This story gave me chills. Stunning illustration of how past is present. www.kpbs.org/news/living/...

New paper w/ @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social looks at how non-binary students are erased in state data sets. Basic arg is: When we have better data, we are better able to see students who are otherwise erased in the binary. We can also work to make things better for them. epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

⬇️⬇️⬇️. Important reporting on WPS school committee work. Here in Worcester or nationally reporting on our public bodies is increasingly important. Thanks @aislinn.bsky.social and @billshaner.bsky.social and all of other independent writers. Thank you for your work.

Normally, it’d be strange for the federal government to bully a teenager by name (and laced with slurs) to the point that he’d have to leave the SOTU to find safety. But, here we are. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/25/m...

My latest for Neighborhood View. neighborhoodview.org/2026/02/19/i...

@billshaner.bsky.social reporting is stellar. There are serious repercussions from this conviction & prosecution. Beyond the personal cost, this is about chilling community defense & police misconduct enabled by prosecutorial discretion. www.worcestersucks.email/p/convicted-...

100%. Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira came into the United States as an asylum seeker. Won her asylum case and was NOT the subject of DHS's abduction. They used her daughters and the infant to lure her, violentely and unlawfully detain her and spread lies about her.

Just another time when it would be good for city leaders like Eric Batista Joe Petty and the Chief to speak up about all Etel’s good work in the city.

Major props to @billshaner.bsky.social for spending two days in court documenting the trial, the details and for also just being an outstanding G as my young son called him when Bill lent Danny a charger. We are fortunate to have Bill’s outstanding work & analysis.

@billshaner.bsky.social with a good quick rundown of day 1 of trial. www.worcestersucks.email/p/eureka-str...

Will we see justice in Worcester tomorrow? 🙏🏼. Thanks to @bill_shaner @EtelHaxhiaj and Ashley fighting charges, that should never have been brought, stemming from ICE’s visit to Worcester on MAY 8. May justice be yours. ❤️🙏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/billshan...

New Mexico just banned 287(g) collaboration agreements with ICE. MA needs to start playing catch-up. #mapoli www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...

From the article: “I was dreaming that my mom was hugging me,” she said on Sunday, wrapping her arms around herself as she remembered. But she woke up and realized that her dream was not real. “And then, it was scary.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...

“Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready. It started with rapid response preparation in the park’s recreation center and legal observer trainings at a church. Small networks that formed in 2020 were reactivated.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Something I hope for -- naively, I know -- is for Minnesota's Republicans to understand this is an attack on THEIR people, on THEIR community, and speak against it.

Join us and allies tonight for a rapid response webinar! #mapoli us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Massachusetts Fight Back Table hosting a Rapid Response Webinar tonight at 6pm. Register here. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Silvero Villegas Gonzalez (38) Keith Porter (43) Jamie Alanis (57) Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11) Renee Nicole Good (37) Roberto Carlos Montoya (52) @latinomuslimunity

...that proves the opposite point: a robust and inclusive comment process is necessary because there is significant public interest in the subject matter of this rulemaking. Anyhow, folks should submit comments (though the regulations.gov portal will not be up until tomorrow). 12/12

...deference than Chevron deference, but it isn't the total absence of deference. Also, HUD purports to justify only allowing 30 days for public comment on the grounds that many comments have been submitted in past comment processes for the same overarching issue. One could easily argue... 11/

What else of note is going on here? Well, HUD claims that agency interpretations of statutes are entitled to no deferential weight after the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright. That's just wrong. Loper Bright reinforced the existence of Skidmore deference. That's a lesser form of... 10/

...how HUD will apply the Act when it is exercising its statutorily mandated enforcement role. Of course, civil rights and housing justice advocates have ample reason to be concerned that HUD will act lawlessly, if it even bothers to accept jurisdiction over disparate impact complaints. 9/

...it is the role of the courts to interpret statutes, but that doesn't answer for how HUD will interpret and apply the Act in its own administrative enforcement proceedings. The field is left with - or will be left with if the proposed rule is finalized and takes effect - uncertainty about... 8/

...the standard rather than it being its role. The Department is seemingly aware that it is constrained from following in the CFPB's footsteps in light of a 2015 Supreme Court decision holding that the Fair Housing Act allows for disparate impact claims. At the same time, it isn't bucking the... 6/

In a proposed rule published in November, the CFPB articulated the position (contrary to mountains of legislative history) that ECOA did not allow for disparate impact claims. The position HUD is staking out here is essentially a dodge. The Department is saying it is the courts' role to set... 5/

