Craig Nixon
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Advocating to create a public education system that enhances the child’s experience regardless of religion, cultural background, or sexual orientation. www.defenseofdemocracy.org Also www.wonkette.com
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Craig Nixon
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· Nov 13
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Yass has donated more than $350 million to political campaigns. But unlike many of his contemporaries, Yass, 67, is driven almost entirely by his commitment to a single issue: promoting vouchers and other school choice programs.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers
How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Yass has donated more than $350 million to political campaigns. But unlike many of his contemporaries, Yass, 67, is driven almost entirely by his commitment to a single issue: promoting vouchers and other school choice programs.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A proposed Christian school in Tennessee is suing the Knox County Board of Education for not handing over taxpayer money and allowing it to become a public religious charter school… even though that would be blatantly illegal.
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Proposed Christian charter school sues Knoxville so they can indoctrinate kids with public money
Wilberforce Academy wants to turn a religious mission field into a taxpayer-funded charter school—despite laws explicitly forbidding it
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A proposed Christian school in Tennessee is suing the Knox County Board of Education for not handing over taxpayer money and allowing it to become a public religious charter school… even though that would be blatantly illegal.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/proposed-c...
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/proposed-c...
Weingarten explains that fascists fear teachers because their work creates an educated electorate that can see past propaganda and teach young people how to think for themselves.
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Five Questions with Randi Weingarten
President of the American Federation of Teachers
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November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Weingarten explains that fascists fear teachers because their work creates an educated electorate that can see past propaganda and teach young people how to think for themselves.
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joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑻 𝑰𝑵 𝑷𝑶𝑾𝑬𝑹, 𝑻𝑶𝑫𝑫 𝑺𝑵𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑹
Todd Daniel Snider
October 11, 1966 - November 14, 2025
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Todd Daniel Snider
October 11, 1966 - November 14, 2025
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𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑻 𝑰𝑵 𝑷𝑶𝑾𝑬𝑹, 𝑻𝑶𝑫𝑫 𝑺𝑵𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑹
I am too fucking gutted to think straight, so with apologies for length...
Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folk Hero, our Poet of t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑻 𝑰𝑵 𝑷𝑶𝑾𝑬𝑹, 𝑻𝑶𝑫𝑫 𝑺𝑵𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑹
Todd Daniel Snider
October 11, 1966 - November 14, 2025
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Todd Daniel Snider
October 11, 1966 - November 14, 2025
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Reposted by Craig Nixon
BREAKING:
After years of extremist control, Americans are reclaiming their schools in favor of tolerance, equality, and respect for every child, regardless of race or sexual orientation.
After years of extremist control, Americans are reclaiming their schools in favor of tolerance, equality, and respect for every child, regardless of race or sexual orientation.
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
BREAKING:
After years of extremist control, Americans are reclaiming their schools in favor of tolerance, equality, and respect for every child, regardless of race or sexual orientation.
After years of extremist control, Americans are reclaiming their schools in favor of tolerance, equality, and respect for every child, regardless of race or sexual orientation.
Oklahoma has spent the past few years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride about America’s history, with political leaders and legislators working their way through the conservative agenda for overhauling education.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Oklahoma has spent the past few years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride about America’s history, with political leaders and legislators working their way through the conservative agenda for overhauling education.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The smack, the yell, or the threat discharges a surge of energy, give the illusion of order, and momentarily soothes an over-amped brainstem. That quick drop in internal pressure gets misread as relief, then misremembered as a strategy.
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Hitting a Child ‘Works.’ But Only for the Parent’s Body, and Neuroscience Explains Why.
This Substack is reader-supported.
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The smack, the yell, or the threat discharges a surge of energy, give the illusion of order, and momentarily soothes an over-amped brainstem. That quick drop in internal pressure gets misread as relief, then misremembered as a strategy.
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/hitting-a-...
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/hitting-a-...
Reposted by Craig Nixon
Trump Administration targets grocery stores offering discounts to poor people who relied on SNAP before Trump refused to pay the benefits
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USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Give Discounts to People Hit by Trump's Food Stamp Freeze | Common Dreams
As the Trump administration illegally withholds food assistance from 42 million Americans, it's also telling stores it's against the law for them to provide discounts to those struggling after being r...
www.commondreams.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump Administration targets grocery stores offering discounts to poor people who relied on SNAP before Trump refused to pay the benefits
www.commondreams.org/news/usda-te...
www.commondreams.org/news/usda-te...
Reposted by Craig Nixon
Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.
Reposted by Craig Nixon
Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.
No, they don’t have to.
No, they don’t have to.
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.
No, they don’t have to.
No, they don’t have to.
Florida teacher William Loggans told Fox News Digital he feels targeted after being forced to remove a Charlie Kirk poster from his classroom. "I just feel like I'm being targeted because this is a conservative figure," Loggans said.
www.foxnews.com/media/florid...
www.foxnews.com/media/florid...
