The White House says that an unidentified staffer was responsible for posting a racist video of the Obamas—yet the video remained on President Trump’s Truth Social account for 12 hours, Hana Kiros writes.

“Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y

What Melanie Lundquist’s op-ed for @edsource.org describes is exactly the type of investment @theatlantic.com let me write about in 2017: NYC’s Central Park “bucked the tragedy of the commons. Can America's school systems do the same?” @lausdsup.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...

Rather than “handing out vouchers & hoping market forces fix what decades of neglect have broken,” the Partnership for L.A. Schools works with LAUSD “to strengthen … schools, using philanthropic dollars.” Investment in the public commons. Not in fences. @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/voucher...

Statement on behalf of San Francisco Friends Meeting and others in our suit: “As people of faith, our sacred spaces must remain places of safety, refuge, & worship.... Today’s ruling affirms a simple but profound principle: religious freedom belongs to everyone." democracyforward.org/news/press-r...

Do you know of a low-tech high school? I'm looking for schools where teens aren't using laptops or iPads much if at all. I'm sure there are plenty of Waldorf schools, but ideally I'd find one where eschewing screens is its own thing, not a corollary of another pedagogical philosophy.

Gustavo Santiago, 13, told @micarosenberg.bsky.social, “I have friends, school, and family here .… To this day, I don’t know what we did wrong to be detained.” He ended: “I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.” @propublica.org 1/3 www.propublica.org/article/life...

Talk about waste: “A new report from a government watchdog suggests the Trump administration's efforts to fire staff at the U.S. Department of Education cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.” www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

“The Iranian regime, in addition to arresting protesters, has started targeting anyone who has attempted to help them…. Iranian doctors, lawyers, and journalists … described a campaign of quiet terror in the wake of the massacres.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

"Schools ... have recently touted a record share of students who receive Pell grants [for lower-income families]." But Pell rules changed. "[T]op colleges are still filled largely by students from advantaged backgrounds." @mattbarnum.bsky.social for @chalkbeat.org www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/10/t...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

“Mr. Halverson, who is Black, Vietnamese and white, has few answers for her. In his car, he is carrying his U.S. passport, in case he himself gets pulled over.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

“I developed a tolerance for what I did not understand, & then I gradually understood it…. We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to ‘meet them where they are’ [but] to do as Whitman says … : Stop somewhere ahead & wait for them to catch up.”

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

“What educators in Columbia Heights are keen to convey to the world outside is that—despite national revulsion toward Operation Metro Surge … the war is far from over. From some perspectives, it is intensifying.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Responding to falling enrollment by closing schools seems logical, but research suggests it often creates more problems than it solves, including abetting those who would dismantle public education entirely, argues Prof. Mara Casey Tieken for @hechingerreport.org. hechingerreport.org/opinion-shut...

Excellent local journalism from @bzosiad.bsky.social. sahanjournal.com/education/ic...

ICYMI: “Murdering someone definitely works as an intimidation tactic,” @adamserwer.bsky.social quotes a rabbi ICE watcher, & then he shows why it doesn’t: Every assumption “undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“If the supermom thought she could have it all & the Pinterest mom prided herself on doing it all & the performative trad wife believed that she could be it all, Niazi offers a depleted maternal alternative: fuck it all.” RebeccaMead on the evolution of the bad mom. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“The Trump admin’s sweeping crackdown on immigrants has taken a particularly high toll on the child care industry…. [C]enters have lost staff … [some] immigrant parents …are afraid to drop their children off,” & more chilling effects, like drawn blinds. @calmatters.org calmatters.org/education/20...

How the scientific malfeasance and ego of a handful of men spawned pain, addiction, and/or child separation for millions of mothers. Fantastic investigative reporting and feature writing from Ben Taub for @newyorker.com. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

These inhumane conditions, developed with sheer lawlessness, are appalling, full stop. They appear even more disgraceful when you remember that the majority of these folks haven’t even been accused of a crime, let alone convicted of one. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“The reality is that reconciling a relationship is not just difficult, but sometimes inadvisable … especially in cases involving harm or trauma…. [F]orgiveness does not have to mean a reconciliation. At its core, forgiveness is internal.” @theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-we-get-...

