I can’t overstate how big a deal this is. They’ve used this directive as the reasoning behind their most destructive acts over the last year and now it’s GONE.

1/1/26 No. 1 “Our New Mayor” Zohran Mamdani being sworn in as New York City’s mayor. I zoomed in on his hand placed on a Quran held by his wife ramaduwaji - he is the first Muslim mayor of NYC and the first to use a Quran for the swearing in. #watercolor #dailyart #miniatureart #zohranmamdani

I am going back to focusing on art this year:

This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States. We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.

Non pay-walled coverage - it truly encapsulates the way our schools and our criminal justice systems fail all of us, especially the most vulnerable.

Great piece by @troe-writes.bsky.social on a story of an autistic 5yo facing assault charges (which imo has not gotten enough attention):

This guy was just confirmed to be US ambassador to South Africa

After months of negotiations and 170+ days working without a contract, Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota (AHEM) union members are voting on whether to authorize a strike. ✊ AHEM educators are voting from December 17 to 20 throughout the district and results will be announced by AHEM on December 20.

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

DePaul University announced Monday that it’s laid off 114 staff members to address a budget shortfall caused by rising costs and a significant drop in enrollment among international graduate students.

I teach Sociology of Childhood, and when we talk about school shootings, my students tell me about how they also do these checks in their classes--noting locks on doors, thinking about how to escape and where to hide. I hate that they have to mind those risks while trying to learn.

“Pray” is not “all we can do,” Mr. Trump.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

NO PARENT SHOULD RECEIVE THIS TEXT OUR HEARTS BREAK AND HOPE HOPE FOR THE VICTIMS WHO ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITIONS This should not happen Make it stop...Guns 🙏😪

We shouldn’t have to live like this. I’m not THAT old, and I remember we *didn’t* live like this. Powerful segments of society have made a choice that the regular scene of dead bodies in classrooms is an acceptable cost of doing business, and we shouldn’t have to accept that. I’m sad and I’m angry.

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Another flip by a Dem who ran as a strong supporter of public education. One common theme emerging in these upsets: winning candidates sound nothing like centrists & pundits when it comes to talking about schools. georgiarecorder.com/2025/12/09/d...

Tonight’s repeal of Utah’s ban of teacher collective bargaining is a historic step in the right direction to return respect and dignity to the workers of Utah. Here's my full statement. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Noted anti-consumerism advocate Donald Trump:

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit to stop all Texas public schools from displaying the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. Judges have blocked our prior plaintiffs' schools from enforcing a Texas law mandating these unconstitutional displays. We're asking the courts to block it statewide.

On Thursday December 4, 2025, Texas’ new “bathroom bill”, Senate Bill 8, officially went into effect, banning transgender people from using multi-stall restrooms and other public facilities in schools and government buildings that match their gender identity.

Fighting "indoctrination" in Texas schools by funding indoctrination in Texas schools. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/08/t...

Watch what’s going on in education in Texas. Requiring Christian nationalist policies and encouraging people to report each other for noncompliance is a key part of several recent state bills.

Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards

It is time to bring ribena to the US!

Another powerful morning on the picket line with my family, this time at our daughter’s former school, Fairmont Elementary. West Contra Costa County teachers are incredibly important to our family and our community. They deserve a fair contract!

People don’t realize that ICE will be coming for all of us eventually. The Trump administration will define “citizenship” as they wish. You should care about what’s happening to immigrants because it is wrong. But if that’s not enough, you should care because it will soon also be happening to you.

Where do you place a kid who is deaf to develop language and combat language deprivation syndrome when the school for the deaf only takes kids who are functioning in regular classes? #Indiana #DeafSchool there is no self-contained classroom for deaf kids and people seem ok with this.

Highly recommend following this account if you aren’t already! I am having to put my work on hiatus and @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social is going strong 💪

New research has found high levels of stress and burnout among teachers.

Taking children from their families is cruel. At just 6 years old, this young boy has been held without being allowed to see anyone he knows for weeks now. It's traumatizing and wrong, and I'm glad to see the public school community coming together and speaking out. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

"..findings shed light on the potential implications of recent policy changes ..with an increase in younger, inexperienced teachers...alongside educators being tapped to cover subjects they are not licensed to teach." via Eric Neugeboren and Rocío Hernández. thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

NYC special education services are a shitshow and that is why I’ve had to kind of abandon this project. You can find me replying-all on DOE emails until I get a response, submitting out of network claims for various therapies/evaluations and battling stress migraines until further notice.

I joined Heartland Labor Forum to talk about my book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers," & why educators are critical to a strong democracy because they teach kids critical thinking and foster pluralism. We need to be strengthening public education-not tearing down teachers. kkfi.org/program/hear...

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

A must read… A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools progressive.org/public-schoo...

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders should fortify and defend at all costs, especially in this moment. Instead, libraries in Chicago are being hollowed out, while the police budget remains sacrosanct."

Devastating public school closures are spreading across AZ, driven in large part by private school vouchers 😢 In Pima County, Amphitheater District may be forced to close 4 neighborhood schools due to massive losses fueled by the nearly $1 billion universal voucher program & declining birth rates.

In the district-wide letter, Superintendent LaMont Cole said campus safety and student well-being remain the top priority. He emphasized that law enforcement officers cannot remove a student from an EBR campus unless authorized by a parent or guardian, or through a court order.

These egregious false claims at ACIP of vaccines causing multiple sclerosis are infuriating. As Michael Jordan once said, “I took that personal”.

“When the secretary is working to make class sizes bigger, take away aides for kids with special needs, leave college students at the mercy of financial predators, and make the whole department nonfunctional, it’s time for new leadership,” Warren. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Academic freedom being eroded at Texas universities, diminishing quality of education www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

coming in March 2026

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Trump’s attacks on Somali people are pure racism and Islamophobia. All immigrant communities are important to me, but Somali folks have a special place in my heart because of those I knew in Chicago and Seattle. ❤️