In real time, ideologically driven cancellations of federal grants are removing opportunities to explore careers, get glasses and health services, prepare and apply for college, and more. Are these rural parents aware?

'A Gut Punch’: What Trump’s New $168 Million Cut Means for Community Schools: School districts in 11 states will imminently lose federal funds that help them cover staff salaries.

Words are part of supporting children. Banning words restricts supports. "Banning the word 'disability' from Head Start” …. "No administration can claim to support children with disabilities while banning the very word that protects them."

“It's time to protect ourselves by demanding that legislators pass sensible gun control and value children over guns.” It’s loooong past time. My daughter and I wrote this in 2018 when she was in middle school. She’s now a college student. Furious at politicians and heartbroken for Brown students.

Powerful public statement from former Justice Dept professionals who wanted to protect our civil rights. www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

Want to encourage more anti-hate youth voices? We do. Invite youth you know to submit their #USvsHate messages by February 27, 2026 to usvshate.org. We also encourage #LetUsLearn submissions from youth weighing on the inclusive education they want! NEWSLETTER HERE: mailchi.mp/dac10f13c3c3...

“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

This crude reimagining of the role that government workers play in American life is devastating for those who rely on federal services, and it is catastrophic for those who built their careers providing these services, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/47NuKh1

Why did we take a mandatory unit on the Holocaust every year in Hebrew school if not to recognize this pattern

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system. PI granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A huge district court victory for the University of California. District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California. News story here—

This seems huge

Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

We should be investing in the nation’s students.

VICTORY: Judge Ellis granted the most powerful rebuke of the Trump admin’s immigration enforcement tactics yet — a preliminary injunction to more permanently stop the violent and lawless tactics federal agents have deployed against protestors, press, and clergy in the Chicago area.

This was our first ever sticker winner in Spring 2018, made by 5 10th graders in Chula Vista, CA after a lesson from our list on “Learning about Refugees through Art.” What do youth want to say today, in any media? Invite them to say it by February 27, this year’s deadline. Submit at USvsHate.org.

A federal judge in the Eastern District Court of Virginia today ordered the Department of Defense to restore all books banned in five schools at U.S. military installations, a ruling PEN America called a victory for the freedom to read. pen.org/press-releas...

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Class is in session. Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right. The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.

I need help getting this CRAZY censorship story out! Last week, admins in Leander ISD emailed teachers telling them to “pause” use of 40 books relating to “DEI” that had previously been curriculum or choice reading activities. Included on the list? To Kill a Mockingbird. #bookbans #booksky

We've worked for a long time on our definition of "hate" and our call for "anti-hate" messaging in #USvsHate. See what you think at USvsHate.org/about/. Then encourage youth you know to submit their take by February 27, this year's single deadline. Join us!

The article lists grants “quietly” canceled. I think it’s crucial to not simply let grants supporting K12 get canceled in silence. So, while it’s painful to read each of these, I think it’s crucial to know about them & to spread the word on education opportunities being taken from young people.

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

BOOM💥💥💥

Demetre Daskalakis was a key figure in the Covid, mpox, and bird flu responses. This is a huge loss.

Im going to cry there was a line of teachers with signs that said "You've got this" outside my metro station cheering every kid when they got off the escalator 😭

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

REPORTER: President Putin, will you stop killing civilians? PUTIN: *taps ear*

sites.google.com/view/jewsforuc "We, Jewish members of the University of California community, express our shock at the Trump Administration’s threatened imposition of a $1 billion fine against UCLA in the name of protecting Jews... we stand together now in defense of the University of California."

Reposted w/correct numbers! Whatever you’ve been doing, STOP & LISTEN (read). This is happening on our soil in our name paid for with our tax dollars. Every one of us should call our House members & Senators. 202-224-3121 And flood the call lines to Gov. DeSantis’ office: 850-717-9337

The federal government’s $1B demand would devastate the nation’s top public research university system, take tax dollars and education access from the state’s students, cut off life-saving care, and halt tech and economic growth. #StandUpForUC bit.ly/standuc

“On July 31, 2025, the Trump administration suspended roughly eight hundred federal research grants to UCLA scholars totaling over $339 million. The UCLA Faculty Association has responded to this malicious attack by circulating this open letter.” Sign and circulate. tinyurl.com/ucstandup

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Crucial letter from UCLA colleagues. “We welcome signatures from everyone (at all institutions) who cares about the future of the University of California and the future of higher education! Please forward this letter widely” sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

As the grandchild of Holocaust survivors (and daughter of a post-war refugee), prevention of human rights violation has driven everything I do. My grandparents and mother would never have wanted this violence against Palestinian civilians to persist in their name.

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

“US health policy: the Senate must act”—our latest Editorial. Read here: tinyurl.com/3wb3vxyu

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

We’re only halfway through 2025 – and already, extreme weather has torn through communities worldwide. Meanwhile… Trump and the GOP have killed clean energy incentives and given tax breaks to coal. Our planet is burning, and they are fueling the fire.

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:

“These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you have seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage.”

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.