It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

Great resources in the replies. For those at the lower and secondary school levels, I have some additional thoughts. 🧵

Look at this absolute legend, Monterey County's first librarian, Anne Hadden (ca. 1916). She delivered books via donkey all over the area in the early 1900s. What a badass.

It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

"The piece was composed in 2019 by Omar Thomas for contemporary wind ensembles and does not have lyrics. But Thomas dedicated the work to transgender activist Marsha Johnson, a key figure in the 1969 Stonewall uprising against police raids in New York."

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

NEW: i took a look at a chevron power plant designed to power a data center that is asking for a school district tax break in texas — the plant's probable client is microsoft, which made a series of promises around tax breaks in january my dive into tax breaks for data center power:

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

We need fighters who realize we have to fight.

The best advice I've ever encountered on how to deal with self-doubt and creative block www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/09/d...

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Reminder! Stop for wonder.

"An artefact exists because human beings have created it. Hammers, laws and symphonies are artefacts too. Their existence depends on human minds and purposes. No artefact, in all the richness of its details, is inevitable.

Things are TERRIBLE out here. And, the Tournament of Books is doing short story collections this summer. www.tournamentofbooks.com/well-see-you...

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

I heard @samiraahmed.bsky.social say this at AASL23 and it’s stuck with me ever since. I have it tattooed on my wrist as a reminder. Don’t waste the gifts you’ve been given. Use them for good.

They were ready. The violence of this is breathtaking.

Flashbacks to the pandemic. When grocery stores made record profits while blaming supply chains (not their greed).

Been reading a lot of essay collections that sit with this concept. Liturgies For Resisting Empire, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, The Age of Loneliness, Held: Essays on Belonging. 💙📚

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

USC said "it would use a *venture capitalist’s* $200 million donation to apply AI across academic disciplines." "The donation... came from Mark and Mary Stevens. Stevens... is among the largest individual shareholders of the chip giant Nvidia, where he has spent decades on the board." Screaming.

FYI: No matter what happens to mifepristone, you can still get abortion pills in the mail.

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Heinrich Vogeler, 'Witch With Owl', 1895. #OwlishMonday #owl #witch #witchcraft #artsky

Californians, I hope you'll join me today in calling Schiff's offices and giving him a piece of your mind. I also hope someone primaries him. I've been wanting to get rid of him for a while.

Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

The last time I taught my class on the history of Belfast in 2022, @tomhulme.bsky.social Zoomed in to talk about his research; When I teach it again this Fall, I am forbidden from including this material.

1. When was the last time you had to show your ID to walk into a restaurant? 2. If he means to purchase liquor, unlike the SAVE act, I don’t have to prove citizenship with a birth certificate or passport to do that. 3. Going to a restaurant isn’t a right.

Last night saw more setbacks for the Texas right in school boards. They already lost a lot of ground twelve months ago; yesterday, at least six conservative board members who’ve been at the forefront of book bans or policies restricting LGBT rights were ousted. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Artificial intelligence-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news. Here are some tips for distinguishing AI-generated content from reality. https://to.pbs.org/47FCvVP

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

The single best piece of advice on the creative life www.themarginalian.org/2019/03/18/m...

It's not over

While Silicon Valley reaps the rewards of AI, workers in the Philippines and activists in Mexico are organizing to challenge the exploitative labor and digital violence sustained by these tech giants https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-pushback-chile-mexico-kenya-philippines/?utm_campaign=row-social

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Jon Ossoff with a TRUTH about who it is Republicans represent.

"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?" —Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING

‘In a 2-1 ruling, Appeals Court Judge Eric Tung, (a Trump appointee) found there’s no such right to be free from exposure to tear gas. ‘No such right exists in the Constitution,’ Tung wrote. ‘Nothing in our constitutional text or structure evinces such a right.’” www.opb.org/article/2026...

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

Scientific American’s coverage is solid: www.scientificamerican.com/article/enti...

Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment” doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Bette Midler just covered Woody Guthrie’s 1940 “All You Fascists (Bound to Lose)” with Barbara Hershey, giving it an anti-Trump twist. Imagine needing a WWII-era protest song for current events—and here we are. #sheshed

What the fuck are we doing here