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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

It’s WILD that you can work in a building for over 20 years and fill out every damn form they send your way, and when you notice your name and birthday aren’t anywhere to be seen on any staff info sent out…you’ll be accused of not filling out “the form” sent at the beginning of the year. Sure, Jan.

Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings has found that ICE agents violated the terms of a consent decree by detaining people without proper warrants. He ruled that as of this week ICE must wear body cams at all times and can face arrest and contempt proceedings if they conduct unlawful, warrantless arrests.

“they are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity” is the most sensationally devastating burn I have heard lo these forty-four years

This is a fantastic article I encourage everyone to read.

The damaging effects of COVID on our immune system are not up for debate.

It’s not hypothetical.

And it’s not limited to “only the vulnerable”.

This is why many of us mask. Respirators like an N95 do a great job preventing covid.

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

UPDATE from @jodiscohen.bsky.social + @jsmithrichards.bsky.social:

Following public outcry, the Department of Ed. has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an org that will provide funding to these students.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Like, not even the fucking Gestapo engaged in roving-gang-of-bandit behavior like these guys are doing, and that's because that behavior is the very quickest way to galvanize people against you.

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””

THIS 👇👇👇 💯

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

Important thread

Dudes rock

Oof. County-wide faculty meetings to remind teachers to not engage online or in class about last week’s events, along with a reminder that if coworkers send screenshots of stuff you say online, the info will be forwarded to HR for investigation. Gotta love it! 😳

on the electoral side of things, this is why you need a loud opposition party saying they reject this and will not stand for it. that this country should be safe for people from korea as new immigrants but also for longstanding korean americans.

If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations.

Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made.

Blessed by SecState Marco.

Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention More than 300 employees at a Hyundai battery plant returned home after being detained in a Georgia immigration raid.

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage.
Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

THE WASHINGTON POST Is the signature Trump's? Epstein birthday book feeds speculation. The president denies it is his writing, and experts say they can't be sure. The White House welcomed a forensic analysis of the loopy D and long tail. By Matt Viser • Updated 25 minutes ago Analysis Amber Phillips What we know about the birthday book

I'm sorry, @bencollins.bsky.social, that they keep making your job more and more difficult.

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

The "one big trick" that every aspiring authoritarian in the 20th century has learned is that you don't have to get people to agree with everything you say, you just have to get them to mistrust anything that anyone other than you says. Widespread cynicism is corrosive to democracy.

Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

Hoping to get a COVID-19 booster in Virginia? You now need a prescription. Virginia families seeking updated COVID-19 vaccines are encountering unexpected obstacles as federal policy changes create confusion about prescription requirements at pharmacies.

Virginia families seeking updated COVID-19 vaccines are encountering unexpected obstacles as federal policy changes create confusion about prescription requirements at pharmacies.

They are telling people what they plan to do. Will Democratic politicians believe them? Unlikely.

A posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall.

"Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" is scheduled for release Oct. 21.

The students come back to school in my county tomorrow, and I’m wildly unprepared in so many ways. Pretending that everything is normal when it’s anything but is only one piece of the ridiculous puzzle this year.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Rules for life are as follows:

1) don't be a dick
2) help people who are in need of it
3) do not deep fry a frozen turkey

Good morning. Trump is protecting Epstein files. The confederacy lost and they were traitors, mRNA vaccines are the future, cops shouldn’t wear masks, Trump cut taxes for the rich and ripped benefits from the poor.

Have a weekend