It would have maintained the pretense that the disparate impact framework endured while making it functionally impossible for a plaintiff or complaint to ever prevail. Also, HUD isn't taking the route taken by the CFPB with respect to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. 4/

Unlike in the first Trump Administration, HUD is not setting forth a standard for evaluating disparate impact claims. Back then, HUD issued a rule (subsequently enjoined by the courts) that would have made the disparate impact standard a nullity through a death by a thousand cuts approach. 3/

Like any proposed rule, the fact that HUD is proposing changes does not alter what the law is unless and until it is finalized. The HUD disparate impact rule that was originally promulgated during the Obama Administration and that was restored under Biden remains in effect. 2/

Today, the "day early" version of a proposed HUD rule to rescind the Department's existing disparate impact regulations appeared on the Federal Register website. It will be formally published in the Federal Register tomorrow, kicking off a 30-day comment period. Here's what that all means. 1/

Using white grievance illusions to dismantle *all* civil rights progress. and it’s still low on the list of insanity from just one day of this awful administration. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Thanks for including me and Protest and Pedagogy in your #ScholarSunday thread @ugapress.bsky.social! For those interested in buying a copy of the book, you can use 08PROTEST at checkout: www.ugapress.org/978082037530...

In a time of deep social divison, center-left Dems are focusing on schools *not* as places to enrich the fabric of our fading democracy. But as workforce training programs. Which will simply reproduce existing social heirarchies. We can do better. newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Surely they don’t expect us to believe they want to keep our communities safe when they’re out here shooting people in their communities.

Awesome workshop on an important topic led by a fantastic facilitator. Tues, 1/20 noon-1:15pm Pacific Time on Zoom. Check it out! Registration Link: www.tickettailor.com/events/sarah...

I’m a gun violence prevention advocate, and I am going to keep shouting this from my teeny rooftop: We cannot solve gun violence in the United States when the perpetrator of gun violence is the government of the United States.

We tried a school-university partnership & it ultimately didn't work. So, then we got meta & studied the fizzle. I hope our paper will be useful to others launching these important (but tricky!) research-practice partnerships. @lizzumpe.bsky.social lead author. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Our hearts don’t actually shrivel up each time we are asked to metabolize a new act of terror. They beat harder. They grow outward. They propel us, both forward and towards each other." thewhitepages.net/p/heres-what...

FYI that Brown v Board lawyer predicted our current reality. They said school integration is good for *all* students bc it reduces prejudice. The alternative, they said, is racial hostility accompanied by an “uncritical idealization of all authority figures.” hechingerreport.org/opinion-70-y...

It's exciting that citizen journalism is returning to Malden via Neighborhood View. They're also offering a Citizen Journalism 101 course: $45 for 4 sessions on Zoom, starting Jan 28th. Check it out. Tell your friends! Open to anyone with a connection to Malden. www.eventbrite.com/e/citizen-jo...

It is always the same story. The warmongers will tell you that there was no other choice, that this war will bring peace, that everybody killed was bad and everybody good is safe at home. The answer is and has always been no. No to this war. No to all wars.

Arrived home from vacation to find the first copies of my book on the doorstep @ugapress.bsky.social #protestandpedagogy #protest #pedagogy #histed #edhist #history #charlottesville

I wrote this post about Barbara Johns 7 years ago. Going back to it today in honor of her statue installation at the US Capitol, replacing Robert E. Lee. She's a true pioneer of educational justice, and largely unknown, though hopefully that finally starts to change. sdnotebook.com/2018/02/27/s...

The @bostonglobe.com recently published an article about Holyoke schools detailing the district's struggles. It barely mentioned the fact that the district was controlled by the state for a full decade. Don't worry, though, I got my eye on 'em. Link here and full text in alt text on the screenshot.

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From Parabola Center's launch this week. We also have a nice follow-up to our High Times piece on fair markets; a definitive hemp framework by Dr. Rachel Knox; insights on the dwindling medical market by Dru Ledbetter, and a discussion on cannabis hot topics. Sign up if you want!

Sam Altman claims Chat GPT is a genius. The chat gpt bot my husband uses for work routinely gets days of the week wrong. It is aware it has the days wrong but continues to report information with the wrong day.

Voucher bills clearly intend to destroy public education and are also a horrible use of tax dollars.

"Sure, it'll increase segregation, but it might save money on bus transportation & traffic is really bad these days." is the kind of short-sighted thinking about elementary students that ensures current social/racial division will continue into their adulthood. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/29/o...

vernonpress.com/book/2419 This has been a wild year and I sometimes forget that in there I published my first real book.