Colleen Kujawa

Abdallah Abu Samra, who has gray hair and sits while holding a cane. Text reads: "'We are in a bigger Nakbah now.' In 1948, Abdallah Abu Samra was forced from his village in what is now Israel, during what displaced Palestinians call the Nakba — 'the carastrophe.'"

Israel’s war in Gaza has displaced most of the 2.2 million Palestinians from their homes. Many of them fear it will be permanent, a reprise of the Nakba in 1948. nyti.ms/45V5mVD

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I’m here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where military style vehicles have pulled up down Wilshire and Alvarado, amid rumors of an ICE raid in the park have proliferated since last night

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The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers…

Letters reveal a decadeslong strategy — starting with targeted programs for needy kids then expanding benefits to all families — by politicians, church officials, and activists who all believe that the separation of church and state is illegitimate.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Semicolon bookstore is closing due to ‘decisions that were not financially sound,’ owner says • The TRiiBE The Chicago nonprofit’s owner Danielle Moore said the Mag Mile location didn’t perform well financially, among other tribulations.

Semicolon’s West Town location will remain open through Independent Bookstore Day, a one-day national event that lands on April 27 this year.

“We’re going to close out with a bang and close out with our last Lit Fest,” owner says.

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It's been more than a year since I've had a cold, and the body forgets. As I sneeze and cough and pitifully sniffle, I feel like launching into a rant about the frailty of the body using Elizabethan English.

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This still makes me laugh, weeks after I first saw it on FB. This is an appropriate first post.

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