Republicans are getting more brazen — in rhetoric and policy — in pushing teenage girls to give birth.
The good news is that it won't work. Girls aren't going to fall for it.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2026/04/20/m...
This and the NY Times Learning Network are my go-tos for emergency sub lessons and “extras” for speed racers who finish assignments early.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
When education is run like business, schools need to waste time, focus, and money on marketing. (And parents and children can’t rely on schools remaining open even through an entire school year.)
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NEW: Deepfake abuse incidents have been documented at schools in 88 countries, according to research by @wired.com and @indicator.media. One conclusion experts draw is that this is like other types of sexual violence: “Increasingly, the intent is humiliation, denigration, and social control.”
New dads like me want to do fatherhood differently. Where’s our support?
When I’m seen changing a nappy, surprise on people’s faces tells me the bar isn’t just set low – in many contexts it doesn’t exist - Zac Seidler
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gen Z's AI Adoption Steady, but Skepticism Climbs
Even the most engaged users of artificial intelligence are less positive about it than they were a year ago
news.gallup.com/poll/708224/...
A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.
Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.
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Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
Impressionable young men under the spell of a dangerous phenomenon called looksmaxxing.
youtu.be/PdxJ-js52E4
How Melbourne’s ‘Man Cave’ is healing the manosphere in teenage boys 7news.com.au/news/how-mel...
Whether or not the ceasefire holds, the US-Israeli war on Iran has laid bare the security case for renewables.
Bill McKibben summarized it nicely:
Oil and Gas = Peril and Poverty
Solar and Wind = Prosperity and Protection
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuel-...
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San Francisco's Ethnic Studies courses linked to higher grades, UC eligibility, study finds
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Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/m...
Health teacher here - unfortunately, this hasn’t changed much! Sex ed is taught in radically different ways from one state to another.
