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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Italian Americans Who Fought for Justice

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

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Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, when exponential growth is small, it can last a long time, but not as long as you would have thought and definitely not forever.

I've seen some popular media discussion of ‘inflection points’ in the context of the spread of epidemics, and that at least seemed to be used more or less correctly.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16h

What jargon does media get wrong in a way that's jarring for you?

"Stat" doesn't just means fast, it means "there is a life-threatening circumstance and I need this to solve it." Nothing in a morgue is 'stat,' just 'asap.'

On a ship, "aye" means "yes." "Aye-aye" means "heard, and I will comply."

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 14h

… how much there will be based on how fast it was growing, there will still be more than you thought; and if you extrapolate how much there will be from how much the growth was accelerating, there will still be more than you thought; etc. But all this might still be a very tiny amount.)

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 14h

If something is ‘growing exponentially’, that doesn't mean that it's growing fast or there must be a lot of it after some time.

(What it does mean is that if you extrapolate how much there will be from how much there was, there will be more than you thought; and if you extrapolate …

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 14h

That phrase is so cooked. (Sorry!)

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 14h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 14h

I have a question about how they draw these boundaries. Is it ‹If you don't support the State of Israel then you're not a real Jew›, or ‹If you're not Orthodox or don't keep kosher then you're not a real Jew›, or what?

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 14h

Not being on the ground in Portland, I don't have a strong opinion about whether it's a good idea. Sometimes dangerous sabotage is warranted. But it's a *serious* idea, not something to take lightly!

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 15h

You're a silly person.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 15h

Ideally you'd make them *think* that you're going to shine lasers and then (just to be safe) not actually shine them, but that's a plan that's hard to pull off with a diffuse group of protestors, and pretty much impossible to pull off more than once.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 15h

I think that I understand how it's supposed to work now that I've seen this story about air ambulance operators refusing to fly where the laser party was planned. The goal is to make the feds also too afraid to fly in the area. Nobody wants a crash. …

OHSU says emergency flights will be diverted amid 'laser party' aimed at helicopters circling over Portland ICE facility

A "laser party" for those frustrated with helicopters' nightly flights over the South Portland area can have dangerous consequences for patients, OHSU warned.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 17h

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 1d

It was Morg, wasn't it?

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 1d

The Ea-nāṣir of stealing nannies?

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Sad that the Peace Prize is being given to such a piece of shit too. I mean, if it came down to her or Trump, then obviously Trump is the worse choice. But she's a traitor to her people for praising the American dictator who persecutes them, just because he pretends to oppose their own dictator.

María Corina Machado on X: "This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic" / X

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA religious freedom means the freedom to impose their religion on everyone else, not the freedom for anyone else to practise their religion.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Hiding inside the building apparently: bsky.app/profile/long...

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

Full statement issued by the Hoffman Estates Police Department. ⬇️

"All of this information can be found on our website at hoffmanestates.org."

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 1d

The article is in a libertarian magazine, so I guess the writer is principled. But the commenters underneath … whoo! Pretty typical for that comment section unfortunately.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 2d

PS: I know this thread is almost five months old, but people have been reviving it at the top level, so I'm reviving it here.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 2d

And people do prove it, but they pretend that they're proving something only about +: that it's well-defined. But really it's a theorem about + and = just like the first theorem is a theorem about + and <.

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Toby Bartels @tobybartels.bsky.social · 2d

With real numbers for example, nobody has any problem defining x<y and then proving neat theorems like x<y → x+z<y+z. But when you define x=y in a similar way, you can't then treat x=y → x+z=y+z as an axiom; it too needs to be proved as a theorem.

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