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Will the @neatoday.bsky.social exec board finally vote to admit that the entire 3-million member teachers union officially embraces Jew-hate as union policy? k12trackers.substack.com/p/the-nation...

The people have spoken. Voters in Wisconsin rejected Elon Musk and MAGA style extremism. Susan Crawford - an incredibly well qualified jurist was just elected!! Great news tonight!!

Now you can read the Signal group chat texts and decide for yourself whether this is information that should have been classified www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous."

Chris Matthews Declares WH Attack Plan Leaks Moved From ‘Blunder’ to ‘Cover Up’ After Texts Drop: ‘There Is No Accident Here!’ https://twp.ai/1VHQju

“Is Elmo now or has Elmo ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Rep Garcia treats the hearing with the level of concern it deserves, showing various muppets and asking about their hidden agendas.

The most disturbing thing to me about the national security group chat was that Tulsi Gabbard responded to Hegseth's war plans with "lol lmao."

Probably best not to lie about things like this when you know a journalist documented the whole thing.

Today at 12:30 pm ET, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social will talk to @shaneharris.bsky.social about the decision to release the attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared in the Signal group chat that included the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Watch their discussion here:

This is really, really bad. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the now released war plans texts and why it's such a big deal

DNI Gabbard testified she maintains her "First Amendment rights" to post comments through personal accounts regarding views that might be different from her official work positions. Yet law firms & lawyers (incl me) are being targeted by Administration for excercising their 1st Amendment rights. 🤦‍♂️

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A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

To the folks curious about their vaccination status: 💉If you're born before 1957, and you're not sure if you had measles: Get a booster or ask your doctor to screen you with bloodwork. 💉If you're born between 1957 & 1989, and you don't have documentation of 2 shots: Get a booster.

There’s always that one person in the group chat who communicates 50% in emoji. We made that person the National Security Adviser.

OFT President Melissa Cropper on Governor DeWine's support for the Executive Order for the closure of the Dept of Education: “We strongly agree with Mike DeWine when he talks about the importance of improving student wellness, literacy and math skills, and career technical education in Ohio..." 🧵

Excellent statement from a number of Con Law scholars--including some notably conservative ones--on the government's funding cutoff at Columbia/ www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

"Please take this short survey." [clicks] 10 screens of demographic questions later... [closes tab]

My latest, in The Voice of San Francisco ♾️ #MTBoS #iteachmath thevoicesf.org/transitional...

After a lifetime of work, employees, deserve to retire w/ dignity. Social Security is a bedrock foundation for working people's retirement security, but Musk is spreading blatant lies about waste & fraud to give tax breaks to billionaires. apnews.com/article/elon...

It’s an illegal attack on millions of dedicated public service workers who placed their faith in PSLF’s bipartisan promise, only to see it ripped away. AFT won’t stop fighting, in court and in Congress, until every single public service worker gets the help the law affords them.

You want to see some "fraud," just wait until Republicans create their multi-billion-dollar federal school voucher program www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

All of that and more. In the book that I co-wrote on teaching math, we devoted two chapters to teaching math as a language...because math is a language, and we should teach it like one.

Both. There's a lot of research that indicates that students process more when they write by hand.

I would prefer the rule of law to survive by more than 5-4. But I'm getting used to disappointment.

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

My God: they are selling off federal buildings and no longer planning on collecting revenues. Again, none of this is about efficiency. I know the IRS is not popular, but for every dollar invested it generates about $7 in returns. The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it.

Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

If social security payments stop going out, the pitchforks and torches are going to come out. The real test is whether hardcore Trumpers will turn on him over not getting checks. I'm not convinced they will.

A disgraceful day.

I was in Israel last week, when the bodies were returned. The whole country is in mourning.

Stranger than fiction department:

Can someone currently on the White House national security staff tell Donald Trump that Putin is lying to him, again? Parroting Russia’s talking points on Ukraine makes him look so weak…

Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Senate Republicans have an obligation to scrutinize his giant closet of business conflicts and dubious ideas..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Deplorable

OVERHEARD IN THE MATH OFFICE: TEACHER 1: Is there anything that is not improved by drenching it in hot sauce? TEACHER 2: Tell Europe that. ♾️

Incredible to see Marc Andreesseen, master of the universe elite thinker w/billions under management, cite Shellenberger & Benz as reliable sources. If he had all this inside visibility into the rise of a “”censorship edifice”” over “12 yrs”…why didn’t he say anything? (Bc it’s all bullshit)

As the social media landscape continues to fragment, @noupside.bsky.social has an excellent new piece looking at how moving from centralized to decentralized platforms could impact social cohesion and democratic consensus.

Hegseth refuses to commit to follow the Constitution. He refuses to say he won’t follow an illegal order from Trump. This alone is disqualifying. But no Republican Senator will defy their leader. So Hegseth will be approved. So screw the Constitution.👇

A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.

Coming in March from my wonderful friend @triangleman.bsky.social

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Happy New Year! And a new blog post as a treat (a week earlier than planned). NEW Blog Post: ‘Stop asking if we should tell and start asking how’ Why does telling remain such a charged issue in mathematics teaching? Reframing telling through its functions rather than its form offers a way forward.