Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Here is the letter from Bondi to Walz, via the NYT I have to say, this reads to me like it’s laying the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act soon

KBJ referenced this Toni Morrison quote in reference to a @drtinaellsworth.bsky.social question about a Harvard classmate prominently displaying a Confederate flag near her apartment. #ncss2025 #sschat

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

Our annual Summer Leadership Institute is next week in my home town of Kansas City! I’m excited to welcome you to the nation’s best kept secret. 🙂 ✅ Inspiring Speakers ✅ Powerful Networking ✅ Incredible Historic Sites We hope to see you there!

You can tell that the One Big Beautiful Bill* is truly beautiful because they’re holding the hearing after midnight * Yes, that’s actually the name

I say this almost every day of my life.

"CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades" www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

I feel this in my soul.

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"To educate is to take a risk and to hold out to the present a hope that can shatter the determinism and fatalism that the selfishness of the strong, the conformism of the weak and the ideology of the utopians would convince us is the only way forward."--Pope Francis (2020)

Addams Family was a delightful show. These middle schoolers are wildly talented. :)

How are the DOGERs using Your Data?? How DOGE used Social Security data to push dubious fraud claims www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

Correct.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

Reckless cruelty isn’t strength. Capitulation isn’t courage. Cultish allegiance isn’t patriotism. We used to know the difference.

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

senate floor right now... senator cory booker www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Time to speak up

I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.

Senator Booker is holding the senate floor until he cannot. Go to his TT or IG for live coverage.

So much wrong with this latest executive order, but especially promotes white supremacy by including the racist belief that race is biological and obsesses about "western civilization," "classical architecture," and a concealed restoration of Confederate monuments. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Good morning, beloved. There is strength in joy. Sometimes we need to build that strength by practicing joy. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

Rebellions are built on hope.

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.

Trump closing Social Security field offices in: Alabama Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Montana N. Carolina N. Dakota Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Texas West Virginia Wyoming Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here: apnews.com/article/soci...

Executive orders from President Trump have agencies across the government scrubbing websites of photos and references to transgender people, women and people of color.

If you haven’t already subscribed to Wired — it’s cheap! they’re great! — I hope this public service will sway you.

We have overcome near-death experiences before. We shall overcome this one too. Not by denying we are in a constitutional crisis. We are. But we can and will prevail if we face the truth unflinchingly and never abandon the long twilight struggle against evil. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

At issue was whether plane-loads of alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang were deported despite the judge's order to turn the planes around.

So this just happened!!!!

Today’s reading.

@drtinaellsworth.bsky.social is hosting an amazing #primarysources / #picturebooks webinar with KS History TOY Rachel Swearingen! March 17, 6:00 CT. Gonna be awesome! Sign up at: nwmissouri.edu/tps/webinars... #socialstudies #historyteachers #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #engchat #engsschat #elachat

I love these folks.

Social Studies Teachers and Friends, We are bringing #sschat to Bluesky! We have a slow chat lined up for you for National Civics Learning Week. You can keep up with us at: @socialstudieschat.bsky.social. Want to help? If so please: Share with your friends! Tag awesome Social Studies teachers!

"In a town with just over 1,000 residents, hundreds of people packed Belmont's Community Building Saturday for a town hall hosted by Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan. The building was filled to capacity with people even waiting outside and peeking through the windows..." www.wkow.com/news/politic...

For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏾

Literally had someone tell me that their employer won’t let them come to the NCSS conference because the theme was controversial. The trigger word in the theme, you ask? Democracy. I kid you not.

In DC to plan our NCSS conference! This picture is from my starting point bright and early this morning. :) I had never noticed it before today.