here's a little story. Janet Mills won a big settlement against drug companies as part of the opioid crisis and used it to buy Narcan, enough for every fire station and police department in the state. Republican Paul LePage said Narcan just encouraged drug use and people should die,

San Juan 🇵🇷

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Absolutely striking piece & critical read (gift link): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

The problem is many of us don't see a lack of racism as an access need for Black people.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Living in a country where people can simultaneously celebrate Lunar New Year, observe Ramadan and Lent, and party at Mardi Gras on the same day is cool, good, and worth fighting for. Pluralistic democracy is one of humanity’s greatest inventions!

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.

A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum in New York City had long been a mystery. It was recently linked to the Underground Railroad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is really interesting———Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It came! Thank you for the recommendation @chanda.blacksky.app! Reading in the sunshine while sweet W naps 💛

We use this piece in our 9th grade curriculum when talking about the Fugitive Slave Act. Students always respond so thoughtfully! Sharing stories of collective resistance feels SO necessary in this time 💛

With town meeting day right around the corner, I hope my VT friends remember the importance of local elections (and of passing public school budgets!)

A white lady in sensible sandals set fire to a building. The tides are turning.

Looooooove 💛🙏🏻 it’s such a blessing to work with these badass students! vtdigger.org/2026/02/13/v...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew

We ARE a small & beautiful state. We are also a state filled with courageous leaders! Thank you for making us proud @balint.house.gov 💛

Most people still don’t understand how bad the situation is when it comes to censorship of children’s literature.

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

DEBI THOMAS Debi is the only African-American to win a medal in figure skating in the Winter Olympics, and the first African American to win a medal in any event during the Winter Games. She was World champion in 1986 and Olympic bronze medalist at the #WinterOlympics in 1988. #BlackHistoryMonth

I'm facilitating this again the week after next in case you weren't able to make it last night. Pass along to any educator who might benefit! Free or pay-what-you-can. I have limited zoom capacity- please only register if you're pretty sure you can make it buytickets.at/unconditiona...

"Nobody thought something like this could happen here" they say...

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

How Can Educators Teach in These Turbulent Times? With @christienold.bsky.social and others is new @edweek.org post www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

It’s as Sara Ahmed said: solidarity doesn’t mean that our dreams are the same dreams or that we hope for the same future; it is a recognition that we stand on the same ground.

This grassroots work has been ongoing, and has always directly called out the colonialism that has killed thousands of people. It is one of the most important energy justice fights of our time. Read the history behind Bad Bunny's symbolic halftime show: earthjustice.org/feature/puer...

What made it such a great show is that it was entertaining and layered and explicitly political with excellent music, delightful surprise guests, stunning sets, a clear narrative, a shout out to ALL of the Americas and a cameo from Belcalis.

Thinking about the fact that the writing on the football was in English. The audience for THAT message - significant. Truly going to be thinking of the incredible brilliance & beauty of that show for a long time! 💛

In my classroom, we started the year, in part, with the Taino. I’m going to be insufferable tomorrow 😂🥰

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

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A fantastic episode with Alana Casanova-Burgess, who runs La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, and music critic Julianne Escobedo Shepherd that digs into the history and politics of tonight's performance! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Well, that was a great Super Bowl. I’m glad Bad Bunny won.

Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

We begin each social studies class with the headlines. This week, when talking about the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, a student asked, “but why would ICE take her?” It took me a moment to realize that for many of my students, kidnapping = ICE.

This is a perfect example of "I saw a thing that I could do and I started doing it"