Hey, native tall grass prairie enthusiasts 4 pm Wednesday, November 19th, Missouri Prairie Foundation Webinar 📷 🌱 Photos of Prairie Splendor with Bruce Schuette Register grownative.org/event/mpf-we...

Sending (and attempting to send) Guard troops to D.C., LA, Portland, Chicago, Memphis in recent months has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars so far…. theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...

All eyes on Missouri where Republicans are taking every opportunity to ignore voters

It's almost as if the violence against families and the fear of losing family members to illegal, warrantless raids has an impact on students and their testing. Huh.

Let’s be clear: the hold-up isn’t on our side. This was his campaign promise—so he needs to go ahead and fulfill it. Release the files. All of them.

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

Every 3 weeks or so students get a blank piece of paper returned to them that they "mindmap" their reflections on throughout the year. They get 5-7 minutes to add to it, then I take it back up until the next time. (I don't read them!) Several years into doing this, zero regrets.

the cool thing about hosting an education podcast is that you not only get to read really thoughtful books that you never would have stumbled across before—you get to talk to the incredible people who wrote them (this conversation dropping tomorrow!)

For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated www.aft.org/press-releas...

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers. It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

I recently spoke to an Arizonan who is worried about health care costs. Her name is Robin, and her story shows why we must reopen the government with a deal that stops premiums from skyrocketing in the coming months. This is what we’re fighting for. 🧵

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

“In America, the law is king.” -Thomas Paine

File under no s*** Sherlock?

Patriots!!! Let’s remember what our founders signed July 4, 1776… NO KINGS!!! March peacefully brothers and sisters.

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

Is your sign ready? 🙃 #nokings

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry

Nasty business

More #nokingsSTL locations added, Turtle Park I-64 overpass. Also, mention of S Grand side of Tower Grove Park (I’ve seen no other details yet) … just show up at any location, some grow organically, or stand on a corner and do your own. ☂️

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

I had a request to share my upcoming FREE professional learning. Here are the first ones which are Asynchronous Book Studies October: AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance November: How to Listen and How to Be Heard January: Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters Sign Up HERE

so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it... juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Jeffrey Epstein took the fifth about Donald Trump. What else do you need to know?

I remember wondering how the Internet would change people, if it would harm our thinking/our abilities; now I question AI. I want more people thinking, creating. I want ppl to wrestle concepts, savor words, create art. We need more ppl w/ skills. Beware the gift of AI - a Trojan horse, poison apple?

We have a messaging problem w NPR & PBS (among other things) Folks are just accepting the idea that they’re shutting down asap. Not true. They need donations to continue w/o fed funding ❌ aw man Trump strikes again 🤷🏾 ❌ damn I loved Tiny Desk😔 ❌ not Elmo! 😭 ✅ DONATE‼️ npr.org/donate pbs.org/donate

Did you know that you can donate $5 a month to your local PBS, get their "passport" benefit, and watch Leonard Cohen in concert (Dublin, September 12, 2013), without ads, bullshit or guilt? Go forth, enjoy great performances, #FundPBS

Just printed more—let me know if you want a copy.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects. This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.

My small hometown has a group fundraising for phone cards for ICE detainees at the local jail. It would be awesome if we could surprise them with a bomb of support. Please give what you can and/or RT this post. givebutter.com/AbideSteGen

I've never used it and don't want to use it. I enjoy having my own thoughts, writing skills, and experiences to use.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

St. Louis, there is absolutely no excuse for a woman and her children to be homeless and sleeping in Lucas Park today. There are programs funded to find them a home. Who is in charge of addressing this? I can no longer tell since the city outsourced the programs. Do NOT tell me to call 211

Biscuits and gravy are a southern staple because everyone can get a little bit of meat when you cook off a small amount and add flour and milk to the grease. Pour it over a biscuit and there’s protein for all. Poverty foods will be back soon.

After 50 Years of Writing, Jamaica Kincaid Insists She’s Still an Amateur A new, career-spanning essay collection shows how she has never lost touch with the mischievous creativity of her 7-year-old self. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/m...

it’s all fun and games until Mom eats your watermelon 🍉

Sending peace and strength to all teachers returning to meetings and students this week! I have 3 more weeks but will start working on lessons and materials tomorrow because my brain has started working. If I want to have a few more days of summer rest, I have to let the ideas out.

Finishing vacation with book buying, like this stack from several Chicago area Goodwill stores. Some for fun, some for teaching and study.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

if there's any truth to this, it's worth remembering that Gen Z grew up with leveled reading "benchmarks" and ELA assessments and and were for years asked to produce answers about "the main idea"/conflict/resolution/etc. instead of being encouraged to engage with & love literature on their own terms

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