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Spent a good chunk of time today building a bridge to what might lie on the other side of teaching, and tonight I feel good about democracy to celebrate the sesquicentennial next year. I earned a whole PhD in American Studies for the spirit of ‘76. (Remember the red white & blue fire hydrants?)

I have some autumn- loving friends!

RIP Pierre. Thanks for the music and the memories

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

And I spoke with a professor at Rutgers Marine Sciences who says they can put the windmills far enough offshore that they don’t block the view from the shore.

Kind of loving this free little stick library. #booksky #books #read #library @ollie

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

I'm running a webinar on adaptive teaching on 5th November. Loads of practical advice about inclusive approaches to teaching. Pay what you can to attend. Very grateful for any shares. Thank you! #EduSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

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It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

New Post: Jack Ciattarelli's Tax Plan Is a Disaster For Schools AND Taxpayers jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/jack... The Republican candidate for NJ gov wants to take away state aid from the districts that need it most and give it to districts that already have the lowest property tax rates.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

highland cattle have it figured out

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

Our members are doing everything they can to make sure schools are safe & welcoming for all students because we know that instability and fear caused by the Trump admin interfere with children’s ability to focus and learn while in school. www.edsurge.com/news/2025-09...

Had a great conversation with @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social on @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social's Substack about my book Why Fascists Fear Teachers & why it’s so important to humanize and lift up our communities in America and across the world. jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/watch-rand...

The world's richest man does exactly this year in and year out. They all do. #TaxTheRich

I mean, if they got their doctorates using ChatGPT from a diploma mill, maybe. Actual PhD here. You know what sets PhDs apart? It’s not information. It’s curiosity and an ability to make deep connections. This isn’t that.

Why am I still up at almost 1 a.m.? Because @blacktopkid.bsky.social wrote a book with so much tension I can’t keep reading and I can’t go to sleep. 79 pages in and I am so frustrated with Dante. And as always, there’s a woman doing all the emotional labor. I love Neveah. She deserves better.

Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig

1. End enforcement of rules to promote equity in education 2. End research that highlights inequities in education 3. Create a precarious workforce to fill the jobs they're taking from immigrants that someone must still do when most jobs gets AI-ed 4. Create a ready audience for propaganda campaigns

Privatize K12 education Indoctrinate K12 students Destroy public K12 education

I don’t have a real local indie, so I support Harriet’s Bookshop instead! Great way to support booksellers doing the work!

Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25

And in a sure sign that a) I’m on vacation and b) need to pay closer attention to my feed, I just spent way too much time trying to figure out what moratorium Big Al from Disney’s Country Bear Jamboree we were talking about. Spoiler: this is not a clever Disney headline

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners? TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country

I need clarification. Five pencils a day? A week? A month? A semester? A school year? Also, have I been supplying pencils out of my own pocket and these kids have been sitting on 250 pencils each? Or is that how many are in their backpack after they “lose” mine daily? What is even happening?

This is not at all symbolic.

WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!

If any of my high school students wrote this on a standardized test, they would fail for lack of ELA proficiency. Really.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

"As Dykstra wrote, frontier towns by & large prohibited the “carrying of dangerous weapons of any type, concealed or otherwise, by persons other than law enforcement officers.” Most established towns that restricted weapons had few, if any, killings in a given year." bit.ly/41ZGTwj #HATM #Tombstone

This is fantastic.

The University of California is actively cooperating with the government witch hunt against some 850 faculty members. cucfa.org/2025/04/cucf...

How many train wrecks do we have to survive before we pull our heads out of our collective asses and let women run this country? They called it from day one.

My three-yea-old was watching CNBC when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the nice orange man want to put tariffs on the penguins?" And when I told her "Because penguins are globalist shitlibs who steal American manufacturing jobs with unfair trade practices," she started crying.

"First they came for the museums..." @katyevansbush.bsky.social #DEI #Trump

Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it. Read books. Form your own opinions. LEARN THINGS. READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The most important thing you must share today. Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family. Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.

Or real estate (this may be a regional or public vs private thing)