So far, Bluesky has failed to create a system where users feel like they can create communities within the platform with ease. They come, they try, they fade away.

March Is Women’s History Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources March is Women’s History Month in the United States. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Women’s History.

March Is Women’s History Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/01/m...

ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know Dylan Lopez Contreras, a senior at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May. The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams

ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

March is #WomensHistoryMonth. A great way to celebrate is to read biographies that celebrate the achievements of women
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The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind Musk has stepped out of the limelight, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that million

Elon Musk will sit for a deposition regarding DOGE’s gutting of USAID.

Multiple reports estimate that his dismantling of the foreign aid agency directly contributed to thousands of deaths around the world.

And that’s just one piece of damage DOGE left behind. Watch.

ProPublica Event: Inside the Destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development Join ProPublica journalists for a conversation about the dismantling of U.S. foreign aid worldwide.

Even as senior Trump officials cut vital foreign aid programs — in one case celebrating with cake afterward — they had been repeatedly warned that people would die.

Join ProPublica journalists for a conversation about the dismantling of USAID.

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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ grant application process has taken a political turn under Trump.

“It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story,” said a Republican who led the agency from 2019 to 2024. “And that’s wrong.”

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post to be its savior. Instead, he’s the man presiding over its decline, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/v-gXaw

This is the backlash effect.

Repression and overt cruelty backfire when decent people refuse to accept Stephen Miller's monstrous Nazi vision for this country.

Plummeting popularity sets Trump on a war against the truth YouTube video by MS NOW

Two excellent clips from @jenpsaki.bsky.social re: Trump's attempted media takedown.

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Nipah in India, measles is the first building block to fall, flu increasing again, and US out but CA in on WHO The Dose (Feb 3)

Ex-pat here. This is a good read. CDC (for what that's worth) says 467 cases in SC and 10 in NC. Think on that...

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📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 Fascism rises when people stay silent. Join the movement for democracy—organize, speak out, and build people-powered resistance before it’s too late.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026
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Making the Most of Your Modern School Librarian Today's school librarian is an advocate for joyful reading and a supporter and provider of many meaningful learning opportunities, writes Jennifer Sniadecki.

"The modern school librarian is an advocate for joyful reading and meaningful learning opportunities in 2025." @middleweb.bsky.social

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Donald Trump Straight Up Rejected One Of His Supporters' Concerns About The Cost Of Living "Please do something, President Trump,” Regina Foley, a registered Republican who voted for Trump three times, wrote.

"Please do something, President Trump,” Regina Foley, a registered Republican who voted for Trump three times, wrote.

Speaking of sourcing... this from Google AI:

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out.

Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/BZC3lZB

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Portland's Inflatable Frog And The Power Of Laughtivism Humor is a powerful tool of nonviolent protest that can create lose-lose situations for authoritarians

Go Frogs!

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More little street libraries needed!

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.

Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.

A Chuck Lorre vanity card (637-Young Sheldon), originally posted 12/12/19. Tinted for easier reading. Prescient?

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Trump's Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ | TechCrunch A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.

Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/t...

‘The cruelty is the point, @ as @adamserwer.bsky.social wrote

More great reporting on our western North Carolina disaster by ProPublica. A teacher couple featured here. #edusky

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:

“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”