Twin Cities Educators Resisting for the Common Good Jaffe describes the rise of social justice teacher unionism in the Twin Cities and how unions have confronted ICE.

I always read @sarahljaffe.bsky.social & especially when she’s writing in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social!

Resisting the Rise of the Bots In the next 10 years the AI education market is projected to reach between $112 billion and $127 billion — more than double the federal government’s entire K–12 education budget. […]

@rethinkingschools.bsky.social's winter issue is devoted to AI:

"We would love to live in a world where advances in technology change our lives and schools for the better, rather than enrich corporate executives at the expense of children and educators. But that is not the world we live in..."

‘What We Want, What We Believe’: Teaching with the Black Panthers’ 10-Point Program This lesson shows students how to use the Black Panther Party's 10-Point Program to assess issues in their own communities.

We offer a lesson on how students can use the Black Panther’s Ten Point Program to assess issues in their own communities and to develop Ten Point Programs of their own. By @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editor Wayne Au. Also available in Spanish.

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I was stuck by this quote from Rep. Rutherford (R-FL):

“Because we’re not always going to have this problem. Eventually, we will deport the majority of the illegals, and we’ll get back to normal needs.”

If you go by Miller's numbers, that's still about 10 million!

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I remember alot of very serious men in suits yelling about not being able to trust China to comply with any conservation measures.

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 – UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters Six months after the ceasefire, and as regional developments shift global attention, UN Women warns that women and girls in Gaza remain at critical risk.

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza.

A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

Trump DOJ TARGETS KEY Rights in SHOCKING New Move YouTube video by Katie Phang

Instead of protecting reproductive freedom per the FACE Act, the weaponized Trump DOJ instead protects the terrorists.

@reproductivefreedomforall.org's Mini Timmaraju joins me for an in-depth conversation on the latest strategic attack on abortion by Trump and the GOP.

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An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

Tell Congress: Pass Raskin’s Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission Contact Congress today!

The 25th Amendment already gives Congress the tool to remove him if he can’t do the job.
Raskin’s bill would finally create the independent commission to make it happen.

This is one more real shot to protect the country. Tell Congress to pass it.
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service Contact Congress today!

Trump is trying to gut the US Forest Service — closing offices, slashing jobs, and opening 193 million acres of public land to exploitation.
This is an illegal power grab.

Congress must block it now. 🌲

Poured Over: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on The Edge of Space-Time - B&N Reads The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes you to the edge of the universe and explains abstract theoretical physics concepts in an accessible and engaging way. Chanda joined us live at ...

Quantum physics, Star Trek, and craft books! My event in Manhattan on Monday was recorded, and you can now listen 🖖🏽

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All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

Counterpoint: no, it isn’t. Leo is in line with the traditional teaching of the church. Trump is a warmonger, corrupt, delights in humiliating others, and is blasphemous on a level that wouldn’t even occur to most people.

This isn’t hard.

Wow. This is the FBI Director.

Several officials say Kash Patel’s drinking has been a recurring concern across the government.

At the FBI, it’s called reasonable suspicion. That’s enough to trigger testing or administrative action. So what are we waiting for?
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I must have a much broader definition of “inconvenience” than the New Yorker, because I consider “paying to rent media which can then be increased in price or taken away from me completely based on a corporation’s whim” pretty damn inconvenient.

Tell Congress: Pass Raskin’s Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission Contact Congress today!

The 25th Amendment already gives Congress the tool to remove Trump.

Raskin’s bill would finally create the independent commission to make it happen.

This is one more real shot to protect the country. Tell Congress to pass it. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

the us federal government has what i can only describe as “poster’s sickness” where every problem is viewed solely through the lens of maximizing social media engagement and you are constantly saying shit that absolutely worsens your physical, material condition

AI chatbots give misleading medical advice 50% of the time, study finds The chatbot's answers were often delivered with confidence, though none produced a fully complete and accurate reference list in response to any prompt, the researchers said.

Artificial intelligence-driven chatbots are giving users problematic medical advice about half the time, a new study found, highlighting the health risks of a technology that's becoming an integral part of daily life.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

🎀🎀

Demented Don kinda can’t pardon his entire staff/cabinet. Because if he does, they can be compelled to testify against him and if they get caught in a lie, they can go to jail. It’s why he didn’t pardon many people on the way out the door last time.

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply an...

Nearly half of Arizona’s SNAP participants have lost benefits since the state implemented new Trump legislation.

“Arizona is just the alarm bell,” one expert said. “This is likely going to happen in every state.”

The Students at Ohio State University have been protesting against Les Wexner and want his name removed from the “Wexner Center for the Arts”,but nothing has been done so they covered the name up with a Banner that says “Redacted” like you see in the Epstein files! lets get 100k people here

50 former staffers!

initially i thought it extremely inappropriate for jd vance to travel to another country and try to meddle in their elections and now i think he should go stump on behalf of every right wing reactionary party in europe, give him a special budget for it, i don't care, get him on the local news