When things feel tough, I STRONGLY recommend finding your closest drag queen story hour.

Can confirm we should let Girl Scouts run everything. In a post-apocalyptic scenario, they would be very helpful.

Bell to bell cell phone bans: 10/10!

You know you have a two year old when… you begin your day finding fresh caterpillar food.

Over Half My Students Saw Video of Charlie Kirk’s Murder. Here’s How I Responded www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... by @christienold.bsky.social is new @edweek.org post

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

More than half of my students in each class I taught today had seen the video. I am sure that number will be even higher tomorrow.

Turns out budget cuts DO alter the experience of teaching & learning… who knew?! Still loving my job AND oh wow… feeling the impact of last year’s cuts. Hard.

"school shooting industry"

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Starting the Tasks for the National Guard in Portland list. Priming the pump with a few and gonna crowdsource the rest; feel free to submit here. I will also have a paper and pen version on my fence.

I spent years researching and trying to explain the imperial boomerang to people and he just … tweeted this out

Why use unethical, environmentally disastrous AI to do bad math when any cranky Gen Xer can tell you that 20 years ago was 1980--for free.

if you’re willing to throw another population under the bus to save yourself, you’re not actually willing to fight fascism. fascism isn’t a bear, it can’t be escaped by simply outrunning someone slower than you. the only way it can be defeated is through solidarity.

People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

After just four days back, I simply stared at the fridge as though I were willing it to come up with dinner… somehow? This lasted a good four minutes before I asked our two year old what we should eat 😬🤦🏼‍♀️

“You don’t get to just fight for Black history, you also have to fight for the sanctuary of our immigrant families. You also have to fight for protections for our trans & queer students, & our SPED students...You don’t get to pick & choose who is a protected class in Trump’s America.” S. Davis Gates

It is clear the school year has started because I just *had* to organize our medicine cabinet this morning 😬

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Is any person (or organization) downloading or transferring the amazing teaching materials from the Smithsonian before they are altered/disappear? (Feel free to boost/send around - I really want to know… our students start next week & I’m fully underwater, so hoping someone somewhere is on it?!)

Who is attending NCSS this year? Feeling REALLY thankful the org is taking such a clear stand! The keynote list is INCREDIBLE! #NCSS2025

I also cannot help but think of Oklahoma as Indian country & this as another attempt at pushing white colonial narratives on native kids.

Oklahoma is already facing serious teacher shortages. These "exams" will make those gaps harder to fill. And in the process, they'll erode the state's public education system, achieving the real goal of pushing families into private and charter options and into homeschooling instead.

Every coffee shop I go to, people around are talking about school consolidation. Really trying to zero in on my classroom this year as the systems-level work is sooooo messy. Hard to focus when the systems conversation is just SO present. Blarg!

“There is a 0% chance that a gender pronoun in my kids’ classroom will make them less safe.” - NJ AG Matthew Platkin

After reading the beautiful words of @ladyofsardines.bsky.social I’m more sure than ever that the antidote to AI is relationship. Hoping to remind myself of that over & over again this school year! Relationship. Beautiful, messy, collaborative. Relationship.

July 1995. Bibi, then leader of the opposition, rallies a mock funeral procession as anti-peace, anti-Oslo Peace Process scream, "death to Rabin!" The life-size black coffin with PM Rabin’s name painted in white is visible, the noose is harder to see from here. Rabin was murdered in November.

I’m not upset if someone on SNAP wants to buy chips. There are very wealthy people in this country who profit off Americans who have cancer. That does upset me.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

After nearly two years of eggless baking, it’s humbling to remember I still have a lot to learn 😂

It arrived! @ladyofsardines.bsky.social - it is beautiful, stunning, haunting… all the things 🙏🏻💛

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

always good to see voters reject corrupt politicians' bids to divide and scapegoat www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamda...

The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israel’s illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people. The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children. Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.

“Criminal background checks aren’t part of the agency’s standard hiring procedure, said agency spokesperson Toren Ballard…” Umm… the agency of EDUCATION doesn’t engage in background checks?! www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

A bit of “intellectual” prep with side of donut 🥰

Miracle of miracles… after years on many waiting lists, sweet W has started in a wonderful early childhood program! My friend Rachel was just INCREDIBLE for the past year (we were SO fortunate to make things work) and now W is loving her new “school!” Early childcare workers are simply amazing! 💛

I wish it wasn’t considered controversial to say that people should not be starved to death. I wish it wasn’t controversial to say that is unacceptable for all of humanity.

I am not a tomato person* but Stephen is. Apparently Japanese Milk Bread is excellent for tomato sandwiches 🤷🏼‍♀️ made some. *yes, I’ve tried them fresh, local, many varieties, attempt each summer… I’d rather not have the aversion, but I do!

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

"Are you surprised" and similar responses shift the focus from "how do we react to this horrible thing?" to "who is the cool one here." It's an accusation of naïveté.It opts out from engagement and shifts the focus from the well-being of the world to one's own status enhancement.

Hazy skies = particulate matter 💔

I think about this fact every day. The way in which the world's most powerful nations have not only looked away but supported and defended the most egregious war crimes by a rogue state they call an ally.

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

This is so deeply dystopian. Sweet W’s doctor has been clear “no screens before 2” - treat it like sugar, small doses after. Those pushing tech onto our children & into our schools have created SO many messes that we’re still working our way out of.

Still thinking of this piece covered by Della Mae at Grey Fox. Determined to work it into my curriculum: youtu.be/tGMY4qwJ4OE?...

Clarissa is SO cool! Love the way their brain works! www.wcax.com/2025/07/24/v...

Important history that I didn’t know: “We worked Monday to Monday, often without eating,” one man said. “They promised to kill us.” #GiftLink wapo.st/40v10l0