It’s actually 95% of employees who have been furloughed if you exclude FSA staff:

US Dept of Education plan under a government shutdown: -civil rights investigations stopped -no new federal grants -87% of employees furloughed Vought has been pushing for permanent layoffs from the furloughed employees, btw.

A Texas school district has banned TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in light of the state's "parental rights" law, SB 12. Administrators who did this didn't consult the board, and they used AI to make the call. This is the canary in the coal mine for SB 12 across Texas. bookriot.com/leander-sb-13/

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Opinion Ohio didn't want to fund religious schools in 1851. Court must honor that Why Ohioans said private schools shouldn't be funded with our money 174 years ago by Michael Curtin www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

I feel like those agents pulled that whole scene downtown today so they could get photos like this one. They wanted propaganda images of their guys mobbing up and grabbing people in iconic downtown Chicago locations. Nazi tourist bitches.

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Shockingly, it turns out there is a limit to what is tolerable. This is an opportunity to be exploited. Record everything. Get loud. And get trained in bystander intervention. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Yesterday, an ICE officer violently threw a young mother to the ground at 26 Federal Plaza in front of her 2 children—sending her to the hospital. This assault is a blatant violation of her rights. @NYCComptroller.bsky.social and I have referred this officer to AG Bondi for criminal investigation.

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

ABOLISH ICE. This is an education issue!

Show up central Iowans!

This is a bizarre story. ICE has detained Des Moines’ superintendent and is framing it as “removing a dangerous illegal immigrant” - but the school board says they cannot verify ICE’s claims.

Here's what this guy was up to the day before he resigned:

All cancelled because of alleged "DEI" wording used in their grant applications:

Fellow neurodivergent primary parents - what are your strategies for getting your own work done during the day? I really want this education project to be successful. I cannot seem to find time in the day to keep up. Is there "one weird trick" I'm not seeing? What has helped you?

I missed this in all the news from that week! This administration lied when they said they wouldn't cut special education funding. $15 million in IDEA part D grants for special education programs and $3.5 million in RSA disability-focused programs terminated:

"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” This is WIRED's oral history of DOGE:

In addition to bibles in classrooms: he promoted curriculum that claimed voter fraud in 2020, wanted Turning Point chapters in all OK schools and implemented “woke indoctrination” screenings for out of state teachers. He’s leaving to work for a right-wing education nonprofit 🙄

$15 million in funding meant to support new magnet schools:

This is abhorrent.

The Trump administration is trying to destroy the Fair Housing Act. The FHA is the third leg of the stool to social equality among the races, so it’s no surprise the white supremacist government wants it gone. It must be saved. My latest in @thenation.com

SCOOP: In June, @susanrinkunas.com and I reported at @autonomynews.co that Planned Parenthood was poised to let some of its affiliates stop providing abortion care in order to maintain Medicaid eligibility. PPWI appears to be the first affiliate to do so.

Tomorrow I’m hoping to catch up on the cuts to special education recently! As usual, I’m sure by posting this on here I’ll have a catastrophically busy parenting day but I’m mostly just letting you all know I’m paying attention. 👀

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Commentary: In Minneapolis, especially on the Northside, new teachers are disproportionately concentrated in schools already facing the steepest challenges, and those schools are also lacking critical resources. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/24/b...

So a guy with a sniper rifle shoots and kills detainees, and Noem claims this is violence against *ICE agents*-- none of whom were harmed? Do I have this right?

‘You Think You Can Talk About Our Dad That Way?’ Scream Trump Boys, Beating TV With Bat https://theonion.com/you-think-you-can-talk-about-our-dad-that-way-scream-trump-boys-beating-tv-with-bat/

I’ve lived in and continue to visit family in the parts of London that white nationalists have always tried to say are “no go”/Sharia-law zones. They’re literally just normal places with large Muslim south Asian populations. EDL, BNP, Reform, now Trump’s claims? It’s just racism!

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

State-sanctioned abuse and control of pregnant people is never acceptable, and Trump lying about pain relief and autism is another step toward eugenics as national policy. This is not, contrary to what Ezra Klein thinks, the time to capitulate spitfirenews.com/p/tylenol-sa...

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

The FDA relabeling leucovorin as a “treatment” for autism means actually beneficial therapies may become even MORE difficult to obtain under Medicaid/insurance coverage. Kids could be required to “fail” the drug before being eligible to try OT, PT or speech - losing valuable early interventions.

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Abolish ICE

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

You have to get out of your head. Stop "thinking about" doing things and just do them. You have to ACT. The End.

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.

For those of us who covered Trump’s first administration, a remarkable detail is the politician at the heart of this — Brian Harrison, a Texas state lawmaker who served as HHS chief of staff at the start of the covid pandemic (and shared the viral video that sparked this)

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

This is so messed up.

I have been reading about Classical Christian Education and its approach to special education lately, and one thing that sticks out is just how *dishonest* they are about public school curricula and teaching practices. Blatant lies seem to permeate everything this administration supports.

Of course they "defend free speech" by threatening everyone who says anything they don't like. This is the same ideology that supports attacks on doctors because they're "pro-life" and worries about "government overreach" while planning a theocracy. They are liars.

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School closures mean longer commutes for students and less community support. In the long run, private and charter schools do not serve all students, nor are they required to (despite receiving public funds). Vouchers undermine free and equitable public education.

Texas: Will Vouchers Kill Rural Schools? dianeravitch.net/202...

Mahmoud Khalil lost his bid for a waiver of removability, making him one step closer to deportation. He claims his immigration judge took Marco Rubio's "misrepresentations" about him as gospel, and is asking a NJ judge to step in. Here's some of the immigration judge's ruling:

This should make all Americans very angry…life saving research has been decimated & people will die

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