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that's my high school! this is amazing. there's no place for cops in schools
"Roosevelt improved its overall score for students’ sense of physical safety, from 36% in 2019 to 54% in 2022. Students also reported improved relationships with peers, from 33% in 2019 to 50% in 2022."
Defunding police works. Abolition works. The point is to keep kids out of the juvenile system - and the folks at DMPS are proving this out. Do not listen to the unfounded "urban" trope of violence run riot. It's a racist trope. inthesetimes.com/article/the…
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“It keeps on happening,” Sophia Weissman, a school teacher in the Bronx. “And even though we’ve had reforms over the past couple of years, they’re not enough to interfere with the system of violence that keeps on happening.” gothamist.com/news/it-keeps-…
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Fun counterpoint: $800 > $275
An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes ow.ly/MyOx50MwEyF
ALT A line chart shows military spending by countries that are the world’s largest defense spenders.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While this information is correct, the graph is poorly formatted, with a separate Y-axis on the right-hand side which only applies to the US budget. This may make it seem like China has a higher military budget than the US, when the reverse is true.
data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.M…
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Singing in an N95 for a few hours isn’t tough. Is it my preference? Of course not. But breaking the potential chain of transmission is my priority and I don’t care to risk #longcovid. We can do this. We can do better.
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My tangible ask of people reading this: please continue to mask, or start again if you've stopped, & please implement ventilation protocols where you have power to do so (including your own homes), & please stay home when you're sick, even if you test negative for COVID.
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"This is my home now,” Tortugita said. “We’ve built a nice community here. It’s about reclaiming the parks and public space."
Forest defender Tortugita was profiled in this story before they were killed by Georgia police:
bittersoutherner.com/feature…
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4 years ago I put out this video and I’ve been annoying online ever since! But honestly it helped me on a road to getting some jobs and meeting some really great people and I think that kinda rocks!
mostly a very good chart but stacking assets on top of cashflow is really confusing
also union members aren't dollars
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Governor Kathy Hochul's pick of a conservative, anti-union, Cablevision approved judge was bad enough. Her disrespectful and tasteless attempts to save him over MLK weekend was a new low. Now she's digging her heels in quicksand.
My latest in @thenation
thenation.com/article/politi…
all of you will remember today as the day that the #NoOnLaSalle campaign was victorious
i will remember this as the day a local talking head blocked me for calling out his ad hominem
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BREAKING: The state Senate Judiciary Committee has rejected Justice Hector LaSalle by a margin of 10-9, with Jamaal Bailey voting to advance without recommendation
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This is incredible. The astroturf rally for Lasalle is being funded by Tusk which deeply pro business and tied to Tusk ventures, VC firm that has pushed moderate, pro-business candidates. The Delaware group was renamed from Citizens for Pro-Business. cityandstateny.com/politics/…
MirRam was not involved in organizing the rally, @ReginaldJohnson tells me. The signs say “Citizens for Judicial Fairness,” the Delaware/Tusk tied group.
they're really going all in on the "you can't look at his record in an effort to evaluate this individual" which is simply wild
#NoOnLaSalle
if you support @cleanslateny you can't look at a judge's record sure is some argument
when your nominee's biggest boosters on the Judiciary Committee are members of the GOP, you're probably not actually a Democrat
#NoOnLaSalle
"who could have thought of the internet 30 years ago"
sir, this was the internet thirty years ago
#NoOnLaSalle
ALT a map of the internet backbone as of 1992, already connecting dozens of networks across the country