Okay thanks. As student loan debt becomes racialized, it is more associated with deservedness — i.e. welfare queen narratives of taxpayer citizenship Liberalism likes taxpayer citizenship — bucket of rights purchased by exercising individual freedom to acquire “good” or “bad” debt

BREAKING: By an evenly divided vote, the Supreme Court affirms an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the creation of a Catholic charter school. Barrett recused, allowing for the deadlock. We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

disparate impact might be the closest legal acknowledgement of structural racism we have. so, of course they're going to attack it because denying structural racism is at the core of colorblindness, white innocence, victimhood, and nostalgia, racism, resegregation, and whitewashing history

Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy. One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Why do so many voters assume that “running a government like a business” will lead to beneficial outcomes, even with very little historical evidence? Read @redheadmenace.bsky.social on the history of promising an “efficient” government. www.hnn.us/article/how-...

What the plaintiffs and the GOP want is a world where religious parents can object to anything and everything in public school they find offensive with the end game of destroying public schools.

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

Anyway, I'm interested in book recs about Vichy France

A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.

"taxpayer money"

This is a really good analysis. The Department of Education's Dear Colleague Letter on Title VI rests on an overbroad and ultimately unsupportable interpretation of the law. Educational institutions shouldn't let themselves be intimidated.

I was going to wait until this was ready, but as we’re publishing unfinished far-right-wing SCOTUS primers these days, I guess this is fine. This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in. padlet.com/lawandlibera...

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

I spend a lot of time writing about many of the horrors of American history, but one consistent bright spot, something about which it is right to be proud, is that we've never had a king.

We have a lost child alert. Yale Law School, your child is at the manager’s office. Please come pick him up before he burns it down.

Now *this* is how you tell the public what's happening. Democratic party, please take note.

I mean, it couldn't be more obvious that this is a threat to leverage government power to retaliate against people who report critically on DOGE. An emergency for the future of free speech/free press.

3 fed gov't spending areas that seem less efficient (& lower ROI) than federal educ spending: 1) shipping troops to the border to solve an imaginary problem; 2) using military transport to export hard working, low wage immigrants to other countries; 3) contracts to SpaceX for exploding rockets.

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

It’s a shame they turned universities into landlords & pharmaceutical companies, cuz it would be nice if institutions devoted to learning might speak up about the value of knowledge in a time when 22-year-old edgelords from 4chan have been given carte blanche to erase data from every federal agency

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Reminder to the education policy crowd: download all the publicly available federal data you could ever need today

They're going to illegally dismantle the Department of Education and strip millions of students of student loans, funding for students with disabilities, etc. They want to destroy public education. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

He needs a news break

I keep thinking of this cartoon from the end of Reconstruction, when former Confederate Wade Hampton seized the SC state treasury. Personal control of the treasury is personal control of the state.

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

Let’s all say what our favorite public goods are. Mine are schools and not dying of treatable illnesses.

This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.

Finished these two remarkable works today. Highly recommend, especially for my school finance folks. #EduSky @schoolfinance101.bsky.social @redheadmenace.bsky.social

Amazingly, there's still resistance within some liberal organizations against pointing out the basic truth that Republicans want to dismantle public schools

Imagine laws, but for rich people.

this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’” because “some people think it makes us look like Nazis”