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“All the things that take place in that classroom are things that most people don’t have access to in their everyday life.”

‘It wouldn’t be Head Start anymore.’ Providers say HHS proposal guts preschool.The Trump administration has proposed loosening mandates on class size, expulsion, health and other guidelines.wapo.st

I was afraid this was coming back when we got wind of the Kanopy cancellation. Cuts will hurt BADLY at the East Lake branch, a block away from the 3rd precinct MPD bldg. Just swing by any time to see how necessary this library is: language classes, citizenship application classes, reading to kids

I’d mentioned late last night that we used to have more options for housing. In searching for more info to share, I found this great article from 2019 that’s an enjoyable and informative read.

Affordable housing was once a staple of our downtowns. Here’s what happenedResidential hotels and rooming houses in Minneapolis and St. Paul offered alternatives to houses and apartments.www.startribune.com

the media in this country treats bigotry coming from a place of fear as a valid public position. eventually this leads you to the ludicrous place where “the muslim mayor of new york city shouldn’t attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11” is treated as newsworthy opinion

Maddening that there was an independent fork of human development that reached such an advanced state, and the Spanish showed up and destroyed as much of it as possible. It's trite, I realize, but much richer would the world be if Mesoamerican civilization had not been almost completely wiped out?

LEAST WANTED LEGO SETS

per the OP, it’s all smoke, no clouds 😦 what a photo

For all of you sociologists coming to #ASA2026 this weekend, I'm giving a how-to workshop on using data from the National Internet Observatory to study what people are doing online. We have data on people's searches, what they're talking to chatbots about, and what's on their phone. #ASA #Sociology

but I just don't have a view of what originality could even be other than "combining the impossibly complex myriad traditions and influences made available by human history in a somewhat different mix than others' combos" and pretending not to have been influenced by others is 0 part of that

If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.