After seeing Oklahoma sabotage its own students by adopting new social studies standards that include misinformation, disinformation, and Christian Nationalist, Texas Republicans must have gotten jealous. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-boar...

Sounds like a great job for Walters, since it’ll allow him to bloviate on Fox about culture war issues all he wants, without the pesky public duties that come with holding elective office. www.wonkette.com/p/ok-schools...

Walters' new gig is right in line with his work over the past couple of years. He will be the new CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance, whose aim, Walters says, is to dismantle teachers’ unions and align school curriculum with “American exceptionalism.” curmudgucation.substack.com/p/ok-ryan-wa...

“The departure of Ryan Walters is great news for Oklahoma students, families, and teachers. Now, we can focus our efforts on serving students and raising our national rankings from dead last.” – Sen. Mark Mann, D-Oklahoma City. www.oksenate.gov/press-releas...

Notorious MAGA education chief Ryan Walters is resigning from a role that has seen him insert Trump policies into classrooms for a new role busting teacher unions. Walters is stepping down to take up a new role as CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance. www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-mag...

The state superintendent in Oklahoma announced plans to put Turning Point USA chapters in every high school in the state, saying it would counter “radical leftist teachers unions” and their “woke indoctrination”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oklahoma 50th in education while Walters constantly looks for new ways to boost his MAGA cred.

Three charter school superintendents who are among the highest paid in Texas are overseeing some of the lowest-performing districts in the state, newly released records show. One of them is at risk of closure by school year’s end. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

JESSE WATERS: The militant transgender movement—is that a domestic terrorist threat? VANCE: If you are encouraging people to commit acts of violence against the US government or against your fellow Americans,absolutely—you're involved in a terrorist movement. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/white-hous...

"Schools ought to be designated as terrorist organizations too a way they are molding these children into unhappy, unfulfilled, and oftentimes murderous to themselves, the suicide rates through the roof, depressed, angry, lashing out." www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

Actor-activist George Takei’s next project is on behalf of a longtime passion — the right to read. The American Library Association announced Monday that the 88-year-old Takei will serve as honorary chair of Banned Books Week, which takes place Oct. 5-11. apnews.com/article/geor...

Beth Bourne, president of the Yolo County Moms for Liberty chapter, launched into a tirade against transgender students in locker rooms and bathrooms before abruptly stripping off her top and pants. www.erininthemorning.com/p/moms-for-l...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

The murder of Charlie Kirk, its motivation currently unknown, has turbocharged the regime and Fuck-Your-Feelings crowd’s justification for going after anyone doing wrongthink by not mourning Kirk’s death properly. www.wonkette.com/p/regime-alr...

The end of an era.

Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III announced Tuesday evening that a professor teaching a children’s literature course at the center of a viral recording was fired and that the university would conduct a full audit of its courses. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

The Education Department warned that it would freeze millions in federal funds if the Northern Virginia districts do not change policies that allow students to use facilities like locker rooms and bathrooms that match their gender identity. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

It’s now gender ideology as a 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 way to call out anything that hints of truths beyond the male and female sexes. Even suggesting gender exists, let alone is a continuum, is ideology enough and worthy of targeting. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 chng.it/T8XpPjyb2t

Ryan Walters told CNN that if teachers from the dangerous foreign states of California and New York want to teach in Oklahoma schools, they’d have to pass a special test that “keeps away woke indoctrinators.” www.wonkette.com/p/is-oklahom...

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

New York cannot join California in trying to counteract Texas' gerrymandering, because New York tried to do something good. Unfortunately, "evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." New York needs to grow up and join the fight. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Arlington Public Schools & Fairfax Co Schools filed lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to bar the federal agency from freezing funds to the districts in response to an ongoing debate over a policy supportive of transgender students. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

A new wave of book bans has hit FL school districts, with hundreds of titles being pulled from library & classroom shelves. FL is continuing to censor reading materials in schools, bowing to external pressures in effort to avoid conflict & government retaliation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Judge Carlos Mendoza of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a major case related to book banning in the state.The decision states that the law used to pull books from Florida public schools is “overbroad & unconstitutional.” bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

Moms for Liberty cofounder Tiffany Justice has been named executive VP of Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation. M4L held a fundraiser in Alabama. The keynote speaker was controversial lawmaker & Christian nationalist Marjorie Taylor Greene. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Speaking to Fox News, Walters said the state will begin administering “America First” exams to identify and block potential “woke, indoctrinating social justice warriors” from joining the classroom. unpresidented.substack.com/p/maga-schoo...

It seems no coincidence that the fast pace at Turning Point mirrors the first six months of Trump’s second term, which has lurched from scandal to extreme policy to blatant self-dealing at extraordinary speed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the statement, Walters denied the incident occurred, calling the allegations "categorically false." He blamed the allegations on "desperate tactics of a broken establishment afraid of real change." www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. apnews.com/article/tom-...

I’m not smiling. You’re smiling.

Oklahoma’s top Senate leader said an inquiry is underway following “a bizarre and troubling situation” where two board members reported that they saw naked women on State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office television. oklahomavoice.com/2025/07/25/p...

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, Moms for Liberty ally and a leading voice in the “parental rights” movement, was reportedly caught with images of nude women on a television in his office during a closed executive session. thespacecoastrocket.com/moms-for-lib...

The US justice department has formed a “strike force” to investigate claims that the Obama administration carried out a “treasonous conspiracy” by using false intelligence to suggest Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Howard Lutnick says many amazing trade deals are coming in 2 weeks: “The next two weeks are going to be weeks for the record books!”

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, part of his effort to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more state control. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

REPORTER: Gavin Newsom is fighting to keep men in women's sports. As a father, as husband, does he hate women? Why does he want men in women's sports? TRUMP: Nobody understands it. Very few.

While anything with LGBTQ+ themes will constitute a student being able to leave the classroom, it creates a grey zone for topics like science and history, where certain lessons – such as about reproduction – could be seen as now potentially inappropriate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.

If there’s one thing Moms for Censorship know, it’s that school librarians and English teachers are all Marxist porn-lovers who want to destroy children’s values and abolish Christianity. www.wonkette.com/p/first-they...

National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - Issued June 22, 2025 www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisor...

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

The most severe drop in confidence in higher education is from right-leaning students and their parents. Particularly after the pandemic and lockdowns, for many reasons, students across the board had a decreasing confidence in what college could do for them. rickherbst.substack.com/p/were-headi...

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

President Donald Trump’s newly created Religious Liberty Commission and the three advisory boards designed to support it include multiple right-wing Christian media figures with histories of extremist rhetoric and advocacy. www.mediamatters.org/salem-media-...

Washington Post has held talks with Substack about hosting pieces by its writers, the site’s co-founder has said, as a host of legacy media brands embrace the newsletter platform in the battle for readers. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...