The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Great article by @aryamerikaner.bsky.social of Brown’s Promise! “School integration causes positive, permanent changes in mindset that can improve social cohesion, trust, and the health of our democracy as we fight for its very existence.”

New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans. (Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.) 🧵1/N

A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education.

I mean, they told us they were going to do this…but it’s still horrifying.

Heartbreaking 💔

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

As a communications professional who has worked with USAID and its grantees for decades, this is sadly so true - we didn’t spend enough energy showing the public the value if our work… (gift article courtesy my public library!) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

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One of my favorites…

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

Breaking News: A divided Supreme Court rejected a plan to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.

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Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Yay!

Atlanta. We do not need tiny tourist clown cars. We need mass transit that benefits Atlanta residents and commuters. When is the mayor going to stop caving to business interests and move forward real sustainable transit options for the people who actually live and work here?

positing to americans that some problems are not solvable by individual action but rather are collective social endeavors is like talking with a megaphone full of soup, it gets messy so fast

IT’S HERE. The Platlanta x How I’d Fix Atlanta @austinlouisray.bsky.social collab you didn’t know you needed. Buy a shirt. Contribute to a great cause (El Refugio). ATLiens on Bluesky, you are pretty much the target audience for this. Let’s go crazy. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/lets-do-some...

This one is huge.

So many cardinals hopping around my house today, think they’re stating their own conclave. Let’s hope it ends well.

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

Just a reminder: no referendum vote is required for spending gobs of public money on widening roads for car capacity. Meanwhile if we want to expand transit we have to vote on special taxes and then pray the money actually gets used as promised. www.constructionequipmentguide.com/gdot-to-begi...

Great listen/watch - thanks Dr. Katie Acosta for engaging with Dr. Sig Giordano for this conversation open.spotify.com/episode/0fMV...

The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.

“How will we feel the effect of the closing of the Department of Education?” You won’t. Probably. When you pull the stopper out of the bathtub the waterline appears to hold. For a time.

Reminder that @globalvoices.org has a whole special coverage section dedicated to the impacts of the cuts to the global aid sector: globalvoices.org/special/crum...

When I am constantly running, there is no time for being. When there is no time for being, there is no time for listening. Walking on Water

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️

No one who's trying to destroy the Department of Education has ever spent three minutes in a public school, and neither have their children or their grandchildren. None of the people destroying any of our valued public services have ever relied on them.

Atlanta area! This is the last week to comment on the proposed redesign of the MARTA bus network. Public comment closes March 16. Explore and comment here! If you live or travel in Fulton or DeKalb Counties, we need to hear from you. Please share! www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetwork

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

This piece breaking down what California receives (back) from the federal government for public schools is helpful for seeing in detail what's being threatened in every state. #EduSky

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

Breaking News: President Trump has ordered a sweeping review of federal funding for all nongovernmental organizations in order to “stop funding to #NGOs that undermine the national interest” nonprofitquarterly.org/trump-issues... #nonprofitsky #npsky

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1