This is a *terrific* piece which drives home two key points: People with special needs often have special skills, so hiring them isn't some noble sacrifice you're making but a savvy investment. Accommodations for people with special needs almost always wind up benefiting everyone else too.

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I love editing. "Oh, I know what I need here!" ::writes new section:: ::scrolls down:: "Oh, I already wrote it. Now it's in there twice." ::delete::

Closeup of our Earth & Moon !

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Helping finish the puzzle on #Caturday

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

AI-generated “slop” floods kids’ feeds. It’s not harmless, it distorts reality, hijacks attention and crowds out real learning and play. That’s why @aftunion is calling on YouTube to act. apnews.com/article/ai-s...

“The avg US resident uses > 250 kgs of new plastics; the global avg is 60 kgs. Our lives are tied up in plastic from medical equipment to food containers. Soon, our economy could feel the effects of how much we rely on plastics & how hard they are to replace” www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/02/1...

📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.” RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸‍♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

“The real divide is not between the left and the rest of the country, but between people grounded in reality and people who have immersed themselves in the American right’s warped, extremist media universe.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fakery-is-th...

#books #reading #writingcommunity #wolves #funny #booksky

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

I don't think many people are clued into the long history of public libraries facilitating publishing and self-publishing. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/06/02/g...

From the Mouths of Teachers: Sage Advice in Six Words or Less www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... is new @edweek.org post

We should be thinking about universal child care the same way we think about roads and highways: as basic public infrastructure. Investing in universal child care is good for our kids’ development and good for our economy.

My latest, reflections on the devastating “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem) report revealing the autocratization of America under Trump. www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/autocratiz...

Surely OUR center for stuff a 13 year old can do on a phone will be different from all those other centers for stuff a child can do with a phone! Math is canceled!

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

And then when acting on impulse utterly backfired, he was doomed but also defiant

From Deb Fallows on the Our Towns site, how libraries are continuing to step up, in under-reported ways, to meet the civic needs of this moment. www.ourtownsfoundation.org#special-report

“It isn’t that I’m more afraid of public speaking than death; it is that public speaking feels like it could cause my death. But I do it every month because I am a high school librarian in the state of Texas in times such as these.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @la-cac.org www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-...

Senate Majority Leader Thune plans to bring the SAVE America Act up for a vote next week. The measure is expected to fail, but it’s still important to speak up. Please call, message, and reach out to your senators and urge them to vote no.

I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A seemingly forgotten chapter in the Final Destination series

A seemingly forgotten chapter in the Final Destination series

Lucifer has a point

An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988. May he rest in peace.

At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats

Red states are taking control of school districts as Republicans decry poor test scores, student protests. Via @chalkbeat.org

Booke, booke, Reade a booke, Reade anothir booke, Reade a large amounte of bookes - Bookes are freakinge awesome

if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell

The biggest winner Tuesday night was voter turnout. Even if your candidate didn’t win, Texans should be proud of this. Voters showed up in huge numbers.

The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid. Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion. Priorities.

I love what actress Sheryl Lee Ralph said about educators. It’s what I see in every classroom I visit: “It is the heart of a human being that spends six to eight hours with other people’s children … and still chooses to come back to work with love, ready to begin again.” time.com/collections/...

Eisenhower

“There really is no panic quite like the panic of being belted into the backseat of a speeding, swerving car with a confident drunk at the wheel.” medium.com/curious/driv...

Personally, I always wanted to be a teacher because I so cherish my role as a cog in economic infrastructure.

This is one of the most intentionally cruel examples of ICE handiwork I’ve seen. In no universe is this “law enforcement.” At the very least, those involved must be held accountable.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

"Individual Participant Scaffolding: Methodological Innovations for Youth Research in Restrictive Political Contexts" is out in the Intel Journal of Qualitative Methods. Gold open access, free to read and share. Co-authored with @drnicolekraus.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1609... #AcademicSky #YPAR

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Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

This blatant xenophobic racism against an entire group of immigrants is unacceptable, and every member of Congress who cheered it is a horrifying stain on America.