A hard look at what's happened in schools with edtech means a hard look at American technophilia, the capitalist push to treat schools like businesses, and persistent myth that schools and teachers are stubbornly stuck in the past.

Finally. Let's be honest: blaming the kids for excessive phone use came a lot more easily than blaming the adults in and over schools for forcing them onto screens for much of their day. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @edwardluce.bsky.social @ftweekend.com

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Besties since the 1960s. Did not expect to be protesting our government together sixty years later. #NoKings

Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using

New from me: The first post of a series documenting the brazen lies DHS has told after abuse and violence by ICE and Bordrer Patrol officers. First up: The bumbling, illegal raid on ChongLy Scott Thao and his family.

Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina! Epic creativity!

Rep. Raskin wrote in a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi: “This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the coverup reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself.” www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

Another thing Trump, Putin and Orban have in common.

It is not only public good on its own, but a refutation of the myth of free markets and of the adulation of wealth that has plagued this country for far too long.

I feel betrayed by Trump. But if Democrats keep using terms like “unhoused” and “Latinx” I will have no choice but for a vote for him for the fourth time in 2028.

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Everyone needs watch this and understand what’s happening here. For every dollar Democrats raise, Republicans are pulling in five. That’s not a debate point, that is the battlefield. 🧵

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

It's genuinely terrifying that my country is at war and I can't tell the difference between a press conference by the Secretary of Defense and a pro wrestler hyping an upcoming match. This is not hyperbole. Hegseth is emotionally incapable and intellectually void and that is an important job.

More freedom for Russia from sanctions; more revenue for Russia to slaughter Ukraine. Whatever Trump/Russia/Epstein is, and whatever Trump/Kushner/Witkoff side deals exist, this is a disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

On this day in 1956, 19 Senators and 82 Representatives from the 11 Southern states—almost 20% of Congress—released the Southern Manifesto, opposing the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.

On this day in 1965, the Rev. James Reeb died after a group of white men opposed to his civil rights work attacked him in Selma. Three men later indicted for Rev. Reeb's murder were acquitted by an all-white jury.

Happy pub week to my Nation colleague Amy Littlefield! Find Killers of Roe wherever books are sold. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-littlefield/killers-of-roe/9781538769041/

Former Republican House Speaker John Diehl sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud

The federal government awarded contracts Sunday to renovate two warehouses, each designed to hold 1,500 people, into immigration detention and processing facilities in Maryland and Arizona, according to contract records. The Maryland facility is scheduled for completion by May.

Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters. Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees. Here’s how it works 1/

Uh, so we just have video of the U.S. sinking an Iranian naval ship in international waters, far from the actual conflict zone, for no reason whatsoever and we’re supposed to believe that technically we’re not even at war?

1.Internal emails from Liberty University Law School, obtained by Popular Information, reveal how the Trump admin hires interns. Students were informed about "exciting" legal internships at Labor Department. “You MUST be aligned politically with President Trump… GPA is not a strong factor.”

"In total, the V.A. chose not to hire replacements for roughly 14,400 unfilled medical vacancies at its health care division. Those jobs were the equivalent of about 5 percent of the V.A.’s medical staff as of December."

"The previously undisclosed records obtained by The Post show that, as the whistleblower said, ICE last year removed about 240 hours from its basic training program, or more than 40 percent of instructional time." wapo.st/3OIZUyU

🔥 @grahamformaine.bsky.social : “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding. The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

“Over the past few weeks we’ve learned that not only is she not doing her job, she’s embroiling the department in scandal and possible criminal activity. It’s frankly embarrassing...” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Miller bit him

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict

You can trace this group -- which fights for oligarchic, low-tax, low-service, exploitative capitalism and uses racism & xenophobia to prevent solidarity among the working class -- more or less to the country's founding. They've been squarely under the GOP banner since at least 1980.

We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.

The Daily Show reminded us in the montage below how Netanyahu has LIED about the "imminent" threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons since 1995. Netanyahu has for years wanted US to bomb Iran. Netanyahu simply found in Trump a moron willing to sacrifice Americans for his cause:

My former employer, the Chicago Tribune, was mocked recently for an editorial saying we should be "happy" the Vances are expecting a baby. This thread recalls odd Tribune editorials of the past – praise for Mussolini, opposition to Black voting, a denunciation of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton. 1/14🧵🧵🧵

This is a fascist, eliminationist project to eradicate trans people from public life. Full stop. Any Dem - like Newsom - who doesn’t fully unequivocally support trans people at this moment, who doesn’t fight this tooth and fucking nail, needs to be pushed out of power asap. Reddest of lines.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

“The EU must, once again, face a fossil-fuel-brandishing strongman who is willing to weaponize European energy supplies in the name of territorial conquest.” www.liberalcurrents.com/carbon-and-t...

Unless and until we do court expansion, we’re governed by the whims of 6 unelected, lawless, reactionary hacks in robes who are 100% making it up as they go.

We don't want to sound like a broken record, but it needs to be hammered home: they are LYING to us. Federal officials told @angiecraigmn.bsky.social that we were down to “only two deportation flights per week from Minnesota” yet our diligent trackers observed a flight every single day this week.

This week Demuth and the House GOP blocked bills to: - Keep ICE out of schools - Require BCA to investigate federal agent shootings - Provide emergency rental assistance They don’t even want to acknowledge the harm Metro Surge has caused Minnesotans.