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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading

This "man" is a disgrace. After denying the clear case of Israeli genocide in Palestine, made possible by US weaponry, he completely fabricates a story of white genocide in S. Africa. An embarrassment.
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José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, former guerrilla and ex-president of Uruguay, dies aged 89

Thx for the showmanship. How about doing something that saves our democracy?
Senate Democrats to mark Trump’s ‘100 days from hell’ with marathon speeches

Liverpool win record-equalling 20th league title with rout of Tottenham Liverpool have won the Premier League with four games left of a stunning debut season for Arne Slot by beating Tottenham 5-1

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Because the only reason any of these cabinet members are there are for celebrity.

Local schools expand free breakfast and lunch options, say more students are eating healthy meals Local schools have expanded free breakfast and lunch options, according to both the local school districts and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.

Several Dayton area schools have expanded free breakfast & lunch options, according to Ohio Dept of Education & Workforce.
Research shows that nutritious school meals help students pay more attention in school and helps improve their memories
by Eileen McClory
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“Two flames have always been burning in the human heart, the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope that you can build a better world—and those two flames are really material by which we make progress.” Tony Benn

This is the new "loyalty test" of the McCarthy era. A promise to uphold racism, bigotry and cruelty.

This is not just an attack on DEI, it's an attack on common sense.

Hard to believe millions see this guy as a hero.

Analysis: Le Pen verdict fuels debate that Europe’s ‘rule of law’ is throttling the ‘will of the people’ | CNN The cases of France’s Marine Le Pen and Romania’s Calin Georgescu have stoked fury among Europe’s right-wing nationalists and many members of the Trump administration, who see voters’ demands being th...

Politicians actually held accountable for their crimes? What's going on in France?
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What is the psychological process by which republicans completely lose the sense of irony? Or hypocrisy?

Rather than focusing on the actual harms Republicans are inflicting on the American working class, Democrats are using the Signal group chat leak to obsess over violations of norms and protocols.

This strategy is doomed to fail: jacobin.com/2025/03/sign...

4% of the federal discretionary budget goes to education. 60% to the military. But there is NEVER any discussion cutting funding to the war machine.

Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Department of Education Order calls for teardown of department as Trump seemingly tries to circumvent need to obtain congressional approval

The war on kindness continues. What does the D of Ed spend $ on: federal student aid, anti-discrimination, special education funding.
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Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Department of Education Order calls for teardown of department as Trump seemingly tries to circumvent need to obtain congressional approval * US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department. The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump said at a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, because its budget had more than doubled in size but national test scores had not improved. Continue reading...

Order calls for teardown of department as Trump seemingly tries to circumvent need to obtain congressional approval

* US politics live – latest updates




Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the…

Ohio voucher program: Data shows nearly 90% of participants are not low-income COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — State data shows nearly 90% of students enrolled in Ohio’s voucher program this year are not low-income qualified, a dramatic turnabout from the program’s …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — State data shows nearly 90% of students enrolled in Ohio’s voucher program this year are not low-income qualified, a dramatic turnabout from the program’s stated initial purpose.
by Katie Millard
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Trump’s tariffs will be paid by the poor – while his tax cuts help the rich

South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’ Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot dead by prison staff despite outcry over ‘cruel’ method and calls for clemency

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Inez Milholland: Labor lawyer, suffragist, early opponent of the death penalty.

GOP school vouchers are benefiting better-off suburban voters: Thomas Suddes Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican, ardently supports vouchers, as does Gov. Mike DeWine. That suggests that the misspending (to use a polite word) of taxpayers’ money that should go t...

Opinion by Thomas Suddes
Ohio’s current statewide private school vouchers are political subsidies for voters who can already afford private school tuition.
The General Assembly’s subsidy of nonpublic schools with public money is flat-out unconstitutional.
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Billy Bragg, You Fascists are Bound to Lose

Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Aid For Non-Profit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

Trump's war on kindness!

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Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead Forget about inflation. Now it’s all about cutting ‘waste’ in the form of jobs and our already paltry social safety net

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Haven't heard anything about immigrants eating pet cats, either. Weird!