I would love to see zero-percent interest fed loans. College doesn’t need to be free - it just needs to be financially manageable!
Posts by Emily Palmer
Here are 29 things you can start doing today. Start with one. But get started. protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...
Passage from “Teachers and Organized Labor,” by Charles B. Stillman, President, American Federation of Teachers, American Federationist (September, 1919), 812.
@aft.org President, Charles B. Stillman, on the importance of teachers unions in an authoritarian period. Writing in 1919, but could be today @aflcio.org @lawcha.bsky.social
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
Knowledge matters…
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
Props to the MN Children’s Museum for being a
☀️ray of sunshine☀️ in a politically gloomy month!
(And I prefer grandbaby pix to politics all day!)
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
“Interesting times” …
I actually believe we need to be crossing the aisle for convos. Regularly. Stop writing off people we don’t agree with & try to understand WTF…
Yes! God calls people of all faiths to care about other people’s children. It’s that simple.
Love thy neighbor = Christian
Deport thy neighbor = Christian Nationalist
End of TED talk.
In the things-to-be-thankful-for category: Larry just hand-made two sets of coat hooks for the new house - front & back doors. 🥰
I would pay a small fee to not be added to a mailing list when I buy something online.