I wonder who looks more like Odysseus might have looked: Matt Damon or Abdul El-Sayed? 🤔
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Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
Hannibal Lecter's Intense Gaze
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
A connecting gate of “Z4” is never a good sign. Is that still at the airport?
This seemingly innocuous email from the Social Security Administration is straight up political advertising. Donald Trump (or the President) is mentioned SIX times in a handful of paragraphs. A completely inappropriate use of public resources.
What a beautiful ending to the World Cup halftime show. The complete antithesis to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and everything they represent.
"One Michigan-based company that launched last year to encourage churches to tap into public funds refers to these programs in its promotional videos as “God’s new gold mine.” www.propublica.org/article/priv...
Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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Staying in power matters more to Donald Trump than anything else.
Today is the last day to submit comments on OMB's proposed changes to federal grant rules that would give vast powers to political appointees to reject or cancel midstream large research projects. This would waste millions in time and effort and promote corruption. naeducation.org/naed-and-19-...
NAEd and 19 Other Associations File Comment Urging OMB to Withdraw Proposed Rule on Federal Financial Assistance - National Academy of Education
Coalition representing more than 85,000 researchers, faculty, practitioners, and students files formal comment opposing sweeping restrictions on federally funded education research Washington, DC — Ju...
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“The data indicates that 74.2% of North Carolina’s 143,998 private school students received an Opportunity Scholarship during the 2025-26 school year.” We’re living through the resegregation of US education. Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
Most NC private school students now get a taxpayer-funded voucher to pay costs
North Carolina now provides vouchers to nearly 75% of private school students, up from a quarter of pupils two years ago.
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Republicans in Tennessee have taken control over the Memphis airport, taken its control over its schools, taken its control over its police, sicced the military on Memphians, taken its representative in Congress, and taken its state lawmakers’ committee seats. This is the result.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last mo.The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning
The DC fireworks show is… really not good. Quantity ≠ Quality
As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/my-letter-...
My Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Concerning the Nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General
As Deputy Attorney General, Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again.
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5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The 3rd Social Network movie is already writing itself. I hope people are saving emails and recording meetings for the future Congressional hearings and tell-alls which will culminate in exactly zero accountability
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last mo.Meta sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling
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Dear Mother, By the time you receive this letter, I hope our long hours of guarding the nation’s Reflecting Pool will be over. The camp has been struck by dysentery from the algae. I thought arresting people for no reason would prove more fun, but all I want now is to return home. Your loving son.
This is hardly the most authoritarian thing the Trump administration has done but it’s probably the stupidest authoritarian thing they’ve done. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Cyclist arrested at Reflecting Pool is former Olympian who denies vandalism claims
David Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” Trump has accused vandals of sabotaging the refurbishment as paint was seen peeling and...
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Whoa, selection bias anyone? (In other news, AP Calculus is actually easier than remedial math, based on the higher grades students receive in that course)
Opponents of the voucher program have often repeated that it subsidizes private school tuition for families who can already afford it. Our analysis showed that is largely true for the more than 3,000 recipients whose families make upward of $173,160 annually. www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...
Can TN voucher families already afford private school? What we learned
Opponents of Tennessee's private school vouchers say it subsidizes tuition for those who can already afford it. We dug in to find out if that's true.
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Wow, this interview with Scott Pelley is spellbinding (and longer than an episode of 60 minutes). I hung onto every word. They dont make them like this man anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Nashville Zoo Says No to Proposed Data Center
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This is outstanding. If this were a Trump event he would have asked the kids about transgender athletes and a nuclear armed Iran
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo agoToday, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.