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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 5h

If you live in Texas and you’re trusting Morath/Abbott to enforce IDEA law in support of special ed students, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. This move to dissolve that whole branch of the natl Department of Education is bad, bad, bad, for Texas schools

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Zach Schermele @zachschermele.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: These are all the Education Dept. offices that staffers and managers say have been impacted by layoffs since Friday, according to the union for the agency’s employees.

They include workers that supported HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools, civil rights reviews, special ed & more.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10h

they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 2d

Update: toes done, nails done, brows shaped. I feel like a human

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 2d

Holy wow mani/pedi prices have gone up. That’s now a very once in a while treat

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

Two actors and real-life good friends Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are collaborating once again, this time, on Broadway. PBS News' Jeffrey Brown met them to talk about their project, “Waiting for Godot,” and also asked them to reflect on some of their favorite things. https://to.pbs.org/4q6dCtE

WATCH: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter on favorite children's books and play recommendations

Two actors and real-life good friends Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are collaborating once again, this time, on Broadway.

www.pbs.org

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 2d

Lisa Moore: "like the medieval monks and nuns who buried precious manuscripts to hide them from the kings who burned their abbeys, we will preserve this knowledge and progress for another time in the future."

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 2d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

A Wyoming librarian who fought to keep embattled books on a local public library's shelves agreed to settle her federal lawsuit against Campbell County, the county’s library board and several officials for $700,000.

Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands for censorship.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 4d

I know that life is unfair but I just really feel like I, personally, deserve another season of The Residence. I haven’t caused a shut down or kidnapped anyone or done a martial law or anything

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 5d

I've long been obsessed with government documents. What do they communicate and to whom, how and when and by whom were they printed and circulated? The @jcblibrary.bsky.social has a terrific collection of the many printed journals of Congress, fr 1774. Started a weekly series on IG to discuss. 🤓

Title page of Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress held at Philadelphia May 10, 1775. Philadelphia May 10, 1775. Tattered, with an image of three fellas wearing swords in a circle.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 5d

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

www.newyorker.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, I think for red state teachers we've already seen that window close

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6d

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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BumblingBard42 @bumblingbard42.bsky.social · 6d

The more I hear the more I'm convinced he is attached to the same human trafficking ring that Epstein used.
The system was big enough to have global ties and with his coverage should be seen as propaganda, because we know where those media owners' localities rest.
www.hivegeist.us/2025/08/01/s...

HiveGeist - Surface Rot and the Structure It Reveals

They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. — Dinos Christianopoulos

www.hivegeist.us

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

Now that he’s gone, the state is tearing through his books to see just how deep the corruption goes.

A grand jury already called his handling of pandemic relief funds “indefensible.” Let’s hope this new audit exposes the full scope of his grift.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

Pages are disappearing, statements are being “archived,” and it’s clear they’re trying to clean up the mess he left behind.

This is the same guy who funneled public dollars like a political slush fund, pushed PragerU propaganda into classrooms, and tried to turn public schools into pulpits.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d

"[Bodycam] video shows an agent turn federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, 'Do something b----.' The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez.

[Her lawyer] Parente said Martinez has 'seven holes' in her from the shooting."

Govt didn't show that video.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 6d

El Endurance, tenido por el más fuerte y resistente barco polar de su época, se habría hundido tras un combate homérico con el hielo. Sin embargo, ahora un estudio afirma que la historia es muy diferente social.elpais.com/e2t3b12

El ‘Endurance’ no era tan resistente: un estudio revela que el famoso barco de Shackleton carecía de refuerzos para sobrevivir al hielo

El navío, hundido en su expedición a la Antártida en 1915 y localizado en 2022, estaba condenado desde que quedó atrapado

social.elpais.com

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 6d

Me yelling at my fourth period class from across the room:

“NO EXORCISMS”

Pause, silence, raucous laughter.

No, I did not ask any follow questions up questions of the kids

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 6d

Pretend you’re 65 & act accordingly: save your pennies, visit friends, enjoy slow walks in your neighborhood, shrug your shoulders at old beef between family & friends, grow a garden, forgive people because they’re “still young” even if they’re not but hold all politicians accountable. Get a cat.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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