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Barbara Neuhoff @barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 18/08/2025

"The League of Women Voters will not stand by while politicians spread lies to limit democratic participation. Our democracy is strong when every eligible voter can make their voice heard, whether at a polling place or through a mail-in ballot." www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

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LWV Statement on Mail-in Ballots and Voting Machines | League of Women Voters

League of Women Voters CEO, Celina Stewart, Esq., issued the following statement in response to President Trump's vow to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

All of Trump’s education moves have a common theme: a kicking away of the ladder that will entrench privilege for those who already have the most. My latest open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

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Kicking Away the Ladder

The great American wealth transfer is underway

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

How Dept. of Education abolition could affect Ohio “With less money from the state, less money from the federal government, it is not good for the students of Ohio” -Jeff Wensing, @ohioea.bsky.social by Delaney Ruth www.nbc4i.com/news/your-lo...

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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

None of what's happened with education under Trump has been anything other than what was telegraphed in Project 2025. Here's what we wrote about back before the election www.newsweek.com/project-2025...

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Project 2025 Will End Education As We Know It | Opinion

Dismantling the federal effort to improve schools would be a disaster for students, teachers, and parents alike.

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Further research on what I call the "tyranny of choice," what researchers here dub the "double burden of choice" bit.ly/4nEbBUi "School choice" is not only illusory, it should be undesirable. Freedom from being forced to make burdensome choices is better, if we would just make ALL SCHOOLS desirable

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"In my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trails], I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy...the genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G. Gilbert, US Army

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/07/2025

🚨 New: Trump’s taking his streaming platform global—just months after he gutted Voice of America, the US’s biggest international news outlet. Trump the president cuts global news. Trump the businessman fills the void. #synergy My full story for @forbes.com 👇 1/

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Trump Media Takes Truth+ Streaming Global After President Slashes Voice Of America

Trump’s media company is testing an international launch of its Truth+ streaming platform, raising questions over conflicts of interest as the administration cuts funding to America’s biggest global b...

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"it cost the average American household roughly $6 a year in taxes to prevent about half as many deaths as occurred in the Holocaust." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

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Opinion | I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/06/2025

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Take note.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I regret to inform you that the MIT study that's making the rounds re the negative impact of AI on cognition...appears not so great. The core task being assessed "doesn’t demand cognitive investment; it invites cognitive laziness." (Wess Trabelsi) open.substack.com/pub/wesstrab...

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When MIT is Also Beating Dead AI Horses

My quick and unplanned "react" article to a new study on AI in education that will probably make a splash.

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Making it harder for citizens to propose ballot measures isn’t just bad policy, it’s unconstitutional. This bill puts an unfair burden on grassroots efforts while giving big-money a free pass SB 153 is a bad bill, plain and simple Janice Oakley, Sagamore Hills www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...

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Ohio Senate Bill 153 a masterclass in undermining democracy | Letter

A Beacon journal reader writes about roadblocks Senate Bill 153 would add for anyone trying to get an issue on the ballot.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thanks @dwallacewells.bsky.social for explaining so clearly what's at the heart of the 50-state voucher program buried in the big beautiful bill: a war on the entire idea of public goods www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I wonder why the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California 🤔

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a man wearing a black shirt that says " why "

ALT: a man wearing a black shirt that says " why "

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Rachel Coyle Ohio @rachelcoyle.wtf · 09/06/2025

This new month would try to persuade Ohioans to have babies (instead of actually passing any laws that help people have babies or raise kids...) Also WTF is a "natural family"? The bill's authors seem to think single parents and #LGBTQ parents don't count.... naturalfamilystrong.com/about-us/ #Ohio

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Rachel Coyle Ohio @rachelcoyle.wtf · 08/06/2025

I wish everyone in #Ohio knew how state politicians are trying to spend their tax dollars This budget bill is inhumane. No other way to describe it. #Republicans are openly trying to give tax cuts to billionaires by hurting literally everyone else Take action: bit.ly/OhioBudget2025

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Peoples lives and careers have been ruined, health and welfare and education all decimated, violence and fascism unleashed, the damage already incalculable and immediate, by these two high agency clowns and all their cronies.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

NEW: Texas midwife Maria Rojas was arrested in March for allegedly performing an illegal abortion. Nearly three months later, Rojas has not been indicted for any crime -- putting her in excruciating limbo by the state.

