Leading the way toward math recovery - Education Forward DC Student performance on DC’s annual math assessments showed slight improvement over the past year, but achievement has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. In discussions with school leaders, a common...

DC students are making strides in math, yet challenges remain post-pandemic. @empowerk12.bsky.social, the DC Education Research Collaborative, and the DME are collaborating to enhance math instruction across the city, including holding the inaugural DC Math Summit and launching the DC Math Hub.

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood As Trump corruptly accepts a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from Qatar, Representative Jamie Raskin explains why this is an “outrageous abuse” of the Constitution—and what Democrats will do now.

Good to see: Rep Jamie Raskin tells me Dems will introduce a resolution calling on Trump to come to Congress for approval of his $400 million luxury jet gift from Qatar—and challenge Rs to join.

On the pod, Raskin is very good on why this is so corrupt:
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Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.

After the horrific killing of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Uvalde, Republican and Democratic Senators came together to end these senseless tragedies and passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
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Going to print this out and frame it on my wall

“Also, we’re ending the environmental and regulatory standards”

U.S. economy shrinks at 0.3% rate in first Trump-era GDP report

DONALD TRUMP, AUGUST 14, 2024: "When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand-new Trump economic boom"

DAY 101:

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retail sales rise 1.4% in March as shoppers stock up on goods out of fears tariffs will drive higher prices.

Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.

A top adviser of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, a U.S. defense official said.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Chart showing global stocks plunging because of Trump tariffs

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.

The New York State Education Department on Friday issued a defiant response to the Trump administration’s threats to pull federal funding from public schools over certain diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

How Cory Booker’s record-long Senate speech compares to others in history Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on the Senate floor in past decades.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) this week broke the record for the longest Senate speech in modern history, coming in at more than 25 hours.

Here are the other senators whose speeches on the floor have lasted more than 20 hours.

Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O

Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.

NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...

DC has been spending at FY25 levels for 6 months now. If the House GOP CR is approved as drafted, here’s what DC would have to cut:

- $63m from the police & firefighters retirement system
- $38m from fire & emergency management
- $23m from the Department of Corrections
- $75m from MPD

Conclusion Consistent with the findings above, and to keep the status quo, the Court hereby ORDERS that a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER is entered in this case until this Court rules on the States' forthcoming motion for a preliminary injunction, which the States shall file expeditiously. During the pendency of the Temporary Restraining Order, Defendants shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate Defendants' compliance with awards and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the States, and Defendants shall not impede the States' access to such awards and obligations, except on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.

BREAKING: Judge McConnell blocks Trump administration temporarily from blocking grants/loans to 22 states and DC that sued over funding "pause." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) says kids should get jobs instead of receiving free school lunches. The school lunch program serves grades preK-12, meaning it includes children as young as 4. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Tweet from the White House Press Secretary: “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.”

Thanks. This clarifies nothing.

Good thing they made the rest of the party spend 24 hours defending this as-is.

Trump's funding-freeze fiasco should demonstrate to Democrats that speaking loudly in unison is a pretty good way to set the media agenda and to alert voters that something is gravely amiss with his assaults on rule of law and constitutional governance:

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This deal Musk came up with is not a severance deal at all.

You agree to resign and you can continue to work from home until September instead of coming into an office.

That’s it.

The January 6 pardons are turning out great.

According to the National Weather Service it is currently 27°F in Washington DC