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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 50m

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 44m

Also, just for the record, police ALWAYS threaten to quit when someone they don’t like (ie, someone who threatens anything but the most superficial of change), and they never do.

But it always gets taken at face value, not as the genuinely *political* statement it is.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2h

Below is a collection of many other people of Italian heritage worthy of attention — people who have played an active role in the struggle for labor rights, gay and lesbian rights, human rights, and civil rights.
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn

www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...

Italian Americans Who Fought for Justice

Profile. Brief bios of people of Italian heritage who were committed to social justice.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2h

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 2h

This is true and important, and also, much like confederate monuments erected as backlash to Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, Columbus Day is about crafting a specific cultural narrative, specifically in this case, a fascist aligned one commonwealthbeacon.org/arts-and-cul...

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 14h

Reminds me, as an Italian-American, that a lot of people escaped Mussolini, but a lot supported him, even here. Some of the origins of our modern national obsession with Columbus are directly from Mussolini propagandists.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 14h

I read your post before the context and was so concerned

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17h

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Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO):
State and Local Engagement

Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE):
Student Support Services (TRIO)
Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS):

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Enforcement Offices

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
Budget Seryice

Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE):

Office of Innovation and Early Learning
Office of School Community Improvement Programs
Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education)
Charter Schools Program
Office of Safe and Supportive Schools
Program and Grantee Support Services
Comprehensive Literacy State Development
JAVITS (Gifted and Talented)
School Support and Accountability
Office of Formula Grants
Office of Migrant Education
Effective Educator Development Program
Innovation and Early Learning Programs
Effective Development Division
Program and Grantee Support Services

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 15h

A lot of the things that we fight about in online discourse are not things that a lot of people see as having to change their daily actions. Clothes, though...

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 15h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 15h

All I know is I'm seeing some offensive boards, which is my favorite thing.

Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 15h

Literally had the police union head run for city council here last couple cycle. They're currently politically prosecuting one of our city councilors for standing up to ICE. And our centrist electeds are terrified of them.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 15h

Right, it's one thing to be thoughtful about not plucking something out of nowhere just to dunk, partly because why give it that much attention. A reply though, feels very fair game.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16h

Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 19h

In fact the pastrami spiced poutine at Lehrhaus in Somerville MA is quite good.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 19h

I got that! Definitely could make some trippy merch though

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, I think there was a mix of original and syndicated programming. Definitely not denying the premise. Mostly just lamenting that I will have this in my head the rest of the day.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 20h

I've been thinking a lot about this since me and @blackjew.bsky.social's daughter was diagnosed with T1 diabetes recently. Because of research advancements, the gap in life expectancy has been shrinking. My Congressman knows research can't bring his daughter back, but knows it could help others.

Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 20h

For generations, the federal government funded research that leads to medical breakthroughs & even cures.

But Trump’s massive cuts at NIH and beyond will make our country sicker, poorer, and worse off.

Like many of you, this is personal for me.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 20h

Same. And now have the theme song in my head.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 20h

Also it always has. Soros accusations have been tossed about as long as I've been politically aware.

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