DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

I just got an email from Katmai National Park saying that until the government shutdown ends, the Zoom I scheduled with them to end a unit my class has been working hard on is off. Never thought that an event tertiarily related to Fat Bear Week would be what pushed me over the edge but here we are

A little pleasure of having a middle schooler is hearing the snips of conversations on the phone with their friends as they walk by 💜

Streaming video services have become an expensive scam. Bring back the cable of my youth at this point.

The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children and the 12,211 Palestinian children who have been killed in the war.

This clip of the Korean production of Chicago is several years old, but it features Choi Jae-rim, the actor playing Billy Flynn, doing **actual ventriloquism**: youtu.be/kCWBWXyUh2Q?...

It's the "Gen Z boss and a mini" thing all over again. A viral video of young female workers in Australia goofing around became proof that your local Democratic state senator hates white men and doesn't want them to have jobs.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

This will help you find a public radio or television station that stands to lose 50 percent or more of its revenue:

Wow -- the Journal reports that when reporters contacted Trump two days ago about this story👇, he threatened to sue if it was published, then hours later claimed that Obama and Biden "made up" the Epstein files

Imagine what a great day for gossip it is at the place where the Coldplay cheaters work. The air must be electric

In case you're keeping a boycott list... Etsy sellers and shoppers are leaving the platform because Etsy is allowing the sale of merch celebrating detention centers and banning those who complain. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

It is INSANE to me that people are obsessed with getting AI into schools when it is this easily manipulated

Look who finally figured out how to use clear language when talking about the long term damage this bill will do if it passes in the house.

The way I went from being mildly annoyed at any Gladys screen time to willing to die for her happiness #thegildedage

The media does 500 stories about "are the Democrats commiting political suicide by deposing deportations?!" when Trump is +2% on immigration, but when Trump is 20 points underwater on Iran they don't ask the same thing about Republicans. It's interesting!

Detroit’s Archbishop Weisenburger: “…the criminalization of people based solely on their undocumented status undermines our moral obligations and falls tragically short of the noble history of our nation.” www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

If the Tonys have piqued your interest about Yellow Face, you can stream it via PBS through the end of the month

It’s popular to hate on Hamilton now but I’m sorry. That was amazing song after amazing song. Definitely from a more optimistic time but that remains one hell of a score #tonyawards

PowerSchool needs a “you’re changing the grades from a previous trimester dummy, are you sure you want to do that?” button

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

🚨 The new pope posted a best Christmas movies article from Catholic News Service featuring both the Alistair Sim Scrooge AND The Muppet Christmas Carol! Papal infallibility confirmed! 🚨

TEACHERS & SCHOOL LIBRARIANS! On May 20, I’ll be doing a free 60-minute webinar about writing FISH IN A TREE & its backstory. I’ll also give readers a sneak peek of my new PB, WISH IN A TREE, which is Oliver’s story. Almost like a deleted scene from the novel. Stay tuned! #ADD #ADHD #SpecialGifts

A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Like, this is an insane thing for anyone to say but this man’s aunt *founded the Special Olympics*

So Catholic that for a second, I thought this was a Carlo Acutis welcoming Pope Francis to heaven tweet

Noooo my first time calling a politician and having to talk to a HUMAN.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Dear Congress, Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️‍🩹 Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

Underrated feeling: reading a book you enjoyed and finding out they made a prestige HBO adaptation of it after you finish #booksky

Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power. Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com

The “we’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover” TikTok song will make for one heck of a primary source analysis for future students one day

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

Schools: AI is here-we must use it w/Ss immediately! They're already using it; we can't possibly push back! Science: "Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills" (phys.org/news/2025-01...) "AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds" (www.bbc.com/news/article...)

Snow, tea, a grilled cheese, and a book?? An elite evening

Marko Elez is the first of Elon Musk's DOGE boys to resign after the Wall Street Journal uncovered racists posts including ones where he "advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act" & backed a "eugenic immigration policy" Elez previously worked at SpaceX and currently works at X

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if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

One of my students made me as a potato for our Potato Olympics today (get on our level) and frankly, I’ve never looked better

The White House has suddenly removed this page. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

"A video describing the exploits of the [Tuskegee Airmen], who flew combat sorties during World War II, has been removed from the instructional curriculum for new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training." -- www.expressnews.com/news/article...

On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.

Excited to get so much reading done this long weekend as I seek to avoid the nightmare that will be social media over the next few days!

Happy New Year from the lemon pig!

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.