What a time to be a social studies teacher in the middle of a unit on colonialism & imperialism.

Afro-Venezuelan artist Caribe: www.instagram.com/p/DTDbSlyDIiG/ "There is nothing liberating about waking up to bombs. What makes this even more painful is the dissonance of watching people celebrate calling this “freedom,” “democracy,” or a necessary step forward while several cities are being

Firm reminder: We live in community with children, not above them.

“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Ding ding ding

"The idea that neutral rules can’t be employed cynically is honestly baffling. A cursory glance at America’s racial history shows that lots of seemingly neutral rules and evaluation procedures were adopted because they could be used as plausibly deniable tools of racial exclusion."

This is pretty much everything the vandals accuse federal science funders of doing wrong: money to foreign scientists for a fundamentally unethical experiment on children

List of senators who value political games over human and civil rights and respecting the humanity of all people:

Chile's next president, José Antonio Kast, is the son of a Nazi who fled Germany after World War II.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Gruesome tour of the opportunists and new fusionists publishing the tech Zeitgeist in SF bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...

Dems are like "it's with a heavy heart that I voted to codify trans segregation, but it had to be done so Pete Hegseth can keep murdering fisherman in South America."

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

When Israel arbitrarily and consistently frames security interests ahead of human rights, we have an unacceptable backsliding on international human rights obligations.

Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Similar thing for me and the NICU. Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet. These people are deeply unserious. Signed, another economist who generally likes markets

don’t mind me, just making my way through my job as a professor by singing my kid’s favorite Daniel Tiger songs to myself (“Things may change and that’s okay, today we can do things a different way...”)😂

May tonight mark the beginning of the end of every political dynasty that made life harder, nights darker, and the world more violent.

what a SPEECH

Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.

Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

The data will include information that researchers provided with the understanding that it would remain confidential. This includes demographic information on the applicants as well as peer review comments on applications.

🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications. This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."

The Worst Intersection in Vancouver winner (loser?) has been crowned 🏆👀

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

gotta say as a bowdoin grad it is a pretty conservative small New England liberal arts college. lots of hockey kids from boston. the times is positioning the “Africana studies major” thing pretty conspicuously here

love that the story we will tell our grandchildren about game 4 of the 2025 world series will be “the Jays were up, runners on two bases, he swings … and CRASH! Sportsnet went down.”

I can’t believe we all missed that, but at least now we seem to be back on Sportsnet

how are you gonna crash during the world series, sportsnet?!

Public schools can’t afford to lose more teachers. Black teachers make up only 6% of the profession and are leaving at higher rates. Stress, lack of respect, and pay gaps (earning about 6% less than white peers) are driving them out.

When education tops the list in the worst possible way 😭

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

universities really need evening child care, given how many courses happen at night. does anyone have this?

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

man i really love the arbutus greenway. i wish vancouver had more stuff like this.

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

I am SO proud to share that our second issue on play as a liberatory practice has been published in The Critical Social Educator! It was such a joy to co-edit this two-part series with Ki Gross (Woke Kindergarten) and Tran Templeton. Please read and share! www.tcsejournal.com/issues/vol-2...

f you work at a university that has especially fantastic policies or programs for employees and students who are parents or caregivers to young children, can you share them with me?

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

coates is genuinely a generational writer

f you work at a university that has especially fantastic policies or programs for employees and students who are parents or caregivers to young children, can you share them with me?