Jnaatus
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Parent, public school teacher #JerseyCity, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer #ElSalvador, and #Fulbright Scholar #Mexico. American #peasant
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Even as tensions seem to have calmed in Minnesota, one fact remains clear: President Donald Trump, and any future president, has the power to send troops into local communities in an instant, and without consulting Congress. A court may be asked to rule if such an action is legal.
How Trump’s Threat to Invoke Insurrection Act Differs From JFK’s Use in Mississippi
The military has been used about 30 times since 1807 to enforce civil rights and quell riots. Can they be used to quash political protests?
buff.ly
January 31, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Even as tensions seem to have calmed in Minnesota, one fact remains clear: President Donald Trump, and any future president, has the power to send troops into local communities in an instant, and without consulting Congress. A court may be asked to rule if such an action is legal.
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Commissioned by NPR in December in partnership with Ipsos, the share of people who believe the U.S. is a moral leader dropped to 39% from 60% in a similar poll conducted in 2017. n.pr/3Z3IbnD
Many Americans say the U.S. is not a moral leader but want it to be: NPR/Ipsos poll
Commissioned by NPR in December in partnership with Ipsos, the share of people who believe the U.S. is a moral leader dropped to 39% from 60% in a similar poll conducted in 2017.
n.pr
January 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Commissioned by NPR in December in partnership with Ipsos, the share of people who believe the U.S. is a moral leader dropped to 39% from 60% in a similar poll conducted in 2017. n.pr/3Z3IbnD
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Small group instruction transformed this once-struggling high school's math program. Here's how.
Meet the NYC teacher who helped turn around her high school with small group math instruction
Lauren Brady, a winner of the Math for America’s 2025 Muller Award, has taught at Park East High School for two decades.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Small group instruction transformed this once-struggling high school's math program. Here's how.
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Common Sense Media found that while these tools could help teachers save time and streamline routine paperwork, AI-generated content could also promote bias in lesson planning and classroom management recommendations.
Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently.
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
bit.ly
December 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Common Sense Media found that while these tools could help teachers save time and streamline routine paperwork, AI-generated content could also promote bias in lesson planning and classroom management recommendations.
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New York City has bought more than 125,000 acres of land to provide a buffer around water reservoirs. It’s much cheaper than spending billions on filtration systems, officials say.
How New York Keeps Its Unfiltered Water Safe: Spending Millions on Land
The city has bought more than 125,000 acres of land to provide a buffer around water reservoirs. It’s much cheaper than spending billions on filtration systems, officials say.
nyti.ms
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
New York City has bought more than 125,000 acres of land to provide a buffer around water reservoirs. It’s much cheaper than spending billions on filtration systems, officials say.
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X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
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November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
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A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.
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Trump's deportation policies are creating a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t conundrum for millions of immigrants in the US, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social.
Trump Is Forcing Millions to Make Cruel Choices
Do you go to your asylum check-in and risk capture by ICE? Without SNAP, what will you give up to feed your kids? How will you pay for healthcare?
www.thenation.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump's deportation policies are creating a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t conundrum for millions of immigrants in the US, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social.
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Historian Christian Goeschel tells Euronews that Donald Trump's attempts to appease Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine could prove "catastrophic".
Trump's Putin policy is a danger for Europe, historian says
Historian Christian Goeschel tells Euronews that Donald Trump's attempts to appease Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine could prove "catastrophic".
l.euronews.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Historian Christian Goeschel tells Euronews that Donald Trump's attempts to appease Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine could prove "catastrophic".
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"Disinformation" has become such a contentious label in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.
What do some researchers call disinformation? Anything but disinformation.
The label has become so contentious in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.
ebx.sh
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Disinformation" has become such a contentious label in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.
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Reporters Without Borders explores how the US tech industry collaborates with the US regime to undermine the sovereignty of other nations.
Big Tech is a tool of modern American authoritarianism.
#cdnpoli #canada
Big Tech is a tool of modern American authoritarianism.
#cdnpoli #canada
Big tech’s attempts to weaken information space regulations worldwide exposed by new cross-country investigation supported by RSF
In Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Australia and beyond, tech giants like Google and Meta have deployed aggressive lobbying strategies to derail or weaken legislation aimed at regulating digit...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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DOGE's moves are far more familiar to the average American worker than you might think.
It's downsizing. It’s layoffs. It’s control by one annoying guy who, for some reason, is richer than you and is convinced that “working the weekend is a superpower.”
It’s government run like a business.
It's downsizing. It’s layoffs. It’s control by one annoying guy who, for some reason, is richer than you and is convinced that “working the weekend is a superpower.”
It’s government run like a business.
How Musk, Trump, and your boss learned to hate democracy
Work is a dictatorship. Is the government next?
www.motherjones.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
DOGE's moves are far more familiar to the average American worker than you might think.
It's downsizing. It’s layoffs. It’s control by one annoying guy who, for some reason, is richer than you and is convinced that “working the weekend is a superpower.”
