Visited about 10 artists’ studios at #openstudio in #santacruz. People persisting in making beauty and sharing their processes and spaces with us: awe inspiring.

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

I helped provide security at a local LGBTQIA2S+ conference for youth from 6-18 and their friends ups. Amazing experience seeing young people in such safety, peace, and joy.

Deportation Data Project www.law.berkeley.edu/article/voic...

@emilyinyourphone.bsky.social said it best: “Shutdown brinkmanship is one of my least favorite parts of modern politics, a manufactured crisis amongst people who are incapable of doing the bare minimum of their jobs, which is to make the government run.”

Great writing! What Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Knows About Pain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/m...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Saw a (juvenile?) bobcat cross a path 150 ft in front of me at #SycamoreGrovePark in #Livermore this morning. 😳

Cremin, T., & Scholes, L. (2024). Reading for pleasure: scrutinising the evidence base – benefits, tensions and recommendations. Language and Education, 38(4), 537–559. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate. Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

ICYMI

apnews.com/article/tesl... Tesla stock is not a good investment for California teachers' and public employees' pension funds. Tell CalSTRS and CalPERS to sell TSLA: wonderl.ink/@divest-tesla

Going to a #TeslaTakedown picket in California? Spread the word about statewide teachers' and public employees' pension fund's billion-dollar investments in Tesla stock. Tell them to sell TSLA:

This must’ve affected the price… nope, meme stock, no change www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Improving on the original

"Immigrants contributed to the eventual industrial and scientific dominance of the United States. In virtually every sector, immigrants brought both the high-skilled innovations to elevate the United States’ economy and the low-skilled labor to realize those innovations."

Drawing on original research, expert analysis, and the latest data, this report highlights how book bans have evolved into a comprehensive political strategy aimed at undermining public education, silencing voices, and promoting school privatization. bit.ly/3Gcg0gt

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Does One Line Fix Google?: Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL. tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...

Great @npr.org article on the vital work that our friends at the @archive.org are doing to preserve online history against political attacks.

I LOVE SCHOOL LIBRARY MONTH!!! You should too! If you read this and are NOT a school librarian, let me tell you a few things you can do to celebrate! (Nope: getting the librarian a mug is NOT one of them). A small thread: 1/

Today, we sent a letter warning the new Institute of Museum and Library Services acting director not to cut library programs required by federal law. www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Check out the article, There are Imposters Among Us – Investigating AI-Generated Picture Books in the Library in this edition of Canadian School Library Journal: journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/there-are-im... #TLSky

Thank you to @keating.house.gov for modeling to us integrity, human rights, civil rights, and how to show respect. Let’s commit to living up to his example every day in every way.

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Giving more and more, without support or recognition commensurate with your effort and doing it because it’s “good,” “right,” or “fulfills an important social need”…that’s how they hook teachers/nurses/etc into teaching/nursing/all the “pay too low” jobs, right?

In 1978 Ladies' Home Journal asked high school kids which man had done the most harm in the world. They chose Adolf Hitler. When asked which woman had done most harm, they said Anita Bryant. www.chicagotribune.com/1988/05/01/a...

Perfect twofer: can pick up books by all our author friends, while supporting the bookstores, plus… chocolate. Essentially a three-fer?

An important reminder that Ronald Reagan committed treason theintercept.com/2023/03/24/o...

Always a good reminder.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

All of these guys sprinkler-vomiting onto each other on twitter all day today have at some point in the not distant past suggested women are too emotional to be in positions of leadership

Brilliant. Hilarious, and brilliant.

he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party

This will be a brutal political battle, but it’s a necessary one. And I believe if Democrats fight it, they can win it. Donald Trump broke his oath to the Constitution, and we need a public discussion about whether he is worthy to take another one. How he acts during this debate is the proof.

So glad you asked! Please call Senator Schiff as the chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution (202-224-3841) and use this script to tell him what we want. SCOTUS said that Section 3 can’t keep Trump off the ballot, but that a Congressional amnesty act can keep him out of office!

Americans: This looks like a disaster. Twitter Employees: This looks familiar.

Yes!

Mind. Blown. Read this brilliant analysis by Fara Dabhoiwala of a painting from the 1700s and the extraordinary subject of the painting, Francis Williams, a Black genius of mathematics and science who was mocked and then hidden from history/forgotten. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Step by step, analyze any proposed action, and then find where to most effectively throw sand in the gears.

Trump says that RFK Jr. is going to look into whether childhood vaccines cause autism. This has already been “looked into”, extensively, rigorously, and repeatedly, by people with knowledge and training in medicine and public health. There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism.

Time to remind everyone that investigative reporting is a protector of democratic processes. Join me in tithing to @propublica.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have some sort of healthcare claim story, or worse, like this investigation highlighted: www.propublica.org/article/unit...