This private school in Fayetteville, NC pocketed $1,879,115 in public tax dollars this school year.

They expressly ban students who practice specific religions like Islam and Buddhism, and they also deny admissions to LGBTQ+ students whom they call 'perverted.' #nced #ncpol

If anyone gives NYC Mayor Eric Adams any credit for this—because he *will* seek it out—I’m going to lose my mind.

Basic funding for education should never be something that gets slashed from the budget, let alone something that parents have to protest to be restored.

😺 Who is ready for a wildlife rescue story? Been excited to share this one all weekend, and now seems like as good of a time as any to pounce onto your timeline.

Check out these two yearling mountian lions that couldn’t get out of the spillway Friday at Vallecito Reservoir…

A judge has ordered a review of ALL death penalty cases out of Alameda County after evidence of decades-old misconduct showed how prosecutor's office excluded Black people and Jewish people from juries. oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/ala…

Long article, but the punchline remains that climate upheaval is making so much real estate uninsurable and hence unmortgageable that the economic correction presents a 'systemic risk' to our financial system. Florida and Louisiana are the leading edge.
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This mfer will. not. quit.

'NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth'

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Here is my central core thought while writing Deadpool.

It is no secret that I don't like endlessly 'zany' Deadpool. He was described as 'serial killer Daffy Duck' to me early on, that's the version I don't care for.

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What Yale and Columbia are doing is disgraceful. Time and again, the cowardice of comfortable elite liberals is branded onto the bodies of young people who dare to point out the gap between the rhetoric and reality of our society's most prestigious institutions.

THREAD. This is a really funny paragraph about Yale's explanation for having armed government agents put metal chains on students who were singing and reading poetry and doing sit ins, and then taking them to cages.

11. Like in 1968, shortly before Shafik called in the NYPD, she faced substantial political pressure from the right. On April 17, 2024, the day before the NYPD raid, Shafik testified for three hours before the Republican-controlled House Committee on Education.

9. According to the NYPD, the protest was entirely non-violent. 'To put this in perspective, the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner,' NYPD Chief John Chell said.

1. An inflection point in the situation at Columbia was the president's decision to call in the NYPD and arrest over 100 students who were protesting Israel's operations in Gaza on the south lawn.

To understand the gravity of this decision, some historical context

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7. On April 18, 2024, Columbia President Minouche Shafik wrote the NYPD and requested it charge student protesters with trespassing.

Notably, Shafik did not accuse the student protesters of harassing or threatening other students.

Nevertheless, she claimed their continued

The Fear of Noncitizen Voting Is As Baseless As It Has Been for 200 Years | Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are fear-mongering over noncitizen voting, which is among the oldest tactics in American electoral politics, reports Votebeat.
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'Trump does not defy the laws of political gravity, and he's not made of Teflon. He has never once gotten more votes than his political opponent. Ever. And under his stewardship, the Republican Party has had historic electoral defeats in 2018, 2020, and 2022.'

I look forward to offering amendments tomorrow to cut billions in offensive military funding to Israel from the proposed national security supplemental package and protect essential humanitarian operations. We cannot continue to fund this horrific war.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'space lasers' comment was dumb. But it was also about encouraging the murder of migrants in cold blood.

It was just one of many comments from Republicans last week normalizing political violence.

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Punishing people for being unhoused is not only unconstitutional, it’s counterproductive and only keeps people in poverty.

Housing — not handcuffs — ends homelessness. aclu.org/news/criminal-…

Today at the Supreme Court, oral arguments begin in Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that will determine whether or not cities can punish people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go.

As we argued in our brief, saddling people with fines and criminal records for

For journalists and their audiences, the obligation is to take the time to present the complexity of these issues and to always base reporting on facts and not simply repeating the press statements of those in power or to whom they have easy access.