"Dyfi Groms" is an artful, insightful, & serious short film about youth, community, & youth culture in Wales. It also gets at the core of the whys & why-would-you-do-thats of mountain biking. Just "wow." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE9p...

"What white supremacy promises its adherents is a life without challenge--the right to be free of competition and judgment, the right to be shielded from new ways of thinking, to be insulated from diverse cultural practices that challenge their hegemony..." Ifill: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

"I burn down your cities-how blind you must be I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we You all must be crazy to put your faith in me That's why I love mankind You really need me That's why I love mankind..." Randy Newman: youtu.be/XwC1HDaw6s8

"Louisiana v. Callais is not about Republicans versus Democrats in the battle for control of Congress. It’s about white folks trying to take political power away from Black folks. And the Supreme Court ruled “whites win”—again..." Elie Mystal: open.substack.com/pub/elienyc/...

PEN's Educational Principles | 1 of 6 Education must: Amplify students’ voice, choice, and participation as learners and citizens. progressiveeducationnetwork.org/about/missio...

"Nothing bad ever happens to me Nothing bad ever happens to me Why should I care? Nothing bad ever happens to me..." Oingo Boingo, "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpjH...

Digable Planets, "The May 4th Movement," LIVE on KEXP: youtu.be/Sn3SYaDqml8 & you're welcome.

The National Equity Project, "Six Forces the Education Field is Facing Now" drive.google.com/file/d/1fmCA... via @ntlequityproj.bsky.social

The Progressive Education Network is "proud to introduce our new mission, vision, and principles of progressive education, intended to reflect back to our network what we’ve learned and proudly built with you over time..." progressiveeducationnetwork.org/about/missio...

"Callais opens the door for states to gerrymander Black and Brown majority districts out of existence, suppress those communities' votes and representation, and write them out of government of, by, and for the people..." indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...

Mood: youtu.be/EfOW9QrLs0o

"As we said a year ago, they can arrest us for praying, but they cannot stop our prayers. The work of this year is to turn our prayers into votes..." Rev. Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: substack.com/@williamjbar...

"Say what? All in line, all in line (oh) For a slice of the devil's pie (yeah)..." D'Angelo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNt...

"I don't really mind if it's over your head 'Cause the job of resurrectors is to wake up the dead..." - Tribe, "Jazz (We've Got)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlA0...

"Some of your favorites may be missing. This is because I look not to the songs w/the largest pop-culture footprint but to those that tell me the most about him & how he made music... A cheat code into why Prince was, is, & will always be genius." - Questlove: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"You cannot see when you look back: too dark behind me. And the song says, merely, with a stunning matter-of-factness, 'There's a light before me. I'm on my way...'" - James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

^^^ "We the kids that they don't like to talk about... We the kids who come from mining for cobalt We the kids that were abandoned and trafficked and sold off We the kids underneath all the rubble in Gaza We the kids that are missing all their mothers and fathers." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAp...

Hey! The Neighborhood Kids' new album came out this morning. Get to it. youtu.be/4MWD5I0MHHw

May the memory of this righteous one be a blessing. #RIP And how did I not hear this until last month... and why are there so few views? Incredible: youtu.be/KcOEd72IxeM

📌 Compose yourself. One day the cosplay Nazis will be purged from the White House, the anti-acronym campaign will have failed, and all those school leaders & boards you're grinding molars about will have lost their excuses to capitulate on the commitments they never championed in the first place.

"Back in the days when I was a teenager Before I had status and before I had a pager You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles..." - ATCQ All of it: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New walk-on music for workshops/presentations. ;) youtu.be/cIxPzqaCmEc

"Beyond the Edges" invites us to ask: What happens when the old edges themselves no longer hold? What comes after the versions of “traditional” and “progressive” education we’ve inherited? PEN National Conference | October 2-4, 2026 | Columbus, OH progressiveeducationnetwork.org/event/pen-na...

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

"[Chorus] "Motherland, cradle me Close my eyes Lullaby me to sleep Keep me safe Lie with me Stay beside me Don't go Don't you go..." - Natalie Merchant, "Motherland" open.spotify.com/track/6Jrb8p... & genius.com/Natalie-merc...

"Write a lyric essay of 300–500 words organized in sections (use white space or small roman numerals). The subject should be something you genuinely don't fully understand yet, an unresolved question about your own life, history, or community..." via Saint Trey Wooden: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Sure I was worried about X. But then this happened...

