This admin sure is good at making BS sound real, oppression sound like care: “Many unaccompanied minors are brought to the border by smugglers & face real risks of exploitation, which is why providing [this] advisal is essential .… [F]or many … returning home to their family is the safest path.”

DHS has been “advising unaccompanied immigrant children that they could either self-deport or expect to face long-term detention. But a federal judge in LA on Monday ordered the govt to stop using such ‘blatantly coercive’ language.” Andrea Castillo for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Love all of this post on not overstating the evidence, EXCEPT when Prof. Emily Oster ... overstates the evidence: "This is ridiculous, it's not supported by data, and it's totally impractical for the modern world." Where's the data to back "ridiculous" and "totally"?! parentdata.org/kids/smartph...

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

SCARY. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“If at first teachers worried about students using chatbots to write essays, now new agentic tools [do] even more” homework and classwork. Professors are outsourcing their work too, as education threatens to become “a fully automated loop.” @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“Inaction isn’t an option” when it comes to America’s wage problem, writes @johncassidysays.bsky.social on lessons from the work of @arindube.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

I am getting a lot of questions about whether Trump's threats alone are illegal. The answer is yes. 1. First, Additional Protocol I states “Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” (also DOD LOW Manual §5.2.2) 1/

“This is not the war we wanted,” Shailin said. “This is just some new hell.”

New forms of family separation disrupt the schooling of students with undocumented immigrant parents, many of them U.S. citizens. So too does the “frightening prospect” of detention, reports @jonapolitano.bsky.social for @the74.bsky.social. www.the74million.org/article/for-...

“Students are coming into college with weaker study skills & a marked decline in their reading, math, & writing abilities. They avoid courses that might lower their GPA & often expect to be graded on how hard they worked, not how well they understand the material.“ www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

A woman who left her synagogue over its stance on Israel said that her “faith has definitely gotten more intense,” propelled by a desire to prove that Judaism “belongs to all of us—Zionism doesn’t have a monopoly.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As word counts creep lower in anticipation of shortened attention spans, I’m a big fan of the CUTTING-ROOM-FLOOR THREAD. Here are some bits that didn't make it into the article I wrote for @time.com after my kid got caught up in commercialized, pipelined youth sports. 1/11 time.com/article/2026...

"[T]ired of cultural stereotypes that reduce stay-at-home fathers to undignified buffoons," Eric Magnuson "decided to go hunting, to see where else these dads show up in literature [& found] a window into shifting views on full-time dads & men as caregivers." www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

In fact, if sports that focus on experience rather than outcome were a drug, rec sports in childhood and adolescence could be marketed as all of the symptom control with none of the side effects, research says.

Rec sports aren’t just more inclusive than club sports; they also benefit kids' health by not evaluating and not displacing things like free play, other extracurriculars (including other sports), relationships, academic pursuits, & autonomy. My latest for @time.com. time.com/article/2026...

“The classroom device pullback is the latest sign of a growing global reckoning over how tech giants and their products have upended childhood, adolescence and education.” - Natasha Singer for @nytimes.com

Our nation has “put aggressive enforcement goals like arresting 3,000 immigrants a day above concerns about the harms of hastily separating children from their parents.” Another @propublica.org investigation pairs impressive fact-finding w/ heart-wrenching detail. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“‘The tech bros & J. D. Vance fanboys ... The idea of … not hav[ing] to apologize for being a man—boy, is that attractive to them.’ Also attractive … the business opportunity for ‘extracting money’ & attention ‘from anxious young men.’” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Some schools “that once bought devices for each student are now re-evaluating heavy classroom tech use … as an effort to refocus schooling on skills like student collaboration & conversation … on child development, student-teacher interactions & old-fashioned fun.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/t...

“Today, we defeated another one of Donald Trump's efforts to misconstrue federal law to force Minnesota to abandon duly passed state laws and become a colder, less caring state," the state attorney general wrote. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Tech companies are aiding & abetting authoritarianism even though @aclu.org says, “The govt is not substantiating those concerns of safety threats …. They point here and there to attacks on facilities, but they have in no way connected the apps to those attacks.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Kids are using Roblox to make sense of ICE, sometimes processing fears, others minimizing harm. Cal psych prof Giovanni Ramos says, “platforms popular w/ young people need robust, responsive moderation systems that can distinguish b/n harmful content & healthy coping” ls.berkeley.edu/news/psychol...

“It was a bit like playing a game—a grownup version of dress-up or hide-&-seek, but… just as some parents realize after their 2nd kid that they’re going to need a larger place, or a minivan, my mother decided that a family of 4 was just too big for the underground.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Balanced and nuanced reporting on the early days of Australia’s pioneering youth social media ban. www.pbs.org/show/how-aus...

