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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17m

yes! and in some cases, maybe even everything from the 11th forward.... www.news9.com/story/68d4bd...

Why is an Oklahoma teacher concerned about state-approved Bibles?

An Oklahoma teacher raises alarm over OECD-approved classroom Bibles that excluded crucial amendments from the U.S. Constitution. Learn what's missing and the teacher's insights.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22m

This is where I’ve been leaning. I thought it was Civil Rights but it’s actually the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 34m

I’ve been thinking about Writing about how this book got attacked, but it claims about libertarians and segregation have largely been vindicated by subsequent history

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 44m

It's naive to take them at their word that they want "viewpoint diversity." They want a monoculture that agrees with them. They act in accordance with that goal. They say "viewpoint diversity" so that people who don't share their vision will nevertheless carry water for them.

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 49m

Episode focusing on Black women's unemployment: It's Been a Minute www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women. : It's Been a Minute

Black women’s unemployment rate is hovering at 6.7% — higher than the rate for white workers. Is it a sign the broader economy could sour? These economists say yes.Black women are the 'canary in the ...

www.npr.org

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 56m

This administration appears to believe that Black people existing is anti-white discrimination.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 1h

“The African American unemplymnt rate hs surged ovr..
past 4 mnths, frm 6 to 7.5%, while..rate for white ppl ticked down..to 3.7%..White House’s actions hve disproportionately harmed Black wrkrs..since the 1970s..the rate for Black ppl has run abt twice the rate for white ppl.”

My Afternoon Read:

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1h

If we had internet gatekeepers, guys who wrote for Nazi sites wouldn't be writing about the need for internet gatekeepers.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1h

The alt-right won.

Steven Miller is in the White House, the administration is making segregation great again, their “intellectuals” are hanging out with Atlantic authors, and secret police are kidnapping brown kids.

This is the future they hoped for.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Matt @mattmurph24.bsky.social · 2h

By design.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Meg @meg122t.bsky.social · 4h

This (demolishing the black middle class) was the whole purpose of the felon's dismantling of the Federal Govt.

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Kitty’s Ghost @kittysghost.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks for sharing this. I didn’t realize that about public sector employment demographics, and it does paint what DOGE was in a different light — much more similar to what ICE is doing now.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4h

today in making segregation great again

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 4h

"clean your [house] before you criticize the world"

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18h

Jordan Peterson, explained

ca.news.yahoo.com/jordan-peter...

She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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Pete Hausler @petehausler.bsky.social · 4h

when Doge was in it’s heyday back in the winter and someone pointed out that firing government workers disproportionately hit black Americans, and was therefore a racist thing and thats why its part of P2025, I have never stopped thinking about this fact.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 4h

It’s kind of maddening to think about how good Black folks have to be to get a sliver of opportunity. There are very few Black folks in academia but a full assault on the few that are here, by a white federal government that can’t even fire people correctly.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

Shout out to the student who pointed this out.

"the University's existing buildings and spaces whose names are dedicated to slaveowners and individuals who 'committed treason against the United States and led vigilante groups to terrorize black voters.'"

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 1d

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 7h

Students from Cheyfitz’s course speak out against his suspension and explain what happened in the classroom leading up to it. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

We Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom.

Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am...

www.cornellsun.com

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