Nylce Prada Myers
@nylcep.bsky.social
Dreamer, reader, procrastinator, pilgrim, perpetual student, sometime teacher...lucky human
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The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.
Exclusive: The Education Department plans to move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
wapo.st
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.
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Every single news story about Trump hosting MBS at the WH today should include the tremendously lucrative business deals the Saudis have done this year with Trump Org to enrich Trump and his family personally, which is the primary reason why this is happening.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Every single news story about Trump hosting MBS at the WH today should include the tremendously lucrative business deals the Saudis have done this year with Trump Org to enrich Trump and his family personally, which is the primary reason why this is happening.
“Things happen.”
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Things happen.”
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
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I've mostly stayed out of the AI discourse bc while I have feelings, I haven't done a lot of research.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I've mostly stayed out of the AI discourse bc while I have feelings, I haven't done a lot of research.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
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Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...
This Year, We All Realized That Kids Aren’t Reading Books in School. Only the Right Is Offering a Solution.
Common Core and the College Board are my enemies. But the classical education movement is not my friend.
slate.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...
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If we don’t talk about the army of enablers, we will have more Epsteins, more Trumps, and many many more traumatized women and girls.
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If we don’t talk about the army of enablers, we will have more Epsteins, more Trumps, and many many more traumatized women and girls.
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
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In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
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so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
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He's talking like a man who realizes he won the lottery. He got wealthy doing the thing he loved and would be willing to do for much much less.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
He's talking like a man who realizes he won the lottery. He got wealthy doing the thing he loved and would be willing to do for much much less.
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“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
O. Good. Grief.
Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.
Author @jodipicoult.bsky.social is being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a high school musical.
“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...
“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
O. Good. Grief.
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The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Twin Cities area voters, please read this before heading to the polls and puzzling over the school board candidates on the ballot.
A 3-3 split between liberals and conservatives at the state’s largest school district has led to gridlock over issues including the budget and state social studies standards.
Written by @bzosiad.bsky.social
Written by @bzosiad.bsky.social
After battles over equity, Anoka-Hennepin school board race could tip balance of power
Voters could break a 3-3 split between conservatives and liberals on the Anoka-Hennepin school board, which oversees the state’s largest school district, in November.
sahanjournal.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Twin Cities area voters, please read this before heading to the polls and puzzling over the school board candidates on the ballot.
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Ya think?!?
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ya think?!?
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One of Jorge Ruiz’s lawyers believes there was an underlying bias that permeated the case from the first moments after the car crash, when an Alabama state trooper threatened to take Ruiz to jail if he did not speak English.
By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
How a Fatal Car Crash Tested Alabama’s Justice System
A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder after a fatal car accident in Alabama. His lawyers have come to believe that one factor changed the course of the case, starting in the first moments...
www.propublica.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
One of Jorge Ruiz’s lawyers believes there was an underlying bias that permeated the case from the first moments after the car crash, when an Alabama state trooper threatened to take Ruiz to jail if he did not speak English.
By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
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Our government is engaged in child trafficking. They transported a kid across state lines, something even a parent is not allowed to do without the express permission of the other parent. Someone in the GOP needs to explain how this makes this country safe. 2/2
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Our government is engaged in child trafficking. They transported a kid across state lines, something even a parent is not allowed to do without the express permission of the other parent. Someone in the GOP needs to explain how this makes this country safe. 2/2
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."
The Assault on Children
MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."
Who’da thunk it?
Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.
“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”
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October 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Who’da thunk it?
This is a travesty, a betrayal of our future. Public schools, while far from perfect, embody this nation’s best ideals: to serve and advance “liberty and justice for ALL.”
To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.
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 12:11 PM
This is a travesty, a betrayal of our future. Public schools, while far from perfect, embody this nation’s best ideals: to serve and advance “liberty and justice for ALL.”
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"If we follow the example of our South African siblings, we in the U.S. need to articulate a prophetic theology that refuses to be neutral or apolitical, and is committed to explicitly naming and condemning the powers that prohibit justice."
My latest for @sojo.net:
sojo.net/articles/opi...
My latest for @sojo.net:
sojo.net/articles/opi...
We Aren’t the First Christians To Face a Kairos Moment
Forty years ago, South African Christians showed us how to resist repressive regimes and twisted theologies.
sojo.net
October 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"If we follow the example of our South African siblings, we in the U.S. need to articulate a prophetic theology that refuses to be neutral or apolitical, and is committed to explicitly naming and condemning the powers that prohibit justice."
My latest for @sojo.net:
sojo.net/articles/opi...
My latest for @sojo.net:
sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" to help save endangered reefs.
The mother of Colombian corals
Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" to help save endangered reefs.
n.pr
October 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" to help save endangered reefs.