There can’t be a more horrific insight into the sickness of the US’s gun crime epidemic than the fact two survivors of Brown University had already survived school shootings. One was shot in the abdomen in 2016, while her best friend died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wait, when did the #Guardian start running parody pieces? Watch out #Onion, the Brits are coming for you! #HandsOff 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Okay, this is pretty interesting. Though given America’s long history of colonial meddling in the #Philippines, one could argue it’s just chickens coming home to roost. What goes around comes around! 🐓 🔍 😳 #SoutheastAsia #AI

ICYMI, here is the opening salvo in what could be a very promising #2028 #Presidential campaign. US Senator #MarkKelly takes center stage! youtu.be/NcvDcWSXsmI #HandsOff #USN @pamspaulding.bsky.social

Ahhh, love this one. Thanks for sharing @groomb.bsky.social! 😎

Dare to hope! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Write Out is a free two-week celebration that will run today through the 26th. The goal is to be inspired by the world around us and to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. You can do #writeout for an hour, a day, or all week long! Learn more at writeout.nwp.org #writeout

Mark this moment: another example of #history being erased before our very eyes. 😳 #HandsOff #Smithsonian #Edusky #sschat #teachable #Orwell #dystopia

This is so powerful, worth sharing with students! It’s a powerful example of self-control in the service of a greater good. #Sschat #EduSky #teachable #nonviolence

How can we make real #history come alive in the #AI age? The answer — take kids out into the world to see and feel and imagine it for themselves — lies in this lovely #NPR story about the #TenementMuseum in #NYC. Please pass it on! #EduSky #SSChat #teachable www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Oooooh, so #teachable! www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #Math #Barcelona #NYT

Thank you for sharing this! What a radical idea: “Peace is the most courageous, the most practical, the most necessary pursuit of all.” Please pass it on! #EduSky #Sschat #peace #education

Amen! Like a voice from the last century. Remember these things? 🙄

If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to our democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

Lol, yes! I believe the poets in Washington, D.C., could use a bit of love, tea & biscuits, and a steady supply of pens at this point! 🫖 🍪 ✍️ ❤️

Looking for a useful way to #resist? Don’t just support your blue-state #PublicRadio station. Find one in a red state that’s struggling and shoot a few dollars their way. Helping these isolated voices of reason to survive could make all the difference! Please repost. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I love this poem: so many worlds in so few words. "The calculus of poverty is its own rigged lottery, but his eyes would glisten when he talked about the mess at Long Binh: the math of feeding all those mouths, the giant bags of flour, the powdered eggs."

Damn. This is why I love @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. Where #poetry butts heads every day with this cruel, crazy, beautiful world we see in the #news on our phones. Finding beauty even in pure ugliness. rattle.com/full-moon-on... #Egypt #HumanRights

Love this! It takes a tired #backtoschool trope and brings it back to life in a way that will crack up jaded teens and help them make connections. #SEL

Damn. This is why I love @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. Where #poetry butts heads every day with this cruel, crazy, beautiful world we see in the #news on our phones. Finding beauty even in pure ugliness. rattle.com/full-moon-on... #Egypt #HumanRights

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens. "I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Inspiring story about one public library’s struggles to survive in a very overheated (at least Fahrenheit 451 degrees) political climate. #HandsOff #Writing #Edusky #writing #censorship lithub.com/a-virginia-p...

Really love this Alison Davis #poem @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. It captures something lovely about being a parent, working with kids, and the importance of staying positive in these dark times. Please pass it on! rattle.com/chit-chat-by... #poetry #writing #edusky #k12

Really love this Alison Davis #poem @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. It captures something lovely about being a parent, working with kids, and the importance of staying positive in these dark times. Please pass it on! rattle.com/chit-chat-by... #poetry #writing #edusky #k12

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Teachable question: what happens when you reduce job safety inspections? https://labortribune.com/trump-osha-budget-would-cut-10000-job-safety-inspections/ (Here's my NYT lesson on what happens when regulation fails: https://tinyurl.com/y75eyeaz #HandsOff #K12 #sschat #OSHA #workersafety #Edusky

Teachable question: what happens when you reduce job safety inspections? https://labortribune.com/trump-osha-budget-would-cut-10000-job-safety-inspections/ (Here's my NYT lesson on what happens when regulation fails: https://tinyurl.com/y75eyeaz #HandsOff #K12 #sschat #OSHA #workersafety #Edusky

I can’t say enough about this lovely piece on student writing, the value of great teachers, and those sparkling moments that make it all worthwhile. This — right here — is why we need to carve out space in the curriculum for kids to read and write from the heart. #Edusky #K12 #Lit #StudentWriting

There is an essay by the late great Barry Lopez that captures perfectly this dark moment in our shared human history. I urge you to make a cup of tea and read it! (And props to @deannabeachley.bsky.social for finding it first :) 🌏 ❤️ 🙏 #HandsOff #ClimateChange lithub.com/barry-lopez-...

This shouldn’t make me smile right now, but somehow it does :)

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Watching #GoodNightandGoodLuck on #CNN while these #LAprotests play out in real time on…some other network? I think we need a split-screen, just in case anyone is missing the irony. 🙄 #HandsOff

Watching #GoodNightandGoodLuck on #CNN while these #LAprotests play out in real time on…some other network? I think we need a split-screen, just in case anyone is missing the irony. 🙄 #HandsOff

Important work, please pass it on! #HandsOff #DEI #FederalWorkers

Canada is one of several #highered powerhouses that are quickly moving to help international students in their time of need. Hear that unfamiliar “Whoosh” sound? It’s the #BrainDrain of talent leaving #America, and I fear they’re not coming back. #HandsOff #education #visa #Edusky

Game changer? If they #opensource this they deserve to win the #NobelPrize for #chemistry. #Ocean #Plastic

So glad someone is teaching these vital skills! Please repost to teacher and parent groups. #AI #edtech #DeepFake #K12 #Edusky

Game changer? If they #opensource this they deserve to win the #NobelPrize for #chemistry. #Ocean #Plastic

Some pointed comments from the #EU this weekend in Singapore 🙄

A hungry bird eyes my eggs in #Singapore and reminds me of a long-ago meal I wrote about in #Bulgaria. Despite all the madness, life occasionally serves up these funny moments :) theothereurope.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/m... #travel #writing #food #lit #Asia #EasternEurope #TravelWriting

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

There is an essay by the late great Barry Lopez that captures perfectly this dark moment in our shared human history. I urge you to make a cup of tea and read it! (And props to @deannabeachley.bsky.social for finding it first :) 🌏 ❤️ 🙏 #HandsOff #ClimateChange lithub.com/barry-lopez-...

Yes, training AI on our voices to replace workers. But they're recording and using customer voice data too. Without consent. These companies have no respect. news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

And here’s our #AI wakeup call… 😳

Dear #Google: if you’re dead set on bringing #AI into #K12 #schools, could you please at least encourage active (as opposed to passive) #learning? Critical thinking, even? (And please don’t send that substitute teacher Ms. #SIRI again, her classroom management skills are very poor.) #HandsOff