Jim Crow, say what?

And while we're talking about Texas, it's not just opinion polls, it's election results too. Anti-book ban candidates swept many of the non-partisan school board races across the state of Texas last week.

This whole thread is helpful in putting words to my thoughts.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Just rewatched. It’s heartening to know that MFL has since lost most of those school board seats. I’m so glad folks are becoming more aware of this issue.

The CHE is really going all in with AI, it seems. It would be amazing to have a journal of higher education that actually care about teachers and students, instead of Provost Monthly or whatever it is this thing has become.

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Ffs. This is America. Then and now.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

Mac Barnett is a straight white dude author working with white dude illustrators to produce breezy, kid-friendly & topically safe books. Of course he scolds kid lit creators for producing books kids don't go ga-ga for. Imbedded in privilege, he can't see picture books as more than entertainment. 1/

lol. Americans, apparently.

JCK is wrong & this article is ridiculous, but universities need to emphasize what makes higher education different than AI / tech companies, and the answer to that question is that which they have marginalized for decades: curiosity-driven, rather than market-driven knowledge.

Stealing from @diveamydive.bsky.social and going to use for first intro to class materials.

This Teacher Appreciation Week, stand alongside educators across the country who are demanding better. #theedcollab #teacherappreciationweek

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

The main goal of the back-to-basics movements in schools is to decontextualize learning and depoliticize people, so they take books, authentic writing, and human interaction out of classrooms and fill the time with low-level workplaces training tasks done in isolation, often on surveillance ed tech.

Makes me think of Tara Westover’s memoir, when she explains her family’s extremism and her own lack of education by just saying “I’m from Idaho.”

I’ve worked with teens and books for 20+ years. You know what they all want in book content. Wholesomeness. 🙄😑🤦🏻‍♀️

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Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

I don’t think the White House Correspondents Association Dinner is a ritual that defines democracy

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

As a caregiver, educator, and researcher concerned about edtech in schools, I’m not interested in forming alliances with bigots. ht: @jaustinedu.bsky.social

Read more about the broad coalition of organizations, publishers, authors, booksellers, and librarians who signed a joint statement opposing HR 7661, the national book ban proposed by Republicans in the House

When power is built on disinformation, data become a threat.

It’s been a long week. This is making me laugh so hard that I’m actually crying!! 🤣 😂

Contrary to common narratives suggesting book challenges come from concerned parents, our data shows otherwise. ~92% of challenges to titles in 2025 came from pressure groups and gov't decision makers. 2.7% of challenges came from individual parents. We dig into the data: https://bit.ly/4cmgFWQ

Anti-dei at work. Good thing only the top minds—TOP MINDS— are able to be a part of this administration. /s 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes. This. Full send.

Be sure to see this article by @heatherahmie.bsky.social featuring a pair of #picturebooks recounting refugee experiences for #picturebook readers sensitively and accessibly. The books are from @florisbooks.bsky.social and @nubeocho.bsky.social www.publisherspotlight.com/carrying-hom...

This is absolutely amazing and bittersweet. We have lost so much to C, but those who are home would be cheering in this new work!

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

"Black women comprise 14% of the US population, but account for about 30% of homicides resulting from partner violence." I will never forget how my publication on sexual violence got rejected from a journal because a reviewer believed race (which I emphasized) was not a relevant factor.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Friday vibes. #tired

florida advocates actually blocked multiple book ban bills and get outta here this rare win feels unreal, but why was one official almost given that much power in the first place thoughts

Brave New World...

I’ve finally figured out why this bothers me so much. (There’s a lot actually, but for now…) This is another example of political talking heads going after, and sic’ing their followers after, experts who disagree with whatever half baked plan they’ve come up with.

Sharing to read later.

Now that Trump and MAGA are blasting the Pope's call for peace as "woke", it's a good time to remember that woke is actually everything that is good: Peace Equity Honesty Fairness Diversity

I’m here for this whole post & comments!

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

PEN America was quick to condemn Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization. PEN’s co-CEO @selopez.bsky.social says, “We are defending freedom of expression, defending writers, literature, and the freedom of people to tell their stories and document their histories.” Everyone deserves that.

Right now, when the world is literally on fire, I love the artists and musicians on my socials who bring their everything. It is appreciated!!! 💛

I’m so tired of mediocre men in even the smallest positions of power making stupid decisions for others. I have no patience for these fools. #local #state and #abroad