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that time of year again: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

P.S. 305's event, “At What Cost? The Illusion of School Choice and Florida’s Race to the Bottom” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/ps305miami/e...

a huge victory for universities, worth billions of dollars: Trump can’t cap indirect-cost rates on NIH grants, appeals court rules www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social

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Here is the Wyoming Supreme Court's 4–1 decision striking down the state's draconian abortion bans under the state constitution's provision guaranteeing residents the right to make health care decisions (which was enacted as a rejoinder to the ACA). documents.courts.state.wy.us/Opinions/S-2...

NEW: The January edition of @skess108.bsky.social & @erings.bsky.social's state court oral argument roundup is here! Issues on the docket this month include: ⚖️ UT's execution methods ⚖️ ID's school-choice program ⚖️ Legislative responses to MO’s voter-approved abortion rights amendment And more!

It's Their Time

as we approach the legislative session schoolfinance101.com/2025/12/29/s...

A Blue Ribbon Commission formed by the Rhode Island Foundation wants to significantly change the formula for state aid to local school districts. via @rhodeislandcurrent.com

Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

1. Yes, Trump launching a new military operation overseas without Congress’ prior declaration of war or authorization of force is almost certainly unlawful. 2. No, there is no real chance the courts will stop it. Unfortunately our Constitution means little when the judiciary won’t enforce it.

Illegal and unwise are his guiding principles. Add racist and misogynist, and you've described the Trump era.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

American war-making doesn't just divert funds from social programs. It generates income and wealth inequality.

Show me the analogue in United States history and tradition that allows America to criminalize foreign powers to possess machine guns.

You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas. You only get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the Unites States if you live in a palace in Tegucigalpa.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Today, I wake up surrounded by neighbors who, on the one hand, are relieved that Maduro has been removed, but nervous for their friends and families in VZ, and on the other hand, are still in hiding here in fear they'll be hunted down, abused by ICE & shipped to place more dangerous than VZ.

Billionaires bankrolling data fraud (of Gino) on Twitter.

Poorly written drivel. I can't tell if "Our", "Us" and "We" are referring to the company or the country.

Journalism is not a “conversation.” It is a profession dedicated to separating fact from fiction, challenging people in power and authority, and through those efforts, helping people educate themselves to be better citizens and better people.

I love America, too. But I want my news to be honest with me. Otherwise, it's just sparkling propaganda.

“In conclusion, CBS is a land of contrasts.” This whole thing reads like a half-assed class project some fifth graders rushed through before Christmas break.

Expect there to be efforts to pull or restrict funding to Minnesota public colleges. Diane Jones served in the first Trump administration and has the ear of ED officials.

8th Cir.: Missouri law requiring registered sex offenders to put up a sign reading "No candy or treats at this residence" on Halloween violated the 1A bc it was not narrowly tailored since such offenders are already prohibited from participating in Halloween. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/01...

There seems to be a lot of confusion between “lots of professors who lack merit are being hired” (false) and “lots of people with merit are unable to find jobs as professors” (true).

The Jan. 6th Insurrection Happened Nearly Five Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/01/02/t...

One of ACHE’s charts really stood out to me. Associate degrees show an early bump in earnings, but growth levels off. Bachelor’s degree wages keep rising through the 30s, and that’s where the long-term payoff becomes clear. Full story and ACHE analysis linked below. aldailynews.com/ache-college...

Sherrilyn Ifill’s @sifill.bsky.social latest is a must read. “I believe that our opponents are on the decline. … That is because cruelty and hate is not a belief system. It is an exhale, a howl of pain, of insecurity, of spiritual emptiness, and of arrested development.”

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

New Year’s gift: a new record—#2 on Apple Podcasts (Government) 🎉 Grateful our 2025 Year in Review episode resonated. Thank you for listening, sharing, and helping The Oath and The Office rise. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social LIsten here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

This is how you end up with RFK Jr in a position of power and killing ppl thru his stupidity. Right wing abhors expertise. Actually abhors it. Except expertise in making money by any means necessary.

So, CBS News will stop placing greater weight on conclusions and analyses of those who study issues deeply and rely more on the opinions of Joe from the donut shop in Iowa?

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

"These attacks are baseless, racist, and despicable. And yet, they’re taking a page out of the same moral panic playbook the GOP has been running for decades to undermine public investment in childcare and achieve its broader (and often misogynistic) policy aims." open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...

Half of my twitter feed today is scientists correcting anti-science bullshit flooding twitter, from vaccine effectiveness to HIV treatment to climate science. I applaud them for their efforts (the actual scientists, data in hand), but the disinformation crop dusting of twitter boggles the mind.

“It's bad fucking news. It's bad for thinking. It's bad for learning. It's bad for teaching. It's bad for research. It's bad for knowledge. It's bad for justice. It’s bad for democracy. It's bad for humanity.” - @audreywatters.bsky.social , and you know what she means by “it”, don’t you?

Boardrooms for me (and my kids), call centers for thee (and yours) [only difference between Rocketship back in 2014 and newer variants is a software update - AI integration - which isn't necessarily an improvement].

To summarize - hard to accept from tech bros & policymakers who sat around Harkness Tables with 11 peers interactively opining on history, philosophy and literature that "other peoples' children" should be placed in sparsely supervised rooms of cubicles interacting with AI bots on tablets.

Glad she’s fighting back but it’s still ridiculous that she’s in this situation at all. Universities can’t give a heckler’s veto to its dumbest and laziest students.

"There has never been a president who has made the United States less respected than you have. We are, to borrow a phrase, disrespected like never before. Whether your twisted ego can recognize that is open to question, but what is not debatable is that virtually the whole world knows."

Local reporters are doing some outstanding work on the "Education Freedom Scholarship" in TN. @rachelannwegner.bsky.social at @thetennesean.bsky.social reports that more than 1 in 5 vouchers were used at the most expensive private schools in the state. (1/3) www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...

Also interesting to note that a handful of schools each enrolled >580 voucher students (that's >$4m each and a lot for an ostensibly statewide program). One school with a minimum tuition of $18k had 325 voucher students ($2.37m). Your tax dollars at work! (2/3) www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...

Also of note: at least 18,000 of the 20,000 vouchers were used at religious private schools, and most counties have few or no voucher students. (3/3) www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...