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Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

"Many said they had come to Fort Jackson because they saw no other choice. 'I was tired of being homeless,' a 22-year-old trainee, who had grown up on a South Dakota Indian reservation, said. A 34-year-old from Ivory Coast graduated from an online college that...left him $90,000 in debt."

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I know these people mean well but I would rather be tear-gassed by the National Guard than watch them perform a full set

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

So are we going to be in a place where states can ban gender affirming care but cannot ban conversion therapy?

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Mark Bray is a brilliant scholar and by all accounts a caring and wonderful educator, and is now moving to Europe because the fascists doxed him and his family

Feels pretty huge that he’s forced to do this—the harassment was bad in ‘16 but I don’t think he’s ever felt compelled to leave the country

welcome to the resistance, Kennedy School of Government

The VP of the united states was open and forthcoming when he said the GOP’s plan for housing and the affordability crisis was to simply steal from deported migrants. He obviously assumed nobody would care if this also included black and brown Americans in the crosshairs.

I always appreciate ending with some drive-by anti-Zappa invective

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I'm tired of so many in higher ed feeling like we can only defend higher ed by first granting the premise of every right wing attack on higher ed.

The trust trends don't correlate with tuition/deb trends but do with the GOP's collapse into far right authoritarianism & ongoing media Discourse.

All the evils and failures of Bush’s Global War on Terror combined with Reagan’s War on Drugs - marvelous

Just as it was impossible to fast for Yom Kippur and not think of the famine inflicted on Gaza

Immediately after writing this she gave $100,000 in unmarked bills to someone representing the Federal Bureau of Wallet Inspection

This is very bad, obviously, for all the reasons detailed in the thread, but the fact that they keep giving these goons multiple jobs underlines how few of them there are

Links to all the new-ish rules restricting when and where freedom of expression can be exercised without OSU arresting you or bringing in snipers

Email screenshot Freedom of Expression Reminders OS Ohio State Department of Public Safety To You 3:54 PM ••• THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

When an email starts out like this, there’s no way it’s going to be good

Good piece.

What I just can’t shake these days is the specter of “end times fascism.” The thought that certain oligarchs foresee only crisis with no viable fix. That their abandonment of the future, so stupid by our standards, has a certain rationality for those who can provision some kind of exit.

The "anti-tax" state legislature has created a top-10 property tax state.

A 20-year campaign to grind down state support of local government -- the local government fund sliced, the estate tax eliminated.

Cincinnati gets more of its budget from building inspection fees than from state aid.

Oregon Republican League ... X Bleiler Donna • 7h • G Trump is preparing to go after Antifa, waiting for them to make a move. Antifa is preparing for riots in major cities. Since Portland is their headquarters, it seems essential that the National Guard would be in Oregon. Governor Kotek is in panic mode releasing news every day on her opposition. Portland Police are working with Antifa to criminalize federal agents. "Out in Oregon, the Governor, the mayor and police are all part of Antifa." Shan Davis explains, "Once you understand that Portland police is Antifa, everything else it does and refuses to do suddenly makes sense." If they are part of Antifa, they are part of the insurrection. Antifa has been hired to create a civil war. Kotek has been telling people to stay calm, all the while she is still promoting Antifa to start a civil war. [https://rumble.com/embed/v6xoc3g/? pub=50601&start=2506](https://rumble.com/embed/ v6xoc3g/?pub=50601&start=2506) 2X22 Report Political • Geopolitical rumble.com Ep 3745b - [DS] Pushing A Hybrid War, Trump Is Using The Shutdown To Defund The [DS], Timing,... 115 16 comments 25 shares

In case you’re wondering how grassroots Republican activists in Oregon are metabolizing what’s happening in the state. This person is a coordinator for two long running conservative organizations in the state: The Gathering of the Eagles and the Abigail Adams project.

Ohio’s sole national forest could be wiped out as Trump targets land for logging Over 80% of Wayne national forest classified as suitable for logging, drawing concern from locals

Trump wants to log Wayne Natl Forest. 98% of Ohio forests are privately-owned.

Do we need to log the 2% of Ohio public forests that belong to the public? Ohio Enviro Council in @theguardian.com : bit.ly/4pYg7OH

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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

"The project—[Weiss'] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new *liberal*media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." The dream of Marty Peretz on far grander scale.

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Concur in full. I had the opportunity to do a similar program with Maggie and Ned, and it was an incredible experience. I'd recommend it especially to people who are looking for ways to better incorporate Native peoples and histories into their teaching and research.

This seems like a guy who bent a lot of rules, including immigration laws, while also being a successful leader. If he was in tech we would have several tomes written about his rise and grind/move fast ethos

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Yeah, an interesting contrast with the somewhat similar closing shot of Magnolia, which ends on a woman's hopeful face - but there I think it works

"it’s inspirational: a call to action...Anderson says fighting fascism isn’t civil disobedience, it’s American. There is, in fact, nothing more American, so let’s go."

Chaw's right that this is the movie's closing message but I wasn't sure if it earned it. The Tom Petty felt too one the nose to me.

that's a great way to put it

and yet also a movie very much out of time - inspired by a novel about how the politics of the 60's became out of place in the 80's, a tribute to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s with main characters much more like the Weather Underground than any group today. Still chewing over that piece of it.