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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis www.vox.com/policy/40233...

Screenshot of the article that reads: It’s not just children. In addition to bolstering underfunded K-12 schools and protecting the rights of kids with disabilities, the department also manages the federal financial aid process for college students. “I am not certain whether or not students will be able to get financial aid next year,” Dominique Baker, a professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, told Vox.

Screenshot of the article that reads: While students and families are the most directly impacted by changes at the Education Department, those changes have also inspired a broader concern. Some of the programs terminated by DOGE are congressionally mandated, and if the president or Musk can simply stop them, “that means that Congress no longer actually functions,” Baker said.

“There are no longer checks and balances for the executive branch,” Baker said. “A significant part of this goes beyond education and speaks to a constitutional crisis that shapes the future of our country.”

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/07/2025

Vile language and weaponization of gender norms are deeply unethical. Doctors swear an oath to do no harm. A doctor who doesn’t want to provide gender-affirming care can find another specialty. It’s that simple. If you can’t bear to use a patient’s pronouns, you need to reflect on why that is.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This is just unacceptable. They get tax exemption for helping the public and the trade off is that their electioneering is limited. And THIS only allows religious orgs to do so. What about the 1.8 million other nonprofit organizations? Afraid food banks are not going to go Republican?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

So everyone brown goes first, but they’re already laying the foundations for the elderly and disabled. The poor are an obvious target, but trans people and the rest of the rainbow will be sandwiched somewhere in there. My family needs to decide when to get out. Protect yourselves.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

God, is EVERYONE CAVING TO THIS MONSTER? This is heartbreaking. Just abusing trans people to humor their hate.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Silence will not save us. SPEAK. UP. Loudly.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/06/2025

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

To trust the polling, the trends are perhaps more distressing among those still too young to have even dipped their toes into the work force. According to the data analyst David Waldron’s assessment of the world-class Monitoring the Future Survey, run by the University of Michigan, in 2018, 84 percent of eighth- and 10th-grade boys said they agreed either “completely” or “mostly” that women should have the same job opportunities as men. Five years later, the number had fallen to 72 percent. The share who agreed “at all” that men and women should be paid the same money for the same work had fallen from 87 percent to 79 percent. The share who said they agreed “completely” with equal pay for equal work had fallen from 72 percent to 57 percent — just over half.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’ve had two miscarriages: one while living in NC, one in IN. I would have been arrested given my circumstances.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

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Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears From Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

The infamous “nonprofit killer” provision quietly disappeared from Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" as it winds its way through Congress.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2025

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Shoutout to the pundits who insisted Trump wouldn’t actually jail his political opponents, when less than six months in he’s now arrested a sitting judge, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, and a member of Congress.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I want to remind you that yesterday, Trump's Secretary of Transportation went on Fox to say he can't get in touch with Trump's Pentagon to prevent plane crashes.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Ever wonder about how much power philanthropic foundations have? Check out my new integrative literature written with Dr. Laurie Paarlberg and Imoleayo Adeyeri on just that. There is hope in modern philanthropy! #NVSQ #nonprofitsky doi.org/10.1177/0899...

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Ruth K. Hansen @ruthkhansen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's always a pleasure to work with my friend and colleague @laurendula.bsky.social - so when @candiddotorg.bsky.social invited us to write about how impulse giving at the checkout - aka checkout charity - can help support #nonprofits we jumped at the idea! blog.candid.org/post/what-is...

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What to know about checkout charity

Candid insights | Learn about checkout charity, including how this form of impulse giving works, which donors give most often to checkout charity campaigns, and how nonprofits can benefit from over ha...

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Not sure they can do this—Congress grants tax emotion through law. They decide the terms. The IRS just enforces and manages applications and fiscal paperwork. Just seems like something they can just do without grounds.

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IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics

The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...

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Trump Watch 👀 @trumpwatch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Cody Balmer told cops he planned to beat Ben Shapiro with a hammer. Same weapon used on Paul Pelosi—remember how Trump and MAGA crowds laughed at that? Now Trump’s “monitoring” Balmer’s case,possibly weighing a pardon. Violence isn’t a glitch in MAGA—it’s the core feature. #TrumpWatch #MAGAterrorism

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is a horrible precedent. There’s no good reason to stop adult care.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Trying to enjoy getting my tenure and promotion letter while reading the news is impossible. This country is now authoritarian. Firing squads, self dealing, disappearing people considered a threat, taking away women’s rights, attacking critics, pushing the legal system. It’s NOW. We need help.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

WTF SUPREME COURT--WE SHOULD NOT DEPORT U.S. CITIZENS. END OF STORY.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I love these protests, I love seeing the passion and energy but…now what? Go home and be angry again? What’s the ask? What do we do next?

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

WAPO headline. Surprise, surprise.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"Loyalty" is a dangerous concept, and Trump is firing those disloyal to him already. We need to make the sycophants sycophantier.

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The Economist @economist.com · 03/04/2025

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’ll take the pronouns, please.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Attacking little kids and arresting them for doing basic things like riding their bikes. Violence against children.

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

One-off protests don’t win anything. MLK Jr on general protesting: “The mistake I made [in Albany, GA] was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing…”

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Lauren Dula @laurendula.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Every time I went to @booker.senate.gov ‘s speech, he was passionate in sharing a better vision for our country than what is happening now. No reading “The Cat in the Hat.” No filler. That takes talent and I honor his work these past 25 hours.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

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