"bucking legal precedent" is such a boot lickey way to say illegal.

Pips #51 Hard 🔴 16:45

Strands #583 “Unusual companions” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🔵🟡🔵

Connections Puzzle #849 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I wrote a thing (it also explains the waffles):

Literally been asking myself this question.

I'm halfway through Black Rabbit, and I can't decide if I really like it, or really don't like it.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but English Teacher on hulu is delightful, and you should watch it.

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul. “Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

PSA: If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

I'm so proud of my sister, who was head writer for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and is now the showrunner of this brand-new HORTON! series for Netflix. Please watch with your family! It's hard to get preschool shows made these days, and the algo isn't built for this www.netflix.com/title/81388347

After the Portland ruling, Illinois is now taking action. The state filed a lawsuit today seeking to block the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops on the streets of Chicago.

There were 2 choices on the ballot. Harris or the person who told you he was going to be a dictator. Apparently a lot of y’all didn’t know what a dictator is. Maybe y’all should have taken a moment away from your “both sides“ bs to research the danger? Anyhoo…enjoy what you helped usher in🤷🏾‍♀️

Journo request: I'm interested in interviewing journalism professors about what it's like teaching aspiring young reporters in this moment for a multimedia story.

Let’s say we have f(x) = sqrt(x) Is (0,0) considered a relative minimum (or rather, is 0 a relative minimum?) I’m reading different arguments. What do y’all teach? #MTBoS #iteachmath

Thank you Dr. Houry for calling a spade a spade. RFK Jr. is leading a hostile takeover of the CDC. ~80% of experienced leaders gone, science sidelined. The health of all Americans is on the line. #FireRFKJ #SaveTheCDC @drdebhoury.bsky.social Full interview: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

(The amount of money Republicans have access to fairly disconcerting. As a concrete example, one of our opponents did an event last night - all of the signs were professionally printed. It's a small detail but it speaks to the financial disparities at the local level.)

Morning! A quick update thread about the campaign for those so inclined! The important bit: we're doing one last fundraiser for stamps and for GOTV literature drops.

Well... sure. That makes sense.

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

His handlers have already admitted they feed him briefings disguised as news shows. They can feed him any footage they want and wrap it in whatever rhetoric they want to make him do whatever they want.

Yesterday: marathon, lesson planning, organizing meeting #1, lesson planning, organizing meeting #2. Today: dragging my ass into one of the hardest jobs on the planet b/c you absolutely cannot fake it. All happening in Portland, ffs. 🙃

this is the succinct definition of enshittification in the article. this process is why i am so deeply wary of much ed tech -- this process would be absolutely toxic in education, and there are no guardrails to ensure it wouldn't happen #EduSKy

[GIFT LINK] Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) on enshittification www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Haley Williams’s True Believer is actually a compelling song to study if you want to study metaphor, symbolism, archetypes, and history.

This is Week 6 for me, so at the end of the week I've got some check-in boxes to fill out for these beginning-of-year goals. (A lot to say so far, too!)

On a related note, Jennifer and the crew at @haveyouheard.bsky.social have been doing a great job since they started looking at some of the tensions around school improvements efforts across the political spectrum. Their latest episode gets into it. www.haveyouheardpodcast.com/episodes

Truly. You'd only need to change a few nouns, verbs, one or two pictures, and the tone of voice for it to be a bog standard unschooling or "schools are based on factories" video.

This is a clearly right-wing coded video and exceptionally shitty but it is WILD how close this cleaves to videos produced by beloved CHANGE SCHOOL NOW advocates.

Clocking in at the Bad News Factory

It's Mental Math Monday! What goes on in your head when you're mentally calculating 45% of 40?

Talk to the dude who wrote Art of the Deal.

"What would it mean to democratize school resources? What would it mean to have truly public schools, down to the very means of resource creation and distribution that fuels them...? What will it take to make schools as public as possible?" @schooldaves.bsky.social

Oohhh....the @publisherswkly.bsky.social holiday gift guide is out! Thrilled to see our new chapter book series WILDLIFE RESCUE on the list - and @laurelsnyder.bsky.social's terrific THE BOOK OF CANDLES, too! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The "no one could have predicted" people were the "stop overreacting" people when we were trying to raise the alarm. There were people trying to raise the alarm in the years—and even days—before the 9/11 attacks.

It’s amazing how many people seem to operate under the delusion that every social media post—even the most mundane—should somehow magically consider every possible opinion, perspective, scenario, and nuance. THAT’S NOT HOW REALITY WORKS.

Pips #50 Hard 🔴 7:30

Friday afternoon email: Please review our procedures. ICE is targeting children. Monday morning email: We have a social media threat to the shoot up the school. We're investigating. Please continue as normal. WTFFFF is normal?? How do I give my kids a summative today? This is not okay.

A friendly reminder: if get shot at school, y'all have my permission to politicize the shit out of it. No mourning needed. Get gun control, now!

Strands #582 “In for the evening” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #848 🟪🟦🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

We have to travel north for some of my husband's work and helping my MIL after some surgery, so I'm going to fill some of my time with various posting. I recently said this out loud to my therapist and it felt really good to get it out that I thought someone else might need to hear this too...+

As a millennial, I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know that MARNIE HAD MARRIED KALABAR’S SON.

I've never watched an episode of "The Office." Also never watched "The Tiger King."🤷🏼‍♀️

Hmm, vibes. Open up an arithmetic text from the 18th century then scroll through the old Regents exams on jmap.org. It's not like CCSS has changed math teaching in any real way.

I feel like "Is it a sandwich?" has to be on this timeline somewhere, don't you think? @justinaion.bsky.social @sneffleupagus.bsky.social

You are explaining history of math education to a new teacher. What significant events, publications, background do you include? E.g.: 1920 - NCTM Founded 1957 - Sputnik 1958 - New Math 1973 - Why Johnny can't add 1981 - MAA report on recs 2010 - CC standards #ITeachMath #mtbos #mathed #math

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Cycling in the buff is a Portland specialty, and one organization has announced a naked ride ‘in response to the militarization of our city,’” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “Such is the war zone here.”

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.