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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 3h
The Palestinian labor movement has endorsed the call from dockworkers in six countries for strikes and protests on October 30. Palestinian unionists are calling for other unions around the world to join in.
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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port...
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 5h
"DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say."
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 5h
"Through platforms like ALEC, Taiwan is able to communicate directly with decision-makers in U.S. states, explaining Taiwan's efforts and achievements in free trade, intellectual property protection, and fair competition."
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US State Legislative Leaders Visit Taiwan to Deepen Local and Economic Ties
A delegation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has formally arrived in Taiwan for a visit, with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Chen
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 5h
“School Boards for Academic Excellence is seeking to be a right-wing influence on school boards across the country, " said David Armiak, research director at the Center for Media and Democracy.
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Conservative national group tapping into Wisconsin school boards
School Boards for Academic Excellence was created in 2023 as the “reform-minded alternative to the National School Board Association.”
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 6h
We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6h
Trump has systematically dismantled the data collection capacity of the government, and its cost is the slow disabling of democratic accountability itself. Great piece from Kevin Schultz and Jason Oh. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
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An Architecture of Ignorance - The American Prospect
How the Trump regime is taking away our ability to know what’s going on.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6h
Both candidates in Alaska's Senate race support the oil industry because of the jobs it creates in the state. But 40% of the workforce are nonresidents, and only 2.5% of total employed people are in oil and gas. From Alaska's own @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
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In Alaska, Senate Candidates Claim the Oil Industry Creates Local Jobs. It Doesn’t. - The American Prospect
The state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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Racket @racketmn.com · 6h
Claire Luger on the MAGA takeover of the Forest Lake Area School District.
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RacketCast, Ep. 62: What the Hell's Going on in Forest Lake? Feat. Educator/Rocker Claire Luger - Racket
Something's rotten in the boyhood school district of Hegseth.
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matthew cunningham-cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 6h
Lula’s role in the recolonization of Haiti can’t be ruled out as a contributor to the disastrous first round results (Which tbc does not mean the second round is a done deal). In a country with as large a Black population on Brasil’s if the left doesn’t have a Panafrican analysis it’s done
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 7h
The idea that better things aren’t possible is fertile soil for reactionary politics.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 7h
Senate candidates in Alaska say the oil industry is good for locals. But the state's own data shows a growing number of nonresidents are the ones getting the jobs. I wrote about it in @prospect.org today.
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In Alaska, Senate Candidates Claim the Oil Industry Creates Local Jobs. It Doesn’t. - The American Prospect
The state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents.
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Chris Meyer @chrisjohnmeyer.bsky.social · 17h
Donation advice for the close Minnesota State Senate races. You don’t need to donate to the ones who already hit their spending cap! The ones below are the ones that could really use your help. If you’re going to, do it soon so they can put the money to use!
Facebook post giving donation adviceSecond Facebook post giving donation advice
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/10/2026
🎥WATCH: On Feb 28, Tomahawk missiles struck a school in Minab, killing at least 156 people, including 120 children — one of the gravest US war crimes since Vietnam. @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah (X: @SayahTweets) spent 2 months speaking w/ survivors. This is their story.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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matthew cunningham-cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this video doesn't look ai generated at all
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/10/2026
It’s been nearly a year since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza was brokered by Trump. "So far, only one item of the 20 items on the Trump plan has been fulfilled, and that is the release of every single Israeli hostage in Gaza," says writer and analyst from Gaza Muhammad Shehada.
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“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😳😳😳 I guess that’s one way for pro-permitting deal people to sell it
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
icymi - mark zuckerberg’s company (meta) restricted a lula campaign page & the account of a viral video maker with an explainer on flavio bolsonaro corruption… techpolicy.press/on-eve-of-br...
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On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 03/10/2026
In today's Flyover news roundup... racketmn.com/proposed-mps...
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Proposed MPS Closures: 'An Assault on our Students’ Sense of Security' - Racket
Plus lead water pipes still common in MN, weird Jesse Ventura gossip, and the Mats and Ducks celebrate anniversaries in today's Flyover news roundup.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cruel and unusual.
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Jason Poulos @poulos.house · 02/10/2026
You've been organizing for years and have only made friends with private equity executives?
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matthew cunningham-cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
for what it's worth @tobitac.bsky.social his dad wrote this banger: archive.org/details/sim_...
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The World's Work 1921-07: Vol 42 Iss 3
The World's Work 1921-07: Volume 42, Issue 3.Digitized from IA1632423-02.Previous issue: sim_worlds-work_1921-06_42_2.Next issue: sim_worlds-work_1921-08_42_4.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 02/10/2026
Over the years, with precise and rigorous research, EPI has demolished one premise of orthodox thinking after another and has won the respect of the mainstream economics profession. prospect.org?p=145786
Larry Mishel seated under "Economic Policy Institute" sign
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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about rats for @racketmn.com!
