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“Any decent society has to be built on trust and love, and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things...to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.” ― Myles Horton
![Quote from the article: "They [climate hushers] haven’t been saying the climate movement needs to sharpen, refine, or adapt its messaging: they’re saying Democrats need to stop prioritizing, campaigning on, or talking about climate at all. That is a political mistake. Climate fits quite well in the populist framework that most progressives—including climate advocates like myself—believe Democrats should rebuild their electoral coalition around. Big Oil executives are central players in the oligarchy that’s screwing over regular people. The climate crisis is materially harming millions of working-class Americans. Trump is blocking the buildout of cheap clean energy to keep the country hooked on increasingly expensive fossil fuels. The narrative possibilities are clear."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7zjwa4hbdbjddoqskkobzmo/bafkreiemwhdrqbtzw6aa5lnuugrrhaoammja5t4ohdbtchdmaenu5ssn2e)
![Quote from the article: "We need to do the mutual aid work to take care of each other, whether that's walking people home or coming up with contingency plans around travel. We need to be doing all that work but we also need to be building collective power. At the university level, a lot of people are rebuilding AAUP [American Association of University Professors] chapters, which is sort of the closest thing we have to an academic union for those of us who are not unionized. Everyone should be thinking about unionizing at this point, and so I think that we have to face this head-on; we have to go on the offensive. Above all, we have to take care of one another."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7zjwa4hbdbjddoqskkobzmo/bafkreihwpadtd6i4ft432iulpa4nfcjjnlghkbrbxzggesasqu5mkimhvi)
![Quote from the article: "“This is a very important race for many reasons,” Musk said. “The most consequential is that [it] will decide how congressional districts are drawn in Wisconsin, which if the other candidate wins, instead of Justice Schimel, then the Democrats will attempt to redraw the districts and cause Wisconsin to lose two Republican seats. In my opinion that’s the most important thing, which is a big deal given that the congressional majority is so razor-thin. It could cause the House to switch to Democrat if that redrawing takes place.”
Musk’s fear is that the court, if it retains a progressive majority, will strike down the congressional lines that give Republicans a 6-2 advantage in the US House delegation. (Democrats have made similar claims.) The Princeton Gerrymandering Project gave that map an F for partisan fairness, saying it had a “significant Republican advantage.” The court has yet to take up a lawsuit challenging the congressional map, but if they were to eventually strike it down, that could help Democrats retake the House, which would allow Democrats to scrutinize the unprecedented role Musk is playing in shredding the federal government, accessing sensitive personal information on millions of Americans, and the $38 billion in federal funding his businesses receive."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7zjwa4hbdbjddoqskkobzmo/bafkreihgnx5zaumomzfbvsspd6ymdumcxk2ye3jii5ridisrzsftpwjwn4)
![National universities ranked by percentage of students receiving a Pell Grant. Robert Morris University [RMU] in Moon Township, PA, is highlighted. Thirty percent of RMU students are reported as Pell Grant recipients.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7zjwa4hbdbjddoqskkobzmo/bafkreif7u2xr77ck3cycqpdkil2hpjiixxl42qh3josyifrfkysl2kzwxu)
![Quote from the Wikipedia entry: "Perkins Coie LLP is a global law firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1912, it is recognized as an Am Law 50 firm.[3][4] It is the largest law firm headquartered in the Pacific Northwest and has 21[5] offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm provides corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including prominent technology companies like Google, Microsoft,[6] Intel, Meta, and Amazon.[7][8] Perkins Coie is also home to one of the largest and most innovative political law practices in the country, having represented high profile Democratic Party candidates including the campaign of Hillary Clinton.[9] The firm is known for its pro bono work.[10]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7zjwa4hbdbjddoqskkobzmo/bafkreie3lhpp2h46vsjqrjldfoeebf6lnpzpxndaj76ivetcvuhevstegu)