Incredibly important, powerful testimony from NCYL’s Neha Desai. She ended, “Children are suffering tremendously in federal immigration custody right now. Thank you for caring about these children, and thank you for shining a spotlight on what this country is doing to them every day.”

Another banger from Dr. Cara Goodwin, a.k.a, @ParentingTranslator. parentingtranslator.substack.com/p/what-not-t...

Overheard on the steps of San Francisco City Hall: SFPD calling ICE "tactically unsound" and saying ICE agents intentionally behave in a manner that's too "aggressive" in order to generate social media clips meant to win conservative votes.

By training adults ages 50 & up to work as subs in child care centers, one program helps “staff an industry that chronically lacks workers” & “offers personal fulfillment & community connection for its members in the years after retirement.” @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/tapping-reti...

God bless @newyorker.com.

The thing about people who show real political courage is that usually they wish they weren't in a position where they had to show political courage.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Kudos to the National Center for Youth Law for pushing back when a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing today took aim at the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guarantees every child the right to a public education regardless of immigration status. @youthlaw.bsky.social youthlaw.org/press/2026/0...

DHS “has temporarily paused large-scale arrest operations in the wake of a national outcry over abuses in MN, & … opposition from congressional Democrats. The Administration’s bigger ambitions show no signs of flagging, however. In fact, they are leading toward a new humanitarian & legal crisis.”

Two consequential developments threaten the midterm elections. My new piece in ⁦‪@thenation‬⁩ explains how a seemingly innocuous change to Postal Service procedure & the so-called SAVE Act—if passed—could have dire ramifications. But we can fight back. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

So. Many. Government. Lies. This story should terrify anyone who wants fairness and basic human decency for themselves, let alone their neighbors, in this supposedly-free country. @rubycramer.bsky.social for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

A kindergartener “knew jingles from diaper & car commercials [that] were playing before YouTube videos” during school snack time, transition time, & dismissal. “I am just horrified,” her mom told @jackiemader.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org & @nytimes.com. hechingerreport.org/ipads-in-kin...

What indoctrination is really happening in college? Students say left-wing profs pushing woke views is not a concern, while new conservative-run “civics centers” are: “It is very Republican …. If you come in with a blank slate, you’ll probably come out a Republican,” one told @hechingerreport.org.

“You couldn't set up a worse scenario," said Dr. Blair Cushing … “I'm kind of blown away by the level of risk that they're concentrating in this facility." But the motivation is simple: want to deny these girls abortions? Send them to Texas. Mark Betancourt for @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n...

More bad news for parents of teens trying - and failing - to hold the line on vaping: “a new longitudinal study finds that cannabis use among adolescents increases risks of being diagnosed with bipolar & psychotic disorders, as well as anxiety & depression, years later.” www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

The AI voice reading me this article pronounced ACL “tears” as rhyming with “fears,” and I can’t say it’s wrong, given the content of the story. @craigwelch.bsky.social puts the promise and pity of the FIFA 11+ in context for @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/m...

ATTN parents & educators: “Almost a decade ago, the average vape cartridge had the nicotine content of about a pack of cigarettes or 20 cigarettes. These days, popular vapes can easily have the nicotine content of 3 cartons or 600 cigarettes.” @ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/12...

The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway: Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"For formerly incarcerated people ... earning a degree is ... the first step toward rebuilding their lives. But without stable housing, the rest becomes nearly impossible." One prison ed program hires its own alums to renovate houses. @charlottewest.bsky.social www.opencampus.org/2026/02/20/e...

“The Administration has continued … deporting large numbers of noncitizens to so-called third countries, or countries to which the deportee … has no connection.” A law professor explains the “clearly illegal” practice. @ichotiner.bsky.social w/ @uclacilp.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, had a whole life ahead of him when a federal immigration agent decided to take it away. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

These stories of unfairness, dehumanization, & demagogic decision-making are appalling & redolent of our nation’s biggest mistakes. The couple that had to close their business, in particular, reminds me of the internment of Japanese Americans. The damned if you do-don’t polygraphs of McCarthyism.

“Even as Donald Trump has turned the agencies of DHS into something of a roving personal police force, his Administration has prosecuted a quieter but no less ambitious assault on legal immigration.” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

A district needed to lower the dropout rate of Latino teens who were already getting extra academic support. Latino college students at a primarily white institution needed a sense of mattering. A mentoring program paired the problems to solve them. @edweek.org www.edweek.org/leaders/2026...