Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

This is a joke, but this is one reason car-dependent suburbs are actually terrible places to raise kids. You have to drive them everywhere. Kids resent the lack of autonomy. Parents resent the drain on their time.

FIFA won't pay to rent the Kennedy Center for the World Cup draw, even though the Kennedy Center has been losing money since the Trump administration took over its programming www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

This is brilliant

Just published this new report at @tcfdotorg.bsky.social. Quick thread explaining what we found. tcf.org/content/repo...

"They want Grants, not McClellans." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Tried to tell folks back in 2023: www.the74million.org/article/the-...

tl;dr 1) Bilingual programs are best for English learners. 2) Families think it's good to be bilingual. 3) B/c of that, they want their children in these programs. 4) But they have some concerns—that schools might not be able to deliver bilingualism.

I have the privilege of being the great-grandchild of a couple that went through high school in a dual-immersion program in Iowa We’re a scholarly family even now, but unfortunately we gave up speaking that second language Vance still called us out as not fully assimilated, but he’s super weird

Just published this new report at @tcfdotorg.bsky.social. Quick thread explaining what we found. tcf.org/content/repo...

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

This is a good take that we should apply broadly within—and beyond—education. What each of us does today says a lot about our moral compasses.

"It’s a look that has long been associated with authoritarian regimes and secret police" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Some of this framing makes me roll my eyes, but the core question —What is the mayor’s K–12 plan?—is a fair one. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n...

Same bro I get the joke too im laughing too we are Bros

This administration does not care about children or their wellbeing.

Just found @wendydcervantes.bsky.social on here—a whole lot of you following me ought to be following her also. A hero in the education, early care and education, and immigration worlds.

It should go without saying that these violent attacks on immigrant communities are deeply traumatizing for immigrant children. @wendydcervantes.bsky.social, Rebecca Ullrich, and Hannah Matthews wrote about this for @clasp.org in 2018. www.clasp.org/wp-content/u...

Useful piece on early literacy and multilingualism www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Yes! Part of a discussion I had with @volts.wtf years ago. Conservatives spent years framing cities as not-“real” America, and too many urban progressives accepted that baggage, like there was something wrong/un-American about city living as a lifestyle. But that’s just not true!

Happening tonight in Tacoma Park, DC. All welcome. Ticket proceeds go to a local non-profit helping immigrants.

Yes! Part of a discussion I had with @volts.wtf years ago. Conservatives spent years framing cities as not-“real” America, and too many urban progressives accepted that baggage, like there was something wrong/un-American about city living as a lifestyle. But that’s just not true!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

“We can’t afford to fund nutrition programs for kids unless Democrats agree to allow health care costs to increase exorbitantly.”

Whenever you hear a story of a kid "beating the odds," it's fine to cheer and feel inspired and all the normal human responses. But man, then you've gotta take a breath and ask yourself *why* are we tolerating systems that set up LONG ODDS for kids getting the chance to flourish?

Send some of the boys down at Reader's Digest over to coffeeshops in Brooklyn and Charlottesville to understand the pulse of the nation.

Para muchos, que la presidenta de México haya sido tocada indebidamente a plena luz del día es una prueba de que el país está lejos del cambio que Claudia Sheinbaum desea.

Send some of the boys down at Reader's Digest over to coffeeshops in Brooklyn and Charlottesville to understand the pulse of the nation.

Whenever you hear a story of a kid "beating the odds," it's fine to cheer and feel inspired and all the normal human responses. But man, then you've gotta take a breath and ask yourself *why* are we tolerating systems that set up LONG ODDS for kids getting the chance to flourish?

Had one of those "Thank goodness @estherc.bsky.social is on the radio singing today" mornings.

They're coming onto K–12 campuses eventually, laws and norms and child safety/development be damned.

Said it many times before, but I think that the hardest part of working parenthood is probably the "gear shifting," i.e. the role changes throughout the day.

Just such pointless nihilism from these folks. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

While waiting to cross a street just now, I watched ten cars easing through an intersection in NW DC. Eight of the drivers were holding their cell phones.

Can’t make America great by shuttering the parts of the government that do the coolest stuff.

Les adieux https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227986

How can these two seemingly contradictory things about US politics both be true? 1. Partisanship is calcified. 2. Election outcomes are thermostatic. TURNOUT. It’s not the same people who vote every time. Mobilizing, organizing, educating, party infrastructure—it all matters.

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

The Spanish soccer magazine Panenka has a section called “Against Modern Football,” and it’s always stuff along these lines. But this has to be the telos, the absolute apex version of sweaty, money-grubbing FIFA corruption. apnews.com/article/fifa...

I’m glad that the public is getting a better sense of the facts of *who* immigrants are (i.e. overwhelmingly law-abiding and pro-social community members). I also wish they’d heard us telling them that for the many years before 2024. And before 2016.

I’m glad that the public is getting a better sense of the facts of *who* immigrants are (i.e. overwhelmingly law-abiding and pro-social community members). I also wish they’d heard us telling them that for the many years before 2024. And before 2016.

“Don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for”

Goddamnit, give every voter a chance to vote for a cheerful, confident progressive with new ideas for making American life better—for every office from president to dog catcher.

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

this is genuinely wild

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.