What a piece of writing: “The shame has become my Higher Power. And the memories are like prayers.” Brian Broome for @therumpus.net c/o @markisero.bsky.social’s Article Club. therumpus.net/2025/09/11/m...

I neglected to include practicing empathy in my list of school-based experiences phones displace, an excellent point recently raised by Dr. Wendy Hunter on “The Pediatrician Next Door” podcast.

This is the best, most balanced treatment of the topic I've read. Folks trying to comfort parents often excuse abuse. On the other end of the pendulum swing sits parental perfectionism. Dr. Cara Goodwin, the Parenting Translator, nails it. #Goldilocks parentingtranslator.substack.com/p/is-stress-...

A little nuance amid a lot of horrifying entitlement and cruelty.

If this is what happens when ICE agents know they are being recorded …

At a meeting last night, I was reminded of yet another benefit of intergenerational community. Our committee is charged with "care" so we talk about who needs support. Updates on aging friends allow me to feel needed as I check in on folks and also give me another boon: gratitude for my good health.

Ready-made community. And you can pick the one you like best. And your whole family will benefit. Yes, please. slate.com/life/2025/09... Thank you @gailcornwall.com for spelling it out.

NYC educators and mental health professionals are trying to help students adjust to school without cellphones. Just don’t call it a ban, they advise.

MUST READ “‘Career funnel,’ a phrase coined by sociologists … describes the mechanism behind the crowding of elite college graduates into 3 high-paying fields,” despite desire - and prior intention - to serve the public interest. Evan Mandery for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Every year since 1972, the College Assistance Migrant Program has served about 2,400 students, mostly the children of the agricultural workers who feed the rest of us. After the Trump admin cut off its funding, “colleges have laid off staff members and cut back services.” www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

“The mission of Georgetown is closely aligned with many aspects of DEI principles & practices .… It is a worldview … central to centuries-old Catholic & Jesuit teachings.” And thus protected by the First Amendment twice over. Bravo, @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

"Kirk subscribed to some of the most ... harmful beliefs," making the rush to memorialize redolent of post-Reconstruction sanitizing. "If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?" Ta-Nehisi Coates for @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Do today’s parents, who are largely forsaking it, need religion? My latest for @slate.com. slate.com/life/2025/09...

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times. The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules. It is "decidedly improper and impermissible." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Unbridled authoritarianism now. They aren't even attempting a pretext.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

“The TX Education Agency is investigating more than 280 complaints against teachers who have been accused of making inappropriate comments online about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death as several educators …have already been punished.” @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2025/09/15/t...

Dylan Lopez Contreras, a student in NYC who was arrested by ICE at a routine court date in May, said: “I have seen fights, racism, and even death. It has given me many nightmares.” @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social & @amyzimmer.bsky.social for @chalkbeat.org www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Wildly misleading headline alert! Hed: Efforts to fund schools more equitably actually worsened racial inequality Article: States’ equity-focused school funding reform worked! But racial inequality grew anyway for other reasons (and b/c of differences b/n states). www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

“The Trump administration’s effort to prevent undocumented immigrant children from enrolling in Head Start … is on hold nationwide after [Republican-appointed] judges issued injunctions.” But harm has already been done. @ericameltzer.bsky.social for @chalkbeat.org www.chalkbeat.org/2025/09/11/j...

These experts on learning differences break down some of the largest implications that educators need to know on the claims made about ADHD in a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report. #EWOpinion

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Prudent response in face of arbitrary state terror.

“Kirk’s advocacy of vigorous debate ought not be separated from what he said.… He used deceit … to weaken the US. His assassination … warrants widespread condemnation [but] should not protect him … from critical review.” @davidcorn.bsky.social for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“We have seen too much violence on our campuses, whether it was the brazen murder of Charlie Kirk yesterday or the threats against these HBCUs today," Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“‘The fact that around 2,000 individuals are on waitlists — almost the same number as are actually enrolled — suggests that we need to greatly scale up [higher education in prison] in Illinois,’ Ginsburg said.” @charlottewest.bsky.social for @opencampus.org & @wbez.org www.wbez.org/public-safet...

