Let's not forget the anti-sedition laws used by the Democrats, Woodrow Wilson, against anti-war protestors, like Eugene Debs: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fier...

""This data breach is a perfect example of why it is so urgent that schools interrogate their overuse of technology,” said Kate Brody, policy director at Schools Beyond Screens, a parent group based in Los Angeles." Gift link: wapo.st/4d0jyjz

"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯

Big money and tech are intensifying school privatization, with support of both parties. Services this private company provides could be offered directly by schools/districts with more institutional stability, no skimming of profits, data kept inhouse. thejournal.com/articles/202...

Vital to call out and also low-hanging fruit. Also damaging to kids is Weingarten's embrace of tech criminals (Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft) in "partnership" to train teachers to use AI.

Even when we "know" the surveillance is pervasive, the details are chilling. Worth reading to be reminded that no one is safe.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is being openly criticized by progressive Democratic candidates for office, who are making their opposition to the current leader of the Senate caucus a plank in their platform. For some candidates, it may aid them in winning their respective primary races.

We are super post-racial. bsky.app/profile/alex...

A reply to Rubio's press conference. Sometimes it feels real good to go low!

Anyone who lived through unsuccessful efforts to organize higher ed faculty will understand just how remarkable this moment is. Let's savor and support AAUP members joining the labor movement!

A connection between the presence of books and learning?? Wow, what a concept! www.schoolsmatter.info/2026/05/book...

Must read or share for anyone who thinks charters are helping the kids who most need good schools.

Can't wait to hear Jeffries and Schumer about why they won't back this!

Showing more integrity, courage, and principle than university administrators tripping over one another to appease billionaire donors in thrall to AIPAC.

Little-noticed, exceptionally important, political development in North Carolina that shows we cannot give up organizing the South. NEA's state affiliate, transformed a gutsy rank-and-file caucus, organized walkouts for #MayDayStrong, to put kids over corporations: tempestmag.org/2026/05/kids...

Need more evidence the tech moguls rule? Schools now have a year extension to get $$ for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II regulations - for digital accessibility. thejournal.com/articles/202...

Great film! Reminds and inspires about the unmet potential of unions. Catch it if you can.

An analysis you won't see in legacy media. Which farmers supported Trump and why. While you may not be surprised, you'll likely you'll learn a lot.

Note the World Bank role in pushing the notion AI can boost learning, making countries economically competitive. Exactly how it imposed standardized testing globally in the first neoliberal reforms. We are witnessing the project on steroids, using AI.

Please help us spread the word to young people affected by criminalization/policing/incarceration! They could get up to $2500 to work on their art! Click here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/stevie-wilso...

go go go! congrats to Tulane Workers United on the first higher ed academic union contract in Louisiana, hard won after three years ideas are for everybody, unions are for everybody

After 12 years of tuition increases & layoffs, PSU students & faculty occupied the admin building on #MayDay demanding a halt to tuition increases & the worst mass laysoffs in PSU history. Layoffs could happen as soon as Tuesday decimating 19 academic programs. STOP THE CUTS!🛑 @psuaaup.bsky.social

Good news with some informative replies.

Just dug this up in research for my new book. If you had any doubt whatsoever about the link between standardized testing and plans to penetrate the education market with AI, take a peep the summary of this RAND webinar on the future of standardized assessment and AI: www.rand.org/events/2025/...

Great read! More evidence that revolutionary change depends on the young and how history can inform the new struggles.

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

What a disappointment. This report from a think tank I want to respect is so wrong for so many reasons. Help me count the ways. Here's one: The "unbalanced labor market power" is related to labor's proclivity to collaborate with the bosses rather than fight, as with AI: www.epi.org/publication/...

Happy International Workers Day! So many beautiful JVP members in this lovely article by Dave Zirin, check it out! www.thenation.com/article/acti...

just for the record, the War Powers Resolution requires the president to terminate the *use of the armed forces* after 60 days, not just declare the conflict terminated.

At MayDay in NYC hanging with @psc-cuny.org . Gotta love a union that says we, not billionaires, should control our future, and shows it by coming out against the administration imposing AI on the CUNY community.

In 1988 when Dhillon was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review her paper was accused of trafficking in antisemitism when it published an article comparing conservatives on campus to Holocaust victims, and comparing Dartmouth's Jewish president to Hitler.

Higher ed workers are rising up this May Day! Our shared demands are: 1️⃣Make higher ed affordable 2️⃣End the assault on science & research 3️⃣Protect students' right to learn & faculty's right to teach 4️⃣Suspend ICE activity on ALL campuses nationwide Find your local action and RSVP here:

The "National Alliance for Public Charter Schools" is a front group for billionaires' privatization of public schools. Charter schools take public funding but aren't subject to its regulations. @npeaction.bsky.social on stopping this theft: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Amazing courage facing down incredible brutality. The best and worst of the human spirit.

ICYMI: Good news! But note @uft.org, the union of most NYC schools workers, didn't support this. Heartbreaking knowing the progressive potential teachers unions have yet seeing them on the wrong side of history in the AI debate. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/n...

Too barbaric for the barbarians. Sickening.

AFT prez Weingarten re AI, in the New Yorker, on AI: “This is all going so fast, and part of my goal is to give teachers permission to object.” It's "going so fast" because AFT pushed it, "partnering" with tech moguls, with no member consent. AFT is on the wrong side of history on this.

How to answer the AFT and NEA support for tech moguls' push to use AI in schools? ICYMI: Most read post of our substack, by FOS collective member @blackwomanteacher.bsky.social : futureschools.substack.com/p/what-are-w...

Almost May 1! ICYMI: How @ctulocal1.bsky.social has shown the rest of labor how to up the ante to defeat Trump and the Right: futureschools.substack.com/p/may-day-20...

Yet another indication those supporting the tech moguls' plans for public education, in which we must include AFT and NEA, are on the wrong side of history: www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Are @aft.org @neatoday.bsky.social using all their political clout to push for this legislation? Consider this a public call for them to tell members and the public exactly how they are using union resources to insist this be passed.

Hope you will sign and share a letter, as I've just done, from @npeaction.bsky.social asking/telling your representatives to support legislation that will end the rip off public money to for-profit charter schools: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

This should all be a reminder that political violence against the state will always be used as an excuse to strengthen the state (though this is an especially stupid reminder)

Solidarity!

Good chance to ask AFT, AFSCME prez about Chicago Teachers Union successful push for their schools to have students, school employees free to make #MayDayStrong a time for civic action. No work. No School. No shopping. Register here for the @cunyslu.bsky.social event: slucuny.swoogo.com/28April2026

IMO this should be viewed as conditioning us to accept whatever big money/oligarchs/capital want. The answer? The future isn't yours to decide.