But I was told it was Obama that would conduct the Death Panels

Eugenics

And by that same token, education in the US as it stands today is also by no means a guarantee of being politically astute. I've seen PhDs and folks with all kinds of graduate degrees fall for easily debunked propaganda because it was in the New York Times.

These purportedly spend their time reading all the greatest works of literature, but somehow have just like five talking points.

Which is to say, like Tate, so many of these people have more or less a Liberty Kids level understanding of the intellectuals or the history they cite. If they hear about the real people in these real situations being messy and engaging with their world like normal people it breaks them. (2/2)

After 117 conventions that elected 1,200 delegates to the state convention, it’s clear Minnesota Democrats are consolidating around Peggy, who is in a strong position to win the DFL nomination: Data collected by our campaign shows a huge enthusiasm and support gap in this race that is evident across Minnesota. Peggy Flanagan earned support from more delegates than Rep. Craig at over 90% of the 117 conventions held statewide. Minnesota Democrats are strongly supporting Peggy Flanagan over Rep. Craig. Delegates supporting Peggy Flanagan come from small towns, suburbs, and big cities all over the state: In Clay County (Moorhead), seven delegates elected to the state convention were committed to supporting Peggy Flanagan, while zero were committed to supporting Rep. Craig. In Senate District 14 (Saint Cloud), nine delegates elected to the state convention were committed to supporting Peggy Flanagan, while one was committed to supporting Rep. Craig. In Blue Earth County (Mankato), seven delegates elected to the state convention were committed to supporting Peggy Flanagan, while zero were committed to supporting Rep. Craig. In Le Sueur County (Rural CD-02), data collected by our campaign shows five delegates elected to the state convention supported Peggy Flanagan, while zero supported Rep. Craig. In Senate District 39 (Columbia Heights, Fridley), 14 delegates elected to the state convention were committed to supporting Peggy Flanagan, while zero were committed to supporting Rep. Craig. In Senate District 67 (Saint Paul), eight delegates elected to the state convention were committed to supporting Peggy Flanagan, while zero were committed to supporting Rep. Craig. At conventions where delegates were elected proportionally via walking subcaucus, delegates were committed to Peggy Flanagan over Rep. Craig at a rate of nearly 5 to 1. Nearly one-third (32%) of organizing units had zero Rep. Craig subcaucuses, while Peggy had representation in 100% of c…

peggy flanagan's campaign sent out these figures on how much she dominated the DFL organizing unit delegate selection for state convention over angie craig. they say she is poised to win the DFL endorsement next month at the convention in rochester!

minnesota is PISSED after the ICE occuption

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Another case for avoiding AI at all costs...

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

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Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

so Sean O’Brien lit his credibility on fire to get about 14 months of nothing from the department of labor

hope it was worth it dude

My toddler discovered this fact over the weekend and has NOT stopped telling me about it

This was entirely obvious and also it seems like states want this to happen

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

This was always the logical conclusion of a certain segment of vape culture

give weed back to the freaks!

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

like maybe the public would be getting less frothy and toothy about this if big tech hadn’t spent the last three years constantly threatening the public with impoverishment and feudal control, idk

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

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During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.

Be curious, start to ask a question that cannot be easily answered

This is hard to test for and certainly not what AP tests for

Many thanks to all the brave folks whose stories drive this lawsuit. We do not think it should be illegal to study or support racial or ethnic minorities and we don't think that's particularly controversial BUT HERE WE ARE

Broad Coalition Files Suit to Stop Latest Unlawful Move in Trump-Vance Administration Crusade Against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Executive Order Targets Essential Federal Contractors with Unconstitutional Threats

My union @uam-umd.bsky.social did such a good job beating our bosses in the statehouse this year that we figured we'd go ahead and beat the White House too.

With allies from across higher ed and the good people at @democracyforward.org we're suing to stop the latest illegal anti-DEI order.

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I would love to see any Dem put forth a vision of a fully funded public media ecosystem so at the least we can have something to work towards. As it stood NPR relied too heavily on major donors and specific socioeconomic class of donors, heavily catering to them—confirming bias, framing, and so on.

Philanthropy radio is not public radio.

When and how are we going to have a robust public media system that's *actually* funded by the public? One that is secure from autocratic meddling and destruction?

What if public media didn't have to regularly beg for support?

Same is very true for education. Philanthropy is not the same as public support.

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