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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · May 15

If you care ANYTHING about public education or journalistic integrity, please read this thread. This is infuriating sanitizing of an eggresiouly abhorrent public education "model" that is likely to make its way to you soon! Repubs like to use Texas as a testing ground. Don't let this happen to you!

Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · May 15

I really can not overstate how offensive I find this particular article. What are you doing @meganmenchaca.bsky.social? 🧵 to follow

TEA commissioner praises HISD's NES model in latest visit to district's schools

TEA Commissioner Mike Morath didn't say whether he plans to extend the HISD state takeover by June, but he did express strong support for the ongoing reforms.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 10h

This is really lovely.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 17h

Here is what they said. Not 100% sure who Friends of Libraries works with.

Local Messaging Join 50501-Houston, Communities at Work, Party for Socialism and Liberation-Houston, Cat Ladies for America- Space City Chapter, Houston Democracy Project, Indivisible-Houston and more for a protest and march in downtown Houston.
We will host a book drive to donate to local Friends of the Libraries. Please bring new or gently used books with you and look for our Banned Books booth to drop off your donations and learn about the issues facing our libraries, and how you can help.
Recommendations: Bring a large water bottle, power snack, dress for the weather, and come ready to make your voice heard. Bring a protest sign, too!
Houston Coalition: https://www.htxcoalition.us Merchandise: https://linktr.ee/ProgressHive

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Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.art · 1d

Share a thought for JPL people today, which includes the team that looks after and directs Perseverance rover

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 23h

The real Texas.

Texas Standard @texasstandard.bsky.social · 23h

Here in Texas, where beef is at the center of all things barbecue, halal pitmasters are thriving.

Halal barbecue carving out a growing space amid Texas cuisine

Dishes featuring meat butchered according to Islamic standards is beginning to be recognized – and enjoyed – even by non-Muslim diners.

txst.us

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 23h

Fuck this fucking crazy state! Ahhhhhhhh!

BTW, NO KINGS in Houston is collecting books to DONATE to libraries, so bring some books out Saturday!

Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 23h

Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?

New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 1d

*best

Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 1d

And this is why, as a white lady with little kids, I plan to show up looking as Americana as I fucking can. I never wear red, white, and blue crap on the reg, but beat believe I'll be draping myself in it come Saturday. Try and fucking get a pic of us to promote this narrative? Good fucking luck

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

www.texasstandard.org

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 1d

Aw! Wonderful! I'm so glad!

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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Houston News @houston.thesocial.news · 1d

Fort Bend County commissioners approve new precinct map after heated debate

A divided Fort Bend County Commissioners Court voted 3–2 on Monday to adopt a new mid‑decade precinct map meant to rebalance the county’s political lines — but not before a contentious special meeting that at times descended into full‑blown arguments.

www.click2houston.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 1d

Cop-a-ganda in schools is bad!

Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 1d

Making my kid some Rumi boots. I am unreasonably pleased with this gold spray paint.

1 gold painted sole in the foreground. Boots masked and taped into plastic bags so I can spray paint the soles.

2 gold painted boots masked and taped into plastic bags so I can spray paint the soles.

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Yee yee @yeeyee187.bsky.social · 2d

Dept of ed and DOj also make sure districts are compliant with IDEA. Now districts can cut sped as much as they want with no repercussions

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2d

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 2d

Here’s last night’s story about Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and why the Upper West Side is a lot more than just “Seinfeld territory.” youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

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

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 2d

I hope they are delicious!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 2d

I would never be so cruel as to gate-keep it 🫡