NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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🍎#TLSky 📚

Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable"@kateschapira.bsky.social · 2d ago

Looking for recommendations for celebratory zines to teach in my Intro to Creative Nonfiction class--can also be instructional but should have a "this thing/process is great!" quality. I'll purchase my students 20 copies of the ones I choose. @prisonculture.bsky.social? @marc-fischer.bsky.social?

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

🟠 #InternationalDotDay is coming — our favorite day of the year! 🎉 We're partnering with the @intldotday.bsky.social team on TWO new programs to help you celebrate! Free sign-up + Educator Handbook 👉 https://www.internationaldotday.org @peterhreynolds.bsky.social

This doesn't get rid of the settlement that establishes the fund. That would require Donald Trump's sign-on, and he made it clear he wants the fund. All this does is rescind the DOJ's order establishing the fund. Trump can still go to court and demand the fund because the settlement remains.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEWS: Todd Blanche says he is rescinding his May 18 order establishing the “anti-weaponization fund”

I'm okay if companies & schools want to experiment with AI, but I'll never understand why so many business and education leaders are ok w/ essentially beta testing AI on their customers/students w/out their permission and in high stakes circumstances. Make it make sense. 🍎 vnews.com/2026/08/02/k...

Vermont pharmacy AI struggles with medical accuracy - Valley News

Vermont and New York pharmacy Kinney Drugs faces criticism after implementing an AI assistant that reportedly causes prescription errors.

vnews.com

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

THIS THIS THIS 🍎

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google didn't just add AI to Google Earth—it briefly turned one of the world's most trusted sources of evidence into a generator of plausible fakes. shirin anlen & Sam Gregory from WITNESS on a foreseeable fiasco, and why tech firms must consult civil society experts before launch, not after.

🍎 Important info and great prompt for discussion, esp. for teachers or librarians using Google Earth with students and/or developing AI use policies.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.

This can't be repeated enough, especially for educators. Meta has just ensured that information it provides is unreliable. Pass it on. 🍎📚🗺️🧪#civics #AcademicSky #sschat

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 6d ago

Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.

🗺️🍎📚 If we ever needed a reason to begin explicitly teaching what constitutes "expertise"... #sschat #civics

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

David Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade.

Query to my colleagues in ed: When will it finally be time to flee Meta and ditch all those fb, insta, & whatsapp accts? 🍎📚🗺️🧪#AcademicSky #NewsLiteracy #civics Hint: Now would be good, with a note to mgment re how destructive it is to partner with a disinfo dissemination co that masquerades as news.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

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?

This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

Worse on Purpose

The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.

worseonpurpose.com

1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

Important news literacy thread...

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:

For anyone teaching civics or media/information/AI literacy, take note. Anti-democratic disinformation is winning the battle for AI attention and therefore winning the information war (and the fight doesn't even seem like it's very close). How do we teach students to use AI and also never trust it?

Tim Chambers @timothychambers.net · 2w ago

"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... substack.com/@willrobinso...

The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026. Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries. bookriot.com/tools-used-b...

The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026

Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries.

bookriot.com

A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.

Trump allies could weaken historic preservation rules to fast-track federal projects

A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.

n.pr

Wondering how identical (or nearly identical) legislation stripping away regular folks rights and opportunities seems to magically appear in a couple of dozen state legislatures all within a few months? ALEC is one of the ways. Pay attention to what happens there.

Center for Media and Democracy@exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: At the American Legislative Exchange Council's 2026 annual meeting in Orlando this week attendees are considering model policies designed to suppress the vote, shield fossil fuel companies from liability, protect data centers, advance MAGA priorities, and more.

Ignatius has been entranced like this for twenty minutes. I don't have the heart to tell him that it's not real lava.

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

notus.org

1. ICE is lying about body cams and I have the documents that prove it. On July 14, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE's immigration crackdown at the White House, said that ICE purchased body cams as soon as Democrats approved funding for DHS in April. That is a lie.

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here's a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Though this caption made me chuckle, as a #MediaLiteracy educator it troubles me that it is at best a guess rather than a factual statement IDing people/place/date of image. Great example of why educators need to teach students to question both image & text. #NewsLiteracy #civics 🍎📚 🗺️#sschat

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com

This is how you get death squads.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Why the fuck is the Department of Homeland Security allowed anywhere near our election records? DHS was created specifically to protect against "terrorist acts." Even if the lies about China were true and they were meddling in our elections, the thugs of DHS and ICE have no role investigating it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Mullin claims DHS will “scrub all election records” and asserts that dead people are voting

This statement is terrifying. Note this White House statement frames anti fascist 'propaganda' as supposedly supporting terrorism. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Trump Administration Unleashes Global Campaign to Crush Radical Left Terrorism

Today, the Trump Administration convened senior officials from governments around the world to launch an unprecedented global offensive against the

whitehouse.gov

action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661?utm_... 🍎📚🧪🗺️ #AcademicSky #civics

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading

Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

action.everylibrary.org

Remembering the heroes who aren't typically included, even in the text books that resist MAGA pressure to narrow the recounting of U.S. history. We are diminished as a nation when we bury the struggles it took - and still takes - to meet our ideals. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

Jul. 16, 1944 | Irene Morgan Arrested in VA for Refusing to Give Up Seat for White Passenger

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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