One of the best things about being a liberal rn—and always—is that, by giving others plenty of latitude to live how they'd like, you can also enjoy that space yourself.

The cuts at the @washingtonpost.com are shameful, damaging to democracy, and bad for the District as a community. If you know this and are mad about it...do something. Subscribe to the @51st.news. We can rebuild a media landscape that actually serves our community. 51st.news/membership/

"[D]uring immigration crackdowns in Florida and California in the past few years, test scores fell among children who were affected." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Harming kids—wherever they or their parents were born—has become a core administration priority. www.the74million.org/article/as-i...

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"In the UK, support for ending all inward migration drops by 2/3rds (45% to 15%) if you tell people doing so would mean NHS shortages. Given that would absolutely be the consequence, can we not make that case?" www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

God, I really hate Confederates

In the uk it’s harder and harder to get funding for this kind of work @bordercrim.bsky.social very much in need of more funding. Everyone is doing brilliant work but it’s sadly not sustainable. I’m very worried about our future, & that maps onto academic research funding on these topics too I fear

Boy, it's a really weird time to be a Detroit Tigers fan.

A lot of good places with great people are doing amazing work. Might as well throw my hat in the ring and say my colleagues @relevantresearch.bsky.social have the domain knowledge and technical capacity for projects as described below. We are working on a few right now, in fact.

Would be a *REALLY* good time for funders to invest in building new, honest, fact-based, progressive narratives about immigration. Public opinion on the issue is potentially more malleable than any other moment in generations.

'This is the third lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to revoke the “sensitive locations” policy at schools that cites its impact on student learning, attendance, and well-being' www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Painting https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/painting-5

Trumpism has really been a body blow to so much of what makes DC great

It is absolutely being remade as a community, and entirely for the worse

Lotta shades of gray in the "can/should you put a chair out to protect a parking spot you shoveled," I know that. But if I shovel a spot and you take it...AND THEN PUT OUT A CHAIR TO RESERVE IT? C'mon man. You didn't do anything.

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Recommended reading for anyone trying to wrap their head around today’s WaPo news www.linkedin.com/posts/mabaro...

We need the facts about immigration to matter to public discourse about immigration.

Just a drumbeat of heartbreak

(ahem) www.the74million.org/article/as-t...

This wasn't just foreseeable, it was *intentional* on SFFA's part.

(Also, if any eccentric Onion-style billionaires want to bankroll The Beaverton, our price is much lower AND it comes in CAD)

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"When a student who is usually in class suddenly stops showing up, or when a senior once excited to go to college says they don’t want to go anymore, we know why." www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

"Latino families showed similar levels of interest, with 40% rating their interest in bilingual education as 10 out of 10." www.the74million.org/article/as-t...

The Kennedy Center isn’t closing for “renovations.” It’s closing because audiences fled, artists withdrew, and its reputation collapsed under the pressures forced upon it. Cultural trust doesn’t evaporate by accident. It happens when power treats the arts as a tool, not a public good.

Lol tryna cover for the fact that he can’t get anyone to perform there since his takeover.

God damn these evil, evil motherfuckers. Damn them and all their enablers and apologists to hell.

❤️

Scrutinizing rich people's blatherings and sifting for intellectual gold is often (typically?) motivated by their possession of actual gold. That seems like quintessential intellectual corruption

Moral clarity and genuine toughness v ICE military cosplay and overproduced internet tough guy memes. We’re gonna win.

Should be up in the shop soon. Creativebyrovelo.com/shop

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Folks out on the DC streets have pretty thoroughly lost the plot today. Drivers struuuuuuggling.

Good news is that pretty much every movie on the subject is clear on what to do with bullies who see the world this way.

"Would you accept that deal? Public investment, lower math scores?" www.chadaldeman.com/p/the-state-...

(Nightmarishly) big, if true

The administration's immigration "agenda" is harming children. Directly. wtop.com/maryland/202...

For National School Choice Week, supporters keep moving the goal posts Their latest demand: Funding parity for private schools, even though they exclude all manner of kids and aren't held accountable for results. schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/for-nation...

It could take a generation to recover the talent lost from federal science. But it doesn't have to. We should be ready to scale up the Presidential Management Fellowship program to triple what it once was and rebuild U.S. capacity by 2030.

attn @jerrified.bsky.social, I believe this qualifies me for a free Jerrified™ value meal #2 or somesuch

every stock you take

My god, work travel is utterly wasted on the working middle-aged father.

'Fully 94% of families that speak a non-English language at home said that it was “very” or “extremely” important that their child grow up speaking multiple languages. Perhaps more surprisingly, 55% of monolingual English-speaking families agreed.' www.the74million.org/article/as-t...

Lol—CONFIRMED. Unbelievable scenes during school dropoff today. The conventional wisdom in DC appears to be congealing around "argh, grouch, why weren't schools open faster," but man, those roads weren't even close to ready for DC's (very amateur) snow drivers.

I am happy for people in Maine if this is true. ALSO, this suggests that the administration is unleashing ICE in blue cities and states as punishment for political reasons. Collins is up for re-election and they need her to keep their control of the Senate. This is GROTESQUE.

"[O]ur data indicate that Trump’s immigration agenda may somehow have even more room to fall as it erodes the multilingual vision of American society that people like." www.the74million.org/article/as-t...

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.