The network nightly news in the second year of the second Trump term 🧵

It’s 6:41 and ABC is still on its top story: the apparent abduction of the mother of an NBC journalist

As insane as it seems now, what this line of thought actually reveals is just how much of the political world fundamentally thought of 2016 as primarily an election about your view of Hillary Clinton, with Donald Trump mainly an instrument of passing judgement on her, not important in himself

In NE Minneapolis and Columbia Heights today, Weds. 2/5/26, ICE has been focusing on schools and schoolbus stops. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLBUS STOPS. This is their “softer touch”

Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

This is amazing.

Normalizing child sex abuse. Disgusting. I was abused as a teen in the 1970s and as a child I understood that it was abuse. Eff these effers.

"You'd be stupid not to game the system" should be America's tagline. Many of my affluent high school students learned this lesson early from parents in their communities. Harming students more vulnerable than you gets zero consideration from the Get Your Kid Every Possible Advantage Complex.

As Islamaphobia becomes the new craze in TX Republican primaries, everything is supposed proof that "Sharia Law" has taken over Texas. I spoke to Shaimaa Zayan with CAIR-Austin about how the manufactured outrage over a North Texas high school is something much larger: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

My friend and longtime collaborator @dylanpkane.bsky.social, a teacher in Colorado, went tech-free in his classroom for January. No Chromebooks, no AI, just old fashioned teaching. He reports on the results here and BOY is it fascinating: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/tech-free-...

Follow @brucelesley.bsky.social!

Maybe we have a better idea now why the firm agreed to give Trump $40m in legal services for no reason whatsoever last year?

ok but things were probably going really well in 2009 right? like, this was no biggie back then?

Can’t believe the Nazi supporting website has a laissez-faire attitude to data security

How the head of Substack closed the email he sent to those of us whose email addresses were hacked from his platform: "This sucks. I'm sorry. We will work very hard to make sure it does not happen again. - Chris Best, CEO of Substack" Thanks for taking it seriously, bro

If you want to understand the mainstreaming of far right politics and why defeating the far right at the ballot box doesn't mean actually defeating far-right politics, this is it

“it’s how modern child policy too often works: policymakers offload responsibility onto parents, especially mothers, while stripping away the very systems that once offered protection and support.”

But he continues on at the firm, continuing to profit from it and rely on whatever reputation and connections it retains. And no, dude, "recent reporting has created a distraction" is not the reason you lost some power. It was just a few of your despicable actions.

The cost of just one year of the Trump administration to children and their futures is shocking and astounding if incalculable.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

Today in things I should have read a long time ago:

I see folks lauding this Cato take. But I'm hesitant to give them too much credit. They accepted racism when it made it easier for employers to exploit workers (eg, with anti-safety net & anti-labor policies). And they challenge racism now only when it removes workers that employers want to exploit.

I’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out

The myth that teachers are a bunch of lefty radicals is a myth that has allowed continued harm to children from racist, sexist, homophobic ones.

Americans are rejecting the fascists' plans for an inhuman economy built on concentration camps and data centers. Links to pieces by @gregsargent.bsky.social and Deepa Shivaram @npr.org in replies.

Hope amid the horror.

"Defund was, and is, important because pouring resources into the police creates a police state, for marginalized people first, but eventually for everyone. If you want to protect democracy, you need to develop and advocate for antifascist policies and strategies—even if...not popular initially."

Also: on behalf of myself as a CSA survivor and all my former high school and middle school students, I say sincerely: Matt Y can eff all the way off into the heat of the burning sun

I’m always struck by the incongruence of NYT often good coverage of the end results of Trump’s fascism and the rest of their normalizing and obfuscatory coverage of Trump. It’s like, just cover him like you would a Democrat & maybe some of the other stuff is less likely to evolve or happen.

The US is waging war against its children. #GiftLink

In this way, these Epstein emails reveal the failure of leftist anti-“woke” discourse. It failed to notice that anti-wokeness is a revolt of the bosses against the workers and that elite capture of *class* politics (in the form of producerism and populism) was afoot.

it's catching on

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

"President Donald Trump says he is returning education to the states by closing the U.S. Department of Education. What he really means is that he is returning to a time when education was a privilege for some and an afterthought for others."

no

Why Children and Public School Operations Must Be Protected from ICE - This is not just an immigration issue. It is a human rights issue, a civil rights issue, and a democracy issue. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/w... via @janresseger #SickPolitics

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

Remember kids, schools will close often and classes interrupted due to our refusal to address climate change and gun violence, manage immigration sanely and humanly, and fund schools adequately. But if you lose instructional minutes to protest the new police state, we'll rev up the old one!

in normal times, clever/very partisan ads like this would be more about fundraising than about persuasion. right at the moment though the D electorate is...pretty angry, and letting people know you share their contempt for MAGA in a very D district like Kat's could well get you a bunch of votes.

"He told Zichen he'd need to find work that AI cannot do and differentiate himself to survive." Imposing adults' economic fears on children is not something we should emulate.

The point is that it ain’t just liberal and it ain’t just left us and it ain’t just whatever categories you want to use to divide up the left. It’s really just about everyone trying to figure out what are the things they can do and then just doing them. On a scale that I didn’t know was possible.

my brain getting ready to write about an idea I pitched to myself

ICYMI - I had. The climate data the Trump Administration didn't want us to have. You can donate to Climate Central, which is now maintaining the database Trump axed from NOAA. www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

If you think video evidence of racist state violence inevitably produces accountability or justice, you’ve had since like 3 decades to figure out that’s not true. Nor do photos.

Trump Admin is eager to have you pay for discrimination.

"A future without data is a future in which major actors in our economic system are flying blind. Decision-makers from the Fed...and major Wall Street banks to small businesses and...households may have to replace good information with vibes and guesses, opening the door to catastrophic mistakes."

And that's just the immediate cost to taxpayers. What about the longterm costs to society of having discriminatory practices in schools that rob students of their futures.