Literally, my take on the whole TikTok controversy was that Western governments were annoyed that Chinese spy agencies might be getting personal data for free, while Western agencies had to pay market rates…

You love to see it

@uft.org @uftunity.bsky.social must call for us to join the general strike on January 23rd. If the federal gov is willing to attack public schools then we must answer. Wearing blue shirts to work instead is fucking bullshit

These are some of the most competitive countries at the winter olympics and Greenland is very cold

Question for anyone in the #edusky #teachersky #education space: When did it become “best practice” to put up a data wall so students could see their progress in meeting the standards? It feels like this came out of nowhere and is treated as such a normal, age-old thing

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

I am way too far behind on this one, but this is an excellent article by @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social about the impact of corporate money on education policy and how it is measured. And she mentions some very interesting people as well.

If this is how I lost my job honestly I’d be proud

Run the gif.

BREAKING: supreme court declares only businesses are people

Today my seventh graders asked me if California is a state or a country. Folks, the literacy crisis is about more than just phonics #edusky #teachersky

Thinking about how Romantic era poetry emerged from a political scene involving a senile king waging constant war straight into decades of legitimacy crises across government.

How bold to think the AI tutors will even allow this question to be posed in the year 2055

JPow, you could do the craziest thing to the entire capitalist system right now. I don’t think Marx/Engels saw this one coming

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

I have seen people on social media saying that ICE operations in Minneapolis are the result of Israel’s influence on the United States. Make no mistake, the influence may be bi-directional but everything that Zionism has done was learned from the example set by the United States.

The United States may truly be over

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

That's the thing...they don't believe it, but they want us to pretend like it's true.

logging on

Stephen Miller watched Austin Powers once and thought wow Dr. Evil really has the drip

it is wholly in the best interests of power if you’re so weary of your endless misery scroll that your nerves are numbed, they want you to experience the video of the killing as a roughly equivalent nuisance to their AI slop posts jeering about wokeness

This is how it feels seeing almost any news coverage these days i.ytimg.com/vi/jtronfPig...

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

The face of a murderer

What does it mean to double down on NYC Reads when kids still aren’t reading books? Not reading, just twice as much?

Last fall I ended up looking at a lot of Seventeen magazines for a project. Even in the late 90's, there was a section of book recs in every issue. One of them was historical fiction about the life of Van Gogh, doorstop-thick. It hit me then how much of a reading culture we've lost.

I will take a movie or tv show, thank you www.them.us/story/usa-ca...

The very first thing listed on Nike's website is Maduro's tracksuit www.nike.com/w/mens-cloth...

Today I learn that in an interesting convergence of Americana, Norman Rockwell used to paint above the restaurant featured in the Arlo Guthrie song, and even painted the officer who arrested Arlo Guthrie. www.nytimes.com/1994/09/14/o...

I have been teaching for over ten years and in that time I have seen ELA education picked apart bit by bit. In almost six years I have taught two novels. Here is an example of the kind of stuff I am instead expected to teach. www.scribd.com/document/832...

We’re really going to have WWIII over fucking Greenland

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

Marco Rubio looks like he is using morse code to blink the access codes to his crypto wallet

The movie “Three Days Of The Condor” ends with the protagonist leaking plans of a government backed invasion of Venezuela to the NYTimes, only for a rival CIA agent to say it likely won’t get published

Nancy Pelosi has bravely demanded articles of full briefing

If I was to scrape their nostrils, how much cocaine could I harvest and how much would it sell for?

Low rise denim is back, edgy humor is back, pointless wars for oil waged by inbred Christian nationalists are back, plucked eye brows are back. The early 2000’s are back baby!

Me, pantsless, to the employees of the Home Depot paint department

The early 2000s truly are back www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Can't wait to make hajj to mamdanistan

Was just thinking about this scene in Aladdin and it’s interesting because usually cats are the ones waking humans up

Are we back? There are signs of life here #coys