JPL

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Coastal Urban Elitist of Appalachia. Supporter of the so-called Gender Freedoms. he/him

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Don't know about the environment, but wouldn't it be a triumph of ecumenical syncretism if doing Diwali on Stonehenge un-hexed the moon?

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27,000 Virginia teachers have unionized, part of a public-sector labor push in what remains a private-sector right-to-work state. As Harold Meyerson notes, with Virginia’s low rate of unionization "the victory will increase the # of Virginians working under a collective bargaining agreement by 12%"

Teachers in the South Go Unionprospect.org Today on TAP: It’s not just autoworkers who are unionizing in the non-union South. In Virginia, schoolteachers are successfully organizing, too.

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I try not to spend all day every day mad about it but it is so disgusting that my seven-year-old has to learn to hide from spree murderers because of soulless gunhumpers with rocks for brains

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How it started / how it’s going

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One perhaps under-discussed difference between student protests in the Vietnam era and students protests today is that more young people are students now. 50 years ago only 25% of 18-24 year olds were in college, today 40% are. (From nces.ed.gov/programs/dig...)

Percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college, by level of institution and sex and race/ethnicity of student: 1970 through 2022nces.ed.gov The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate sc...

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I teach at CUNY. And I assure you , the repression of pro-Palestinian speech on our campuses is coming at the direct orders of our Democratic governor. The president of my college said so herself, in so many words.

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It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

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the ACLU is "trying to expand Board law to force workers into arbitration in circumstances where they currently have a right to have their disputes heard by the NLRB." www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-aclu-i...

The ACLU Is Trying to Destroy the Biden NLRBwww.nlrbedge.com It is also trying to force more workers into mandatory arbitration.

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People say it's impossible for Dems to create party discipline, but they are amazing at getting the rank and file to toe the same line about why action was, is, and probably should be impossible.

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“Donald Trump today is a cruel dolt turned into a raving madman by cable news and Breitbart” splinternews.com/the-long-luc...

You want my honest opinion, neither one of them has dementia qua dementia. Biden has a stutter and trump has Too Much Online disease

The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Facesplinternews.com If you want to understand intra-GOP warfare, the decision-making process of our president, the implosion of the Republican healthcare plan, and the rest of the politics of the Trump era, you don’t nee...

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The way conservatives talk about and understand this issue is essentially imaginary, a problem that happens on their television screens. Trying to "solve" it in a way that assuages their concerns is like passing a law to try to outlaw the fake drugs from law and order svu

There is no amount of increasing border enforcement or deporting people that will ever make the American right wing believe the border is being properly handled by a democratic president. Any compromise on this is just a signal that they can demand more & keep the issue live. Immoral, bad politics.

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The New York Times could be running a weekly “university president refuses to resign” story about Gordon Gee and WVU or Richard Corcoran at New College in Florida, but they aren’t.

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I think in a lot of cases - on Afghanistan and especially on the economy - Biden has been treated unfairly by the media, but the predictable way in which his strategy on Gaza has been unpopular on both the left and right is entirely on him.

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“We will use smaller bombs” should be the Democratic Party motto

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The prohibition on attacking ambulances under the first Geneva Convention is extraordinarily straightforward—even ambulances that are being used by belligerents on the battlefield. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

Israel confirms it targeted ambulance near Gaza City hospital, claims it was being used by Hamas

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I read this and thought, "Hundreds OF thousands? Is that a typo??" It is not: "roughly 240,000 Mississippians were barred from voting as of the 2022 midterms; that’s nearly 11 percent of the state’s voting-age population, the highest rate in the nation." Jesus.

Mississippians go to the ballot next week to elect their governor and other officials. But hundreds of thousands of residents with felonies won't be among them, as the state bars them from voting for life:

After “Glimmer of a Moment,” Mississippi Once Again Shuts Out Aspiring Votersboltsmag.org As the state votes next month, many residents with past felony convictions remain barred from voting for life even though a federal court ruled in August that the practice is cruel, unusual, and racia...

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The "People who are calling for a ceasefire don't have an answer for how to deal with Hamas" line annoys me because people calling for indiscriminate bombing certainly don't either -- they are just pretending to, even though their solution is counterproductive.

I had children

I love hearing people’s radicalization stories. How did you get radicalized. Tell me your radicalization origin story.

Has anyone thought about scraping the entire Twitter social graph? I bet it would make onboarding people to new social networks a lot easier.

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