More evidence that the wraparound support offered by community schools WORKS for individuals & society: “CIS led to higher test scores, lower truancy rates, & fewer suspensions in TX schools” plus more college going. @annielowrey.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/education/20...

In Minneapolis, completely rational fear recently meant that it took “several hours, five people and a citywide network of volunteers [to get] a 12-year-old girl her first menstrual pad.” @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

“Our ability to participate in witnessing … to assure one another that, no, you are not crazy, they did just ‘fucking kill that guy,’ is a threat to the Administration’s assumption of total power, not only over events but over …history.” VCunningham 4 @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

The number of children in ICE detention on an average day has skyrocketed 6x since Trump took an office. Families complain of poor medical care and worm-infested food. "It’s only a matter of time before we see a child die," one advocate said. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...

We don’t have to prove social media is bad for youth mental health to limit & regulate it, writes Prof Nesi: “There are many situations where we have decided … that children or teens would be better off not doing something… [like] working a full-time job.” technosapiens.substack.com/p/the-mistak...

“Until the purges of the past year, the U.S. govt housed an unmatched collection of experts, capable of some of the greatest feats in human existence…. What took generations to build is being dismantled … as a quiet catastrophe.” Franklin Foer for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A teacher “became sold on injecting empathy into student projects yrs ago. The University of Colorado approached him …. The shift in his high school student designers was immediate … ‘’cause they were like, oh, my time matters.’” @jennybrundincpr.bsky.social for @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/01/17/n...

Let's not allow all the other state-backed atrocities taking place in the U.S. right now to prevent us from pushing back against this absolutely appalling miscarriage of justice and perversion of culture. Article by @freerangekids.bsky.social for @reason.com. #LetGrowOrg reason.com/2026/01/16/s...

The clergy who did the assigned reading have entered the chat

This is such a ridiculous response. And unacceptable. In no other career are people allowed to make these types of mistakes without consequences.

Nuremberg them

This is sickeningly cruel and inhumane.

Interesting op-ed: “given the Trump admin’s lumping of gender with race, college … policies intended to attract men will now face the same legal challenges [as] affirmative action,” potentially hampering recruitment of male athletes.” From @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/colleges-men...

Sounds a lot like the fabricated charges and sham trials Nazi Germany used to criminalize dissent and snuff out political opposition. @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Folks will have different opinions about where @xwaldie.bsky.social lands on the issue of “fawning,” but no one can deny that this is one hell of a line: “The ordinary pleasures and frustrations of interdependence wither under fawning’s pathologizing scaffold.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Two-parent households do not confer … academic advantage [for low-income kids]…. Those who live w/ both parents scored a 199. Those who live w/ just mom scored 200.” Money matters far more than family structure. @jillbarshay.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

“In the years that Block was homeschooled, why was he never assessed, or even checked on? The answer is that homeschooling was wildly-regulated when Block was a boy—a situation that has not changed much since then.” @olgakhazan.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

Important corrective from @phillewis.bsky.social. www.whatimreading.net/p/jacksonvil...

“Forced divorce.” Living in perpetual, pervasive fear. Inability to see a parent for a decade, to go camping with a grandparent who’d like nothing more. Draconian, punitive immigration policies are traumatizing generations of hardworking, law-abiding Americans. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Can you imagine being so desperate to deprive other people’s teenagers of an education that you’d be willing to contort law and logic? So desperate to hoard opportunity that you’d subvert democratic processes? @knottkatherine.bsky.social for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Writers, check out Jennifer Wilson’s swoon-worthy transition: “employ a good lawyer, someone who … has heard more sad stories than can fit inside the Country Music Hall of Fame. I flew to Tennessee to meet Rose Palermo, the so-called divorce queen of Nashville ….” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Peeing when you sneeze or jog or cough is preventable, sexist bullshit that doesn't just impact those who give birth. Please read my latest for @theguardian.com if you or someone you love has plumbing similar to mine. We don't have to live this way. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“She represents the kind of people often caught up in … Trump's goal of deporting 1 mil immigrants each yr: well-established in her community, active in her church, no criminal record…. The [US citizen] twins were away from their friends, their school, their father.” www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...