❗️UPDATE: Judge grants our motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent unilateral federal funding freeze❗️

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Melissa Cropper: Rural communities lose when vouchers replace public schools School funding in Ohio is at a crossroads. One direction – fully funding the Fair School Funding Plan – leads toward adequate and predictable school funding that finally complies with our state consti...

For too many Ohio families, a voucher is just a coupon that can’t be used. Ohio’s kids, no matter where they live, deserve the quality, local public schools that are required by the Ohio Constitution.
-Melissa Cropper, president, Ohio Federation of Teachers
www.limaohio.com/columns/2025...

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Fantasy books: The Fifth Season, the Unbroken, Who Fears Death, The City We Became, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Raybearer

Science fiction books: The Space Between Worlds, Dawn, Parable of the Sower, The Memory Librarian, Sorrowland, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Literary fiction books: Sing Unburied Sing, The Salt Eaters, Song of Solomon, Freshwater, Girl woman Other, Family Lord

Some of my all-time favorite books by Black authors across genres 🧵 #booksky #diversebooksky

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We're thrilled to announce that all 247 backlist articles published in "Getty Research Journal" are now available for free.

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The tech giants - Google, apple, Amazon, etc - innovation has stagnated. They have no competition and no motivation to try to do better. They need to be broken up

Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

Elon Musk threatens funding for central Ohio Lutheran homeless health center Musk responded to a post on X, that questioned why the organizations were getting so much in federal funding. Musk said the Dept. of Govt. Efficiency is "rapidly shutting down these illegal payments."

The govt relies on nonprofits to help feed & house people, to provide them healthcare, to help keep people safe.

That the trump administration and their supporters spread lies & misinfo about nonprofits to try to take their money away is cruel and inhumane
www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

Ron Johnson: "Tariffs are a tax. When you tax something, you get less of it, so we'll probably get fewer imports, but then with retaliation, fewer experts. Smoot-Hawley was not particularly successful and helped sparked the Depression, so I share the markets' concern."

Billionaires are not trustworthy

Trump and Elon musk are radical lunatics. We need to get them out

Musk Says DOGE Is ‘Rapidly Shutting Down’ Treasury Payments Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at...

Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN

Elon Musk is enacting powers he doesn't legally have - he's enacting a coup basically.

And cowardly republicans are just going to roll over for him and let him do whatever he wants. They're too afraid to do their jobs as elected members of Congress

Trump's tariffs are a cover. He wants to cut taxes for billionaires and corporations, and he wants to use tariffs to pay for those tax cuts. He wants to make regular working class people pay higher prices in order to make his billionaire cronies wealthier

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

An unelected billionaire is trying to steal money from nonprofits.

What authority does he have to do anything like this?

And where is Congress in enacting checks & balances on the executive branch?