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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Robert Newton as Long John Silver in the 1950s Disney adaptation of Treasure Island

Ahoy, me hearties! It be #TalkLikeAPirateDay says we. So grab yer doubloons an read ye our favourite pirate thread about how an #Orkney pirate inspired the book that inspired the film that makes us go ARRR when we talk like pirates! Avast ye!🏴‍☠️

This is what could happen to a child who doesn't get vaccinated An estimated 14 million kids don't get any vaccines. They face serious threats from measles, diarrhea, pneumonia and more.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

It's 'throw a baby puffin off a cliff' season in Iceland — National Geographic Young puffins have to leave their burrows alone, without the help of their parents, and find the ocean. Every year, local Icelanders set out to help.

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Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

Fifteen years ago today, a few of my best pals and I launched a little "audio experiment" without so much as asking our bosses for permission.

More than 2,000 episodes later, here we are. Here's to untold thousands more!

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report Congress mandates annual ‘Condition of Education’ digest by June 1

For nearly 160 years, federal govt has been producing a statistical report on condition & progress of education. In 2002, Congress gave Ed Dept annual deadline for that report: June 1.
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
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Closing Education Department puts 'American competitiveness' at risk, expert warns The Trump administration plans to gut the Education Department office that measures student success. An education expert says this could hurt American competitiveness in the long run.

www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts Public trust in vital information is likely to suffer

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Trump administration is gutting the National Center for Education Statistics: Here are five things we only know about schools thanks to the NCES Reports indicate that the Trump administration has laid off nearly all staff at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of a massive number of staff cuts across the Department of E...

www.epi.org/blog/trump-a...

What will NCES layoffs mean for the Nation’s Report Card? The U.S. Department of Education claims mandated tests like NAEP won’t be impacted, but laid-off employees beg to differ.

www.highereddive.com/news/Educati...

How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

His pride sign decayed as he fought cancer. Neighbors revived it. Silver Spring neighborhood restores iconic LOVE sign to honor its creator, Mike Heffner, who died of cancer last year.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This is great! Our college kids love solving the mysteries with us when they are home, and I have ordered these new ones. We'll enjoy them during their winter breaks! Thanks!