World AIDS Day. We remember.

many people saw what was coming when the Christian right started redefining discrimination as “religious freedom” and now here it is deployed (at best) to defend a failure to do the assignment and (at worst?) as workplace discipline, for existing in a manner unacceptable to Christian nationalists

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

you have to be able to look bad faith in the eye and say absolutely not, even if that bad faith is coming from the highest levels of government if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves

TPUSA is an antidemocratic entity whose primary tactics are targeting and attacking educators in order to silence them while working to implement affirmative action for Christian supremacists only.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Excellent read for the long weekend- describes exactly what we witnessed in Glendale, but could have been written about Redlands, Chino, Orange, Temecula or any of thousands districts nationwide who have been held hostage by radicalized reactionaries.

JOIN "WE AIN’T BUYING IT" NOV. 27TH - DEC. 1ST, 2025: Pause on shopping from major companies that are enabling this administration. Let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations, most notably Target,Amazon, Home Depot.

The next generation continues to scream to any pollster who will listen: we need transformative changes! Who will carry this mantle in the 2028 Democratic primary? The opportunity is there.

Wow. Huge win for our community!

It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.

It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

BREAKING🚨🚨🚨: Judges strike down new Texas Congressional maps adopted at Trump's urging. Trump appointee Jeffrey Brown cites Chief Justice Roberts & finds process was driven by racial considerations urged by Trump DOJ. w/@kyledcheney @andrewjfhoward www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Imagine knowing what we know and paying tuition knowing your daughter could wind up in this man’s class.

To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...

We’re so excited for @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social ‘s candidacy!

Some exciting news from my hometown!! Alek Bartrosouf, a transit planner and community organizer, is running for Glendale, CA City Council!! @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...

Great read from our friends @glendaleout.bsky.social and a reminder that you can just do things! Find your people, figure out what your community needs, and take action together.

The "best" part is these books are almost all about butts and farts.

The people who’ve spent years vilifying and harassing public school teachers and LGBTQ+ people are working overtime to avoid talking about the overwhelming deluge of information connecting their president and many of his associates and supporters with a vast network of sex trafficking child abusers.

I don't know if this is a libertarian issue, this is basic understanding of the purpose of education issue. The goal of testing, and thus grading, should be determining how well a person understands the material that has been taught, not how quickly one can read, write, or think.

Not least because the party pushing the coverup is the same that used the rhetoric of “protecting kids” to target civil rights and healthcare for trans people, and to attack inclusive curriculum in public schools. The hypocrisy is predictable but morality & sanity demand refusing to tolerate it.

It’s hard to comprehend the amount of courage contained in Ruby Bridges’ six year-old frame 65 years ago today.

Surprising no one, exactly none of the people who’ve spent years rampaging through SoCal school districts accusing teachers of grooming and trying to ban books have a word to say about the plague of powerful men abusing children, nor the propagandists willing to run cover for them.

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

Always read @heykellyjensen.bsky.social! We’ve been tracking Phyllis Schlafly copycat Karen England & the activities of her linked orgs- Take Back the Classroom, The Kitchen Table Activist, & Capitol Resource Institute- & the CNP, the powerful dark money network. Lots here bsky.app/profile/gusd...

Really fascinating how they square this kind of thinking with how much they're worried about *books* for children.

It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Please read: Many of you in the LA journo scene will know Sam- I’m so thankful he wrote this piece.

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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Would have been nice if literally anyone from the establishment Dems took seriously local organizers who have documented and tracked the way the right’s funding/training orgs activate, recruit, & amplify reactionary influencers at every level.

Chuck Schumer’s NY office is the only one of his 9 offices that appears to have a human answering the phone this morning- they think folks care that Schumer voted no. Tell them you know how their games work- he’s the party leader so he’s responsible for the vote- 212.486.4430

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

The Heritage Foundation’s commitment to erasing the historical contributions of anyone not white while advocating for segregationist policies going forward is global and extends to the dead.

The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people. Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The work against dark $ funded reactionary groups and candidates is nowhere near over. In CA M4L has always been a fringe player- tied to the much more powerful networks coming out of megachurches like Calvary and the think tanks/legal orgs they’re aligned with like CA policy ctr & CA family council

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

Happy Solidarity Week to all the GUSD-GSAs! We're so proud of all the GUSD kids who stand solid with community, that's where our power is. (We made the cards. They did the chalk-bombing. They definitely win this round.)

You liked, we listened... We took our popular post on how to talk to your kids about banned books and expanded it into a full-length article packed with tips, talking points, and book suggestions your family can actually use. freedomtoreadproject.org/how_to_talk_to_your_kids_about_banned_books

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.” This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.

This just shocks the conscience: “Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...