LOVE YOU, TC!

Today would be a great day for Kevin to assuage my growing doubts about him #FFC #CRYFUL

BREAKING: In a surprise move, the Dept of Ed announced a $50m cut to education funding in NC, mainly hitting our rural schools. It’s unlawful, so I’m taking them to court.

Whatever’s going on at the N&O needs to stop

It would be great if this article had mentioned that about 10 yrs ago, Republican lawmakers granted the Lottery Commission flexibility to decrease the share of their revenue they send to schools #ncpol

This @schoolfinance101.bsky.social post on reforms for Florida makes a good point relevant to #ncpol efforts to limit property taxes: "The most effective form of property tax relief is increased state aid" schoolfinance101.com/2025/12/29/s...

I was interning for the @nerevolution.bsky.social and handing out schedules in downtown Boston when Woody Harrelson emerged from the courthouse yelling “VICTORY! FREEDOM!” after getting acquitted for punching a photographer. I successfully handed him a Revs schedule

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Which one of my followers is Marco Silva’s alt?

Let’s get King on sooner than later #FFC

is everyone aware they don't have to share stephen miller tweets, we all know he's a gutter racist piece of shit already, just tell me when he croaks

Me, At WFU to Tim Duncan: “Hey Tim, since you’re such a rad swimmer, would you want to be on my intramural water polo team?” Tim: “Rad? Is that still a word?”

YIKES! Why are tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy few costing us BILLIONS in lost revenue that could’ve gone to our public schools, child care, food banks and farmers markets, and infrastructure? It’s time for a change, North Carolina. #LoveNCFundNC

“Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.”

In SEGREGATION AND SCHOOL FUNDING, @mattdicarlo.bsky.social and @schoolfinance101.bsky.social reveal the cycle that keeps resource-starved schools at a perpetual disadvantage and show how to break it. Find out more in our Spring 2026 catalog: https://bit.ly/4obkP9M

"The fear is real." @thefireorg.bsky.social @aaup.org

Someone should remind Sam Hayes that Democrats got more cumulative votes across the state in both state House and Senate races in 2024 #ncpol

Always smart to take your cues from the journalist who has been on the story since Day 1 Take it from @jkbjournalist.bsky.social: "Nothing to see here" #EpsteinFiles jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.

Some call me incredibly brave

Worth noting that NCGA leadership and members of the Charter School Review Board are expanding Stride's footprint in NC, despite the corporation's well-established track record of fraud and piss-poor academic results curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/12/stri... #ncpol

Perhaps the reason Leandro isn't treated as a major scandal is because @ncgovernor.bsky.social seems uninterested in the implementation of the Leandro Plan. You'd think that the Governor's Council on Workforce & Apprenticeships would be calling for the resources promised under Leandro...but nope

The General Assembly’s argument in the Leandro case is that nobody can stop them from ignoring or violating the state constitution. Why is the shredding of our constitution not the biggest story in #ncpol?

New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about UBI and mental health

D.C. United has selected Canadian defender Nikola Markovic from NC State with the No. 1 selection at the 2026 MLS SuperDraft.

This “nuanced” call to “prioritize teacher quality” is completely ignorant of how policy actually works in the real world. 1) The policies that attract more candidates into the teaching field also ⬆️ quality (1/2)

Using passive voice to talk about Republican efforts to subvert democracy falls short of what I expect from the usually excellent journalism of The Assembly

Woke up and it’s 2021 again

North Carolina's school funding effort (as we've been saying) is dead last in the country because NCGA leaders have diverted school funding to provide tax cuts for their donors #ncpol #LeadWithLeandro

Yep. Here in NC, we begged them to join the fight for Leandro, a plan that would've boosted state funding for charter schools by about 40%, but they refused to join #ncpol

It would be great if we had a Governor who came to office with a set of bold, clear policy goals. A friend once said to me that if a governor came to office with the goal of eliminating child hunger, they'd be incredibly popular (and potentially successful). I continue to think that's great advice

Four thoughts on this Barnum report: 1) Charter advocates lament the lack of cooperation b/w the charter and traditional sectors, yet when presented an opportunity to demonstrate solidarity (the dismantling of USED), charter leaders opted for selfish poltical expediency by sitting it out (1/4)

Don Davis, of course

For context, this drop in attendance rates related to the measles outbreak (about 93% to 90%) is almost as large as the initial drop in TX attendance rates from pre-pandemic to post-pandemic (95% in 2018-19 to 91% in 2021-22). (TX attendance trends over time here: www.aei.org/research-pro...)

Invest in the mental health professionals who make prevention possible

Cuellar and Davis are neck and neck in their race to be mentioned most often in @jonathancohn.bsky.social skeets

Today's paradox: Austerity isn't about money. One of the wealthiest school districts in the country, home to several billionaires and hedge funds (and other finance companies and bros) is cutting teaching positions at the end of a year in which the stock market is up 15%.

It's important to remember that students aren't waiting for a decision...they're waiting for the resources that they're owed

GOP leaders to hungry NC kids during the 2025 holidays: “Bah, humbug!” ncnewsline.com/2025/12/16/g... (commentary) #ncpol

#10 for Washington is a young Eddie Gaven

Great night for some soccer. Go Pack

Scenes from Tuesday's Mutant Academy show at Pinhook in Durham: - Big Kahuna OG - Quelle Chris - Fly Anakin - Bbymutha

Damn, thought I was slick by captaining Saka instead of Haaland

What #NCGA is doing to Legal Aid right now is a travesty. #ncpol

Watching Arsenal struggle to create chances against a Wolves team in a low block reminds me of my favorite faux-smart USMNT take: “The USMNT struggles against teams in a low block” EVERYBODY struggles to create chances against a low block

Is it cookie time?

sure would like to hear Donald Davi's reasoning curious that a former Air Force captain would vote this way imo also: "Davis was the sole Democratic co-sponsor of a Republican-led bill by Representatives Greg Murphy & Brett Guthrie that would limit Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices"

Declining enrollments largely reflect the policy choices made by state lawmakers. That's why I wrote a whole report about this issue earlier this year: www.ncjustice.org/publications... #ncpol

🚨5 Important reminders about Leandro🚨 1) It is unambiguous that students’ rights continue to be violated Nobody in the NCGA has presented the case that they're upholding students’ constitutional rights. Their argument has simply been: courts can't make us do stuff against our will. (1/5) #ncpol

Someone help me out here: - One one hand, charter schools increase segregation and inefficiencies - On the other hand... I just don't understand the case for charters these days. We tried it and...it didn't work.