I hadn't heard Brickell cover Dylan until just now. I absolutely love her voice, though I could do without the chord changes as I am currently not riding an elevator. The original was our theme song for a handful of drives across the desert. Both come with an ugly cry for free. youtu.be/_ZZ2myqz04I

The last few years, Dylan & I signed off on text threads w/ "Loves Chunks" (me) & "Loves Munks" (him). He started it. I never knew why. Just now Spotify reminded me of our joyous, manic head banging to this, like 20 years ago, when he was 7 or 8. So thank you, Algorithm... youtu.be/vGMqOhXtIa0

Some folks think I'm mad as a hatter for schlepping a mountain bike up here well before dawn... But look at the Beauty I get to encounter with a ~270 degree view of my beloved & completely mental city below... I love L.A. #SkiTopanga

It's completely mental how much is at play in Blanco y Negro--across multiple genres, generations, ethnoracial identities, and entangled histories. Every musician at the top of their game, playing with and for each other. If you haven't seen or heard this, you're welcome. 🫶🏻 youtu.be/a9xYA9rFZ_k

U! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 C! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 L! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 A! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 UCLA Fight Fight Fight! 💪🏻 dailybruin.com/2026/02/13/t...

How do ICE actions land with non-ICE law enforcement officers ? Here's an interesting breakdown of responses by 2 focus groups -- Harris-voting & Trump-voting cops -- with Sarah Longwell & Tim Miller: youtu.be/RMqwOnfjedE

“One of the things that faith requires of you is the ability to believe that this current state that you are in is not the end. There is a possibility that something can be greater. And even though you cannot see it, you believe that it can happen.” Trevor Noah ~ Bucar substack.com/home/post/p-...

May the memory of this righteous one be a blessing. 🙏🏻

"And maybe the answer is simple: one song protects mythology. The other tells the truth. What a nation chooses to sing together is, eventually, what it chooses to become..." Dr. Stacey Patton: open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Be a part of the 2026 #TeachingInColor Summit! Charlotte, NC — April 25, 2026 More via CREED-nc.org: mailchi.mp/creed-nc/reg...

"American voter suppression has never introduced itself as suppression but as reform and protection. And what they are betting on, what they have always bet on, is historical amnesia." Dr. Stacey Patton: substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Dance without fear." "Speak without fear." "America" was never greater than for ~13 minutes last night.

"Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, & can often feel like the most indefensible & lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism." Nick Cave (11'45"ff) youtu.be/G8qmV6MYCF4

“The league officially absorbed his language—slogans like ‘Inspire Change’—while rejecting his message and himself. That co-optation is part of his legacy—activism rebranded as corporate messaging, stripped of disruption..." Myers, in Kilgore: wapo.st/4km8MpZ

When two law professors stroll into an argument so ill-prepared to argue, it almost makes me feel bad for them, but not quite since they don't see it. wapo.st/3Zh3typ

"The woman who launched a thousand ships was never given a skin color by Homer. White supremacist beauty standards filled in the blanks centuries later...You can’t claim to care about historical accuracy while knowing absolutely nothing about the history." Kahlil Greene substack.com/@kahlilgreen...

"To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it: it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used: it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought..." - Baldwin via @esglaude: open.substack.com/pub/esglaude...

"Miles was able to make something that was wrong into something that was right—with the power of the choice of notes he played, and the feeling he had." At ~2min, Herbie Hancock tells a story about Miles Davis that's one of my favorite stories about facilitation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6fV...

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

"Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade..." - @nccsa.bsky.social ~ @network4pubed.bsky.social

If that BHM assembly you led, or stunt class you taught, or announcement you made at your school this morning stank, even AI knows why. Do you? via www.google.com/search?q=why...

"So when a law written in response to mass racial slaughter is used to prosecute Black journalists documenting racial injustice, this is not technical misapplication. This is moral category collapse..." Dr. Stacey Patton: open.substack.com/pub/drstacey... #FF @drstaceypatton.bsky.social

"At this point, I’m no longer interested in 'listening and learning.' That era is over. Listening without integration is extraction. Learning without implementation is just another way to delay change while appearing virtuous." Black Modern Mystic: open.substack.com/pub/blackmod...