“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

Planning for the Unexpected: How Uncertainty Drives Scientific Practice Uncertainty is often seen as a barrier to student learning in science, yet it is central to the work of scientists and can be a powerful catalyst for engagement and sensemaking in the classroom. Th...

Science teachers, check out our (with @eveimanz.bsky.social and @dtcampbe.bsky.social) new paper being published across the NSTA journals on working with uncertainty in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Excited for this one to be out!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.

Statement from @health.nationalacademies.org "...based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism."
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...

Really grateful to be part of this work w @rongray76.bsky.social & @eveimanz.bsky.social

Navigating the MBI Unit Development Template YouTube video by Ron Gray

Check out our new video about using our Model-Based Inquiry Plannign template! youtu.be/DjY3TbB3VLk?...

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

Five Ways Trump’s Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools, by @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”

-Justice Sonia Sotomayor

As the Senate considers voting to approve Trump's devastating funding cuts to public broadcasting, listen to the words of LeVar Burton.

The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Contact your senators today and urge them to oppose these cuts.

Historian here 💯”Trump’s way forward is to go in reverse, by about a century”

Look at this amazing sign. #NoKings #butterfly

a yellow minion wearing red boxing gloves is standing in a boxing ring . Alt: A yellow minion wearing red boxing gloves is standing in a boxing ring .

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions is one of the worst of 2025 so far.

Yet, these tools still exist:

1️⃣ More class-action lawsuits
2️⃣ More plaintiffs joining
3️⃣ Faster final judgements on the merits
4️⃣ Arguments about "complete relief"

🧵 Using science funding as example...

A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill

One piece of good news, Mike Lee’s bill failed!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/c...

Historian of Reconstruction here the Supreme Court is behaving like its predecessor in the late 19th century when it gutted the Reconstruction constitution and federal civil rights laws. It refused to implement the 14th amendment against Trump and now he has a blank check to upend our constitution.

BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault

We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵

Tackling Real-World Problems: Impacts, Observations, and Challenges after Seven Years of the Environment Corps - AAAS | IUSE Caption: Stormwater Corps students learn to read development site plans with Instructors Bruce Hyde and Mike Dietz. In the spring of 2016, faculty members from several departments at the University of...

Excited 2 see this published about our E-Corp Project!
aaas-iuse.org/tackling-rea...

two little girls are dancing on a stage . Alt: two little girls are dancing on a stage, one snaps her fingers

Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say:

🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!

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Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.

Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University.

That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

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