electric dulcimer?!?

Republicans in the Michigan House voted to cancel $8.3 million of funding for programs aimed at supporting Flint water crisis victims The cuts affect support services for Flint students, including psychologists, nurses, social workers, and counselors

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

So… this is happening. 🥹 #NCTE2025 ncte.org/awards/richa...

Ah yes, the ‘ol accidentally sitting down on the subway right near puke trick.

I am so incense at @schumer.senate.gov’s lack of leadership. Record public sentiment in favor of Dems not even one week ago and he can’t hold the Senate caucus together. He just nullified the fight and risk the House Democratic caucus has undertaken AND sold out the American public’s healthcare.

We sold out 2 tamale vendors, bought out 2 more vendors, and absolutely swarmed a family owned bakery. It was a good day with some the very best of #BikeChi 🥰 for the 4th installment of the Street Vendor Bike Tour. We persist. ✊🏽

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!

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Wow, really appreciate this deep reporting on how Equifax stands to reap considerable gains under Medicaid work requirements — including some new visibility into "prices per ping" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

Speaker Johnson is putting House in recess for another week IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHUTDOWN. Instead of GOP members returning on Tuesday, they now won’t come back until after 10/19.

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...

If you're a government employee and you want to talk, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal. We can speak anonymously.

Dr. Goodall was speaking in defense of climate justice and peace until the very end. Grateful we lived in the same time as her. She inspired millions to see intelligence and grace in the animal kingdom and how interlocked humans are with nature. We must fight on. Rest in Power Dr. Goodall.

Adams dropping out of a race he had no chance of winning so he can make Trump happy perfectly sums up what it was like to have him as mayor.

I wonder what it's like to be as shameless as Eric Adams. Just going through life openly being a corrupt piece-of-shit. Truly a wonder to behold.

Indeed. LLMs are LLMs. Machine learning is machine learning. AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less. Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Had a great few days with teachers and students in Wilmington, NC. Kicked off our year of work digging into K-8 literacy practices and revising curriculum. …and it’s a beautiful, inclusive city!

#TheEdCollabGathering such inspiration learning from Katie and @stellavillalba.bsky.social reminding us to “Live the writerly life.” @theedcollab.bsky.social

“Dream about what you’re fighting for!” @ichrislehman.bsky.social getting us fired up #forstudents #theEdCollabGathering. #pdlove @theedcollab.bsky.social

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Join us Sat for the Fall 2025 #TheEdCollabGathering with the *wonder-full* Stella Villalba and Katie Wood Ray. All are welcome: theeducatorcollaborative.com/wp-content/u... @jessicawalshedu.bsky.social @theedcollab.bsky.social

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The motivation for young white men to embrace hate and authoritarianism is clear when even the institutions that are their supposed enemies work overtime to sanitize and honor their legacies

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

Also students were shot at a school today.

Today’s racist SCOTUS ruling shows what you may be fearing. We are in an authoritarian state. Full stop. The constitution that once protected civil rights have been abandoned for the tunnel vision of one man. All three branches are aligned behind the dear leader, checks and balances are gone.

oh my god Bernadette Peters is at my gate at LGA why is she amongst the normals oh my god oh my god

Again, this news alone should be enough to turn you radically *against* AI, especially AI in K-12 schools. The worst people in the world are trying to cram AI into classrooms. We have to wonder *why* that is and what can be done to resist it.

NEW: This morning the Trump admin put out the Federal Register notice terminating the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela. It is set to end 60 days from Monday, or Friday, November 7. This termination brings the number of people Trump has stripped TPS from to at least 1 million.

Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

Breaking news: About 150 FEMA employees sent a letter to members of Congress, arguing that the agency’s direction and current leaders’ inexperience harms the agency’s mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina.

So the party that cries for “small government” and a “free and open market” is just now all just super cool with this?

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

All police gone now. Everyone out here claps. "See y'all tomorrow!" shouts one guy to a few weak laughs.

Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...