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I don’t know why there is chatter about COVID-time social isolation, but it really sucked to make the hard (& correct!) decision to have a 5-person wedding in 2020 when other people went ahead with their full plans.

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

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Dear Readers, re: My Hallow Prayer App Series & more...

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The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

“Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, is leading U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran while engaged in a lucrative, ongoing, multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government. This brazenly corrupt arrangement is…ignored by most major media…”
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A poster that reads, “Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.

Tomorrow, I’ll post a reminder to the GOP about book bans and censorship :-)}

Stopped by the dispensary to get the THC beverages I like, and the cashier wished me a happy 4/20. I almost jokingly said, “I’m a Christian and I don’t celebrate these pagan holidays.”

I’d forgotten that @hampshirecollege.bsky.social didn’t just not have institutional sports but that the rejection of them was as integral as the rejection of grades and tests. The three pillars of higher ed as a class-reproduction machine.

Not a demographer but I'm pretty sure that we *know* how to raise birth rates: provide cheap or free high-quality child care & do things so adult moms don't feel alone or have to quit their jobs. IIRC has worked locally in Japan! and Korea! and nationally in parts of the Nordic countries!

On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

P.S. Weekly | The Bell

This episode is great! These students are getting already truly getting the hang of reporting, writing, buildjng & presenting their own podcasts! #NYDOE #Education #PublicEducation #StandardizedTesting
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Why progressives should oppose abortion | CNN Christopher Hale argues that protecting the unborn should be at the heart of the progressive agenda.

The voice of “the Catholic Left” here:
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We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

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It’s such a piece of very bad news. I’m sorry.

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Sure, but if he hasn’t kicked out all the bishops who cover up clergy child r^pe & sexual abuse, and the perpetrators themselves, who continue to abuse w/impunity all over the world, Pope Leo will probably leave JVee alone.

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.

No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle

Check out our report “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.” ⬇️

Read results for your state.

Teachers & teacher educators are engaging students in discussion of the report findings. #TeachTruth
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An Open Letter on the Need to Teach the Reconstruction Era — Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle This letter has been signed by more than 190 scholars of U.S. history. It can be presented to school districts by teachers, scholars, parents, students, and other concerned community members. We will ...

In face of ongoing white supremacist violence, voter suppression, & anti-history education EOs & laws, 250 U.S. history scholars signed a letter urging school districts to devote more time & resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.

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The use of the term “The Church” says a lot. #CatholicExceptionalism

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I certainly agree that Trump's comments about the Pope are shocking but if you listen to right-wing talk radio in a place like Philly - where there's a huge Venn overlap between conservatives and Catholics (think Santorum) - the callers and hosts are pretty much the same way about Francis and Leo

Sure, but if he hasn’t kicked out all the bishops who cover up clergy child r^pe & sexual abuse, and the perpetrators themselves, who continue to abuse w/impunity all over the world, Pope Leo will probably leave JVee alone.

While he’s at it, he could clean the house of Opus Dei and toss them too

Go, Tom!
Bravo & thanks!
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So much more than a shoutout! I am consciously grateful to you on the regular!