Alex Bennett

💰 Wage increases to recognize our dedication and the rising costs
🕊️ Bereavement leave to support members during difficult times
🩺 More flexibility to use sick days as personal days, giving you greater control over your time

Tentative Agreement Reached!
We’re proud to announce that our bargaining team has reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with LCPS!
This agreement reflects the hard work and solidarity of our members, and includes key improvements such as:

⚖️ Stronger due process and grievance procedures to ensure fairness and respect in the workplace
This tentative agreement is an important step forward for all of us. Next up: member ratification vote — details coming soon!

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

“The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans.

“So ProPublica created its own count.”

Thank you @propublica.org

(Bookmark for those friends and family who insist this isn’t happening)

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The Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule That It’s Racist to Remedy Racism It's going to be an electoral bonanza for Republicans.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

Not Donald Trump. Nor will it ever be.

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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

ANALYSIS | Why Trump's team is portraying Antifa as a terrorist threat | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to persuade Americans that the anti-fascist movement dubbed Antifa poses as grave a threat to the country as designated terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah.

David Schanzer, an expert in counterterrorism strategy, counterterrorism law and homeland security, says he believes the real motivation behind the administration’s portrayal of Antifa is to justify a broader crackdown on left-wing protest. | CBC

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Civics Education Struggles, Even as Government and Politics Saturate Daily Life

Civics Education Struggles, Even as Government and Politics Saturate Daily Life www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Adding to my “I love Slate’s art” thread

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are the two most dangerous members of the Trump Administration

Alex’s Substack | Alex Bennett | Substack My personal Substack. Click to read Alex’s Substack, by Alex Bennett, a Substack publication. Launched 9 months ago.

First Substack post should be live soon on the government shutdown feel
Free to subscribe!

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New High Say Supreme Court Is Too Conservative Forty-three percent of Americans describe the U.S. Supreme Court as being "too conservative," the highest in Gallup's trend.

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ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

Kaiser Permenete released a report today amity the impact of ACA subsidies expiring. Needless to say, it will have deadly consequences #shutdown

www.kff.org/affordable-c...

From the CringeTikToks community on Reddit: Excellent summation. Why don’t Republicans call on Trump to tone it down? Explore this post and more from the CringeTikToks community

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From the CringeTikToks community on Reddit: Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things." Explore this post and more from the CringeTikToks community

The president of the United States

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The Supreme Court Says the Constitution Is Colorblind, Unless ICE Is Searching You Chief Justice John Roberts famously declared, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

Justice Sonia Sotomayor SLAMS Pam Bondi: “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalise free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed.”

Education Department terminates some grants for deafblind students The department says the IDEA Part D grants weren't continued because they don't align with Trump administration priorities.

www.k12dive.com/news/US-educ...

Bondi to prosecute Office Depot worker who refused to print Charlie Kirk flyers Office Depot fired a Michigan employee who refused to print flyers for a Charlie Kirk vigil, claiming they were ‘propaganda’

The Supreme Court said the First Amendment protected the designer from creating websites she doesn’t believe in. Colorado v. Masterpiece cake… ooppps
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I think canceling prime would have the greater impact. I still try to support those journalists with integrity. But it’s difficult

And yet Brian Kilmeade at @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy keeps his job after telling the world to kil homeless people.
Liberals need to stop placating the right as if they are on the same moral ground

And Fox doesn’t fire Kilmeade for his horrific comment. When will liberals stop cow towing to the right? They aren’t the same and don’t care what their reporters say

5 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into 2 Giant Deals Involving Trump

5 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into 2 Giant Deals Involving Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

I’ve been discussing this topic on Facebook, all sources are citing one source, Fox News digital

This is a powerful post regarding the hypocrisy of President Trump, disregarding his own positions on violent rhetoric

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