Spending the first Saturday since June without any campaign obligations in style.

In the spirit of @karenattiah.bsky.social's post, sharing this picture a clerk at my local hardware store insisted on taking of me handily carrying two 40 pound bags of salt. #Swoletariat

An attribute of a well-educated mind is a willingness to pivot or move when new information comes to light. There is a whole lot Randi could model by putting an end to the AI partnerships.

It is not a good sign when the most common response to this news around Buffalo is either "who?" or a genuine belly laugh.

Another amazing #PairedTexts

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I know a whole lot of teachers have been carefully watching this.

Next request: anyone seen good domain-specific research on AI and workforce development and/or education? Specifically, whether employers actually expect or want "AI literacy", and in what ways? I keep hearing that "employers expect" phrase, but without citation. Is it an AI bubble talking point?

3FB (for short) publishes books about the history, arts, culture, politics (hello), ecology, and whatever else about Illinois in particular and the Midwest more broadly, across genres: I publish biography, memoir, history, how-to, travel guides, narrative journalism, and photo driven titles.

I was wrong. The single best part of losing? The people who've reached out to our committee asking how to get involved.

Going to add this response to my stable of answers when someone asks me why I'm a Dem.

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

I had to take a break from hate listens for a while and laughed with glee when this popped up on my podcast feed. Meanwhile, this picture is amazing given the front page directly behind the woman on the right.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

This is the most inevitable thing in all the things. Congrats school choice advocates! You've shifted in the landscape in such a way, taxpayers now have to fund PR and advertising for public schools. Awesome!

How many kids first experience of the state will be of masked men grabbing people?

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I love this sentiment and wish we had been in this group. That said, my town went haaaaard for Trump; my running mate and I lost by the population of a small subdivision. There was a shift, just not enough to flip.

We're not going to get final results tonight but it's looking like it's not going to go our way. We didn't throw anyone under the bus, we ran the local campaign we wanted to run, and our most engaged neighbors showed up for us. We're all going to sleep easy tonight.

*whispers* I'm leading in early voting results. By like a lot. But it's just early voting - my fellow voting nerds showed up!

These two skeets just got reskeeted into my timeline. A perfect #PairedTexts

Mid-election-day break. Stopped in to check in on my chief of staff and got yelled at for breaking the "no shoes in the house" rule.

Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“Standard Empirical Policy Analysis Does Not Support Universal Vouchers/ESAs” - killer title that is also 100% true. Check out this debate btw Doug Harris & Pat Wolf.

Teen Vogue rising after the 2016 election and dying after the 2024 election doesn't even feel like a metaphor as much as a microcosm of what is happening all over places that were once strong areas of resistance.

Palate cleanse. Some humans are terrible, but more of us are great.

Today is a weird day in terms of NYS elections - early voting ended yesterday and tomorrow's election day. So today, we're joining a morning overpass protest, finalizing details for tomorrow, and writing the last of the thank you cards. We canvassed/lit dropped 6K doors - almost 1K on Saturday.

This is a very well-written piece on an incredibly mundane man with entirely too much power.

Oh! So this one time I was asked to flip one of these and did it without even hesitating, resulting in the perfect opportunity to channel Elle Woods and sincerely say, "what? Like it's hard?" to the person next to me. (It's 90% dependent on your squat/DL form. Only 10% strength. IMO.)

The messaging debates are disconnected from the fact that bills that Democrats brought to the floor of Congress have provisions that poll extremely well, whereas the bills that the GOP brought to the floor in Trump I and Trump II are among the least popular bills ever seen in modern polling

I actually gasped at one of these.

IMHO, the single most important thing to remember about the pandemic was the spirit of collective sacrifice & national unity that pervaded the US in the first weeks, when the 'lockdowns,' which were almost totally a matter of voluntary compliance, went into effect to protect the most vulnerable

This is a compelling read. Frustrating but compelling. The fractured nature of American education may be one of the things that help us get to the other side.

It's rainy and gloomy and the election is in four days but I will be chuckling about this @theonion.com ad all night.

LOL - went to cancel my Grammarly account and saw I cancelled it a while ago. Good on past me!

Which judge will be the first to put her under oath and ask her again

A concrete local example: Last year, I had signs in my lawn in support of the NYS Prop 1 which codified rights into our state constitution. It passed. This year, I am a candidate and again have a sign in support of NYS Prop 1. The 2025 NYS Prop 1, though, is (basically) about protecting wilderness.

a national movement of "I'm telling daddy"

What a country #PairedTexts

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

This is very good and boy did I struggle through it as a Braver Angels volunteer and advocate of in-person conversations as a means of re-establishing community.

I've actually had the chance to use the phrase "people over machines" in real life a lot more than I expected! Really exciting to spend time with writers and @buffalolibrary.bsky.social talking about why that matters with book editing and research.

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

[GIFT LINK] Lots of folks are sharing this incisive commentary from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the Nazi tattoo candidate and the Democrats' insistence that we have to tolerate a smidge of racism to appeal to the working class. She, of course takes, that apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Rest In Peace Lia Smith. You deserved a whole, full, beautiful life.

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