Jerry Washington Ed.D
@jerrywashingtonedd.bsky.social
My brain is currently occupied with a three-way debate between the potential of superintelligence, the latest political headlines, and whether USC will ever have a decent defense again.
Beyond Happiness
A New Framework for Your Next Chapter
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
People say “We’re a republic.” I took that claim at face value and tested today’s politics against the Framers’ standards: representation, rule of law, checks & balances, accepting losses. Read: medium.com/the-polis/we... #DemocraticRepublic #RuleOfLaw #Constitution
“We’re a Republic”
What That Really Means and Why Trump’s Brand of Politics Isn’t It
medium.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
People say “We’re a republic.” I took that claim at face value and tested today’s politics against the Framers’ standards: representation, rule of law, checks & balances, accepting losses. Read: medium.com/the-polis/we... #DemocraticRepublic #RuleOfLaw #Constitution
Just published in The Polis: why Trump’s take on the Smithsonian misses the point. Patriotism is telling the full record—achievements and injustices—with rigor and receipts. Read: medium.com/the-polis/tr... #Smithsonian #HistoryMatters #PublicMemory #Museums
Trump is wrong about the Smithsonian
A response to Anthony J. Constantini’s critique of the Smithsonian
medium.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Just published in The Polis: why Trump’s take on the Smithsonian misses the point. Patriotism is telling the full record—achievements and injustices—with rigor and receipts. Read: medium.com/the-polis/tr... #Smithsonian #HistoryMatters #PublicMemory #Museums
I joined Dr. C on The Life Podcast to talk about misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation—why it matters, how it spreads, and what we can do to fight back.
🎙️ Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2528209/epis...
#MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Disinformation #Podcast
🎙️ Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2528209/epis...
#MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Disinformation #Podcast
Lies, Scams, and Bad Advice - LIFE Podcast
Your social media feed is a minefield of bad health advice, wellness scams, and deliberate lies (Disinformation). It's designed to confuse and exhaust you. This episode is your guide to navigating it ...
www.buzzsprout.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I joined Dr. C on The Life Podcast to talk about misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation—why it matters, how it spreads, and what we can do to fight back.
🎙️ Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2528209/epis...
#MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Disinformation #Podcast
🎙️ Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2528209/epis...
#MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Disinformation #Podcast
Reposted by Jerry Washington Ed.D
What an embarrassing waste of resources 🤦♀️
Pentagon changes ‘Secretary of Defense’ signage to ‘Secretary of War’ | PBS News share.google/aQD4SWQX1hQm...
Pentagon changes ‘Secretary of Defense’ signage to ‘Secretary of War’ | PBS News share.google/aQD4SWQX1hQm...
WATCH: Pentagon changes 'Secretary of Defense' signage to 'Secretary of War'
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War — a long-telegraphed move aimed at projecting American military toughness around the...
share.google
September 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What an embarrassing waste of resources 🤦♀️
Pentagon changes ‘Secretary of Defense’ signage to ‘Secretary of War’ | PBS News share.google/aQD4SWQX1hQm...
Pentagon changes ‘Secretary of Defense’ signage to ‘Secretary of War’ | PBS News share.google/aQD4SWQX1hQm...
Sept 4, 1957—the Little Rock Nine arrived at Central High. We remember so we don’t repeat.
From a piece I wrote (link in replies): “Two truths at once: we’ve come far—and some are working to turn those gains into a mistake.”
www.thv11.com/article/news...
#LittleRockNine #HistoryMatters
From a piece I wrote (link in replies): “Two truths at once: we’ve come far—and some are working to turn those gains into a mistake.”
www.thv11.com/article/news...
#LittleRockNine #HistoryMatters
68 years ago, the Little Rock Nine arrived to integrate into Central High
It was 68 years ago today that Central High School made national headlines when the Little Rock Nine arrived to integrate into the school.
www.thv11.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Sept 4, 1957—the Little Rock Nine arrived at Central High. We remember so we don’t repeat.
From a piece I wrote (link in replies): “Two truths at once: we’ve come far—and some are working to turn those gains into a mistake.”
www.thv11.com/article/news...
#LittleRockNine #HistoryMatters
From a piece I wrote (link in replies): “Two truths at once: we’ve come far—and some are working to turn those gains into a mistake.”
www.thv11.com/article/news...
#LittleRockNine #HistoryMatters
CA/OR/WA’s West Coast Health Alliance makes sense right now. If the CDC is being bent (ACIP overhaul, senior exits, muddled measles messaging), states need guardrails. Tie guidance to AAP/ACOG and protect no-cost access so coverage follows evidence, not politics. #PublicHealth #SciencePolicy
September 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
CA/OR/WA’s West Coast Health Alliance makes sense right now. If the CDC is being bent (ACIP overhaul, senior exits, muddled measles messaging), states need guardrails. Tie guidance to AAP/ACOG and protect no-cost access so coverage follows evidence, not politics. #PublicHealth #SciencePolicy
Yes, institutions can earn trust.
