Wow. This nuanced, well-sourced article reflects deftness, perspective, and judgment that many veteran journalists lack, and it looks like the writer graduated college just five years ago?! Brava, Jaden Edison and @texastribune.org. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/06/t...
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.
“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)
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“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...
We should put adult interests - like parental pride & social capital, profits for companies, & sports fans’ thirst for extremes - behind kids' welfare. Yet a return to rec won’t require giving up much. In fact, Norway suggests that a focus on participation won’t even hurt the U.S. medal count! 11/11
Congress could end the madness with regulations addressing the many excesses of tournament teams (like that time a friend drove his daughter five hours to Reno only to play teams from towns they could have biked to) - and provide funding for rec sports. 10/11
Congress doesn't really set boundaries for youth sport. Neither do courts because privately-run teams mostly aren’t beholden to the Constitution, civil rights statutes, & high school athletic association rules, & because judges figure parents have the right to sign their kids up for a raw deal. 9/11
A focus on outcomes—driving wins & reps up—also breeds bad behavior. What Flanagan describes as “physical abuse disguised as training; emotional exploitation masquerading as tough love” happens on rec teams too, of course, but at lower rate, b/c incentives don’t demand that adults be demanding. 8/11
It also increases “athletic identity foreclosure,” where kids identify only as, say, a gymnast, & experience loss of purpose & self when they can no longer compete. 7/11
Early sport specialization isn't just associated w/ more injury & decreased performance (no wonder about 90% of 2025 NFL Draft picks played more than one sport in high school). And it doesn't just increase rates of the type of perfectionism that drives a baseball-obsessed 12-year-old to quit. 6/11
That creates lots of downstream effects, like the "pipeline effect." My daughter plays volleyball at recess almost every day and at an open gym on Fridays. But she couldn’t make the team in sixth grade, b/c other girls had been playing for so long that her athleticism & interest weren’t enough. 5/11
Rec teams can’t thrive in parallel w/ the club sports complex. As families depart for travel ball, rec teams are left w/out full rosters & skilled players, becoming less enjoyable for kids & increasing parental FOMO. Fewer coaches, refs, & fields lead to a downward spiral of less programming. 4/11
Then the recession of the 70s resulted in slashed budgets for park & rec depts & private opportunities bloomed. After deeper cuts followed the Great Recession, club sports morphed into what we see now: big business with private equity invested in destination facilities & year-round personnel. 3/11
History: Leagues hosted by municipalities & social agencies like the YMCA became popular at the start of the 20th century, but they took a hit during the Depression. Pay-to-play orgs like Pop Warner & Little League filled the void. Still, both types of team served athletes of all skill levels. 2/11
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...
"Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did [and] detaining many more parents with only minor criminal histories or none at all, ... [leaving] an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."
“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...
