One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

At the newsletter right now: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Even starting from "it crashes the party" (true) and "schools have to do something" (also true) there's ample space to build a reasonable position! Unproven tech "crashing the party and rearranging the furniture" in itself a compelling reason to pump the brakes, not an argument to adopt it.

Whatever you think about James Talarico's chances, key ingredient missing from this take is that his ascendancy has been powered by deep opposition to school vouchers in Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

This piece starts well: "At MIT, I study the history and future of education technology, and I have never encountered an example of a school system – a country, state or municipality – that rapidly adopted a new digital technology and saw durable benefits for their students."

I regret to inform you that in addition to the collapse of Reconstruction and the Red Scare we all need to bone up on how Woodrow Wilson cracked down on journalists and dissenters. We've got you covered, with this piece by Adam Hochschild www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It will likely be worse than the dot com bust. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

The rare feel-good gov't shutdown story: I talked to some Bronx 8th-graders on a field trip to DC whose tour of the Capitol was canceled bc of the shutdown - and who ended up getting a personal tour from @aoc.bsky.social instead: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Knows nothing about broadcasting or news so a natural choice

What you wouldn't glean from scanning US legacy media:

These fuckin guys

Very good @aselrod.bsky.social piece. They are attempting to summon into existence the New MAGA Man, similar to the New Soviet Man and other totalitarian imaginings and creations:

AI is more important than the American populace, to the billionaire ghouls and maga. Sure wish each and every American knew this.

One thing we learned researching Carjacked was how the bad shit has been so normalized that drivers often fail to tally or even fully recognize the most obvious them as products of car overdependence: fatalities and injuries from crashes, road rage and carjackings, traffic and parking nightmares.

Absolutely more healthy socially, financially, and ecologically, and physically than driving--where bad shit happens frequently.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Huge part of it is just lying to kids and demanding that they ignore the plain facts of what’s going on. time.com/6293708/amer...

One of the saddest pieces I've read in a while and that's saying a lot.

They spent decades railing about the free market and accusing Dems of wanting to "pick winners and losers."

"'Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the banning of books, including bans on specific titles statewide.'"

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“Now the Tribune…[is] implying that I and other educators cannot separate our personal time from our professional time. They suggest that if educators have political opinions that we can’t be a fair and impartial teachers. They even made a heap of false assumptions about what my classroom is like.”

Trump is at war with America, yes, but especially perhaps with America’s children. “He praised members of the military for ‘pounding‘ gangs of ‘kids’ in Washington, D.C.“

And even if they can't convince people that this biased-by-design AI output is trustworthy, they still win at the basic authoritarian priority of undermining trust itself, of making people question whether *anything* they see or hear in media - any media - is true. This is one reason fascists ❤️ AI.

The United States elected—twice—a raging sociopath who believes American cities are proper training grounds for military operations, and the Americans who reside in them are proper targets of lethal military actions.

Isn't it Congress' job to declare war on the American people?

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

Remember back in the aughts when the media told us that electric cars were going to save us? Today only 1.4% of cars on US roads are electric. But...

"unusual" "unclear"

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

idk guys, "we're going to train our military on our cities" seems like the kind of thing that's 1) very bad and 2) very easy to message against but what the fuck do i know

Decades to Build, Months to Destroy is the MAGA motto

imagine that

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“Encouraged by a manosphere that’s made patriarchal bullying seem cool and a White House that houses a cabinet made up of men who have degraded women and rolled back decades of protections for us in the workplace, men have never felt more emboldened to attack us…and it’s getting worse.”

"We've got a captured population. There are only two of those, BTW, students and prisoners. And frankly, the student data is richer, more diverse, [..] in ways that make it more valuable." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

One year there was an issue with the Chromebook licenses at our kid’s school, so the teachers had to start the school year NOT having the kids work on laptops, and—shocking, I know—the students learned a ton, said they preferred “hands on”/analog teaching, and asked for more laptop-free lessons.

When drug boat operators -- impoverished fishermen trying to get by -- were caught in the past, they got a few years in prison. Now Trump is executing them without trials. A must-read and an exceptionally smart take from my colleague Matt Sledge @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/26/t...

My parents recently visited and started to do this. My dad is a retired minister. I asked him plainly. "How many people have you buried from car accidents, how many from crime? " He never brought up the big scary city again

I’ll never forget one year when my class was eating blackberries while we were studying Kinnell’s poem and one of my students discovered that blackberries have, as he put it, “a cob.”

LOL. The real estate taxes in Westchester County are astronomical.

In case this is memory-holed, these pundits announced he was the future based on the idea that Dems should be more like Reps on crime and policing. Now the Republicans have soldiers occupying city streets.

Okay but what if the digital tools are plagiarism machines that make up lies?

It’s also incredibly not made kids better at using the computer

Today in Unhelpful Replies: "We've known this for a long time!" 1) You have (maybe). 2) Other people (maybe) not so much. 3) Repetition is key to learning. 4) Here's more/new evidence of the problem, which can help advocates. 5) It's likely developed or worsened, which can be motivational.