Florida teacher told to remove Charlie Kirk image from classroom feels targeted, vows to fight district
William Loggans filed a grievance against the Orange County School District for political discrimination after being ordered to remove a Charlie Kirk poster from his classroom.
www.foxnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Florida teacher William Loggans told Fox News Digital he feels targeted after being forced to remove a Charlie Kirk poster from his classroom. "I just feel like I'm being targeted because this is a conservative figure," Loggans said.
www.foxnews.com/media/florid...
www.foxnews.com/media/florid...
Where past Moms for Liberty attendees were urged to run for school board, this year they were encouraged to turn their grievances into legal challenges.
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At Moms for Liberty summit, parents urged to turn their grievances into lawsuits
This year’s event tried to court younger members and more men, and there was more talk of suing school districts than running for school board.
hechingerreport.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Where past Moms for Liberty attendees were urged to run for school board, this year they were encouraged to turn their grievances into legal challenges.
hechingerreport.org/at-moms-for-...
hechingerreport.org/at-moms-for-...
The new Oklahoma State Department of Education is turning away from many of Ryan Walters’ mandates, including the mandate that every class have a Bible and teachers teach from it.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The new Oklahoma State Department of Education is turning away from many of Ryan Walters’ mandates, including the mandate that every class have a Bible and teachers teach from it.
kfor.com/news/oklahom...
kfor.com/news/oklahom...
The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports.
“This is decimating the office responsible for safeguarding the rights of infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“This is decimating the office responsible for safeguarding the rights of infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report
Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports.
“This is decimating the office responsible for safeguarding the rights of infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“This is decimating the office responsible for safeguarding the rights of infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Unprecedented in history’: global academic freedom group warns of dismantling in US
Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
After seeing Oklahoma sabotage its own students by adopting new social studies standards that include misinformation, disinformation, and Christian Nationalist, Texas Republicans must have gotten jealous.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-boar...
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-boar...
Texas Board of Education brings on Christian liar David Barton to rewrite Social Studies standards
The GOP's favorite Christian pseudo-historian will get to sabotage history classes across the state—and beyond
www.friendlyatheist.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
After seeing Oklahoma sabotage its own students by adopting new social studies standards that include misinformation, disinformation, and Christian Nationalist, Texas Republicans must have gotten jealous.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-boar...
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-boar...
Sounds like a great job for Walters, since it’ll allow him to bloviate on Fox about culture war issues all he wants, without the pesky public duties that come with holding elective office.
www.wonkette.com/p/ok-schools...
www.wonkette.com/p/ok-schools...
OK Schools Chief Quitting To Spend More Time Clinging To His Gun (Peener) And Trump Bible
Can watch all the porn he wants as CEO of new rightwing teacher union busting group.
www.wonkette.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sounds like a great job for Walters, since it’ll allow him to bloviate on Fox about culture war issues all he wants, without the pesky public duties that come with holding elective office.
www.wonkette.com/p/ok-schools...
www.wonkette.com/p/ok-schools...
Walters' new gig is right in line with his work over the past couple of years. He will be the new CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance, whose aim, Walters says, is to dismantle teachers’ unions and align school curriculum with “American exceptionalism.”
curmudgucation.substack.com/p/ok-ryan-wa...
curmudgucation.substack.com/p/ok-ryan-wa...
OK: Ryan Walters has Resigned For Cushy Anti-Union Gig
Ryan Walters announced Wednesday night that he was resigning as Oklahoma’s Dudebro-in-chief for Education.
curmudgucation.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Walters' new gig is right in line with his work over the past couple of years. He will be the new CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance, whose aim, Walters says, is to dismantle teachers’ unions and align school curriculum with “American exceptionalism.”
curmudgucation.substack.com/p/ok-ryan-wa...
curmudgucation.substack.com/p/ok-ryan-wa...
“The departure of Ryan Walters is great news for Oklahoma students, families, and teachers. Now, we can focus our efforts on serving students and raising our national rankings from dead last.” – Sen. Mark Mann, D-Oklahoma City.
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www.oksenate.gov/press-releas...
Senate Democrats respond to announcement of Superintendent Ryan Walters’ resignation | Oklahoma Senate
OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Democrats issued the following statements after Superintendent Ryan Waters announced he would resign from office in order to accept another job.
www.oksenate.gov
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“The departure of Ryan Walters is great news for Oklahoma students, families, and teachers. Now, we can focus our efforts on serving students and raising our national rankings from dead last.” – Sen. Mark Mann, D-Oklahoma City.
www.oksenate.gov/press-releas...
www.oksenate.gov/press-releas...
Notorious MAGA education chief Ryan Walters is resigning from a role that has seen him insert Trump policies into classrooms for a new role busting teacher unions. Walters is stepping down to take up a new role as CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance.
www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-mag...
www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-mag...
MAGA School Boss Quits to Lead New Conservative Battle
Controversial education chief Ryan Walters announced he is resigning.
www.thedailybeast.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Notorious MAGA education chief Ryan Walters is resigning from a role that has seen him insert Trump policies into classrooms for a new role busting teacher unions. Walters is stepping down to take up a new role as CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance.
www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-mag...
www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-mag...