James Noonan

@jmnoonan.bsky.social

associate professor of education at Salem State University in Salem, MA | studying leadership, learning, unlearning, equity | Boston dad interested in public education & politics | more at https://jamesnoonan.scholar.st | he/him | I support 🏳️‍⚧️ folx

Dollyland employees, both part time and full time, receive 100% of tuition covered. Healthcare, medical, vision, retirement benefits, childcare. A saint that walked among us. Every other wealthy person should be ashamed of themselves if they don't live up to Dolly standards.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · last wk.

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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So, in conclusion: the next time a president (or any US politician) says something racist, let’s condemn it. Because racism is wrong & repugnant. But let’s not say that racist words & actions are “not who we are.” Let’s instead reckon with the fact that they are & they have been since the beginning.

According to @hrw.org, during the first 500 days of Trump’s second term, 52 people died in the custody of immigration officials. The mortality rate in ICE custody is the highest in over a decade, more than 2.5 times as high as his first term. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

Dying in Detention

The 73-page report, “Dying in Detention: Rising Deaths in an Expanding US Immigration Detention System,” documents the increasing number of deaths in ICE custody through expert statistical and medical...

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Trump reinstalled a restored statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and diplomat who was also a suspected leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Pike’s statue was torn down and burned by protestors on Juneteenth 2020. Trump called it a “beautiful piece of art” apnews.com/article/trum...

A Confederate statue is restored as part of Trump's efforts to reshape how history is told

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C.

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Trump’s VP JD Vance brushed off dozens of leaked text messages by members of Young Republicans groups that included hundreds of appalling racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, and homophobic slurs. “That’s what kids do,” said Vance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

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After suspending the refugee resettlement program on the first day of his second term, Trump announced a plan to admit and resettle white South African farmers, whom he described as being victims of a “genocide.” They are not victims of a genocide. apnews.com/article/sout...

Trump administration welcomes 59 white South Africans as refugees

The Trump administration is welcoming a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home.

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