No, they can’t do our thinking.
Epistemic responsibility has always belonged to the individual.
No, they can’t do our thinking.
Epistemic responsibility has always belonged to the individual.
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Yes, institutions can earn trust.
No, they can’t do our thinking.
Epistemic responsibility has always belonged to the individual.
No, they can’t do our thinking.
Epistemic responsibility has always belonged to the individual.
Progress is the greatness. So why pretend the struggle didn’t happen? MLK, the Smithsonian, and the push to prune our history—if we’ve grown, let it count: medium.com/@jerrywash/l...
Less Denial, More Memory
MLK, progress, and what we choose to remember now
medium.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Progress is the greatness. So why pretend the struggle didn’t happen? MLK, the Smithsonian, and the push to prune our history—if we’ve grown, let it count: medium.com/@jerrywash/l...
The past is not past, it’s policy in the present tense.
New essay: medium.com/@jerrywash/r...
#Veterans #RacialJustice
New essay: medium.com/@jerrywash/r...
#Veterans #RacialJustice
Rank, Degree, and the Weight I Carry
You do not have to be born into an era to carry its weight. You only have to live inside what that era built.
medium.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The past is not past, it’s policy in the present tense.
New essay: medium.com/@jerrywash/r...
#Veterans #RacialJustice
New essay: medium.com/@jerrywash/r...
#Veterans #RacialJustice
Framing Whose America?
Truth matters. History deserves complexity, not control. #CulturalMemory #MuseumPolitics #HistoryMatters
Read more ↓
medium.com/@jerrywash/f...
Truth matters. History deserves complexity, not control. #CulturalMemory #MuseumPolitics #HistoryMatters
Read more ↓
medium.com/@jerrywash/f...
Framing Whose America?
Smithsonian Review, Political Power, and the Battle for America’s Story
medium.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Framing Whose America?
Truth matters. History deserves complexity, not control. #CulturalMemory #MuseumPolitics #HistoryMatters
Read more ↓
medium.com/@jerrywash/f...
Truth matters. History deserves complexity, not control. #CulturalMemory #MuseumPolitics #HistoryMatters
Read more ↓
medium.com/@jerrywash/f...
Reposted by Jerry Washington Ed.D
‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Education Research Staggered by Trump Cuts
With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years. @the74.bsky.social
www.the74million.org/article/back...
With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years. @the74.bsky.social
www.the74million.org/article/back...
‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Education Research Staggered by Trump Cuts
With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years.
www.the74million.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Education Research Staggered by Trump Cuts
With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years. @the74.bsky.social
www.the74million.org/article/back...
With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years. @the74.bsky.social
www.the74million.org/article/back...
Why do I write? Because erasure is silent until we shout.
Intersectionality, social capital, & narrative power collide in one place: the public square of words.
Read, drop a forgotten story, and help crowd-source the history gatekeepers keep trimming. ⬇️
medium.com/@jerrywash/w...
#PublicWriting
Intersectionality, social capital, & narrative power collide in one place: the public square of words.
Read, drop a forgotten story, and help crowd-source the history gatekeepers keep trimming. ⬇️
medium.com/@jerrywash/w...
#PublicWriting
Why Public Writing Matters
Erasure, Power, and How We Know
medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Why do I write? Because erasure is silent until we shout.
Intersectionality, social capital, & narrative power collide in one place: the public square of words.
Read, drop a forgotten story, and help crowd-source the history gatekeepers keep trimming. ⬇️
medium.com/@jerrywash/w...
#PublicWriting
Intersectionality, social capital, & narrative power collide in one place: the public square of words.
Read, drop a forgotten story, and help crowd-source the history gatekeepers keep trimming. ⬇️
medium.com/@jerrywash/w...
#PublicWriting
This @TexasTribune piece hits hard.
Black farmers in East Texas are being quietly gutted by DEI funding cuts.
“Equality,” or bureaucratic suffocation?
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/e...
#BlackFarmers #DEI #TexasPolitics #USDA
Black farmers in East Texas are being quietly gutted by DEI funding cuts.
“Equality,” or bureaucratic suffocation?
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/e...
#BlackFarmers #DEI #TexasPolitics #USDA
Federal DEI funding cuts threaten the work of the few remaining Black farmers in East Texas
Trump’s rollback is another example of the federal government’s lackluster efforts at giving Black farmers a boost in recent years.
www.texastribune.org
July 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This @TexasTribune piece hits hard.
