mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Scientist, progressive, businessman
In Delaware, one of the few states that reports these figures, Black students make up 12 percent of the homeschool population. Researchers have documented thriving homeschool communities among Black, Hispanic, rural, military and secular families — each homeschooling for their own reasons, from academic fit to school safety to flexibility. Our research has also found that homeschooling parents look a lot like other parents. They value many of the same things...
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/6009007-homeschooling-enrollment-trends-research/
Burke Law Group has 26 employees across eight offices, according to its website. None of the firm's attorneys list immigration law as a practice area. Instead, their practices include administrative law, white-collar defense, commercial litigation, securities litigation and other areas.
One of the founders, Marcella Burkey, was a former Trump appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior.
A motive other than maintaining security must, therefore, be at play. It is not hard to find one when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out a two-state solution and champions annexing the occupied West Bank to Israel while some members of his cabinet, like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself, openly espouse policies that would encourage West Bank Palestinians to emigrate.
This is heavily self-inflicted. Trump won voters on SNAP nationwide, and he definitely won them while winning AZ again. I'm not sure that even hunger can fix stupid and racist.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/arizona-lost-half-snap-users-104500791.html
In his comments Wednesday, Mamdani dismissed superficial comparisons between himself and El-Sayed, whom some have dubbed a “mini-Mamdani” because of his eloquence and telegenic looks, noting that the Michigan man obviously spends a lot more time in the gym.
“He can lift a lot more than I can,” said Mamdani.
Thanedar narrowly won the seat in 2022 after self-funding his campaign, but he has faced his share of scrutiny since. Thanedar initially ran as a progressive but broke with the Democratic Socialists of America in 2023 — he says he quit, the local chapter says he was expelled — and has rebranded more around supporting Israel.
