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Trump Order Undermines Social Media

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President Trump’s love/hate relationship with Twitter took another turn last week.  On May 21, Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets, including one where the President claimed vote-by-mail would result in widespread voter fraud.  Twitter marked the tweet as “misleading.”  After claiming he would shut down the social media outlet, two days later, Trump had signed […]

Job Hunting In a Pandemic

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With so much of the world shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not the greatest time to go looking for a job, especially for the class of 2020 who may be graduating into a recession.  Unemployment is high, many employers have slowed or ceased their operations and many traditional ways of networking or accessing […]

After a Peaceful Protest, Chaos

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Shortly after Madison’s May 30th protests against the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd ended, all hell broke loose:  smashed windows, tear gas and pepper spray, people deliberately run down by vehicles, a police car set on fire.  Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew from 9:30 […]

Tamra Oman’s 17-years of criminal and social justice reform

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In this month’s edition of the ExPO series, Jerome Dillard talks with Tamra Oman, a human services program coordinator (the first Peer Role in a correctional setting in Wisconsin) at the Wisconsin Resource Center; a mental health treatment facility classified as a prison, and her 17-year experience advocating for criminal justice reform.

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