NC also has private school vouchers. I do not agree with my tax money going to parochial schools.

Send this to anyone in Tennessee who cares about public schools.

This is who voted to send $300,000,000 per year to kids already in private schools.

(From @tndems.bsky.social ) #LeesVoucherScam

"They’re not interested in press freedom." Margaret Sullivan on journalism's billionaire barons and the Substack upstarts out-hustling them. Someone once called her New York Times position "the worst job in journalism." Now she's watching the watchdogs from the outside.

Fascinating interview with the brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social. Thank you, @parkermolloy.com 💥

open.substack.com/pub/depthper...

“We just want to undo democracy with arguments about how wealth should be able to purchase any service to crush anyone not of the super rich with their full participation in the system of destroying themselves” version 9,811

“Israel’s failure to prosecute settlers who attacked Palestinians in the West Bank led to the country’s former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, calling for the international criminal court to intervene to save Palestinians from “Jewish terrorists”, in an interview with the Guardian.”

This is damning.

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Still discovering!

*Given its strategic location near the mouth of the Nile, the bustling city of Pelusium was used as a fortress in pharaonic times & later as a [Roman] customs station…

It likely once held a colossal statue of the god Pelusius…from the ancient Greek word for "mud" or "silt."*

Start the discovery process

Texas Oil Pipes Are Running All-Out to Supply War-Driven Overseas Demand Texas oil pipelines are running above designed capacity in some cases amid rampant overseas demand for US crude to replace cargoes stranded by the Iran war.

I will be writing an overview of us oil and gas exports soon.

"The unprecedented foreign pull on US supplies could start to pinch the homegrown energy landscape as domestic fuelmakers increasingly find themselves competing with overseas refiners for barrels."

Not enough oil for everyone.

ICE detained the wife of an active-duty U.S. Army Sgt. First Class after she showed up for an immigration appointment in 📍 El Paso—then still threatened removal despite legal protections.

Her husband (27 years active duty) said it plainly: ICE is out of control.

The Slopocalypse is upon us.

Conservatives have long sought to deny the best public education to Black students , especially those in redlined and segregated neighborhoods

The Powell Memo is from 1971 and states they need to do something about education being out of their control. Reagan would make punishing UC Berkeley for Vietnam protests all but part of his 1980 campaign.

I don’t think fascists really think deeply about an endgame. They just see a thing they think shouldn’t exist and work to destroy it.

What's your read on the endgame - is it pure labor compliance, or do you think the religious school pipeline is the actual destination? I grew up watching both happen simultaneously and never fully separated them.

That's just fact

North Carolina admits noncitizens on its rolls aren’t a widespread problem — as it gives voter data to DHS The board further acknowledged that many cases involving noncitizens ending up on voter rolls stem from confusion or misunderstanding, not intentional wrongdoing.

A day after the state election board greenlit sharing voter data with DHS, North Carolina election officials said they don’t have evidence that noncitizens on the rolls is a widespread problem.

The board also acknowledged that many of such cases stem from confusion, not intentional wrongdoing.

California governor election update - Betty Yee is ending her campaign. While she was polling low, this may be significant as it frees up a lot of organizations and political leaders to endorse someone else - she had been one of the first to run.
calmatters.org/politics/202...

Virginia you know what to do, #VoteYesVirginia

According to reports, Corey Lewandowski took kickbacks to secure DHS contracts for paying contractors.

Fired Secretary Kristi Noem handed $220M in taxpayer funds to her allies for self-promotion. This is blatant corruption.

These partners in crime need to be fully investigated.

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

ICYMI- a lot happened with the California governor race today and there has been a major shift.

New polling shows Republicans still leading, with Hilton out front, but on the Democratic side, Becerra is making a real move and now tied with Steyer at 13%, the biggest jump we’ve seen.
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We claim to treasure free speech, above almost anything. But on the most critical issue, very few of us are free to speak. The majority are silenced by fear of censure or loss of employment. This conspiracy of silence looks more like what you'd expect in an authoritarian regime than in a democracy.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Who else has baseball fever? Get in the swing of the season with this starter pack for following the minor leagues bsky.app/profile/jenr...

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

Welp.

Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades | CNN Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defence export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons...

America just keeps bleeding.
That's what it gets for telling everyone that they are on their own. Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden and France together are perfectly capable of matching or exceeding the US military-industrial complex.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/a...