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Retired educator; still passionate about experiential education. Former Career & Technical Education Director. Love nature.

  1. Oh look. And y’all let that white supremacist “genius” take a chainsaw to our government.

    Brilliant.

    SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002, even as it’s received billions of dollars in federal contracts, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/45wGKkn

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  2. Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset.

    Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits.

    This is a five-alarm fire.

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  3. This is, or should be, unbelievable.

    The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.

    One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

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  4. Important information.

    NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

    Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

    ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

    The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.

    ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

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  5. I'm Greek Orthodox and feel the same way. I want to live in a secular, tolerant order under the U.S. Constitution, so maybe we should all think about what we all seek in common, whether believers or non-believers.

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  6. The hypocrisy never ends. 😢

    One contractor hired to work on the new Fort Bliss immigrant detention center is a company whose owner previously co-owned a business that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire undocumented workers and conceal them from immigration authorities.

    Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to…

    His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.

    Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to…

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