IDF slashes number of soldiers guarding West Bank settlements, allowing more settlers to carry arms haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Proud of my Alma mater Vanderbilt University and Metro Schools - AMAZING announcement that Vandy will be giving MNPS students who qualify a full-ride with a stipend! As Dr. Battle deftly put it: “Wow!”

'Trump and his leading economic advisers claimed that the benefits of the bill would trickle down, resulting in substantial gains for U.S. workers and their families .... Instead, the law provided the largest tax cuts to the wealthy and profitable corporations.'

cc: American Progress

When are we getting the live action Beavis and Butt-Head movie with Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day 🤣

I love that a beekeeper saved a baseball game last night, threw out a first pitch, amped up the crowd, and did postgame interviews. Make him the MLB commissioner.

Women are showing up and calling in to Florida abortion clinics today only to find out Republicans have made abortion all but illegal in their state.

It’s the first they heard of the abortion ban.

When I say we need to meet the electorate where it is, this is what I mean.

You simply must read Eric Cortellessa's interviews with Trump. If he wins, he wants to:
-deport 11m immigrants, via detention camps and military
-allow red states to monitor women's pregnancies
- fire US attorneys who don't follow his prosecutorial orders
time.com/6972021/donald…

Is Israel about to join the Sunni Muslim Middle East? haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

Thank you Governor Kathy Hochul Sen. Stewart-Cousins Carl E. Heastie and to all of the Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers who made this victory for safer communities possible!
twitter.com/MomsDemand/sta…

Respectfully, I hate this narrative. Trump promises power and retribution - casting that as ‘education’ is a liberal frame that misses the point. See eg #WhatWeveBecome

For the latest issue of TIME, I interviewed Donald Trump twice to ask what he would do with a second term. Here's what he told me:

To include internment camps, invasion of Mexico, and jailing of political opponents. Let's keep our eyes on the ball here, people. Election in 189 days. #VoteBlueToStopProject2025

🧵 Finishing up 'What We've Become' by Jonathan M. Metzl for our 3rd and last Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club meeting on Thursday at 6:00pm EDT. Registration remains open: Zoom Webinar link: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

#ICYMI - We’re joined by Jonathan M. Metzl, author of What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.

We discuss how lax gun laws and gun ownership as an identity.

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙🎙

Randi McCallian, MPH, IBCLC Jonathan M. Metzl wrote a book about high death rates in the heartland. It isn’t going to get better. dyingofwhiteness.com

Is there a loving, empathic, earth-friendly technology that might give painful electric shocks to joggers who run in the bike lane!!???

Happening now: the #ksleg is making a play for the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals.

The Conference Committee on Senate and House Commerce is meeting right now and taking up a bill to create a “Major professional Sports STAR Bond District”

KMBC

💥🔊Tel Aviv's Begin Road blocked in both directions by pro-hostage-release deal demonstrators (לירי בורק שביט)