STATE VIOLENCE IN FREEPORT, NY. 🚨 ICE agents violently tackle and pin down a resident in the middle of a busy street on July 30. Screams of terror echo as families watch their neighbor dragged away. We MUST demand an end to this brutality NOW!
Margaret Ballantyne, Ph.D.
@maugie.bsky.social
(Recently) retired Professor of Spanish. Current trustee of local Board of Education. Translator; academic field women writers, 19th century Spanish literature. Wife, Mom, reader, traveler, and Mets fan!
Trump killed the Medicare Part D program. Millions of seniors who ration pills because they can't afford refills are about to pay more. Your grandma having to choose between meds & groceries wasn't enough for them. People will die because of this decision. Your grandparent could be one of them.
AI & screens are reshaping childhood & classrooms faster than most schools can keep up. Without strong guardrails, there are real risks to learning, privacy, well-being & human connection. That’s why I’m calling for a better balance: devices down, eyes up, hands-on. bsky.app/profile/aft....
AFT@aft.org · 2mo agoIn an era of unprecedented technological disruption brought by AI and screens, AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social unveils a crucial 10-point plan to safeguard students from the harms of excessive tech and boost their learning. Watch Randi's powerful address ⤵️
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
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I’m not a detective, but I see some clues that there’s a connection between the Trump admin’s laissez-faire approach to addressing the harms of technology and the tech titans who are funding the president’s ballroom, presidential library and PACs. www.cbsnews.com/video/teache...
Teachers union president calls for AI and other technology limits in schools
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, is calling for limits on technology in schools as part of her 10-point action plan to set public schools up for success. CBS New...
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“Honey, they’re hitting us.” 💔 That’s what a woman says her husband told her from inside Delaney Hall. She says detainees were beaten, gassed, and injured. Now she says they’re cleaning up the blood. Every elected official should be at Delaney Hall demanding answers RIGHT NOW. #SheShed
MAGA HEADS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE 🤯 🚨 A new Cato study found immigrants reduced US deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994. Not increased. Reduced. Even undocumented immigrants were estimated to have reduced deficits by at least $1.7 trillion.
This Mother’s Day we celebrate farm worker mothers. These hard working moms toil long hours and set incredible examples for their kids. Your gift can help them fight for justice in the fields every day - including Mother’s Day. act.seiu.org/a/mothersday... #WeFeedYou #MothersDay
Why Did Howard Lutnick Suddenly Changes Entire Story About His Epstein Ties. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS newrepublic.com/post/210034/...
Howard Lutnick Suddenly Changes Entire Story About His Epstein Ties
Donald Trump’s commerce secretary claimed he couldn’t remember why he was at Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
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It was only a matter of time. Mexico is run by drug cartels but no advisory for them. Lol. Laughing stock of the world.
Bill Leibenguth@bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 3mo ago
To everyone still demanding the full release of the Epstein files and refusing to look away: I see you. ✊🏼🔥 The survivors. The citizen journalists. The whistleblowers. The researchers. The people still paying attention while the world tries to move on. You’re my people. 🖤
It's a dwindling pool to pull from, but James Cordon's finale episode had a segment with Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman and Trevor Noah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htti...
Late Night Nightmare w/ Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert, Fallon, Letterman & Noah
YouTube video by The Late Late Show with James Corden
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LateNighter@latenightercom.bsky.social · 3mo agoExclusive: Stephen Colbert is set to welcome not one, but four other late-night hosts to 'The Late Show' in a reunion of the Strike Force Five.
Oh, so you mean the US Government has been lying to us about the cost of the war and the "total victory", etc.? Who would have guessed. 🙄
Happy Cinco de Mayo. Let us each welcome the cultures and celebrations of all, and understand it is our diversity which makes us human and gives us hope and a path forward.
happy bday Danish philosopher/writer Søren Kierkegaard, b.1813. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
¡Que tengas un feliz Cinco de Mayo! 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 ¡Viva México!" Have a great one, Los Angelenos... ...¡unless you're full of Sith!
This is insane and also very stupid.
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 3mo agoAhead of Secretary of State Rubio's fence-mending visit to the Vatican, President Trump renews his attack on Chicago-born Pope Leo, accusing the pontiff of "endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people.” apnews.com/article/trum...
A Trump prosecutor is targeting election workers: report #AlterNet
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A Trump prosecutor is targeting election workers: report
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