Dismantling the Department of Education was never about improving outcomes for kids. It was about weakening public education and rolling back civil rights enforcement. 🧵

There’s been a huge amount of damage done with these approaches to teaching reading. Thankfully that’s being ditched more and more for “science of reading” approaches that work. Similar problems exist in math curriculum, by the way, and there’s a “science of math” that’s emerged in response too.

There is a lot of learned helplessness out there - glad that Jamelle is doing these videos to help counter it.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I strongly agree, I cannot imagine him getting any traction in the 2028 primaries

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Just watched the @60minutes.bsky.social segment Bari Weiss spiked. We need Ds to commit to accountability for what happened to innocent human beings. @raskin.house.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social need to launch full investigation, hearings if they become chairmen of judiciary & oversight committees.

The ultimate NIMBY.

This is a bizarre article about BART’s fiscal precarity that endlessly quotes from former Orinda Senator Steve Glazer, including the baseless assertion that if the regional measure fails the system could preserve service levels through vague executive salary cuts. sfstandard.com/2025/12/21/b...

Breaking edge on my no angry Trump posting rule for one second to say that we need to declare a moratorium on elected Democrats doing "awareness posting." Every post about the Trump dictatorship must end with "I will put an end to this by [insert official action here]."

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Governor Bob Ferguson's big idea to save the state transportation system, exactly how we'e designed it: more debt. www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/22/f...

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

What she wants more of is Stephen Miller on camera explaining why it’s good to torture immigrants

MAGA people will continue watching only Fox News. They won’t shift to CBS News. MAGA will surely welcome the destruction of CBS. So it’s basically the Ellisons using their billions to shut down a news outlet rather than let it tell the truth.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Wait until First Amendment champion/"Free Press" founder Bari Weiss hears what CBS News' Bari Weiss is up to.

Just canceled Paramount+.

Bari is not a news editor - she is a right wing MAGA political operator - playing the role of a news person - just like the 6 Republican operatives in black robes play the role of justices on the MAGA scotus.

Sometimes you just have to look a nice 78yo left-liberal white lady in the eye at the Hanukkah party and say “no, there is no upper limit to how many people can live in the Bay Area; and I believe that we are morally called to welcome the stranger, which means being ok with neighborhood change.”

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

Bari Weiss is on the Brandi Kruse trajectory: making it sound at first like they’re just for open dialogue and against leftist extremism, but really, they’re just pushing right-wing ideology.

Primary challenges are healthy and make political parties stronger. So it's good to see these challenges happening. Also, Jimmy Gomez is spot on with this analysis, that the 2026 election will be about this theme: "Did you fight or didn’t you fight?"

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

If Democrats made tariffs one of their main issues in 2026, they could make a number of Great Plains and rural western House and Senate races much more competitive. Instead, Democrats are saying essentially nothing on tariffs.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Sad to watch CBS News become MAGA TV

I keep thinking about those who were saying in early 2025 that Trump 2.0 was like an invasion of the country by a hostile occupying power. Vance is such a clear example of that. He hates modern America and the people in it, and wants to smash that country into pieces.

MAGA understands the importance of chasing young voters. Whereas Democrats continue to bizarrely just take them for granted, making the same mistake they did with a lot of other voters in 2024. Older Dems will keep voting for the party no matter what, so the Dem focus does need to be on the young.

Completely unacceptable. Kaine is signaling impunity for Trump’s lawbreaking. We cannot have this view taking hold among Senate Democrats.

Rick Steves is a genuine hero.

This is a good reminder that hardened opposition to good ideas can dissipate like … smoke

When Kamala Harris said “we’re not going back”…she was right. We cannot let MAGA drag us back into the dark past as they want. We have to fight back and ensure we move forward into a better future, building on the achievements of the last 100 years, which MAGA is determined to destroy.

A candidate running on dismantling ICE, you say?

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

I keep going back to Bob Ferguson's press conference yesterday. No mention of making safety investments to prevent wholly preventable road deaths. No mention of people who don't drive places, no mention of public transit. We've gone backwards. tvw.org/video/govern...

You love to see it

Well this is sad news. And while EVs aren't *the* solution to the climate crisis, I'd rather we have them than not.

All those people, from Samuel Moyn on down, who thought Trump would be a useful tool to undermine US imperialism simply did not listen to what he was saying. He and MAGA simply want to change the location where that imperialism happens, to the Western Hemisphere, for racist reasons.

I hope #waleg passes an income tax on the rich. If they do, they really should include the following: 1. Most of the $$ goes to public schools 2. Include some cut to sales tax, even if it's minor 3. Sell it as an anti-Trump, anti-billionaire move Those steps can help it survive at the ballot box.

To be blunt, repaving highways by putting Washington $3 billion in debt rather than raising taxes on the wealthy is irresponsible.

This is the way

In a loose folksy way I’ve started to believe that shit falls apart approximately every 80 years because the generation that knew True Horror dies off and the young folks left don’t comprehend the stakes.

Thank you to the many pro-housing Seattle residents who wrote to city council and showed up to support better housing options! And we couldn't have done it without the leadership of @futurewise.bsky.social and @housingconsortium.org!

Austerity for schools and public services, no leadership at all on Sound Transit, but borrowing for highways. Wow.

Good! This had better get all House Democrats on board as co-sponsors by year's end.

Madness.

I know this is something I circle back to a lot, but it honestly feels, to me, like half the attacks on our trans siblings roots back to "children aren't people." The doctor said "boy," so I get to be the parent of a boy child! Not a girl child! How dare my child want things I don't want?!