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Zahava Stadler

@zahavastadler.bsky.social

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K-12 education policy person with a focus on school finance. Currently Project Director, Education Funding Equity Initiative @educationwork.newamerica.org. Formerly EdTrust, EdBuild. Parent. Order Muppet. I aspire to one day take the Colbert Questionert.

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 1d

כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר ה' מִנְעִ֤י קוֹלֵךְ֙ מִבֶּ֔כִי וְעֵינַ֖יִךְ מִדִּמְעָ֑ה כִּי֩ יֵ֨שׁ שָׂכָ֤ר לִפְעֻלָּתֵךְ֙ נְאֻם־ה' וְשָׁ֖בוּ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ אוֹיֵֽב׃ וְיֵשׁ־תִּקְוָ֥ה לְאַחֲרִיתֵ֖ךְ נְאֻם־ה' וְשָׁ֥בוּ בָנִ֖ים לִגְבוּלָֽם׃

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 1d

Life with a baby: both I and the 9-month-old went through three shirts today.

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 2d

I have no idea what this will mean on a day-to-day level, other than that it will be very bad for kids and involve many, many lawsuits.

Daniel Espinas @despinas.bsky.social · 2d

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 2d

No.

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 4d

Does the United States currently have any foreign military bases on US soil?

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 4d

Even setting aside a metric ton of context, Trump may want to note that the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for the Oslo Accords was given jointly to Yitzchak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat--but not to Bill Clinton.

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 4d

Jinx

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 4d

Job description.

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 4d

@antisemitismcow.bsky.social

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! So great getting confirmation from the source!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4d

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Billy Ball @billyball.bsky.social · 4d

For my free, solo gig, instead of taking the bait and focusing on who's to blame, I wrote about who has more skin in the game.

Spoiler alert: It's the South. By a lot.

www.thelivingsouth.com/the-federal-...

The federal government shutdown hurts the South a lot more

When it comes to health care, which is what the federal government shutdown is about, some states will bleed. The South will gush.

www.thelivingsouth.com

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 5d

I think I found out about these via a post from @akivamcohen.bsky.social, so maybe he knows?

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 5d

Can anyone tell me whether there will be more books in @maryrobinettekowal.com's Lady Astronaut series? I'm halfway through book 3 and want to know if I should anticipate the story to wrap up in the new fourth book or if I should expect a cliffhanger!

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 5d

NJ is half the NYC media market and half the Philly media market. It's hard to isolate.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8d

this is already a huge problem, and it’s about to get much worse as the economy goes into recession

WORKERS AT FOOD BANKS and pantries said that the canceled deliveries add to the growing challenges they face. Many staff members said they had seen a decline in private contributions and volunteers. Grocery stores and food manufacturers, which started managing their inventories more efficiently during the pandemic, now have less leftover food to give.
Other Trump cuts have disrupted AmeriCorps, which helps staff mobile food pantries and other services, and are ending the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which provided food from local farmers.

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 8d

What formal sanctions can be brought to bear here and in similar instances where DOJ lawyers are openly lying and/or making extremely bad-faith arguments on behalf of a bad-faith government?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8d

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 8d

Depends whose heat you're trying to avoid, I suppose

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 11d

This is so incredibly fucking cruel. A policy of systematic, psychological torture of children.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 11d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 11d

Speaking as someone who filed jointly with a green card holder, YES. Also, working people who are in the United States illegally also play plenty of (payroll) taxes.

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 11d

Gotta add a lactaid pill to the menu for true Ashkenazi authenticity

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 11d

In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks.

But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.

People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.

We visualized it:

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 12d

Note that the administration has also yanked magnet school grant funding from some large school districts for "failure to certify that they will comply with civil rights law," which means they won't backpedal on efforts to serve trans students and students from racial minority groups.

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 12d

I just got a (poorly) targeted recruitment ad that promised a $50k signing bonus for new ICE agents. While ICE terrorizes whole communities and frightens students into staying home from school, just the ICE "signing bonus" is higher than the national average salary for a new teacher.
#priorities

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