It’s government run like a business.
It's downsizing. It’s layoffs. It’s control by one annoying guy who, for some reason, is richer than you and is convinced that “working the weekend is a superpower.”
It’s government run like a business.
This was the goal to begin with, to leave a wake of destruction in the federal government.
Elon Musk arrived in Washington as the most powerful political outsider ever
He's leaving with his reputation wounded, relationships severed, companies in crisis, fortune diminished — and little to show for DOGE but chaos and contested savings.
He's leaving with his reputation wounded, relationships severed, companies in crisis, fortune diminished — and little to show for DOGE but chaos and contested savings.
Elon Musk leaves legacy of self-destruction at DOGE
He's leaving with his reputation in tatters, his companies in crisis and his fortune diminished.
www.axios.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This was the goal to begin with, to leave a wake of destruction in the federal government.
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Democrats "may find themselves quickly back in business if they can simply swallow their pride and follow Bernie’s lead."
Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done
The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.
newrepublic.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Democrats "may find themselves quickly back in business if they can simply swallow their pride and follow Bernie’s lead."
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For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics
The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.
edition.cnn.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
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NEW: Elon Musk issues ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying that employees must respond to an email justifying the work they completed this week, or resign.
Elon Musk says federal workers must justify their work — or resign
Some federal workers have already begun to receive an email asking them to detail what they did this week.
www.nbcnews.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
NEW: Elon Musk issues ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying that employees must respond to an email justifying the work they completed this week, or resign.
Road rage, I never get angry while driving because I tell myself that I am not important enough to be in a hurry and anger is a weakness. When people want me to go faster with horn anger, I slow down, because I know they must think they are VIPs. I let them pass in their delusion of who they are.
I tried to stop rage-honking my car horn – but what am I to do with all this anger?
I tried to stop rage-honking my car horn – but what am I to do with all this anger?
My ‘achievable’ self-development goal of trying not to be angry was difficult. It’s what you do with that feeling that matters
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Road rage, I never get angry while driving because I tell myself that I am not important enough to be in a hurry and anger is a weakness. When people want me to go faster with horn anger, I slow down, because I know they must think they are VIPs. I let them pass in their delusion of who they are.
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Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas
Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas
A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnut
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas
Did the #JerseyCity mayor get the support from the Maplewood Democratic Committee, made up of good people? Or is this his rich buddy's living room in Maplewood and some of his buddy's neighbors? www.maplewooddemocrats.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Did the #JerseyCity mayor get the support from the Maplewood Democratic Committee, made up of good people? Or is this his rich buddy's living room in Maplewood and some of his buddy's neighbors? www.maplewooddemocrats.org
The logic is the same with Russia and #Ukraine, with the US and Greenland, making NATO less trustworthy for #Finland and puts my Finnish family at increased risk. Another thing to thank Trump voters for, that I know. yle.fi/a/74-2014517...
Trump could throw Finland 'under the bus' too, former foreign minister says
At the same time, a Finnish MEP says Russia now has an ally in the White House.
yle.fi
February 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The logic is the same with Russia and #Ukraine, with the US and Greenland, making NATO less trustworthy for #Finland and puts my Finnish family at increased risk. Another thing to thank Trump voters for, that I know. yle.fi/a/74-2014517...
Today's events puts the world at extreme risk, and more than the risk analysis by experts could have predicted. Today was off the charts Looney Tunes by Trump with his about face today. Here is an excellent article on the analysis of either War or Peace in #Ukraine. www.iiss.org/online-analy...
War or Peace in Ukraine: US Moves and European Choices
Coming on top of Trump’s animosity towards NATO, the West’s inability to secure a satisfactory outcome in Ukraine could change Russia’s assessment of what Article 5 means.
www.iiss.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Today's events puts the world at extreme risk, and more than the risk analysis by experts could have predicted. Today was off the charts Looney Tunes by Trump with his about face today. Here is an excellent article on the analysis of either War or Peace in #Ukraine. www.iiss.org/online-analy...
Does anyone actually feel safer with this administration running the show in D.C.?
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Does anyone actually feel safer with this administration running the show in D.C.?
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):
February 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):
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I can't hard same hard enough.
There is nothing more obviously inevitable to me than everyone eventually concluding that, no, you can't work with the Trump admin., you can't "find areas of compromise," you can't treat this as normal politics, the only option is total, unremitting opposition. Everyone will get there eventually.
February 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I can't hard same hard enough.
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Zelenski pide crear un Ejército europeo para que EEUU se tome en serio al continente
Zelenski pide crear un Ejército europeo para que EEUU se tome en serio al continente
El presidente ucraniano ha alertado ante una posible visita de Trump a Moscú con motivo del desfile del Día de la Victoria y, por el momento, se ha negado a firmar un acuerdo para ceder a EEUU el 50% ...
www.eldiario.es
February 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Zelenski pide crear un Ejército europeo para que EEUU se tome en serio al continente