Wow, thanks for sharing this. It’s been quite a while since I wrote it.

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Agreed. This is my 33rd year and the one thing that has damaged education the most is the accelerated timeline for learning standards tied to standardized testing.

Exactly!

We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025.

Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

I agree that hands on and movement are needed in classrooms. However, with an unreasonable number of standards required to be taught for tests and overloaded classrooms, it’s not as simple to implement as it sounds. Speaking as a 33 year veteran teacher with special ed training and experience.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr

This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

You cannot claim to be eco-conscious and concerned about climate change and promote the use of AI. The two are antithetical.

I’m an English teacher who’s taught futuristic dystopian fiction for decades. It’s horrifying that we can now study it as non-fiction in real time.

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical

The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨

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We, the daughters and sons of Tuskegee Airmen will continue to teach their important role in our collective history. Trump's "order" is racist trash. 🗑️My dad was an Airman and I'll be damned if they erase him and his fellows.

Crazy cool group of farm animals from all aspects of the spectrum in a short grass field in front of a leafless forest.

There's something needs to be said
And it's important
You don't need to be gay to stick up for your gay friends
You don't need to be trans to stick up for your trans friends
You don't need to be Jewish or muslim or Hindu or black or white
You only need to be good people
To stick up for your friends

Smoke from fire at California lithium battery plant raises concerns about air quality A fire at the world’s largest battery storage plant in Northern California is smoldering after sending plumes of toxic smoke into the atmosphere.

This isn’t getting enough attention. It’s the LARGEST BATTERY STORAGE PLANT IN NORCAL.

apnews.com/article/batt... Smoke from fire at California lithium battery plant raises concerns about air quality

Medicaid Per Capita Caps Up to $900 billion in 10-year savings VIABILITY: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW Currently, states receive open-ended Federal Medicaid matching funds based on the costs of providing services to enrollees. Under Medicaid today, for every dollar a state spends on Medicaid services, it gets $1 to $3 of Federal support (richer states get $1, poorer states get $3). States are guaranteed continued federal support for actual spending, even if those costs go up or do not achieve desired outcomes. With a per capita cap, the federal government makes a limited payment to the state based on a preset formula, which does not increase based on actual costs. States exceeding the “cap” for enrollees would thus need to find other revenues to maintain spending levels or explore innovative ways to reduce excessive costs. This policy would establish a per capita cap for each of the different enrollment populations set to grow at medical inflation.

This is their plan to starve Medicaid. Gutting Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars will rip health care away from kids, veterans, seniors in nursing homes, Americans with disabilities, and working families. You don’t cut a TRILLION dollars from Medicaid without hurting millions of people.

We warned that Trump was going to purge nonpartisan civil servants and install loyalists, because he told us he would.

His own Agenda 47 explicitly said he would do this. Project 2025 laid out the framework and has been training loyalist replacements.

This is the first phase of that 👇🏾

This is irrefutably true. Let’s see how long it lasts.

Instagram Blocked Teens From Searching LGBTQ-Related Content for Months Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content."

Instagram Blocked Teens From Searching LGBTQ-Related Content for Months ⤵️

One thing Newsom should do *right now* is a statewide rent freeze. They did it during lockdown, they can do it again. And yes, statewide, because every landlord within 200 miles of LA is eagerly waiting for fire refugees to move into their area.

The Eaton fires destroyed a youth care facility my friend worked at. They had no time to pack, and everything is lost.

Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires.

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Thank you for reading my book! So many great books out there. I very much appreciate you taking the time to read mine.

History is gonna call us every kind of stupid. And deservedly so.

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I love the cover!

More Than Words A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by...

Large language models have near-zero utility when it comes to helping students develop as writers. I say this because of what I value in the writing experience: thinking, feeling, human exchange and communication with readers. I make the full case in my book www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...