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The ‘Highly Unusual’ Case Of The Midwife Arrested For Allegedly Violating Texas’ Abortion Law

Maria Rojas was arrested nearly three months ago and still hasn't been indicted for any crime — putting her in excruciating limbo by the state.

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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Imagine what this woman and her family went through. All for what?

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Imagine not wanting the government to infringe on your freedoms as a Christian while simultaneously working to have the government infringe on the freedoms of others in the name of Christianity and refusing to see this as a contradiction.

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Ohio Senate Bill 153 and Ohio House Bill 233 attack our petition process, voters, and elections in a cynical attempt by politicians to rig the system in their favor and take power away from Ohio citizens. Tell our Ohio representatives to vote NO: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohiosdirectdemocracy

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How Things Work at the Statehouse @howthingsworkoh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Here's the bill: www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/... See your #Ohio legislator listed as a sponsor or cosponsor? Give them a call: OhioHouse.gov

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Commentary: The reduction in statewide school funding proposed by Ohio House Republicans will cost the state economy between $14 billion and $54 billion in the long-run in the form of lower earnings from lower test scores, lower graduation rates, and higher social spending.

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The long-term effects of abandoning Ohio's Fair School Funding plan • Ohio Capital Journal

The reduction in statewide school funding proposed by Ohio House Republicans will cost the state economy between $14 billion and $54 billion in the long-run in the form of lower earnings from lower…

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 13/05/2025

Cool, awesome, great.

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Laura Meckler @laurameckler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Reupping this story. The tax bill includes the school voucher tax credit described here -- a 100% tax credit for donations to voucher orgs - so taxpayers would essentially get their money back when they file their taxes. A huge win for school choice movement. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools

Donations to scholarship programs would be fully reimbursed through a new tax credit, creating the largest federal tax incentive for charitable giving.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I centered the plight of Öztürk in my speech one month ago at this major education conference. Not one person in a room of 150 knew her name. I say that not to shame attendees but to spotlight our collective ignorance. What is happening to her is a moral outrage. youtu.be/u0_tCewEMgE?...

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AI Will Not Revolutionize Education

YouTube video by Cognitive Resonance

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Philosophy of Education Society @philosophyofed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

CFP: PES 2026 Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. March 5-9, 2026. Theme: To Be Rooted: Place, Education, and Ethics." Submission Deadline: November 1, 2026. Visit: philosophyofeducation.org for more information!

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The president of the United States wants to claim both absolute authority to do anything and absolute abdication of responsibility for anything he does. Neither of these is how the office works—but the whole GOP is acting as though it were. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Trump claims he 'could' have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. His administration has said otherwise.

The president told ABC News he "could" have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador but "we have lawyers that don't want to do this."

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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trans rights are not about sports or bathrooms. Trans rights are about the legally enshrined right to bodily autonomy, self-definition, and safe, affordable healthcare. This is what we mean when we say trans rights are human rights.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

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Rachel Coyle Ohio @rachelcoyle.wtf · 26/04/2025

There's an #Ohio version of the #SAVEAct 🚨 This is a critical threat to voting rights in our state More info + actions to take: Bit.ly/OhioSAVEAct

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 26/04/2025

The big idea is this: Wisconsinites have already given the state enough $ to fully fund K12 schools. But bc the state gives so little back (we’ve got a multiBILLION $ surplus for like the 3rd yr running), communities have to jack up their own taxes for school costs the state ought to be paying.

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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Women living in states that banned abortion are 2x more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. Black women in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as white mothers in those states. New report from Gender Equity Policy Institute:

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Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)

Mothers Living in Abortion Ban States at Significantly Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth

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