That's my congresswoman!

My basic take is that it's bad when private equity takes over enterprises whose main purpose is something other than making money.

You know how everyone in Washington just calls that other airport "DCA"?

Notably: Congress did not agree to any of the big slashing of the education budget that the Trump administration requested. They wanted to zero out Title III funding for English learners and the dedicated allocation for migrant students, and Congress ignored them.

Oh! And I nodded to (though didn’t explicitly cite) @zahavastadler.bsky.social and colleagues’ work on redrawing district boundaries as a promising (if politically difficult) alternative to choice for reducing segregation and improving educational opportunity. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Imagine filing a civil rights complaint for your kid and learning the system’s main “resolution” is dismissal. OCR’s dismissal rate hit 90% in 2025 (vs year-to-year variation btw 49% in 10–11 to 81% in 19–20).

www.washingtonpost.com/national/jef... It is wild to read this today.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o... Not of her. Of her SCHOOL. By both violent bigots and the United States Government.

#Edusky may remember Emmanuel from his time on the education beat, at Hechinger... What a devastating day for the news.

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Every cruelty and incompetence of the Trump regime coming together.

But I was also thinking about theories of action and the ties that bind us. I keep a lot of journals and write animating quotes from readings at the beginning of each. I started a new one a few weeks ago and have three this time.

Just granting cert on this absurd and total violation of logic and principle should be grounds for impeachment.

When independent journalists get into peril for doing their jobs, we can point to that very first time "fake news" was uttered and say "Oh, that's how seemingly trivial terms evolve into dangerous concepts." That's why we need to memorialize and document, so we don't forget the horrors.

I just found out that my husband thought that the Counting Crows version of Big Yellow Taxi was the original and it's going to take me weeks to get over it.

Credit to @lilyalta.bsky.social but yes! The rules are still being written. Everyone is opting into a black box.

Massachusetts folks interested in school equity work, if you're around join me and @brownspromise.bsky.social for our 2nd Commonwealth Community Call! tinyurl.com/Commonwealth...

How are recent changes at @hhsofficial.bsky.social affecting people with disabilities? 🚨 🩺 🚨 NEXT WEEK, we're bringing together #disability advocates to discuss what these alarming new public health strategies mean for care, autonomy, and dignity for all. 🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...

In this article, @ericameltzer.bsky.social notes Pritzker "is still considering the issue." Good! Everyone should at most be in wait-and-see mode, because THE RULES HAVE NOT YET BEEN WRITTEN for this program! These 23 states have opted into a black box! #edusky www.chalkbeat.org/2026/01/28/g...

It is a gift to be able to hear his voice. Listen:

Okay, can I just say that the Alaska Beacon does really great reporting on school finance?

Trump is denying veterans the autonomy to make choices about their own health. Congress must immediately overturn this ban and restore full access to the reproductive care that every woman deserves. Veterans who sacrificed for our country shouldn’t be punished for their service.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Votebeat does incredible work and I know their coverage will be an important part of the transparency and accountability we will need to ensure free and fair elections in 2026 and beyond. I hope this job lands a great journalist.

As a descendant of Holocaust survivors, let me say: screw this reaction. This may not be a Holocaust right now, but it damn well is Nazism. People are being kidnapped off the street and sent to prison camps because of their ethnicity. This isn't the time to be precious. Be moral instead.

A very easy way to distinguish principled left-liberalism from antisemitism is that principled liberals will identify Israel as one place among many where the rising tide of authoritarianism needs to be fought whereas antisemites will identify Israel as the place that teaches the world how to be bad

From my grandmother's story: "One by one our good decent teachers disappeared and instead Nazi teachers replaced them."

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

I am still thinking about how Alex Pretti was out there directing traffic, waving cars through. A instinctive, quintessentially Dad Response to any kind of commotion happening on the block—to go out and help a little, in a small way. To make sure no one gets unnecessarily hurt.

Great consecutive-post pairing here.

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard. This policy is a horror: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

"A universal moral image works because at some level we share a universal moral conscience... Among the most deeply distressing things this image represents is the instrumentalization of compassion... They weaponized decency, the last incorruptible defense we have against absolute misery and evil."

Where are you donating in 2026? Not one-off emergency donations, but planned giving for the year, if that's a thing you do? I'm thinking through my charitable priorities and where I can have the best combination of impact and values (ie putting my money where my mouth is).

It's pretty rich for an executive branch official to say that school funding has to be determined by the legislature, not the courts, when the governor has vetoed the legislature's attempts to increase school funding. alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/22/s... #edequity #edusky #schoolfinance #schoolfunding

On today's @nytimes.com poll: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u... If 12% of the people who voted for you 15 months ago react to your presidency with outrage, disgust, or disappointment, I suppose that's a "small share" in some sense, but it's very likely to be an election-flipping number of voters.

Where are you donating in 2026? Not one-off emergency donations, but planned giving for the year, if that's a thing you do? I'm thinking through my charitable priorities and where I can have the best combination of impact and values (ie putting my money where my mouth is).

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

The always excellent @bethhawkins.bsky.social untangles what is actually happening in #Minnesota schools right now. #StPaul district closed today and yesterday to organize #remotelearning options, as an example #edchat www.the74million.org/article/as-i...

#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case. But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:

www.weforum.org/stories/2026... Ironically, "Nostalgia is not a strategy" applies just as much to the MAGA rank-and-file as it does to those mourning the rules-based international order.

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

You can quibble around the edges, but what are you fighting for, really?

DISCONCERTING? Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK (Sorry…)

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People need a plan that does not depend on Democrats winning elections forever. Your plan for American democracy needs to work even if different parties win the presidency and Congress over time. Democracy is a system in which people have freedom, participate equally, and power alternates.

I wonder if Alabama has done anything to dissuade OBGYNs from working in their state, like, I don't know, making them criminally liable for providing the full range of maternity care.

Full CNN poll data here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Yes, he's underwater on literally everything, but given the supposed source of Trump's appeal, to me it's really significant that TWO THIRDS OF RESPONDENTS say that he doesn't care about people like them.