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guy just loves peace, what can you say

All of this cruelty is being done in our name.

Aw thank you. So appreciate your work too. 🙏

Thanks Jessie!

Excellent essay on renunciation (and shame) as it relates to the past and our moment in this country (and world - Gaza and on and on) … he points to repair as the next step

Thank you for reading and sharing 🙏

Do you mean the guy with what looks like a Trump flag but is actually a "FU** Trump" flag??

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

#NoKings Durham NC

#NoKings, Durham NC

Mankato Grows Up: Keeping ScOR #15 The other week I had reason to visit my hometown in the Upper Midwest. Some of you will remember that I was raised in Mankato, Minnesota, a college town 80...

New Keeping ScOR newsletter -- me (John Biewen) on historical forgetting and acknowledgment in my hometown, Mankato, MN.
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Republican Mike Johnson is metaphorically standing in the doorway of the House of Representatives, blocking a duly-elected Latina from entering the House as a representative & denying representation to her nearly 800,000 constituents in Arizona, nearly 60% of whom are Hispanic.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

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.

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.

Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of) Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

The third-country removal tracker has been updated to add three Honduran nationals removed to Guatemala yesterday.
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KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died

A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism

www.kare11.com/article/news...

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

It's happening right in front of you.

Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.

It's happening in plain sight.

Economics for Emancipation A Course of Economics for All

Great to hear. While working on it, we recommend checking out "Economics for Emancipation: A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free" from the Center for Popular Economics ⬇️and the (out of print) high school guide "Teaching Economics As If People Mattered" economics4emancipation.net

Scene on Radio Capitalism Curriculum We’re creating a high school curriculum based on Scene on Radio’s Season 7: Capitalism. If you’re a teacher who’s already listened to episodes from this season with your students, we’d like to learn a...

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Thank you!

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Thank you for listening and sharing.
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I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

"thoughtful feedback" ftw

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM

Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.

It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

I just wrote 'The Blue Scare: Keeping ScOR #14'.
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