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🇵🇸 Le Moyne College President Tells Genocide Survivor He Cannot Use the Word “Genocide.” Le Moyne College, a Jesuit institution in Syracuse, New York, sent a letter to students this week condemning the language used by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha during an April 15 guest lecture — specifically his use of the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. President Linda LeMura, without naming him, wrote that the word caused “real hurt” to Jewish students and implied its use was incompatible with the college’s commitment to inclusion. She then listed her commitments going forward: dialogue sessions, new guidelines for “deeply charged” campus programming, and a declaration that antisemitism has no place at Le Moyne — describing Abu Toha’s testimony, implicitly, as an example of bigotry requiring institutional guardrails. Abu Toha, who survived Israeli strikes in Gaza, lost over 100 relatives—most of them children—and still carries physical wounds from a 2009 airstrike, called the letter “deeply shameful.” “How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?” he wrote. “I never once used the word ‘Jewish’ during the entire event. I refuse to conflate the faith of Judaism with the actions of the state of Israel.” “If anyone told you they felt ‘hurt’ because I used the word genocide,” he wrote, “then I ask you: how should I feel? How should my wife feel after losing her father? How should my three children feel after losing their grandfather?“

"Most families want more opportunities, more spots, and they want it to be less expensive. We don’t think that about the Pay Equity Fund. It’s not an affordability fund, it’s an income support fund. It’s laudable but it does not respond to what people are saying," she says.

"Most families want more opportunities, more spots, and they want it to be less expensive. We don’t think that about the Pay Equity Fund. It’s not an affordability fund, it’s an income support fund. It’s laudable but it does not respond to what people are saying," she says.

"Most families want more opportunities, more spots, and they want it to be less expensive. We don’t think that about the Pay Equity Fund. It’s not an affordability fund, it’s an income support fund. It’s laudable but it does not respond to what people are saying," she says.

It's DC budget day, at last! Bowser is revealing her final budget proposal, and it's not a pleasant one (as expected). The biggest cuts: $95m to remove benefits from the paid family leave program and a $60m cut to the pay equity fund: eliminating everything but $ for healthcare.

Paying for child care in the District could get more difficult. Advocates say that’s because Mayor Bowser isn’t prioritizing funding for families and educators. dcnewsnow.com/news/local-new…

A freeze and waitlist is bad for families and providers. Child care is prohibitively expensive for most families in DC and this move will shut them out of this resource, meaning parents can’t work and children can’t get care dcfpi.org/all/proposed-child…

10 years ago, we were spending $317 million with small and local businesses. This year, our goal is $1.5 billion. The FY26 Green Book delivers on my promise to champion and support our local businesses—and it's out now: greenbookdc.com