Our tax code is rigged.

It’s not fair that a billionaire can pay a lower tax rate than a public school teacher.

Nothing tickles your baby’s funny bone like the unexpected.

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why are so many people willing to outsource thinking, learning, understanding & to just settle for believing the things that the llms / algorithms / screens output & flash their way?

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Our latest episode is a conversation with Texas educator @heymrsbond.com about her changing attitudes on edtech in an "Age of AI" and reflecting on the challenges and rewards from a year of analog teaching:

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #education #EduSky

#booksky #writingcommunity

As young children work to master new skills, their success is almost always enabled by external supports (from both people and things) that allow them to accomplish just a little more in combination than they could on their own.

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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?

This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

This aged badly

Your toddler is egocentric.

But that’s not a judgement on their character. In fact it’s a completely normal developmental stage. 🧵

@schumer.senate.gov dude, they’re going to blame Democrats regardless. Have a backbone. This is a terrible choice. You’re the leader of Senate Democrats. How is this leadership? You’re going to support Trump and get nothing for it?! What are we even doing?

SCHUMER: “Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input—any input—from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR."

Helping @crawfordforwi.bsky.social win a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin! You can help, too: postcardstovoters.org

DOGE “seemed unsure” of what USAID programs they cut and is now attempting to reverse some of the cuts, says @propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy. “This is the opposite of a careful review."

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.