School $$ nerds: Great reporting from @carlibrosseau.bsky.social NC is sending tax money direct to religious schools for capital projects--how unusual is that? @schooldaves.bsky.social @joshcowenmi.bsky.social @zahavastadler.bsky.social @joshuaweishart.bsky.social

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

"The League of Women Voters will not stand by while politicians spread lies to limit democratic participation. Our democracy is strong when every eligible voter can make their voice heard, whether at a polling place or through a mail-in ballot." www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

All of Trump’s education moves have a common theme: a kicking away of the ladder that will entrench privilege for those who already have the most. My latest open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

How Dept. of Education abolition could affect Ohio “With less money from the state, less money from the federal government, it is not good for the students of Ohio” -Jeff Wensing, @ohioea.bsky.social by Delaney Ruth www.nbc4i.com/news/your-lo...

We have three branches of government: the executive, the yes men, and the people who never say no

None of what's happened with education under Trump has been anything other than what was telegraphed in Project 2025. Here's what we wrote about back before the election www.newsweek.com/project-2025...

A list of detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" shows hundreds have no criminal records or pending charges.

I enjoyed this conversation with @derekgottlieb.bsky.social, @drrachelswhite.bsky.social and @johannneem.bsky.social and the excellent hosts of @haveyouheard.bsky.social to discuss the American school board. Thanks, DG. soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

Further research on what I call the "tyranny of choice," what researchers here dub the "double burden of choice" bit.ly/4nEbBUi "School choice" is not only illusory, it should be undesirable. Freedom from being forced to make burdensome choices is better, if we would just make ALL SCHOOLS desirable

"In my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trails], I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy...the genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G. Gilbert, US Army

"After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

🚨 New: Trump’s taking his streaming platform global—just months after he gutted Voice of America, the US’s biggest international news outlet. Trump the president cuts global news. Trump the businessman fills the void. #synergy My full story for @forbes.com 👇 1/

Get on alert folks. We are getting pretty far down that “first they came for…” list. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

"it cost the average American household roughly $6 a year in taxes to prevent about half as many deaths as occurred in the Holocaust." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Take note.

I regret to inform you that the MIT study that's making the rounds re the negative impact of AI on cognition...appears not so great. The core task being assessed "doesn’t demand cognitive investment; it invites cognitive laziness." (Wess Trabelsi) open.substack.com/pub/wesstrab...

Making it harder for citizens to propose ballot measures isn’t just bad policy, it’s unconstitutional. This bill puts an unfair burden on grassroots efforts while giving big-money a free pass SB 153 is a bad bill, plain and simple Janice Oakley, Sagamore Hills www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...

Reminder: in broken and gerrymandered states, politics ceases being about public service…and it warps into a corrupt form of private service, where politicians use public power and raid public assets to serve private interests. This Browns fiasco offers the perfect case study:

Thanks @dwallacewells.bsky.social for explaining so clearly what's at the heart of the 50-state voucher program buried in the big beautiful bill: a war on the entire idea of public goods www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

I wonder why the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California 🤔

This new month would try to persuade Ohioans to have babies (instead of actually passing any laws that help people have babies or raise kids...) Also WTF is a "natural family"? The bill's authors seem to think single parents and #LGBTQ parents don't count.... naturalfamilystrong.com/about-us/ #Ohio

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I wish everyone in #Ohio knew how state politicians are trying to spend their tax dollars This budget bill is inhumane. No other way to describe it. #Republicans are openly trying to give tax cuts to billionaires by hurting literally everyone else Take action: bit.ly/OhioBudget2025

Peoples lives and careers have been ruined, health and welfare and education all decimated, violence and fascism unleashed, the damage already incalculable and immediate, by these two high agency clowns and all their cronies.

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

NEW: Texas midwife Maria Rojas was arrested in March for allegedly performing an illegal abortion. Nearly three months later, Rojas has not been indicted for any crime -- putting her in excruciating limbo by the state.

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

Imagine what this woman and her family went through. All for what?

Imagine not wanting the government to infringe on your freedoms as a Christian while simultaneously working to have the government infringe on the freedoms of others in the name of Christianity and refusing to see this as a contradiction.

Ohio Senate Bill 153 and Ohio House Bill 233 attack our petition process, voters, and elections in a cynical attempt by politicians to rig the system in their favor and take power away from Ohio citizens. Tell our Ohio representatives to vote NO: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohiosdirectdemocracy

Here's the bill: www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/... See your #Ohio legislator listed as a sponsor or cosponsor? Give them a call: OhioHouse.gov

Commentary: The reduction in statewide school funding proposed by Ohio House Republicans will cost the state economy between $14 billion and $54 billion in the long-run in the form of lower earnings from lower test scores, lower graduation rates, and higher social spending.

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Reupping this story. The tax bill includes the school voucher tax credit described here -- a 100% tax credit for donations to voucher orgs - so taxpayers would essentially get their money back when they file their taxes. A huge win for school choice movement. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I centered the plight of Öztürk in my speech one month ago at this major education conference. Not one person in a room of 150 knew her name. I say that not to shame attendees but to spotlight our collective ignorance. What is happening to her is a moral outrage. youtu.be/u0_tCewEMgE?...

CFP: PES 2026 Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. March 5-9, 2026. Theme: To Be Rooted: Place, Education, and Ethics." Submission Deadline: November 1, 2026. Visit: philosophyofeducation.org for more information!

The president of the United States wants to claim both absolute authority to do anything and absolute abdication of responsibility for anything he does. Neither of these is how the office works—but the whole GOP is acting as though it were. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

There's an #Ohio version of the #SAVEAct 🚨 This is a critical threat to voting rights in our state More info + actions to take: Bit.ly/OhioSAVEAct

The big idea is this: Wisconsinites have already given the state enough $ to fully fund K12 schools. But bc the state gives so little back (we’ve got a multiBILLION $ surplus for like the 3rd yr running), communities have to jack up their own taxes for school costs the state ought to be paying.

Every American should be deeply troubled by this massive escalation, and @democrats-judiciary.house.gov are standing strong for judicial independence. This is an unmistakable descent further into authoritarian chaos.

Women living in states that banned abortion are 2x more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. Black women in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as white mothers in those states. New report from Gender Equity Policy Institute: