The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

Albania, citizens are gathering outside Police Station No. 1 in Tirana, demanding the release of 6 protesters detained during demonstrations outside Parliament. As the "Flamingo Revolution" rolls into its fourth week, each arrest only seems to be drawing more people into the streets, not fewer.

Issues that seem wonky and we may ignore can ultimately affect us more than we imagined possible. That's occurring now in the NYC budget and the still undecided fate of a huge data portal hosted by a non-profit New Visions, a stalking horse for tech privatization of the schools and human services.

I have a piece in me about social movements, how these electoral victories are a win for the encampments - and not figuratively: Espaillat is challenged because of anger over how he ignored Mahmoud Khalil's family. Now Dari - an encampment organizer - is Columbia's representative in office.

Write your council member and @mayor.nyc.gov not to fund the New Visions portal! It's a stalking horse for tech moguls' privatization, profits from data. It collects a vast trove of data, on kids' learning, mental health, housing from thousands of sources. Surveillance is being deepened. Red alert!

Healthcare has to be one of the 2 most important planks to run on in 2028. It has to be Improved Medicare For All or bust. Single payer that includes vision, dental, and mental health for ALL. Go to war with the insurance companies. Tie healthcare to everything because it is tied to everything.

The 'middle ground' between fascism and no fascism is some fascism. That's not 'smart politics,' it's Vichy France

kudos to @eduinternational.bsky.social! Some excellent principles about education workers and AI, globally: www.ei-ie.org/en/item/3182... . The problem is the rhetoric is contradicted by AFT, NEA "partnership" with the tech bros to train teachers to use AI. We need a moratorium on its use!

Writing about what's changed in neoliberal ed policy this past decade, I'm seeing far more "front groups" claiming the same narrative territory. Sad to say this includes formerly liberal groups, foundations, who are all into "public/private partnerships" - with the tech moguls. New article shortly!

Life sentences for protesting fascism. Worth reading Ken Klippenstein's piece and thoughtful discussion: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-...

Breaking! Look at that crowd! 😅🤣

People like the president of my national union want to clutch their pearls over the influence that social media currently has in teen development, but social media backfilled a void created by the elimination or diminishing of the 3rd spaces that I benefitted from so much 40ish years ago.

Unfortunately, politicians and sports broadcasters keep convincing gullible citizens that stadium deals are economic drivers for the region. We keep getting scammed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/taxpaye...

Very old story with a new twist, "civility"- "free speech for me but not for thee."

Stonewall was a riot.

Precisamente!

Can't recall seeing such an overwhelming police presence in lower Manhattan as there is today for the GayPride parade. IMO vibe of helpfulness masks its intent: protect property, "law and order," against the mostly brown and black LGBTQ youth and their families, watching and marching.

Trump's "solution" to impossible health care costs brings back peonage of trapped workers to the company store. The real fix is Medicare4all, single payer!

i think one of the things that works best about Mamdani's approach is that none of it seems scripted or calculated. i'm sure it is to some degree -- even if it's just internally -- but there's a level of spontaneity that politicians are deathly allergic to engaging in.

An irony of this excellent @nepc.bsky.social research on tech in schools is that NEPC is funded by foundations supported by NEA and AFT, which ignore its recommendations and findings! nepc.colorado.edu/ceru-home

Question re NYT political analysis: If MAGA is "conservative" (headline on front page today) and DSA is "far left," (every story it runs) who's "far Right"?

Everything in curriculum, except the tests themselves. Under the radar with this has been huge new data collection on kids and families, via profitable contracts with social service agencies. This in NYC: www.newvisions.org/p

Trump and Vance grab attention by being as outrageous as they can because they want to change the conversation. How about if we yawn and move on to the harm they do? 800,000 kids are going hungry now because the GOP and Trump cut SNAP benefits in their bill to make billionaires happier and richer.

SCOTUS 6/3 votes today recall its history, defending injustice, inequality: Dred Scott (Blacks who were slaves did not have rights as citizens). The movement SCOTUS repressed in Dred Scott ultimately won, as we will.

James Carville was always a "consultant." He never ran for office. Nobody ever elected him to give advice. The fact that he has any audience or influence is a function of a thoroughly undemocratic party system. He's leaving the Dems now. Hope those who hired him go with him.

