🔵🏀👑 Yay!!

I watched that whole undefeated Hoosier season-so. great. Faculty kid w season tix -rotating w sibs. Scott May was my student teacher in HS English that year -wild. Cakes/crowds, celebrations, not much ELA. But such good 🏀

🔵🏀👑 Yay!!

This is closer than it needs to be #ncaa

I watched that whole undefeated Hoosier season-so. great. Faculty kid w season tix -rotating w sibs. Scott May was my student teacher in HS English that year -wild. Cakes/crowds, celebrations, not much ELA. But such good 🏀

Not one dime for a tyrant is what Congress could and should do, including it's what Democrats should do when they take one or both chambers.

What local white elites could not see—behind the veil of Jim Crow—was what Black educators were actually building. College-trained teachers used accommodationist cover to build leadership networks, organize communities, and cultivate the civic capacity that would later fuel collective action. 4/

Big enough quake that im hoping everyone is ok-no chimneys thru roofs or anything #bouldercreek

Earthquake 😬 5.1?! What a shake #santacruz

Charlie!!

Go blue!!🏀

Go blue!!🏀

As a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project, I praise UN Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity, resolution is here ➡️ shorturl.at/0ueKA

Trans rights are human rights. All people should have the right to compete in sports as themselves.

To assume that more studies in favor of gender affirming getting through peer review indicates some kind of bias shows a lack of understanding of what the peer review process is—as if the goal should be some kind of supposedly journalistic balance as opposed to the publication of good science.

Read a wider range of views from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social @adambonica.bsky.social @gelliottmorris.com @amandalitman.bsky.social @jenancona.bsky.social @rauchway.bsky.social @juliaserano.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social @henryburke.bsky.social in our latest forum:

On education, Thurmond and Yee also both agree: Let's revisit the school funding formula. Thurmond elaborates in favor of an enrollment-based model instead of the current attendance-based model, which introduces uncertainty to each budget year.

Tony Thurmond introduces himself sounding a lot like Zohran Mamdani: Pledging to build 2 billion housing units by 2030, down payment assistance, single-payer healthcare, universal childcare. "We will do it by taxing billionaires. We can build a better California."

Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose, comes out swinging in his opening remarks, asking everyone at the debate in joining him in pledging to suspend the gas tax. (Retired congressman Sam Farr, sitting in the front row, shakes his head vigorously no.)

At the gubernatorial debate tonight hosted by Democratic clubs/party orgs from Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, described by their leaders as an historic first for this kind of tri-county partnership.

careless murderous criminals

Lorraine Schneider, 1967.

Important read. #teachinghistory . “In the face of fascism and authoritarianism, we must collectively fight for fully-funded public schools as a public good, as community hubs that are equitably available to all, and where we teach the truth and affirm students’ identities, histories, and cultures.”

Teaching #MediaLiteracy or interested in doing so? Register and attend our virtual sessions Feb 26 (!) and March 5-hear from secondary educators abt lessons they’ve taught & learn about digital Library of Congress resources! #sschat historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2026/02/05/m...

Look at my cool ass abuelo the show shoveler. He lived in Washington Heights.

“a defense of gender studies is not a parochial feminist project, but a vital stand that extends to the “validity of the entire American system” as a democracy, one based on aspirations for equality and justice for all.”

I'm available to help immigrant families released in El Paso. Please share this so the people who need it see it. #ElPaso #privatejet #ICEdetention #robheld #abolishICE #robheld #chicagoiswatching #humanrights #veteransagainstICE #ICEDetention #robertheld #immigrantrights #resist #donlemon

It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all. The system does not hold people accountable.

local monument adorned #santacruz

“The real observances are occurring in the streets of every community where citizens mobilize spontaneously against the abusive acts of government, and everywhere else we confront the collapse of our constitutional order.” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/05/p...

“The real observances are occurring in the streets of every community where citizens mobilize spontaneously against the abusive acts of government, and everywhere else we confront the collapse of our constitutional order.” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/05/p...

Educators Sue Over ICE Activity on School Grounds and Nearby: The challenge targets the Trump administration's revocation of a policy that limited immigration enforcement at schools.

We protect us 💪 #iceoutschools #iceoutmn

This was indeed an interesting convo w comments from political science, legal, and historical perspectives-among other things I talked abt the Declaration as a case of organizing vs tyranny & one that illustrates contradictions in this country. As an ongoing project-one where we need everyone

Appreciating Monterey County for this protective notice www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_b...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa... For a listen

These 911 calls. We need arrests of these criminal federal agents www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-...

"There are times when protesting is more necessary than going to the classroom," said one high school junior from Pasadena. Voices of the thousands of L.A.-area students who walked out today to protest against ICE. www.latimes.com/california/s...

More than 1,000 students from local schools staged a walkout and marched through downtown Santa Cruz on Friday to protest against ICE and Trump administration policies before settling in outside the county courthouse.

Stand up to listen -and groove #needed

apple.news/AEP72W5oLQW6... From Ta-Nahesi Coates 👑 and w good reminders of the origins of DHS

NPR is leading with the lie as legit- why @npr.org why

UPDATE: 250 Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions being held around the country paydayreport.com/minneap/

Do you teach Oney Judge? Your students probably want to see/discuss this - but smh big time #sschat #teachhistory

wdyt? 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

#civics #sschat

“And Justice for the immigrants who built this country, brick by brick” watch this www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fkYyTh/

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

My sign today.