Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

I really wish that this piece, written by a teen who has been working with her peers to protest her school board's relentless book censorship and the erasure of their school library's budget, would get the attention it deserves. bookriot.com/elizabethtow...

"AI in education is inevitable." No it isn't. That's not true.

HR 2616, text below, just passed today in the House. Now it's time to call your Senators & tell them to vote NO ON HR 2616/S 2251 (and the very similar bills: HR 2617 & HR 7661 which aim to ban all trans books from every public school in the country!) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Thankfully this bill will die in the Senate because it can't gather 60 votes. Still, it cannot be overstated that the GOP is using its power to enact state-mandated violence on trans people, especially trans kids. Republicans want to ban trans people from public life, then dismantle public schools.

Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Same for K12 education.

Texas ELA educators are doing extraordinary work — and it's time to celebrate them. 🌟 Nominations are open for four TCTELA awards recognizing leadership and service in literacy at all levels. Nominate someone who deserves the spotlight. Deadline: August 1. www.tctela.org/award-nomina...

School boards in Texas that have been at the center of book ban and trans rights debates held elections today. And in early results out of local elections, I'm seeing at least 5 conservative school board members who are trailing. Let's see where these end up!

Congrats to my friend Dr. Nick Emmanuel (@naemmanuele.bsky.social), who successfully defended his dissertation tonight! Dr. Emmanuel is one of the most generous, passionate, and caring educators and leaders I know. Our field is better because he's in it!

Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

Banning books by authors of color is the first step. Then, they work to ban people of color from other forms of public and civic life. Reactionaries start with books, but they never end there. The goal is to reinstate social hierarchies and limit who "counts" as a citizen.

The Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution. This remains the case.

Humanities profs, I know there are a lot of you on here: encourage those talented seniors of yours to consider teaching high school. It’s fun and intellectually enriching and we want them. It’ll make what you taught them matter in ways that not many other fields will.

📣 TX K–5 ELAR teachers: TCTELA is forming work groups to bring classroom expertise to the Required Literary Works List review. Bring your experience. You are eligible to self-nominate! 👉 forms.gle/Kp8TimCyxMwQ... | Please share with strong K-2 and 3–5 teachers!

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

It’s #EarthDay! 🌍 If your students are feeling the weight of the climate crisis, this one’s for them. We rounded up 10 essential climate action books for kids across every grade. Stories about real youth, real science, and real hope. #EduSky #K12 #EarthWeek #ClimateAction #BookList #TEACHMag

Glenn Youngkin truly believed that banning books, attacking trans kids, and rolling back all DEI efforts would secure the GOP imminent power in VA because he won his race by 2 points in 2021. VA voters had other plans! 🗳️

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. n.pr/4vFxjvp

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas. And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Some say the pandemic prompted them to reconsider unsatisfying corporate jobs, while others say that because they could not find LGBTQ+ literature in their local bookstores, they decided to open their own."

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

I love this idea! The state giving money to engage the public with the humanities is cool. Getting everyday people to think about books and democracy rules! I hope more states follow. 🗳️ 📚

Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

Many architects of the current book ban movement in the US revere Viktor Orbán. Orbán's govt provided people like Chris Rufo govt fellowships. Orbán has made attacking LGBTQ people, especially in schools, a cornerstone of his govt. He banned LGBTQ material in schools and made public Pride illegal.

Very excited to share my most recent episode of Conceptually Speaking! No matter where you’re situated in the English Studies penumbra, @manshel.bsky.social’s research on the history of English education is must-read scholarship. #literacies #edusky #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

It's why we talk about genAI as a labor problem. 99% of all problems that genAI "solves" is just "hire more people and pay them a liveable wage."

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

Many @tctela.bsky.social members also think its a big deal and were there to testify or submitted written testimony. Our presence didn't get the media coverage, but we were definitely there and making connections to our SBOE members. We also presented additional research on how bad the list is.

PSA: SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, one of the best superhero comics ever made, is FREE TO READ all this month on DC Universe Infinite.

I work with a connected group (of mainly moms) who are fighting to counteract the toxic influence of Moms For Liberty and their dark money backing The effort in Florida is so great, they’re forming county by county subgroups! There are more of us than there are of them!

Voters also hate data centers!

Voters really don't like book banning candidates!

As a voice of ELA educators statewide, TCTELA testified on behalf of the thousands of teachers who dedicate themselves every day to building literate, thoughtful, and engaged students. From the classroom to the capitol, TCTELA is committed to ensuring that the expertise of Texas teachers is heard.

RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa. They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.

Voters really hate book banning candidates!

New Have You Heard: we talk to four current and former teachers about what blue states keep getting wrong about public education. @johndownesangus.bsky.social, @jaustinedu.bsky.social, @annieabrams.bsky.social and Nora De La Cour on why they have the blue state blues soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship