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HAPPY PRIDE KNICKS IN FIVE

THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 For the first time since 1973, the kings of basketball reside in New York City.

New York Forever 🧡

I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

Truly, no one is doing it like the Baltimore Beat. 💜

Reading, "Moses, Man of the Mountain," by Zora Neale Hurston with some friends and I wish I'd read this while I was still teaching because it would make for such a great unit. A unit I would have had interesting parent conversations around, but a great one all the same.

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WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

The importance of preserving memory: Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

You can add this brilliant book to your Goodreads and Storygraph “want to read” lists now and, TRUST ME, you do want to!

And it’s wild because it doesn’t have to be this way 😭🫠

POV: The company behind one of several apps you’ve been told is *required to use for your child’s full participation in school is asking you to *consent to their new privacy policy. It has 10 different sections, links to 5 other supporting notices, and takes 2.5 minutes just to scroll through…

Not the distraction I wanted but a distraction nonetheless.

So if everyone vote Option 4 then what?

I’ve decided I need to explicitly teach students how to make, label, & title tables & write table notes Therefore, I am asking for donations I need: 🤦‍♀️tables that suck 🏆tables that shine ☑️tables that once sucked & now shine Drop me a screenshot or DM & I will produce a nice resource for all of us

NEW: Fifteen laws in 11 states that could immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate-related legal claims have either been passed or are being debated. Many bills are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta/threads: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime!

I strongly support everyone’s right to be childfree always *and* I don’t know if there’s any greater gift to an older sibling than getting to watch your younger sibling parent toddlers 💀

GAMECOCKS ADVANCE‼️ South Carolina hands UConn its first loss of the season and is heading back to the women’s national championship game.

Arkansas defeats Vanderbilt to take the SEC Tournament title for the first time since 2000 🏆

Just a few days remaining to apply for @pulitzercenter.org’s AI Teacher Advisory Council! Whether you’re an educator already leading important conversations about AI or you’re one who is interested but feeling ill-equipped, this could be the program for you! pulitzercenter.org/blog/apply-n...

TALK TO @yanawroteit.bsky.social NICE!!! So incredibly proud of you, friend. Cannot wait for this book to be out in the world. You more than deserve this. We don’t deserve you!

So much to share so soon! 🥰✨

Hey, it’s DJ! I know it’s been a minute but I had to come out of hiatus for this one: BNC Co-Founder, Brilliant Writer, and Community Builder @yanawroteit.bsky.social got her first book deal, y’all! 🎉

And truly, it’s the fact that Bayana has been not just dedicated to her own craft, but doing the work of uplifting and celebrating other Black creators for over a decade now. Learn more about her on her site! She is a WRITER down, and also a world-changer. 💛 www.yanawroteit.com

Say it one more time!

I couldn’t be happier to share the news that my client @yanawroteit.bsky.social’s TROUBLE THE WATERS has sold in a seven-way auction to Lois Evans at Knopf Books for Young Readers! Congrats, Bayana! 🎉🎉🎉

We’re thrilled to share the news that Fuse client Bayana A. Davis’s TROUBLE THE WATERS has sold in a seven-way auction to Lois Evans at Knopf Books for Young Readers! Congratulations, Bayana!

TALK TO @yanawroteit.bsky.social NICE!!! So incredibly proud of you, friend. Cannot wait for this book to be out in the world. You more than deserve this. We don’t deserve you!

Phantom was my team but I’m happy for a lot of the Mist players too. A truly fun season overall 💚

All you have is your neighbor. All your neighbor has is you.

Posting this without sharing the name was a very 7am action 😂 The project is called Climbing Sideways! And while she's not on Bluesky yet, you can find her on Insta, YouTube, and anywhere you stream podcasts.

Other educators ask me about my career journey a lot. Well, I got to be a guest on my friend's cool new podcast and talk about it 💙 A clip from the episode, "It All Starts With Community," that dropped today!

Me: I need y’all to pray for me to find the patience of my ancestors @niqfury.com : I suspect your ancestors weren't patient 🤭 —- Everyone needs a friend like them 💀😂

#Edusky friends, there are a lot of critical conversations that need to happen around AI Accountability and Ethics in the classroom right now. If you’re an educator interested in leading those discussions in your community, please consider applying! pulitzercenter.org/blog/apply-n...

Skyline poll! Were you taught about gangs or gang violence as part of the curriculum in grade school? If so, which class, and what town/city were you in (if you don’t mind sharing)?

time to have a big glass of red wine and post a series of overly niche hot takes

Skyline poll! Were you taught about gangs or gang violence as part of the curriculum in grade school? If so, which class, and what town/city were you in (if you don’t mind sharing)?

I'm gonna repeat my comment. Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

🧵1/2 : Yesterday, VA quietly issued an interim final rule that immediately changes how veterans’ disability ratings are evaluated: no notice, no explanation, no debate. Trump's VA Secretary Collins did not consult VSOs or Congress before acting.

My 7YO has been pushing me to get her to soccer earlier and earlier each week so she can steal time on the field before class actually starts and that’s how you know your kid really loves a sport, huh?

At the end of my event today, one of the teachers said “I have so much to ponder about teaching and life now” And my impulsive response was “Omg that’s my job! That’s what I get paid to do.” and now I’m truly considering making it my bio everywhere. 😂

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

Two of my best friends are friends from high school. The internet helped us stay generally aware of one another through college and then adult life brought us back together in more meaningful ways. Truly grateful to the universe for that one 💜