If I can share some knowledge from my lived experience: it is time to be loud AF right now. As Audre said, “your silence will not protect you.”

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur

He is the first Black superintendent to lead the district, which is the largest in the state.

From the Oxford English Dictionary: goblin (noun): A source or cause of evil or harm; a malign or destructive influence.

Congress is debating changes to the Department of Education’s budget that could impact how federal funds support #students. Urban's new #tool lets you explore how different funding scenarios might affect your K-12 school district. Access the #data today.

New paper! Using data from NC, we estimate that getting attendance rates back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023-24 could have improved state math achievement by 0.017-0.025 SDs in this year, or 13-19% of what would be needed for a full academic recovery. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The @freedomreadproject.bsky.social has created a free guide to advocacy drawn from the experience of parents who had to fend off a coordinated attack on the right to read. Download it here: Turning the Page - Freedom to Read Project

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Hundreds of teachers in every state & territory (except ND, at least not yet) bravely* committed to #TeachTruth on #ConstitutionDay and all year long. Here are some of their plans. *Sadly it is risky in many places to teach truthfully about the U.S. Constitution Teacher in Miami, Florida ⬇️

#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply. Undoes claim of concern for "states rights." Lessons + more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

"It’s just ongoing ethnic cleansing. It’s just guys in masks moving swiftly, picking people off that they know no one will care about and no one will plan a protest for. No one will lower the flag for." Really brilliant work on this fucking nightmare.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

This is utterly ridiculous. Karen wrote multiple threads over the last few days condemning gun violence and political violence. She wrote one post about Kirk directly and that was only quoting him. She’s an opinion writer. She did her job.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

3/4 of the Earth is covered by water and the rest is covered by Deborah Abiodun

These are the ideas we're supposed to just be debating? I think not.

“Did you consider not complying with this request?” Judith Butler spoke to @samtlevin.bsky.social about being reported to the feds by UC Berkeley for supposed antisemitism

"[Klein's] piece, unconscionably titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics The Right Way,” goes beyond mere hagiography of a guy whose literal last words were a racial insult to achieve a level of intellectual detachment from reality that I believe can only be reached by a white man in America."

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Not a knock on Will at all, but on the quote: Here's the thing. We ARE seeing footage of children dying. Graphic footage. We've been seeing it on a nearly daily basis since October 7 in Palestine. Nothing is happening. Just more dead children.

"A vegetarian and dog lover who doted on his partner, Eva, he dabbled in art before serving with distinction during WW1. After being imprisoned for his steadfast political beliefs, he launched one of history's most successful political careers." —Lib media time-traveling to cover Hitler's death

Existing at a bus stop in the city is now "disorderly public conveyance." These officers watched and waited as about 10 residents moved from the bus stop shelter and picked up nearby trash at the Benning and 15th NE stop. @dcmigrantmutualaid.org @harrietsdreams.bsky.social

It's very easy to say you're against violence. It's much harder to acknowledge how violence is literally what upholds the systems we live in. Violence and the implicit threat of violence literally mediate all of our lives. Why do we pay rent? Why do we listen to authority figures? etc. etc.

An amicus brief filed by the National Academy of Education uses research evidence to argue that a state law that restricts curriculum related to race and sex harms students and—ultimately—democracy itself. bit.ly/3K1yoKu

Community is the only way.

what the fuck is “transgender ideology”

"[...] we hear eulogies and platitudes demanding we refrain from speaking ill of the dead. As if that dangerous and now dead person did not speak plenty of ill about so many of us during his life. [...] Speak ill of him. It is the truth."

We knew these sanitizing, vapid reactions would come, as they always do, and exactly who would provide them.

This. A reputable news organization would not print this without providing additional detail. Again, we have a case of a major news organization abandoning basic journalistic standards when the reporting is about trans people.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

This is a sign to join the people in your community who are organizing around literacy (or start the organizing if there aren't any).

This was because some white people — especially in the South — bristled at the thought of their children being taught by a Black teacher, let alone have the leader of the school be Black. Learn more on blackprincipals.org

We’re excited to support the launch of @edtrust.bsky.social #BlackPrincipalsProject! This new series uplifts the voices of Black principals and honors their leadership, legacy, and impact in education. Don’t miss these powerful stories.

At least 20 National Guard carrying weapons and waking up and down H Street tonight. This is just one group. @dcmigrantmutualaid.org @harrietsdreams.bsky.social

This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?

A caravan of Federal agents and MPD conducting a traffic stop at Florida and Trinidad Ave NE at around 9:40 pm. @dcmigrantmutualaid.org @harrietsdreams.bsky.social

They are enjoying the power, putting lives at risk, but they are also threatened by the most trivial accountability.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... “Basically by signing that policy,” he said, “they are signing death warrants.”

What it's really like: unmarked cars just chased two mopeds down residential I St NE, going the wrong way (it's a single lane, one-way). Blowing thru every stop sign and going dangerously fast past kids riding scooters and people walking dogs. The feds are in fact making the neighborhood less safe