The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
AZ public school teacher here! Adding insult to this nonsense is the fact that AZ teachers have second lowest salaries in the country—but at least rich people can buy Legos.
Since 2022, AZ taxpayers funded $7.25M in Legos that individual families kept for themselves.
Every AZ K12 teacher could have spent ~$125 on purchases *for their whole class, present & future* w those "take my toys & go home" Lego sets.
[And yes, my code for this analysis was straight bananas.]
Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...
Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’
Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’ https://theonion.com/trump-to-americans-you-wont-have-to-pay-your-sons-cell-phone-bill-when-he-dies-at-war/
She should be remembered as a vicious fascist who had no qualms about terrorizing, killing, and defaming people while running an agency that should not exist.
We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.
US and Israeli missiles have just hit a 4th school in Tehran.
This is an intentional massacre of children
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
🚨ATTN Texas Voters!
Voting hours in Dallas County will be extended until 9 p.m.
www.kwtx.com/2026/03/04/d...
Since Mahmoud Khalil's initial immigration hearing, new evidence has come to light that makes clear the government targeted him solely for his speech.
That's why we have filed a new motion with the Board of Immigration Appeals urging them to consider these documents.
I worked at and with Warner Brothers for years. What a monumental loss for democracy, entertainment and free speech. Shame on all of them.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
It's not state-run media, guys. If it was state-run media it would switch to supporting Democrats when they were in power.
It's right-wing media.
This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward”
A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing
A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.
Friday night #charcuterie
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
A two month old-detained in the ICE concentration camp at Dilley-was rushed to the hospital this weekend
The boy’s extreme youth made him particularly vulnerable in a prison setting
Worse, they knew he was sick-and couldn’t care for him-because the facility didn’t even have a doctor
ABOLISH
ICE
like sometimes the bad guys win that battle, but you can still make people’s lives better by saying “you aren’t alone and you deserve to be supported and I’m willing to stick my neck out to keep you safe”
he was thinking, with the best intentions, about whether moving quietly might increase our odds of success against a guy who loses his shit when his authority is questioned
he hadn’t thought of it as like, EVEN IF WE LOSE, these kids will know their school board president went to the mat for them
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
in 2023 when I was organizing parents against our archbishop’s transphobic new school guidelines, one dad asked how loud I thought it was prudent for us to be, given how punitive the Archbishop is. I was like “loud enough that all the trans/nb kids at your parish see it” and he was like “…. oh”
Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
Importantly, for the moment, Epstein’s circle is winning. Area studies and women’s and gender studies departments are being closed and outlawed. All the structures we put in place to compel the Lee’s of the world to do the right thing even when they don’t want to are being eliminated. 🧪
this only makes abolishing ICE an even higher priority. they are racing to get this done before they lose their trifecta. but there is a danger that a Democratic government would simply allow these camps to continue to exist. every single one must be dismantled before fully operational if possible
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
