Peter Stanley

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Reporting all the way from space... #TheArk is back in production!

Something leaflet delivery volunteers of ALL parties can get behind:

Labour MP Anneliese Midgley has the first reading of her 10-minute rule bill on low-level letter boxes, which aims to ban those below a certain height in new housing developments.

They just pinned these up in the China/Japan locker room:

‼️ Russia Thread: An overview of the current state of things related to Russian Economics and why the Russian Ministry of Finance is understating the current situation.

I’m going to try to keep this as simple as possible because there is a Key Rate decision on Friday.

Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

Immigrant women describe “hell on earth” in ICE detention.

Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Crammed into cells ”like sardines”. Told by guards to urinate on the floor

@laurenvillagran.bsky.social

Canadian 'American Pie' Star Speaks Out After She Was Detained By ICE For 12 Days This is very alarming.

This is incredibly alarming.

the dismantling of US foreign aid is starting to hit very close to home. Dear friends left without a job, unable to pay mortgages, childcare, entire livelihoods destroyed. The ripple effects of this are just insane.

Trump is weaponizing financial payments: here's what you can do.

"Put more bluntly: the Trump administration is trying to turn private banks into enforcers ... If banks give in, it will be an enormous and dangerous step."

www.programmablemutter.com/p/trump-is-w...

So Trump launched a meme coin on Friday night, just days before becoming President, and entities he controls retain 80% of the coin. And the coin passed a $9 billion market cap in just hours.

I just can't...

Manager, 43, who punched teenage linesman in 8-0 loss, given suspended prison sentence - Fan Banter Manager Robert Williams-Jones, 43, who punched a teenage linesman in his side's 8-0 loss, has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Manager, 43, who punched teen linesman in 8-0 defeat, gets suspended prison sentence- fanbanter.co.uk/manager-43-w...

#afc #avfc #afcb #brentfordfc #bhafc #cfc #cpfc #efc #ffc #fulhamfc #itfc #lcfc #lfc #mancity #mufc #nufc #thfc #coys #whufc #coyi #wwfc #lufc #saintsfc #wba #ncfc #wales #nonleague

Big things are happening at the British Museum Really big! They’re easy to miss among everything else that’s going on (not least the BM’s own troubles with a light-fingered curator). They haven’t yet had the press coverage they deserve. I’ve be…

We should be talking more about what's happening at the British Museum. See my new blog
mikepitts.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/b...

it's done! it's published! my full list of "if we were to disband the US and give a state each to fifty countries, who should get which state"! I don't know why I wrote it but it's there! and free to read! youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arguably-m...

YouTube video by Swrve JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH IS THE START OF A NEW TRILOGY FOR THE FRANCHISE

Apparently there will be a new one later this year and depending on if it makes enough money it could be the first of a trilogy!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZmL...

This is so spot-on it’s scary.

Having not read the sentencing remarks, I’m cautious about rushing to conclusions, but on its face Feathers McGraw appears to be a prime example of the rampant sentence inflation that has led to chronic overcrowding in our zoos and the unedifying spectacle of animals being released early.

Why are US officials effectively telling Russia how many ATACMS Ukraine has left? Let the Russians guess or better still ship them a LOT more before Trump takes over. Stupid!!

archive.ph/FIMYL

❗️/1. Russian air defense most likely caused the crash of an Embraer 190 passenger plane during UAV attack on Chechnya:

An Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines crashed this morning. 67 passengers of which 5 crew members were on board. 32 people survived the crash. 🧵

This is Gracie. She went for the most magical car ride last night. The whole world twinkled like it was excited to see her. 13/10

For ten years now, I've been writing letters from Santa to my young relatives. To mark this decade, I wanted to include something really special, and after a lot of research into his workshop’s size, location and layout, I'm confident that this checks out. Hope they like it!

1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on:
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.

This will be very long. I'm sorry.

Let's get wonky.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy How come Labour can find money when it wants to?

How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?

Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea | Hakai Magazine New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.

A very interesting read on Doggerland, it's a lot more than just a "land bridge" in the North Sea. 😀

hakaimagazine.com/features/con...

Of interest to all Rovers fans keen to understand more about the pressures facing the club…

Elon is not the world's greatest inventor, he is the greatest capitalist. He uses success in one industry to seek colossal funding for a related sector, links the two companies up and creates an overwhelming monopoly.

This is a thread on the true powers and dangers of Elon Musk 🧵

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Labour MPs Push For 'Healthier' Parliament By Tightening Alcohol Sales And Creating More Natural Light A group of MPs want to look into the provision of alcohol in Parliament during working hours, increase the number of paintings of women and ethnic ...

Exc (from Monday): Labour MPs want to make Parliament 'healthy' again with far-reaching measures

—Look at sale of alcohol during working hours
—Artwork to reflect a modern and diverse Britain
—Enhance natural light in the Palace of Westminster

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

“The irony of demented socialists paying for my dinner whilst I sit and do nothing is not lost on me”

Likes of Laurence Fox are earning thousands a month just off tweeting.

He got:

$2,500 in August and $1,300 in July

And tweeted this.

Coming on to Bluesky hits their earnings as well as their relevance