Tyler Kingkade

Screenshot from first post of FilmThePoliceLA thread, with video showing moment LA Taco reporter Lexis-Olivier Ray was shot at.

I know it's a faux pas on this site to post links to the other site, but this is such an outstanding thread breaking down absurdities of LAPD misconduct toward press last night.

@filmthepolicela.bsky.social posts here sometimes but his thread on the other site is a must-see:

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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...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Also have ADHD, and since college I’ve done the same but on post it notes! Used to be so I could put it in my pocket but now just using something unobtrusive

A virtual education company was a lifeline to a rural district. Now they're at war. What began as an emergency option for New Mexico students during the pandemic has spiraled into dueling lawsuits and drawn government scrutiny.

NEW: A rural school district in New Mexico hired the largest for-profit operator of virtual charter schools to set up its online school

Fast forward five years later, and the district is suing the company for fraud and defamation

Here's why... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com

A virtual education company was a lifeline to a rural district. Now they're at war. What began as an emergency option for New Mexico students during the pandemic has spiraled into dueling lawsuits and drawn government scrutiny.

Full story here --> www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

State lawmakers are stunned. Not just at the allegations against Stride, but that an online school grew to be larger than a majority of NM districts without them knowing about it

Stride is suing the district, saying it violated open meetings laws and has refused to pay it for the last school year. The district says Stride is using the legal process to extract "retribution."

There are 6 suits currently pending.

Despite the controversy, many are sticking with Stride. Out of around 4,000 students, about 3,200 are still enrolled in Stride's school, after it signed contracts to operate open through different districts. The state auditor's office, however, is investigating the contracts

But according to a whistleblower complaint filed with the New Mexico Public Education Department, that ethics complaint happened after a top Stride exec suggested to company leadership that they "attack first publicly"

(The exec did not respond to req for comment)

The district moved to cut off the contract in April. But before that was finalized, Stride's attorney filed an ethics complaint against the district's superintendent b/c he had tried to get a job with Stride last winter (he says it was before he knew about problems) sourcenm.com/2025/04/29/c...

Stride also says that many students who come to them are already behind in school, and they help them catch up in credits

So under this framework, as the school grew, averages may have declined but individual students improved nmdcaupdates.k12.com/api/docs/str...

And the district says that math, science and reading proficiency rates dropped -- in some cases, plummeted -- and graduation rates declined among online students.

Stride says the district's data is inaccurate, and notes sky high parent satisfaction rates

According to the district, Stride also failed to do proper special ed screenings, and packed students into classes that violated state law on student-teacher ratios. Some teachers hired also did not have proper background checks and credentials, the district says

But late last year, after the district hired a data analyst, it started uncovering problems with Stride. The district says that Stride reported inflated numbers of students enrolled, thereby getting more funding based on enrollment.

Stride disputes this.

The district, in Gallup, NM, is a mostly Native American one. 100% of students qualify for free lunch.

In the pandemic, it couldn't switch to online b/c many students didn't have internet at home. So it hired Stride, formerly known as K12 Inc, to help them out

A virtual education company was a lifeline to a rural district. Now they're at war. What began as an emergency option for New Mexico students during the pandemic has spiraled into dueling lawsuits and drawn government scrutiny.

NEW: A rural school district in New Mexico hired the largest for-profit operator of virtual charter schools to set up its online school

Fast forward five years later, and the district is suing the company for fraud and defamation

Here's why... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com

How immigration enforcement turned sleepy Broadview into a chaotic, militarized town An intensive immigration operation ordered by President Donald Trump has quickly transformed Broadview, Illinois, into the beating hot center of the resistance.

How immigration enforcement turned sleepy Broadview into a chaotic, militarized town www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews.com @natashakorecki.bsky.social

So what you're saying is you are aware that many mainstream outlets are covering it (which proves your statement in your first Bluesky post to be false), but you will only count it if they run it on cable TV?

bsky.app/profile/smi....

Good pt

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

i looked up the moment he says it and he says it's "likely because they take Tylenol" -- what??? like the babies take Tylenol after being circumcised in the hospital?? www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

RFK Jr. Links Circumcision to Autism Kennedy cited two studies, but neither offered proof of causality

I missed this yesterday - but RFK Jr says circumcision is linked to autism??????

www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

An Isolated Boarding School Promised To Help Troubled Girls. Former Students Say They Were Abused. One former student called the school’s founder, Jeannie Courtney, “the all-powerful cult leader — God.”

A lawsuit against a school for troubled teens resulted in a $2.5 mil award by the jury in favor of a former student. But that was overturned b/c a juror did some of their own research on the troubled teen industry

www.huffpost.com/entry/troubl...

via @taiylersimone.bsky.social

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/09/j...

What happened after the Weimar Republic ended in 1933?

Report Argues For Bankruptcy Protection For Student Loans Report Argues For Bankruptcy Protection For Student Loans

been screaming about this issue (lack of bankruptcy protection for student debt) for most of my career www.huffpost.com/entry/bankru...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

it's obvious why Wall Street would want to buy a stake in the *federal* student loan portfolio -- it's a special kind of debt that can't be waived away in a personal bankruptcy

shifting debt from govt to the market would also crush borrower assistance possibilities

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

not good www.spj.org/spj-condemns...

SPJ strongly condemns recent attacks by federal agents on journalists reporting on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity and protests around the country.

🔗Read the full statement: www.spj.org/spj-condemns...

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

Ed Dept staff had their out-of-office messages changed, without their permission or knowledge, to be partisan ones bashing Democratic Senators www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...