"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the US launched military action against Tehran."

So excited to get a copy of @sayakachatani.bsky.social (with Kumhee Cho)'s new book. In sheer awe of the amazing research, incl. more than 200 interviews with members of the Zainichi/Chongryon community. I'll be moderating a book talk in June, so please join! mjha.org/event-6602790

An occasional series in which I check in on the PLACE podcast so you don’t have to! Oh…..

It’s pretty interesting to watch PLACE careen between screaming about due process and community input and then attempt to force-feed a Google-sponsored AI high school into a building already struggling with co-location issues in under 30 days 🤔🤔🤔

NYC is planning to open a digital tech-focused high school that "would make students 'builders as well as ethical users of AI'". Meanwhile, the City has not yet come out with an AI policy for schools themselves. Very concerning. This is a decision that communities should make.

The PLACE people are _desperate_ to make this school happen, there might be a pretty interesting story behind this! The petition in support of the school has added 100 names over the last week, impressive Weirdly they all came from zip codes in Astoria, Longwood, and Middle Village 🤔

Tiffany of Moms for Liberty, we hardly knew ye. Heritage Action moves on from Donald Trump's tango partner Tiffany Justice after 7 months. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/moms-for-l...

PLACE takes “accelerated” learning so seriously they don’t even want cars to slow down in front of schools.

The city isn't playing fair when it comes to the new AI high school - mayoral control looks like a lot of shady dealing and corruption and sidelining of parent concerns!

nyccchsminorityreports.blogspot.com/2026/03/stop... Just another day of “community engagement” by the Citywide Council on High Schools, NYC’s own corrupt, segregationist school board.

PLACE NYC and its surrogates are desperately trying to make this Google AI school happen, wonder what the deal is with that!

Whatever else it may be, everything in the ed-tech "reform" sector is also, at root, a grift.

A well-rounded education program or publicly subsidized job training for Google? "The school’s academic description includes similar or identical language as found on the Google Skills website."

Manhattan High School superintendent with ties to Google wants to open Next Generation Technology High School. The school promises to “expand pathways connected to high-growth technology careers.”

Coming June 2026: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I just found a 2024 charge for $1,348.03 to French Laundry - the 3 Michelin star restaurant in California - in Arizona ESA reimbursements.

On a related note everyone in NYS should be contacting Governor Hochul and insisting that she opt out of this backdoor voucher scheme that gives rich people a tax write-off at the same time Head Start, Title I, IDEA, school meals, and more are threatened. Hell no nypost.com/2026/02/16/u...

You can't buy a rotisserie chicken for humans with SNAP $, but you can buy rotisserie chicken-flavored cat and dog toothpaste (last line) with Arizona ESA $.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

If “the urgency of normal” is a child development principle, it should apply universally. I’d welcome links if I missed it, but I haven’t seen David Leonhardt, Lucy McBride, TracyBeth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad, David Zweig, or Emily Oster say anything abt kids being denied their right to a public education

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Always a local education angle: Epstein provided direct financial and networking support to Elisa New, Larry Summers’s wife, that allowed her nonprofit to partner with Success Academy to create classroom educational materials and videos

Always a local education angle: A Stuyvesant-educated cognitive scientist and the former lead academic official at Trump University (lol) was asked by KIPP NYC to develop a summer course, and he propositioned Epstein for the funding for it in this ludicrously racist exchage

Yiatin Chu - a prominent member of PLACE - posted this and affirmed when questioned that she didn’t see anything wrong it. This is what PLACE supports. Let’s get this awfulness out of our schools and city.

Told you

Watch for this “some families” bullshit! Is the NYT gonna mention that the _some families_ are members of PLACE, the extremist group that has zero Black parents on its board, but somehow has room for NYPD cops with a history of abuse complaints? The anti-trans zealot parents? *Those* families?

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

@cbsnews.com is advertising an Erika Kirk town hall moderated by Bari Weiss under the tagline: “Can she unite America?” I want us to think about all the whys here and their implications.

Correcting page proofs now. On shelves May/June 2026…

One hundred and fifty one children under the age of 18 have been arrested between January and October, with a steep increase beginning in May.

New w/ @alexzimmerman.bsky.social: NYC declared victory on a major class size deadline: >60% of classes under the caps. What they didn’t mention: they only got there by quietly declaring 10,500 classes exempt. W/o those, DOE would’ve been at 59.5% compliance: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

A long list of accomplishments ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

When someone with Andrew Cuomo’s platform uses their power to feed hate and spread suspicion instead of solidarity, it puts lives at risk. The strength of this city has always come from people standing together and refusing to let hate divide us – and we’re calling this what it is, Islamophobia.

In the country's richest city, more than 140,000 kids don't have stable or permanent housing. "Every Child and Family Is Known" — a small pilot program that pairs school staff with students and families in shelters — has shown real promise. I will double its funding and scope.

🧵 1/15 So, some thrice failed wannabe local politician here in NYC is disingenuously weaponizing the LGBTQ+ community against the mayoral candidate with the best policy positions for our community. I want to take a moment to get some words out ahead of this in case anyone takes her seriously.

I just want to point out again that last night Cuomo effectively said that any NYC family that can do so should move to the suburbs for the schools like he did, I think that might be slightly more important and relevant than his neither innovative nor particularly comprehensive education platform

I am watching this forum; there are currently ~50 people in attendance lol

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Now he works at the State Dept while chairing the NY Young Republicans Club, which is hosting a group that they are proud to say works to “save German demographics, and return tradition to the German Volk.” MAGA not hiding its Nazi ethos anymore.

The Trump administration is now demanding that NYC change its policies by Tuesday night or else risk losing millions in grant funding for a handful of public schools.

In the waning days of his longshot reelection campaign—and likely his tenure at City Hall—Mayor Eric Adams has suddenly embraced transphobia.

“But why did Borough President Mark Levine just hand control of the council back to the people who backed it?”https://hellgatenyc.com/cecd2-anti-trans-resolution-finally-dead/

“On at least two occasions during executive board meetings of the school's parent group, [Mark Levine’s hand-picked board member Sam Lo] described students on individualized education plans as ‘retards.’” Wishing I could have my primary vote for comptroller back….

MBP @marklevinenyc.bsky.social had started his term as MBP appointing stellar education advocates to Manhattan and citywide school boards. But he made a deal with vile transphobic, ableist and racist parent leaders to win the comptroller race and is exiting office in shame. 1/

A great article that captures the many concerns with the two boro president appointees / future direction of the board (and disappointment in Mark Levine) - even as parents are thrilled with the overturn of the anti-trans resolution.

The anti-trans resolution that roiled one of Manhattan's public school parent councils for the last year and a half has finally been rescinded. Does that mean the District 2 council has put messy factional politics behind it? Nah. hellgatenyc.com/cecd2-anti-t...