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How I Accidentally Pinpointed the Arrival of Rats in MN Through Environmental Archaeology  - Racket
Turns out ‘Steamboat Willie’ was actually a documentary.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the archives: So many construction workers are misclassified, have their wages stolen, aren't given the benefits they've earned, even when they're grievously injured on the job. Read Isabela Escalona on the abuse rampant in this sector.
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Delayed Care, Stolen Wages: The Human Cost of Worker Misclassification - Workday Magazine
In 2022, construction worker José Alfredo Gómez fell two stories from the home he was working on, he says. A group of men on a boat in a nearby lake saw and called an ambulance. This was against the w...
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW POD 🎧: Mahmoud Khalil tells me what he’s learned about how he became Trump’s top target, why he says Columbia University facilitated that campaign, and how the fight over speech on Palestine is tied to the fight against ICE’s war on immigrants podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent”
Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · October 2 · 47m
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Minnesota right now, there is a sweeping push to close public schools in Minneapolis, enforce "budget cuts" on the University of Minnesota, and consolidate hospitals, leading to reduced services. It's daunting, but workers are fighting back.
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“A Failure in Vision”: Minneapolis Educators Rally Against Proposed School Closures - Workday Magazine
The Minneapolis Public Schools district has proposed closing more than a dozen schools next year to increase enrollment. Union educators and community members are demanding schools stay open.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are in the middle of our fall fundraising campaign, and our readers have really stepped up. We're about 30% of the way to our goal. If you believe in the power of journalism to change the world, this is the moment to support. Thank you! prospect.org/donate
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Help us speak truth to power.
This year, we decided to take a risk and turn off programmatic advertising on our site. We’re making a bet that our readers will respond to us aligning our editorial values with our business model. We...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The year started with the AI industry building a huge war chest to influence elections. It's ending with AI executives withholding campaign donations because they know they're toxic, and candidates bashing AI in their advertising. Political power is a two-way street. From me:
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AI Has Become a Punching Bag - The American Prospect
Even the industry’s biggest tycoons are holding back on political spending, because itmight hurt candidates more than it helps.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve resisted calling ICE arrests/detention “disappearances.” But now ICE’s apparent policy is that in some cases, you might not even know if your loved one is still in the US. IDK what else to call that. documentedny.com/2026/10/02/i...
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The Throughline: Is ICE “Disappearing” Detainees?
ICE is deliberately withholding the locations of some detainees from lawyers and loved ones. At what point does that amount to “disappearing” them?
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE's own reviews of cases of immigrant deaths in custody show a pattern of neglect: confiscation and refusal to provide routine medication, lack of follow-up care, even incompetence in reading tests or supplying medication. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has this report. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No bad trade deals. End dumb tariffs. Stop the wars. Invest here. Build things in Michigan. Watch our latest ad:
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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matthew cunningham-cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you’re not morgenthaupilled you’re not paying attention
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What Palantir can’t do is stop government agencies from sharing information with each other, which Trump ordered them to do in March. ELITE, the app they created for ICE, sources its data from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which manages Medicaid." via @kalwradio.bsky.social
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Nurses rally in San Francisco against Palantir’s work with ICE
Nurses marched in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest Palantir’s involvement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/10/2026
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence. to.pbs.org/4hWQbB8
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Former cop who fatally shot Botham Jean in apartment that she mistook for hers gets parole
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.
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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office
The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.
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Messiah Rhodes @rhodesmessiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
of course, Tennessee, the state that once built a prison mine after crushing labor organizing with armed militias, would psychotically botch a public execution
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Shehadeh is one of several Palestinian rights advocates who have been detained and had their personal devices searched by CBP while returning to the U.S. from international travel since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023."
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Minneapolis Public Schools district is proposing to close more than a dozen schools. Educators are blasting the plan as devastating to students and teachers, and completely perplexing. "It is an affront to each one of us." @amiestager reports on an MFE Local 59 rally in the rain.
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“A Failure in Vision”: Minneapolis Educators Rally Against Proposed School Closures - Workday Magazine
The Minneapolis Public Schools district has proposed closing more than a dozen schools next year to increase enrollment. Union educators and community members are demanding schools stay open.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026
in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Teays Valley School District in Ohio needs more funds to better serve its students. Yet, the school district still voted in favor of 30+ years of property tax breaks for Anduril. Incredible story by @tkbarnes.bsky.social about how weapons companies are literally taking money from needy schools.
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An Ohio School Needs Funds. It Voted to Cut Anduril’s Tax Bill, Anyway
In rural Ohio, the defense manufacturer Anduril is receiving tax breaks even as locals are left to foot the school bill.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Important and troubling story.
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