In settlement for alleged sexual assaults decades ago, Montecito Union School District to pay two brothers $7.5 million, equal to about 40% of its current budget. edsource.org/2025/tiny-di...

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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“Fire RFK Jr. now.” After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that the secretary go. Meanwhile, the White House is defending Kennedy as its "crown jewel" admin leader.

JUST IN: Democrat Catelin Drey has won a state Senate seat in Iowa tonight in a special election, flipping the seat from the GOP. Drey’s win breaks the Republican supermajority in the chamber.

🚨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.

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The ruling permitting opt-outs from instruction based on deeply held religious beliefs has caused confusion and trepidation among school administrators, who are hearing threats of litigation from both sides.

Calif. schools bracing for the impact of recent SCOTUS decision allowing parents to optout kids from classes based on religious beliefs. Bottom line: It will be a mess edsource.org/2025/califor... California schools brace for fallout from U.S. Supreme Court decision on religious rights | EdSource

Big win for stopping book bans: In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries. “None Of These Books Are Obscene.” #booksky bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

It's been 185 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

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It's been 184 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

It's been 178 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

It's been 177 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama: "Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.

It's been 171 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

It's been 169 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

Looking forward to reading the upcoming book "Separation of Church and Hate" by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social. I am certain it is going to be enlightening, funny, and correct.

Exclusive: Kerr County, where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing, had the technology to turn every cellphone in the area into a blaring alarm, but officials did not do so before or during the river level rising to record heights.

It's been 166 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

EdSource's unit of @newsguild.org was recognized by management on Jan. 27, and 164 days later management has not met with us to begin negotiating a contract. We are ready and prepared to bargain. It is time to get to work and build a better @edsource.org.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

One of the greatest journalists I have ever known - Mary Fricker - leading a panel on investigating for-profit healthcare at #IRE25

Los Angeles Unified’s trustees approved 15-year bonds to spread the costs of sexual assault cases; other districts are also struggling from 2019 legislation that expanded their financial liability.

Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs without fearing for their lives. “The First Amendment is the First Amendment regardless of who you report for or what your perspective is,” says @davidloy.bsky.social.

With 24 other orgs, FAC condemns the treatment of journalists covering the protests against ICE raids in LA. Targeting journalists violates the First Amendment. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/09/c...

The assassin of #Oakland #journalist Chauncey Bailey has been released from state prison well short of the sentence he received for testifying against the shotcaller and an accomplice chaunceybaileyproject.org The Chauncey Bailey Project

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

Labor groups, officials push for a minimum wage of at least $25 an hour in L.A. County

FCC commissioner sounds alarms about free speech ‘chilling effect’ under Trump www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @megjames.bsky.social

Every editor at every mainstream news outlet that has referred to Trump's tax legislation as a Big Beautiful Bill, whether in quotes or not, should be lined against the wall a College of Journalism building on the nearest campus, denied a blindfold, and then shot dead. That is all.

"The Boss", Bruce Springsteen.

Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’

Bruce Springsteen Calls Donald Trump ‘Incompetent, and Treasonous’ at 2025 Tour Kickoff

In a world of Jake Tappers, be a Bruce Springsteen!

Wow. Listen to Bruce Springsteen kick off his European tour, talking about what is happening here.

[email protected] was apparently cowed into correcting its story on the sale of the SantaRosaPressDem to refer to newspaper butcher AldenGlobalCapital as an 'investment firm'& not a hedge fund. To be clear, Alden Global is a hedge fund run that guts & destroys newspapers. Show some guts.

If you are heading the the SPJ Regional Conference in San Francisco tonight, join FAC’s @ginnylaroe.bsky.social for tonight’s keynote discussion: Free Press Under Fire, with @davidgreene.bsky.social of @EFF.org, @thomaspeele61.bsky.social, and Heather Knight of @nytimes.com.

Sat 1:15 at [email protected] regional conference! Check out FAC’s Watchdog Workshop, featuring FAC’s @ginnylaroe.bsky.social & investigative reporters @calireporter.bsky.social, @pickoffwhite.bsky.social, and @thomaspeele61.bsky.social, who will reveal secrets of public records sleuths.

Unfortunately this is also part of our package on police in schools. They're in positions with a lot of trust and they don't have a ton of oversight, and whenever that combination exists some people take advantage of it in horrifying ways.

Many California school districts’ contracts for policing services do not prohibit officers from involvement in routine student disciplinary matters, despite the federal government’s guidance that administrators are responsible for handling those issues, an EdSource investigation found.

The contracts EdSource obtained show districts spending at least $85 million on school resource officers. In many districts, the cost of a contract for a resource officer often exceeds the salary of a mid-career teacher.

Good news! You can read the story I’ve been working on for nearly a year about (among other things) how much it costs to put police officers in schools.

While the big news is how much is spent by districts on police, and that many including district officials consider it double taxation, the most surprising part to me was that so many districts hide SRO contracts on consent agendas so it's hard for the public to find and comment on it at meetings.