For years, we kept being told they were in favor of small government and deregulation.

With AI, they're demonstrating maximum government and regulation of everything.

Sexual misconduct by lawmakers is widespread — but often goes unreported New data from the nonprofit National Women’s Defense League, shared first with The 19th, comes on the heels of the resignations of two members of Congress.

Exclusive: new research from the National Women’s Defense League and shared first with The 19th, has tracked 30 allegations of workplace sexual misconduct against members of Congress made since 2006 — a number the report’s authors say is likely 3-4x higher in reality 19thnews.org/2026/04/sexu...

Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control.

"[Tech bros] see an advantage in becoming even more central, singular, and irreplaceable figures...—as if the current limitations of their businesses can be surpassed only by the expansion of their authority. They want a version of AI that amplifies and entrenches their individual perspectives."

Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control.

Today in AI is a tool of authoritarianism

We still use "I spilled the honey" from A New Leaf in my house as an all-purpose "uh-oh." All hail!

It’s interesting that practicing a discipline towards its highest level, even if one never intends to join it, is valued for everything except English

This is already happening via school vouchers, which since most private schools in the US are Christian schools, are a form of involuntary tithing to religious institutions free to discriminate.

TY!

Research Evidence Against Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education YouTube video by Education Law Center

This was on YouTube & was watching this morning. Seems relevant.

youtu.be/j69kqP9bx0A?...

Can we organize a mass unfollow of the journalists who attend the Correspondents' Dinner this year?

Violence at school is not a discipline issue but a structural crisis Violence in schools, first in Siverek (Sêwêreg) and then in Maraş (Mereş), has once again brought debates on child rights and social structure to the forefront. Eylem Kaya, a board member of the Hu...

This piece on school violence is from Turkey but is even more relevant in this violent nation called the U.S.

Publishing contrarianism for contrarianism's sake is killing us.

All of the evidence presented in this interview screams, "No, do not introduce AI into schools."

It's amazing to me how these self-styled pragmatists live in a fantasy world: "Here's how it could work if the world was different" and how their recommendations are presented as solutions.

This data, from the AEI interview above, was shocking and new to me:

"The average school district is now using nearly 3,000 tech tools, and students are accessing on average 48 tools over the course of a year. That seems like a recipe for incoherence."

Resisting School AI Mania With Anne Lutz Fernandez YouTube video by Extracurricular Podcast

We talked about the history of schools adopting edtech and continuing to use it without evidence of effectiveness and about fantasy that AI tools will free up teachers' time here, noting what routinely happens to teachers' time with new initiatives:

"Schools today do a lot of what they call pilots—but they don’t have clear measurable results that will tell school leaders if it’s working. Moreover, they often don’t have plans for how to sunset things that aren’t working...Build that muscle before just letting people implement AI."

Summary: Broad adoption of AI in schools would make sense if most schools were very different than they actually are -- IOW, in an imaginary world.

Many Americans question Trump’s temperament amid Iran war, pope spat: Reuters/Ipsos poll President Donald Trump's approval rating held at the lowest of his term in recent days amid the Iran war and a feud with Pope Leo.

71% know he doesn't have the right temperament for the job and more than half see his "mental sharpness" has dulled

only a quarter approve of his handling of the cost of living, think the war with Iran has been worth its costs and think that it makes us safer

Chart from Reuters on new Reuters/Ipsos poll: "Trump's approval at second-term low" shows 47% approval/41% disapproval at inauguration with almost immediate crossover into net negative; net disapproval growing through the tariff spring and summer, bombing and war-mongering fall and further expansion in the dumb war spring.

A few remarks on this chart:
-some believed his "Day One" claim about inflation but not his dictatorial desires
-some more figured out tariffs were a tax on them if they didn't know it before
-even more aren't keen on waging and funding wars
-gas prices are the real third rail of politics

Andy Beshear is Going Big on Schools The Kentucky governor brings early childhood, K-12, and higher education together to join the ultimate kitchen table issue with economic development.

More evidence that Dems should be running on education.

*and* use!

oh yes!

The American Man at Age Ten | Esquire | DECEMBER 1992 Some early conclusions on the future of mankind, which lies in the preadolescent minds of Colin Duffy and his contemporaries, who will be twenty-one in the year 2003. Hopefully, the women of the twent...

I'm also thinking of dozens of mentor texts that I share with students use for my own writing and many are by @susanorlean.bsky.social, especially The Orchid Thief and:

Teaching Argument, Beyond Literary Analysis, Writing with Power

So his answer was basically just vibes? Ok, professor...

I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos.

www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...

bring back shame

We STILL haven't properly mourned the COVID victims. Likely we never will.

It really is something I will always fault the Biden administration for. He should have resisted the GOP and liberal impulse to memoryhole the entire thing.

We all still have leftover trauma from 2020 and January 6.