C. Tocci
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"With fervency I spoke of that new world, blessed with plenty, purified by justice and sweetened by brotherly kindness, the world of which I had indeed but dreamed, but which might so easily be made real." - E. Bellamy
Prioritize kids over computers! We’re calling on Chicago School Board candidates to commit to a "Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education”—22 have signed on so far. Full Pledge, candidates who have committed, and why we must protect human-centered education in CPS: www.ilfps.org/pledge_prote...
22 Chicago Board of Ed candidates have signed on the @ilfps.bsky.social pledge to protect human-centered education. We're advocating for a 3 year moratorium on generative AI, a Chief Data Privacy Officer, screen time limits, biometric data collection limits in CPS. See more here:
MEDIA RELEASE: Advocates Call on Chicago School Board Candidates to Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education
Today pro-public school advocacy organization Illinois Families for Public Schools (IL-FPS) announced a Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education. The organization is asking all Chicago Board of Educ...
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Ah, one of my favorite books! I’ve been coming back to & trying to crib from Shiva Naipaul’s nonfiction for 25 years.
An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre
Shiva Naipaul’s newly reissued book of reportage about the Jonestown Massacre, “Journey to Nowhere,” from 1980, is far less interested in the trope of the charismatic cult leader than in the mechanism...
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In honor of Ida B Wells's birthday, I am sharing a piece about how we built a memorial to her legacy and work in Chicago. Please visit the monument if you are in the city: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
A Monumental Effort: The Struggle to Honor Ida B. Wells-Barnett in Chicago
My Pilgrimage to the "Light of Truth" in July
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We got Claude and Polymarket ads telling us the new role for humans is to ask questions. I am immediately changing my stance on questions as good things.
Very true. Another irony is that Columbus wasn’t even Italian. Rufo knows this, but just can’t let a made up petty grievance go to waste.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4w agoIt is undeniably funny that Chris Rufo - whose whole career is based on the idea that identity politics is so bad that its fine to ruin people's lives over it - is unhappy that Mamdani is not adequately appreciative of his identity
It is undeniably funny that Chris Rufo - whose whole career is based on the idea that identity politics is so bad that its fine to ruin people's lives over it - is unhappy that Mamdani is not adequately appreciative of his identity
@literaturegeek.bsky.social made a zine that includes the original panels that were removed in case people want to see and circulate that.
Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · last mo.The new panels, which historians have criticized for whitewashing George Washington’s role in enslaving nine people, have been manufactured and stand ready to install, the Justice Department told the court.
The lesson here is that a couple years of organizing & some fabricated scholarship can get 4 Republican Justices to vote against 128 years of settled law. The anti-citizenship crew is just getting started. They've learned the anti-abortion playbook & will be back stronger soon.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
And here's @gregpak.net's testimony to the @council.nyc.gov AGAINST "A.i." in the public schools! Huge h/t to @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social for leading this fight! youtu.be/7-h3rPb-4G4?...
2 of these 3 stars wouldn’t be Americans under Trump’s preferred policies.
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 2mo agoIf the Fuhrer were a football fan...
A favorite research project for students is to have them not identify, but map where all those ingredients came from. Who produces them? How are they shipped? What’s journey to your favorite food takes on its way to your stomach?
“…the enemy is at once too strong and too weak. Fascist regimes are doomed to lose their wars, because they are constitutionally incapable of making an objective assessment of the enemy’s strengths.” - Umberto Eco
Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked
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Oh, today is the day we get to buy shares in a company that its CEO uses to stoke racial violence?
You know what produced durable white working class Democratic voters? Unions. Republicans know that, which is why they’ve spent decades strangling unions. But instead of rebuilding their foundational institutions, the national Dems are all in on charismatic scum bags because it works for the GOP.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo agoBack at work. Finally read this piece from @joanwalsh.bsky.social. To use a court term: JUSTICE MYSTAL joins this opinion IN FULL. Or, as the kids say, 10/10, no notes www.thenation.com/article/poli...
a whole bunch of these are available at Inga on 18th street and at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social on Milwaukee Ave. there might be extra gossip written in the margins also 🖤
making art@marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 3mo agoi make a lot of zines, sometimes using screenprinting and importantly, i tell secrets and gossip — AI could never
today's first public comment is from CTU discussing the budget cuts there are deep cuts to teaching positions it's so frustrating that this city increases the police budget year after year and shorts the schools year after year
The goal of putting police in schools is to create order & compliance through the threat & use of force. These cops are doing exactly what Texas lawmakers wanted. #PoliceFreeSchools
Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students
School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.
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A movie set across the Mediterranean stars a dude from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou might think it's racist to melt down about the appearance of a black woman in a movie, but have you considered that progressives do a totally different thing?
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
Receipts are receipts — Chad M. Topaz
A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom. Solana mocked her NYT column on celebrity AI promotion without disclosing that his employer Founders Fund is invested in the companies she critiq...
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Well, “you failed and we, the non-racists, are here to save your simple asses” is one kind of message to send to the organizations on the ground I guess. I simply might go a different way.
Exiled New Yorker ♿️ ElderGeek@dsafire.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you wont police yourselves about racism, (and you have failed at that as a whole) we cant just let it go anymore. Do you want the assistance or do you want to stay full of racists under every rock?
I've decided that my new measure of Provosts is how much I know about them. It's an inverse relationship. Best provost: The guy (I think it was a guy?) at my last school whose name I don't know and whose face I couldn't pick out from a line-up. He (presumably) did his thing, didn't hassle me. Good.
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
When JD Vance talks about “Heritage Americans,” he is arguing that there is a natural, permanent social structure that none of the flowery language of laws or constitutions can change…and that it’s dangerous to even have those ideas around.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3mo ago"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"
The missing context is Rufo’s whole mission statement: that leftists marched through institutions like public schools & higher ed the last 60 years to politicize youth against America, so conservatives much now counter-march back through to restore the nation. Fantasy, but politically useful.
Florida Creates a More Conservative U.S. History Course to Rival A.P.
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