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The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation A federal school voucher program, or “universal school choice” as supporters call it, is a key piece of the Right’s agenda to dramatically change education as we’ve known it. A central element in the ...

@praeyesright.bsky.social's Hialy Gutierrez on why "school choice" is billionaires' way of dismantling democracy

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Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.

Oh my gosh, what an honor. Thank you. And, truly, thank you for all you do.

Immigration enforcement *is* a public health crisis, and a longstanding one at that. It harms both physical and mental health, and its effects burden immigrants and the U.S. born alike.

Utterly delighted to find A Queer New York: Geographies of #Lesbians, #Dykes, and #Queers fully free, #openaccess, and downloadable at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... -- thanks so much, @oapenbooks.bsky.social! #lgbt #lgbtq #bisexual #trans

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

I was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.

Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.

NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch.

One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

“I Cannot Imagine Surviving”: Read the Stories of the Trans Women Facing Forced Head Shaving and Medical Detransition in Florida Prisons Legal documents filed by trans women reveal that trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons.

8. Trans women in prisons have recently reported having their hair shorn and their feminine clothing confiscated; being deprived of medication; and being subjected to mandatory, invasive body inspections by doctors and prison staff, including breast examinations.

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what the actual fuck

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Place de Republique, April 5

#handsoff Paris

Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all.

And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.

#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

New York City Voters Support Municipal Grocery Stores - Climate and Community Institute Read our Substack piece on why municipal grocery stores can bring down costs and repair food supply chains.  The rising cost of groceries has driven nearly 50 …

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices.

"The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.

This is the most important story in the United States right now.

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Behind this astonishingly impressive £30k. / month savings (amazing for a health system in crisis) is also an increase in people leading healthier lives, experiencing fewer episodes of poor health, and material steps to closing wide gaps in health inequalities.

Precarity is a relational condition: people aren't simply 'precarious' but they are *made* precarious e.g. by marginalisation due to gender, bullying and harassment or disability. Above all, institutions make us precarious, and that condition has now been more widely generalised

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

“You’re under arrest.”
“I’m a reporter.”
“I don’t care.”

Read more from Mohawk journalist Isaac White about his arrest and prosecution for covering a land claim demonstration in northern New York in May 2024: freedom.press/issues/mohaw...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Hold off on USAID obituaries and suggesting staff have gone.

Most actions so far are under legal challenge, only Congress can get rid of USAID (and its funding), the staff are on administrative leave.

What has happened is terrible, but it is time to push back, not give in.

Read this whole thread about how segregation is being enacted at the NIH

This will have life and death consequences for communities of color that depend on interlocutors from our communities that do science with our well-being in mind 🧪

Inside the Legal Fight for Trans Rights - Boston Review Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

Susan Faludi’s book Backlash made the point that every time there is progress in diminishing sexism, aggressive backlash ensues. It is increasingly clear that attacking trans people is a vehicle to resuscitate reactionary views of women under the guise of “protecting” them. @paisleycurrah.com

The function of the New York Times is to normalize Trump to readers that Fox News can't reach.

Elogio de la letra con cuerpo La inteligencia artesanal del cartel marchante tiene el ritmo de quien lo porta, de quienes lo han creado, y a quienes quiere llegar. La materialidad del cartel, con su pequeñez y su forma de llevarse...

Argentine feminist Verónica Gago in praise of the letter with the body—the materiality of the protester with a sign in the street.
Elogio de la letra con cuerpo www.eldiarioar.com/129_b7520f?u...

ACOG Endorsed The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC

This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now

#MedSky

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2/ privileges in this system but has indeed begun rewriting the code base of this critical system, significantly rewriting the software for this critical system. For more on this it was this situation I was referring to in a series of tweets from last night in which, as I said, I substituted the …