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?

And Italian relatives of mine only learned in their 20s, I’m talking 2010s, that it was neo-Nazis and not anarchists. They lived their whole lives in Italy thinking it was anarchists. Their parents likely still think that.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.

Evergreen article reductress.com/post/trans-w...

I wrote about how the U.S. refuses to ratify the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. "ParentalRights.org is an organization that has been actively campaigning against U.S. ratification of “dangerous U.N conventions that “threaten parental rights” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...

This labor day let’s never forget that the President of the United States has laid off a quarter million hard working Americans in the name of efficiency while simultaneously spending $200 million dollars on a golden ballroom for the White House.

It's no wonder Trump is doing this, since unions are our best and most proven defense against oligarchy and authoritarianism. www.weekendreading.net/p/oligarchs-...

This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

We were making such huge progress on HIV and this administration is throwing it all in the trash.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before. But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise. He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

“Seeking friendlier data”? Seriously, NYT?

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Here's the letter that NSF sent UCLA last week about cutting its research funding NSF says UCLA is doing affirmative action by asking applicants' their zip codes, family income and what HS they went to, and that they can discuss race in personal statements storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s been up to 80 degrees in the Arctic. Reindeer are on the verge of dying. Look what we’ve done

I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize cruelty instead of completely eliminate it

NEW: @janus.bsky.social has a great piece out today about how the Trump admin is weaponizing the FTC to attack trans people, which makes it even crazier that Democrats in Congress want to pass bills like KOSA that would empower the FTC to police online speech www.fastcompany.com/91377373/tru...

This this this

One of the most frustrating parts of this anti trans backlash is that we're missing out on valuable research time about real trans medical issues because we devote all our time, money, and effort into trying to convince people who are paid to never be convinced that our normal care should be allowed

"If you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking [the chatbot] for strategy, you're not getting legal advice…You’re generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you."

I took so much heat from my cis male gay friends during the primary for saying this, but like many MANY other queers who are not cis gay men, I have found the ones who attain proximity to White Male Power™️ to be unreliable allies for the rest of us

There are only a few weeks left to submit public comment on the USDOE’s guidance on AI in education, which proposes to saturate K-12 with AI in teaching and learning despite a lack of research into its effectiveness.

we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

The current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights division who brokered this Columbia deal, Harmeet Dhillon, was mentored at Dartmouth in the 1980s by Prof. Jeffrey Hart. In 1977 Hart had written a newspaper Op-Ed entitled "Roots [the TV series] was a Racist Attack on White People."

Democrats should be able to turn this into a winning issue - public education is popular and people oppose abolishing the Department of Education.

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

The United States summed up in two headlines.

"We don’t make enough money to put up with this." Last year, US K-12 schools opened short 55,000 teachers. Between book bans and political attacks on schools and educators, it's looking like this year's shortages will be even more dire, especially in red states. newrepublic.com/article/1967...

Join us July 31 and August 1 for the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference with keynotes from Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard; hands-on resistance workshops; community case studies and non-profit work; classroom practice; and youth and caregiver voices. Read more about the conference:

it is profoundly moving that mamdani celebrates union endorsements so openly as every day establishment democrats distance themselves from him. he is so committed to fighting for new yorkers it’s like it doesn’t even cross his mind to seek their approval

Every mainstream Democrat who is hanging back on endorsing Mamdani is responsible for emboldening these absolute fascists

Get on alert folks. We are getting pretty far down that “first they came for…” list. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.