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Beginning in 1970, @ncte.org has worked with members to pass position statements and resolutions about students' right to read and the ways teachers can oppose censorship. A little summer project is going to be reading through these statements and following the paths they open up.

Texas early voting ends Friday, Oct. 30. Waiting for the weekend is too late. Harris County set a midterm first-day record with 104,000+ voters. Any site in your county, bring photo ID, paper notes OK. Printable guide: www.thebarbedwire.com/2026-voter-i...

I need this on a sticker. The No Bird isn't quite cutting it any more.

It’s worth reading the text and personal additions to the St. X petition from Cincinnati. It has heartened me in an awful week. Men, when you speak up, it means so much, because you so often protect one another. Thanks, Bombers. www.change.org/p/st-xavier-...

Well played

Teachers get it. (Link to confirmation in the original post thread.)

SCIENCE ROCKS!! Needles! Dogs! Oh, my!

Oct 26th 1985 - In the early hours of the morning, Einstein became the worlds 1st time traveller. 📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)

South Texas voters who embraced Trump two years ago have largely soured on him, and many of them are now smiling on a Tejano music star who’s running for Congress as a Dem. From @ajcorchado.bsky.social and Dudley Althaus, published by @expressnews.com, @elpais.com, and @puente-news.bsky.social.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

This is how desperate the Texas GOP is. Faking a permission skip text. Honestly, I opened it from the preview because I wondered if I had forgotten to sign something.

Final layout! Will bind in the white holly fabric. Not sure what the back will be yet. #quilting

Stay morning #quilting and coffee. Pretty wonderful. Pattern is Lemon Pepper from Madison Square Design in random Christmas fabrics I’ve collected or been gifted over years.

You know what? If everyone picking up the new Sarah J Maas on Tuesday also picked up just 1 more book by an author they'd never heard of before it would actually have a pretty meaningful positive impact on the book industry. #BookSky

This week's comic: RIP Peter ⁨

Loop stitch ftw! I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with this colorway for a month. Wanted to do something not lace, but the color covered up any such design. I’m doing loop on just one side. The back has a great knotty pattern. #knitting

A (desperate) plea to vote blue for education: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/the-novemb...

Basilica Roan!

“Ken Paxton is counting on you being too busy. Greg Abbott is counting on you being too tired. Dan Patrick is counting on you thinking your vote doesn’t matter in Texas. Prove all three of them wrong. Get your ass to the polls.”

Hey you. Do you live in Philly & enjoy taking walks? Join the #SaveTheAcademy street team We need people to hang posters in business windows, home windows, street poles, and anywhere else. We want reopening the museum to feel inevitable. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

accent enthusiasts are like "Protect the Drawls"

This thread about the pendulum swing of ed tech and what it means to support teachers through the change.

I finished high school in three years and college in three. I was in a rush. I get it. But I don't want to see an explosion of college lite for I fear vocational courses will win over humanities and social sciences; I wish I'd studied more of both. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Yarn! There are so many more fibers and price points and colors!!!! And local yarn stores! #knitting

We made a book! RURAL INDEXING: A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN BUILDINGS, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS arrives from Rizzoli in March 2027. Our favorite themes and subjects from the thousands of places we've visited since 2010—450+ photos, many never published before. Preorder: linktr.ee/ruralindexingproject

How it's going in Texas. A first read: 'Texas gets what they deserve.' A second read: Look at the amazing journalists covering this story. Or *Baylor's* student paper publishing a commentary by South Asian student. Or 19 mil registered voters. And, 2.4 million early voters in TX on Day 3.

I stress the historical angle - that this is a reduction on a per capita basis even compared to the mid-1900s - because I want to be clear this isn't a 'bubble' popping, but a decision to have *fewer* historians in the future than any time in living memory. I think that is an unwise decision.

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The GOP is literally starving children. Community Eligibility is when enough children in a school qualify for free lunch (and breakfast!) that the whole school can get it. The means more kids eat. And when they eat, they do better in school. It's really simple. It doesn't have to be like this.

David Graeber perfectly captures the essence of why UBI is essential: it gives us back our agency.

AABB member @redgoldsparks.bsky.social has edited this series of essays the explore the power of queer comics & why they, in particular, terrify the right wing. Check it out here:

You know what happens when a state passes a freedom to read law that has ACTUAL teeth to it? With actual ways to enforce it? Things don't get banned. Maryland is THE gold standard here, and two stories *from yesterday* showcase it.

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Decades ago, Michael Apple started writing about the Right’s desire to destroy public schools to make there capital ‘tied up in schools’ available to the markets. Neoliberalism piled on. Now, Audrey Watters picks apart the ed tech desire to take over. Families just want their schools back.

READING IS RESISTANCE!

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

Um, guys, I’m finally catching on to Pandora’s box.

I would love everyone in education, regardless of level, to watch this discussion of the grave methodological problems of meta analysis papers on "AI in education." We are years from even a potentially valid analysis. Anyone claiming to know something now is lying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEv...

Texas billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a blitzkrieg of annoying, misleading and bizarre ads to get their candidates elected. But they are not talking about the issues most Texans care about. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columni... #txlege

"The people we followed [who were provided basic income]... They were able to go out to dinner and get whatever they wanted on the menu — just little things that really don't show up anywhere in economic data, but to me, kind of made all the difference in these people's lives for the year."