, journalism, government - should be abolished and simply bend the knee to tech

my ideology is now sending Elon Musk to the Hague

Seems like everyone could use a timeline cleanse today

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Can you imagine being a Tammany boss and seeing the state of the New York Democratic Party, their biggest crook isn’t even good at it

Chuck Schumer announces he will not fight anything Trump does, but he will make kind of mean-looking face to show he's serious

JD Vance talking about housing as a supply issue while part of the Tariffs and Construction Worker Deportations admin is basically the whole NatCon shtick writ large: you accurately diagnose the problem, talk eloquently about it’s impacts, then enthusiastically commit yourself to being part of it.

Victoria has the lowest crime rates and rates of reoffending, it’s a non existent issue that was flamed by a racist moral panic by the media. None of these people have any meaningful connection to the communities these policies effect and harm.

Last year the Minster for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, asked the states to work on remanding fewer children.

McCarthy's Labor colleague Jacinta Allan is now doing the exact opposite.

McCarthy has to explain why, under her watch, the states continue to betray Closing the Gap.

Who needs Trump when you have Jacinta Allan firing thousands of public sector workers, creating the “toughest” bail laws in the country and destroying public housing.

This is our most left-wing government, apparently. Appalling.

"Don't shoot the negotiator" is like a universal respected by basically everyone except the US and Israel

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I think it's an under-remembered part of this story that the universities just like almost universally decided to punish anyone from a pro-Palestine occupation who tried to negotiate with them which is like the kind of shit you usually only see from dictatorships

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

the cops doing this bumbling routine will end me

"looks like these events which we used to justify overzealous anti-zionism laws were all staged for some reason, truly only organised criminals would have the motive to do this and not any of the groups previously agitating for these laws" #auspol

“in apparent effort to force hand of Hamas” is not a good substitute for “in clear crime against humanity”.

This would mean the shutting down of Gaza’s only two remaining functioning desalination plants.

You know, to drink water.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Narrative from some pollies and the Zs was that the caravan and other incidents was evidence of erupting antisemitism in the community. Turns out it was organised crime. There was always an implication that the pro-palestine movement 'enabled' this. Apology is owed