In spite of how you feel about Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump or politics in general, what does the data say about the rise in hate crimes & political violence? We checked.

California passes law banning ICE agents from wearing masks.

Time to plan a trip to Baltimore. This show is incredible, as is Sherald's moral compass. hyperallergic.com/1039367/balt...

Yes! The teachers are joining houses of worship in saying no to ICE enforcement. Not in and around schools. Not in and around churches. Let people learn and pray in peace. Because not doing so violates established law, and also, human decency. apnews.com/article/scho...

Emma Goldberg and her sources largely conflate distinct questions: Are those being prescribed hormonal birth control fully informed about side effects and all that the medical community doesn't know? Is birth control worth it? How is doubt likely to impact access? 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Big thanks to @gailcornwall.com for the thoughtful conversation about my research on women’s infidelity 💖Excited to see The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife featured in @huffpost.com. 🔗https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cheating-infidelity-reasons-wh_n_689cee2de4b0ba345d65bd88

Disagree w/ Oster - b/c this is definitely a bad trend for almost all kids - but had to share her data: Kindergartens are less likely to do art & music daily & explore topics like dinos & light. “Less child-directed play…. More worksheets …. [M]ore … sitting-still.” parentdata.org/has-kinderga...

Tim Daly offers reasons why education went from a top policy priority to being “barely on the radar” - and thoughts on what we can do about. I would have put more focus on privatization and purposeful $ and PR undermining of public schools. But still, good stuff! www.educationdaly.us/p/educations...

Thinking about this old essay as we prepare for my 11-year-old’s full-grade bday party this afternoon. Inviting everyone gets more socially awkward as they grow, but I still get emails from parents saying ours is the only party their child got invited to all year. www.huffpost.com/entry/unpopu...

A big “if” from fabulous Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen.

“In addition to … voluntary changes, & even after a valiant legal fight and court victory, Harvard may still make a deal to get Trump off its back. If it does, that will be an acknowledgment of a reality that many have put off admitting: that the extortionist wins.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Repeated intentional perversion of civil rights laws: Lhamon says, "This administration … withholds … federal funds, and then insists on a set of prescriptive, very detailed changes that are well afield of the topic that the administration claims to be investigating." www.npr.org/2025/09/04/n...

“Black college applicants could … check the relevant racial box & then write personal statements exploring their passion to study Proust, Plato, string theory …. But since the ruling, Black applicants are strongly incentivized to produce narratives of racial woe.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“In his 52-page filing, Schwalb said the Washington deployment ‘run[s] roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy – that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Young people’s lives derailed by cruelty in the land of plenty. apnews.com/article/undo...

“You are not the first to be ghosted, and you won’t be the last… [A]bandonment has always existed, but the internet has supercharged it… [via a] move from total accessibility to total inaccessibility in an instant.” Another great take from @chaykak.bsky.social 1/2 www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

My getting through hard things mantra: We are doing it. We’re making it work. We are working it. We’re making do.

It is wild for sitting federal judges to say *anything* negative about the Supreme Court in public, much less on the record to a reporter. Pretty embarrassing for Roberts and the conservatives to get called out like this, and also entirely well-deserved.

“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that (the government) used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." apnews.com/article/harv...

“Each week seems to bring [new] bigotry. I am sometimes tempted … to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing …? And yet, we must write it down, if for nothing else, then for the sake of those who will come after us.” Clint Smith for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Phones in schools hinder growth for kids and create more work for adults, Gail Cornwall argues. Cornwall, a parent and former teacher, makes the case for banning them:

“‘Humor development predicted socio-cognitive development 6 months later, but not the other way around.’ Joking around, in other words, helps kids learn to think about what other people are thinking.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

“Museums are not stages for loyalty. They are civic laboratories. They are places where we wrestle with contradictions ... But only if they remain free. If they do not, we lose [our collective memory &] … the public spaces where imagination takes a stand against power.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...