Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks

This is much how America stole what is now California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona.

Parents in The Onion explain their outrage over "woke" universities: - "I'm not paying $40K a year for my kids to unlearn all the hate I painstakingly instilled in them." - “I don’t want my daughter coming home for break all hoity-toity and thinking she’s too good for racial slurs.”

Violating not only the principle of equal justice under the law but the most basic and general notion of fairness

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · yesterday

They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it.

A few years back, a school in the Dominican Republic was designated as one of the country's best. Their inspiring response: to think deeply about the whole idea of pitting schools (or kids or teachers) against one another. As a result, they ended up respectfully declining the award: ow.ly/pqi1T

The eminent educator Gerald Graff contends that it doesn't matter how radical and transgressive the content of your teaching is if the WAY you're teaching reflects the same old "pedagogical authoritarianism" - e.g., "failing to challenge the common assumption that teaching is a solo performance."

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu One side wants fascism. The other side wants healthcare as a human right. To even attempt to conflate the two is absurd.

"We're the good guys. We can't just ... do stuff."

Professor KPA 🗃️😷@kpanyc.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Good Place still reigning as the best description of the Democratic establishment ever: youtu.be/knPIzHEaGmw?...

"Those who see giants are still looking at the world through the eyes of a child." -Anais Nin

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The production of fawning, hagiographic, and frankly deranged imagery of Trump by his adoring base has been one of the defining cultural markers of this age." Good @aselrod.bsky.social meditation digging into how online pathologies are increasingly infecting our politics. Really ugly stuff:

Qualitative study on how homework perpetuates inequities: Richer kids' advantages help them succeed w/ assignments and are then "seen by tchrs as responsible, motivated, & capable." Conversely, kids who struggle w/HW b/c of fewer resources are blamed for lacking responsibility or motiv: is.gd/1KwIgY

Big day for the vile racists currently in charge of all three branches of the federal government.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4d ago

Breaking news: A federal judge took the final step in allowing the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning many are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.

I dream of a day when these people not only internalize the fact that criticizing the systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians ISN'T a fringe opinion but begin to realize that it SHOULDN'T BE a fringe opinion.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4d ago

I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

Apparently God’s legislative priorities include tax cuts for billionaires and taking health care and food assistance away from millions of Americans.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

House Speaker Mike Johnson credits prayer for the passage of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill": "It was impossible. There was no way to reconcile everybody and get it all together and we came in here and prayed for a breakthrough and God delivered it."

I become more bewildered with each passing week that an authoritarian cult has somehow grown up around, and largely remains loyal to, this sad, sad man.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5d ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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Dedication in a book by P.G. Wodehouse: "To _______, without whose...sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time"

"So, honey, you see what happens when you flirt with someone whose significant other turns out not to be dead?"

The "Science of Reading" campaign shamelessly misrepresents the research on that subject. In fact, its prescriptions tend to diminish kids' understanding of what they read and their enthusiasm about reading itself. Don't miss my new podcast conversation with Catherine Compton-Lilly: is.gd/JiaK2w

An overemphasis on phonics (mechanical decoding) is not just unhelpful for teaching kids to read; it's actively harmful. New on Kohn's Zone: Literacy expert Catherine Compton-Lilly calls this a kind of "educational malpractice" and explains what the REAL science of reading says: is.gd/JiaK2w

The richest man in the world, who's also a white supremacist (& misogynist & antisemite), will personally spend >$100 million to make sure plutocrat-friendly Republicans keep the Senate. It's been awhile since I took civics, but this is how democracy is supposed to work, right? tinyurl.com/995k723m

Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms

Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.

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An overemphasis on phonics (mechanical decoding) is not just unhelpful for teaching kids to read; it's actively harmful. New on Kohn's Zone: Literacy expert Catherine Compton-Lilly calls this a kind of "educational malpractice" and explains what the REAL science of reading says: is.gd/JiaK2w

This is important to keep in mind about the shameless and continuous dishonesty.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last wk.

Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Disturbingly, it appears that diarrhea is followed by amnesia

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

The New York Times covers the weather: "Some say the large hurricane heading rapidly toward south Florida means residents can expect high winds and considerable amounts of rain. Critics believe this could damage property and pose a risk to human life."

Howard A. Rodman@rodman.bsky.social · last wk.

Once again the @nytimes.com feels compelled to insert a “critics say” in front of an indisputable fact. This addiction to Both Sides Always will serves neither journalism nor the larger world, and is part of the devaluation of reality that has led us to very bad places.

"Thus the injustice committed by the wealthy, though great, was hard to recognize; and what happened was in fact a general upheaval of people being transferred and settling down on land which had belonged to others." - Appian, the Roman historian, writing ca. 2,000 years ago

Suppose progressives (e.g., Hong for WI gov, El-Sayed for MI sen) win their primaries and then beat the Republicans. Will conservative ("moderate," "centrist") Democrats admit they were wrong? Or will we learn that their opposition to progressives was more ideological than about electoral strategy?

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

i think el-sayed winning the michigan senate primary will permanently break the brains that were being held together by string since mamdani

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · last wk.

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something