All parents should read @natashanyt.bsky.social's excellent book, CODING KIDS. It's a deeply researched look at Big Tech's takeover of public education. It's also full of courageous folks confronting Big Tech's power. Thank you @wirobooks.bsky.social books for inviting me to review this book.

Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Turns out, Silicon Valley isn’t especially altruistic. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @wwnorton.com @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @natashanyt.bsky.social @aranshetterly.bsky.social #codingkids #bigtech #booksky #bookreview

Our new poll confirms it- the people of VA-05 demand a change in Washington. More at tomperriello.com/news

This one hits hard.

Just talked to a Scandinavian journalist coming to the US to cover the World Cup. Their employer has told them to treat the trip as if they were going to North Korea or Russia. Leave all personal communication devices at home. Burner phones only.

Book people! We see you and we’ve got you. Visit every day—NO paywall.

Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's true! #gbf #booksky @jbywrites.bsky.social @cathyalter.bsky.social

"We are partnering with Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly to increase the visibility of women in computing in American history." #womenhistory #womenscience #womenmathematics #womencomputing womenshistory.si.edu/human-comput...

Human Computer Project

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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

If all these oligarchs named in the Epstein Files are totally innocent, surely they’d be in favor of an independent investigation into Epstein’s crimes. Right?

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

@katz.theracket.news is right. It's time to force Trump to resign. We must show resolve, gather together, and tell our reps what you expect of them. At the same time, we need to be brave enough to imagine something better than the old status quo. @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

What would Trump's price be? It could be wired to one of his Cayman Island accounts...

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Can Minnesota pay Tom Homan $50,000 to get ICE out?

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested

There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

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@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Dear Senators, ICE agents must remove their masks, not be immune from prosecution from their crimes, and be forced to stop ethnic profiling. Their funding should be reduced or eliminated right now. Thank you.

@rickperlstein.bsky.social do you see Trump as more a culmination of the history you've documented or an aberration?

Denver looking like the better team right now.

Yes. If America isn't really for everyone, per this crew, why would the 2nd Amendment be?

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Folks have been noting the creepiness of this NRA statement on the Minneapolis murder that DOESN'T affirm Alex Pretti's right to have a gun at a protest, instead blaming "radical progressive politicians lie Tim Walz" who have "incited violence against law enforcement officers" for his death....

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's book in the 2nd Amendment, Loaded, is worth revisiting in this moment. She argued that the 2nd Amendment was really used to control Native Americans and enslaved people, for whom that constitutional right did not apply. Now citizen dissenters are stripped of rights.

I'm amazed by my diehard 2nd Amendment friends who think is Ok for someone to be murdered because they were in possession of a weapon.

Folks not from the Upper Midwest like me might not be able to grasp what it means to get 50,000 witnessing for justice in -10 degree Fahrenheit. This could be effective, repeatable, and scalable. Today, the Twin Cities. Next, the nation. Shut down. inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

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ICE abducted a man in minneapolis on january 6. by january 14, he was dead in a concentration camp in texas. victor manuel diaz was 36 years old. they say he did it to himself. ICE murdered him.

Man arrested by ICE in Minneapolis dies while under federal agency's custody in Texas

A 36-year-old man who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis died while under the custody of federal law enforcement in Texas on Wednesday, according to the agency.

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A smokey haze of "drugs", "military technology", and jingoistic exceptionalism to justify an illegal operation.

Should Mexicans now be concerned that Trump will attempt to overthrow their government to reclaim oil interests when President Lázaro Cárdenas made the courageous decision in 1938 to nationalize the country's oil?

Whoop there it is. The oil business in Venezuela.

He can barely read.

If the Good Neighbor Policy wasn't over already, it is now. What will sovereignty mean in Latin America going forward?

AI isn't smarter than people. But if it makes us dumb enough, it might become so.

So as Trump pardons a Honduran president accused of conspiring to bring 400 tons of cocaine into the US, blows up boats off Venezuela and elsewhere, and threatens MX, it looks more like he's trying to bully his way into the drug game than stop the flow it. Thoughts? @ioangrillo.bsky.social

So Larry Summers, who is on the record questioning women's ability to do math and science, needed help from a pedophile to understand women? Nice.