"Blow it up"? Shows how even those who run as reformers, as Letitia James did, get caught up in their own power and forget it's the voters who decide! Good lesson for us about the need for the movement to make those who get our votes do what we need - not what they want.

Great tool shows the money we could give to public schools - if we made politicians do what's righteous and needed: putting a 5% wealth tax on billionaire school privatizers, using $$ ICE gets, ending the Iran war, spending it all on schools: reclaimourschools.github.io/taxtherich/b...

“It’s really important for ProPublica that we have reporters who aren’t just parachuting in … but who actually live in the communities,” says reporter Jennifer Smith Richards. “The problem is that … we’re not paid the same.” Help ProPublica’s workers fight for fair pay: www.propublicaguild.org

NYC Dems fell the machine in 3 key races. Next? Schumer and Jeffries! But it will be the movement that keeps them responsible to carry out the promises. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Thread sums up all the reasons NEA and AFT should step back from their invites to tech behemoths to train teachers to use AI.

Shame on the NSF, pushing AI into schools, without discussion or consent of those most affected! thejournal.com/articles/202...

These workers are making minimum wage or close to it, and many of them work multiple jobs to get by. They are demanding basic job protections, dignified pay, and access to health insurance, and in response The Twins said they're bringing in scabs. All coming to a head at tonight's game.

Trump’s Voucher Scam Is Coming For NYS Public Dollars. Hochul and the rest of our "representatives" need to hear that this is a betrayal we won't forget. You can write a more polite letter if you want, but do write one, here: actionnetwork.org/letters/trum...

Heart-warming story of teens coming to NYC to compete, share their love of theater. Kudos to the kids! Story shows why many parents feel deep support for their public schools and teachers. Reminder: There's likely a drama teacher, paid peanuts, back home, who helped: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/t...

Bam! Worth reading. Vance is positioning himself "as an empathetic alternative to the hyper-polarized grievance engine that so fuels Trumpism." He's staking a claim to the Dems' position as the only allternative "to the end-of-the-worldism they associate with Trump."

Research here is a fine corrective to nostalgia that too often masks labor's sordid history on immigration. Section on the IWW inspires, reminds us that all workers benefit from anti-imperialism which supports "explicitly anti-racist" organizing.

Before you read this article, know that representatives of this union have passed a resolution repudiating AFT's position on AI and tech: www.cft.org/resolution/e...

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.

Yet another way tech behemoths' imposition of AI is doing harm! AI summaries are replacing links to news sources, independent media which we need more than ever! Solid @truthout.org piece explains the threat: truthout.org/articles/goo...

Talked with a long-time pal who's been persuaded by Goldman's "rebranding" himself as a "radical progressive" who will fight Trump. I told her Goldman does what Schumer wants, changed his tune after Landers declared his own candidacy. Why vote for the imitation when you can have the real thing?

Here's why the time is now to halt imposition of AI on education, and how we can make that happen: futureschools.substack.com/p/halting-th...

I hate AI being imposed on education, without our vote or even discussion, so I support this campaign for a moratorium. Very disappointed my union, the UFT, hides behind the national union, pushing AI's use in ways the tech bros tell us.

If Norway can ban AI in its primary schools, we can win a halt to its imposition in US schools.

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

💗 🇵🇸 NOW: We're at Pride in DC There can be no queer liberation without demilitarization! NO PRIDE IN WAR

I love that she goes out of her way to blame JD and not Trump but still gets dragged by the White House and accused of doubting Trump.

“Stop policing my working class ways of communication” says Yale Law grad and Peter Thiel associate JD Vance.

Need evidence Trump has used racism as the glue for his new alliance of big money with MAGA? See his 2018 (duplicitous) statement on #Juneteenth. 2026? Zero, tho it's a federal holiday. He and the GOP, with help from SCOTUS, aim to reverse emancipation. trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...

Vance's threats to Israel are a wake-up call US foreign policy has long used antisemitism as a cover for its imperialist aims. Recall how this country refused Jews fleeing the holocaust entry to this country? There's a straight line from that to its fanning hysteria that antizionism=antisemitism.

The 20-point plan for Gaza is bad because it's at face value something you'd see out of the League of Nations era colonial offices of the UK and France, does not actually enshrine Palestinian self-determination as a defined end goal, and gives Israel effective veto power over any progress.