Days after Nick Judin reported that Mississippi had suddenly denied scholarships to 170 Mississippi foster students, a nonprofit has pledged $800k and colleges are working to ensure their education isn't disrupted. Lawmakers are also vowing to fix it. This is what impactful journalism looks like.

Mississippi Nonprofit, Colleges Help Foster Students Denied Scholarships as Lawmakers Vow Fix

The Woodward Hines Education Foundation is dedicating $800,000 to help fund Mississippi foster students denied full-ride scholarships.

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hell yeah, free yourself from the shackles of feeling like you need to get at something and just let yourself have fun <3

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 7h ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

I have no skin in Michigan's game, but I'm ready to bellow "what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?" with my whole chest

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere and wanted to surface it — Cornyn and Tillis both signed off on a letter dated July 15 that urged Blanche to use the DOJ’s might to “stop the abortion industry’s unlawful and unsafe mail-order abortion drug practice.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d ago

ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"

extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions

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This pen was too pretty to pass by, my goodness - Kaweco Sport Lunar Blue, M nib. I put Wearingeul Wayfarer in it, smooth as moonlight on a calm sea.

Seconded

Sara Cress@saracress.bsky.social · 2d ago

School supplies should be free. They should come with the school. They should be purchased by the state.

For all the knitters among us, and also the non knitters who will recognize the knowing nod in this story.

Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 2d ago

Making something, anything, is an act of defiance. Today we offer you "Ragescarf: A Knitting Pattern for a World Unraveling" by Amanda Saville Try it out. When things are coming apart, knitting things together can feel so satisfying...

The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About

A federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’…

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From The Coeur d'Alene Tribe. #SpokaneFires

Ah, the family fight of 2011 over the set of encyclopedias from 1956 taking up 4 feet of shelf space in the Vermont house ...

chilton 👁@chiltonm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Gentle reminder for all that if you have books that are water damaged, crawling with bugs, physically broken, or giving you travel advice for a country that hasn’t existed since the 90s, you can safely throw them away, you don’t need to make them your local thrift store’s problem.

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Anyway, I find the whole idea of “consumer choice” and “consumer desire” deeply suspect—consumers are manufactured by corporations, PR firms and economic circumstances. They are not a naturally occurring creature.

Posting this image just so people can steal it and use it with gleeful abandon every time there is a White House press release

the elites who run our society took notice of this and its scared the shit out of them

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

this guy gets it

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

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In our latest "postcard," border reporter @jlbuch.bsky.social explores the natural beauty ... and pervasive surveillance ... of the Texas border region on a unique two-wheeled journey.

Postcard: Cycling the Rio Grande as Trump's Wall Looms

“We’re gonna be riding around areas where most everybody thinks it’s unsafe, and you’re gonna see that there’s really nothing to be worried about.”

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This is very useful info. #knitting #knitsky #crocheting #crafting www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/ho...

Attacking Head Start

Democratic Activists@democratswin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump alarms with 'massive gutting' of program meant to pull kids out of poverty: NYT www.rawstory.com/trump-educat...

I’ve been thinking a lot about this storey, combined with the news that Elon Musk helped cut funding for wildfire prevention, combined with the news that the Trump administration only sends emergency aid to Republican states.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

In a hypothetical Muppet Odyssey, the no-name crewmembers should all be pigs. Then Circe turns them into humans with thick Boston accents, and we get a Matt Damon cameo.