Celeste D

#UCLA #GoBruins 🐻 Justice, Labor, Economics, Policy, Arts, Cats. Be a good neighbor & good citizen. @Celested.bsky.social. Personal acc’t. All views my own.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Last year, at least 2,105 workers in Turkey were killed on the job: an average of six deaths every single day.

Yet the labor organizers who dare to speak up against these lethal conditions are routinely thrown in jail: https://t.co/Ak1GY9u4zu

[CBS 8 San Diego @CBS8]

Officials have identified all 11 victims killed when a chemical tank at the plant in Longview, Washington, imploded. https://t.co/jUS2s2La7R

[Khary Penebaker @kharyp]

Civic education is being cut from public schools across the country. Then we wonder why young voters do not turn out. The line between the two is not subtle. You cannot defend what you were never taught existed in the first place.

[Bruce Lesley @BruceLesley]

Please learn more about the so-called “Mississippi Miracle”before centering it in your campaign. While there may be some lessons here, grade retention has been shown to be a long-term disaster for many kids and, for one, should not be adopted.

How much of “Mississippi’s education miracle” is an artifact of selection bias? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science https://t.co/1s4QfVS2hU

Grade 8 NAEP: A More Valid Reading Story (Although Still Incomplete) [Michigan, Missouri Updates] - @plthomasEdD - https://t.co/2BL2YSUfAk

On education miracles in general (and those in Mississippi in particular - Howard Wainer, Irina Grabovsky and Daniel H. Robinson https://t.co/EYfdo1kufb

The Mississippi Miracle: Smoke and Mirrors vs. Reality https://t.co/LZdUGMGI27

The Mississippi Miracle Needs a Reality Check — Minding The Campus https://t.co/jSqB1AEPoN

Questioning the Mississippi Miracle Again | tultican https://t.co/UkrXCx3IZe

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Grade Retention is Unnecessary! | National Education Policy Center https://t.co/hxWFIg3mdV

Why holding kids back fails − and what to do about it • New Hampshire Bulletin https://t.co/Cw60zmuT1t

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

[Celeste D @CDrakeFairTrade]

Sam Levine makes critically important point here. SCOTUS' decision to allow Alabama to go forward with a previously rejected map is not just nakedly partisan & cravenly racist--it also reverses CJ Roberts' *own* analysis from just 3 years ago.

[Sam Levine @srl]

In 2023, chief justice John Roberts & SCOTUS majority said Alabama's argument for a "community of interest" along the gulf coast was BS.

Tonight, SCOTUS takes a reversal and says that a court-ordered map was not legal because it failed to keep Gulf coast comunity together

[Sam Levine @srl]

In 2023, chief justice John Roberts & SCOTUS majority said Alabama's argument for a "community of interest" along the gulf coast was BS.

Tonight, SCOTUS takes a reversal and says that a court-ordered map was not legal because it failed to keep Gulf coast comunity together

[Josh Orton @joshorton]

Tonight, once again, the Supreme Court’s corrupt majority blatantly and illegitimately handed Republicans more power. This time by approving a discriminatory map that eliminated a majority-Black district in Alabama - a map that lower courts already said was unlawful based on the Supreme Court's own standard.

This has gone too far. The Court cannot keep attacking our rights and lying to our faces about it. We must build a movement for a Supreme Court that serves all people, not just the powerful.

[Celeste D @CDrakeFairTrade]

@ksearle124 @jameswester America250 has been starved of funds while Freedom250–Trump’s partisan substitute-has received the bulk of funding.

[Celeste D @CDrakeFairTrade]

The Truth About Trump's Birthday Bash, by @RBReich https://t.co/hywEH9GwTx

[Celeste D @CDrakeFairTrade]

@jameswester And respectfully, I responded with my own thoughts. And despite that all Ford’s presidency represented, he wasn’t a conman, society wasn’t as cynical, and people were a lot more involved: town parades, burying of time capsules, public discussions of history & the like.

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

I’ve been pushing to ban Members of Congress and their families from buying and trading stocks because it stinks of corruption. As we call out the Trump family’s corruption, we need to work on fixing corruption in Congress, too.  
https://t.co/iYOZ2BZ60e

[Celeste D @CDrakeFairTrade]

@ksearle124 @jameswester I agree people have to do it on their own. That’s how the fire hydrant thing started IIRC. But today, they’d probably just arrest us all for damaging public property. In addition: many ppl don’t want to celebrate the current government, which seems to despise average citizens.

[Josh Orton @joshorton]

You know who thinks Trump will have SCOTUS vacancies this year? Lower court judges who desperately want the job.

And they're tripping over themselves to audition for Trump by proving the one criteria he cares about the most: loyalty.

https://t.co/93qpXVEOjG

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Apparently Harvard is great for their kids but it’s too woke for your kids

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Just added!! PUBLIC ENEMY!!

Pre-sale is happening NOW.
General on sale begins tomorrow at 10AM ET.

https://t.co/omwODO2ro0

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Celeste D @CDrakeFairTrade]

@mass_ave Im pretty sure that Pat Boone is available. And maybe Anita Bryant. They seem on brand for this event.