Black farmers in East Texas are being quietly gutted by DEI funding cuts.
“Equality,” or bureaucratic suffocation?
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/e...
#BlackFarmers #DEI #TexasPolitics #USDA
Black farmers in East Texas are being quietly gutted by DEI funding cuts.
“Equality,” or bureaucratic suffocation?
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/e...
#BlackFarmers #DEI #TexasPolitics #USDA
“We’re a Republic, NOT a Democracy!” ← Heard it again. So I wrote the receipts piece: how the U.S. is a constitutional republic AND a representative democracy by design. No, ‘51% mob rule’ isn’t in the founding docs. Read before quoting Madison at me.
Link: medium.com/@jerrywash/d...
Link: medium.com/@jerrywash/d...
“Democracy” vs “Republic”
Debunking Aaron Russo’s Misconceptions About American Democracy
medium.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“We’re a Republic, NOT a Democracy!” ← Heard it again. So I wrote the receipts piece: how the U.S. is a constitutional republic AND a representative democracy by design. No, ‘51% mob rule’ isn’t in the founding docs. Read before quoting Madison at me.
Link: medium.com/@jerrywash/d...
Link: medium.com/@jerrywash/d...
Superman’s been an undocumented refugee since 1938—but now “woke” is the meltdown trigger? 🤔 Eight decades of adoption papers, IRS audits & INS run-ins say otherwise. Kindness isn’t new; your outrage is.
#Superman #Immigration #ComicsHistory
#Superman #Immigration #ComicsHistory
July 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Superman’s been an undocumented refugee since 1938—but now “woke” is the meltdown trigger? 🤔 Eight decades of adoption papers, IRS audits & INS run-ins say otherwise. Kindness isn’t new; your outrage is.
#Superman #Immigration #ComicsHistory
#Superman #Immigration #ComicsHistory
Pulled an all-nighter to decode why the Trump admin froze $6.8 B in K-12 funds. Legal experts say the clashes stem from the 1974 Impoundment Control Act. Congress owns the purse, not POTUS. Read more ⤵️
medium.com/@jerrywash/t...
#EdPolicy #Impoundment #K12 #SchoolFunding
medium.com/@jerrywash/t...
#EdPolicy #Impoundment #K12 #SchoolFunding
Trump’s Education Funding Freeze
Flouts the Law and Imperils Students
medium.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pulled an all-nighter to decode why the Trump admin froze $6.8 B in K-12 funds. Legal experts say the clashes stem from the 1974 Impoundment Control Act. Congress owns the purse, not POTUS. Read more ⤵️
medium.com/@jerrywash/t...
#EdPolicy #Impoundment #K12 #SchoolFunding
medium.com/@jerrywash/t...
#EdPolicy #Impoundment #K12 #SchoolFunding
Did you know?
SCOTUS just let parts of Trump’s order limiting birth-right citizenship take effect while lawsuits grind on.
It echoes 1935’s Nuremberg Laws that tied citizenship to blood, not birthplace.
Different era, but the logic feels eerily familiar.
SCOTUS just let parts of Trump’s order limiting birth-right citizenship take effect while lawsuits grind on.
It echoes 1935’s Nuremberg Laws that tied citizenship to blood, not birthplace.
Different era, but the logic feels eerily familiar.
June 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Did you know?
SCOTUS just let parts of Trump’s order limiting birth-right citizenship take effect while lawsuits grind on.
It echoes 1935’s Nuremberg Laws that tied citizenship to blood, not birthplace.
Different era, but the logic feels eerily familiar.
SCOTUS just let parts of Trump’s order limiting birth-right citizenship take effect while lawsuits grind on.
It echoes 1935’s Nuremberg Laws that tied citizenship to blood, not birthplace.
Different era, but the logic feels eerily familiar.
#Microsoft’s $13B bet on #OpenAI could vanish the instant lawyers say the tech is #“AGI.” Why does a contract clause wield more power than the code itself? I unpack the feud & its stakes for AI governance 👇
medium.com/@jerrywash/m...
#TechPowerDynamics #AGI #Microsoft #OpenAI
medium.com/@jerrywash/m...
#TechPowerDynamics #AGI #Microsoft #OpenAI
Microsoft vs OpenAI
Why the AGI Fight Is About Power, Not Tech
medium.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
#Microsoft’s $13B bet on #OpenAI could vanish the instant lawyers say the tech is #“AGI.” Why does a contract clause wield more power than the code itself? I unpack the feud & its stakes for AI governance 👇
medium.com/@jerrywash/m...
#TechPowerDynamics #AGI #Microsoft #OpenAI
medium.com/@jerrywash/m...
#TechPowerDynamics #AGI #Microsoft #OpenAI