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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 7h

Well you're going to want to cut the apex

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13h

"Families filed a record 22,687 discrimination complaints last year, nearly 40% involving disability. Even before these layoffs, families often waited years for answers. Now, thousands more may never see their cases resolved."

@thearcus.bsky.social on the firings at the Department of Education

Federal Special Education Offices Hollowed Out, Putting Students’ Rights at Risk

Mass layoffs inside the U.S. Department of Education have gutted the federal offices that protect students with disabilities. The Arc of the United States warns that the collapse of special education ...

thearc.org

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 7h

He's 13 years old!

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 7h

Never took any credit or talked about it much.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 8h

Serious answer, Gino Bartali. He hid passport documents for Jews and messages to the Italian resistance inside the tubes of his bicycle when he was training for the Tour and Giro.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 10h

The latter sounds like the most cfax beer of all time.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13h

In Zohran Mamdani’s vision, New Yorkers will be given status and privileges that ought to be based on merit.

by A.G. Sulzberger

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 15h

The second part of the story is, and I cannot stress this enough, fake. I believe a colleague took a mental health day. I do not believe it was for that reason or that if it was, was communicated as such to someone who had just expressed support for Shapiro.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine not only sharing this weak anecdote as your origin story -- a colleague didn't like Ben Shapiro, and I had to hear them talk about it! -- but making it your entire identity.

Jesus Christ.

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15h

pinned tweet of the shitposter who wrote the story

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 15h

To be more explicit, right now she ignores ICE. At CBS she'll have to defend it.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 15h

This is a good point, the types of issues that will drive middlebrow voters to Trump are those that will undermine Weiss's status among elite journos.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 15h

It's a legal right because of the law. It's an actual right because it's the duty of every society to enable its members to reach their full potential.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 22h

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...

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 16h

You wouldn't want anyone to think you wanted them to get laid

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 16h

Garibaldi, except he's technically French.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 16h

Also bombing Qatar threatened the dynamic of gulf states talking but largely ignoring what Israel was doing.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 16h

Yo @sallyjenx.bsky.social some ace journalism here. (Do the quotes sound like cops by the way or reporters phrasing them and asking yes or no.)

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