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New piece: the new digital divide - rich kids get human teachers, poor kids get shitty AI. But we can fight this, because parents, students, and teachers all hate it. Gift link:

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Donald Trump wants you to vote for Michele Tafoya. I'm asking you to vote for the future Minnesotans deserve - one without Trump's chaos and cruelty. That's the choice in this race.

Susan Collins wants you to believe that she's powerless to stop Donald Trump. I call bullshit. Even after an innocent man was murdered in the streets of Biddeford by ICE, she still defended her vote to give tens of billions of dollars to this rogue agency...

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

A recent Star Tribune article found that 14 Minnesota CEOs took home more than $10 million, with one making more than $200 million. This is exactly why we need to tax the rich.

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Donald Trump's ICE thugs are breaking apart families and building a reign of terror in our communities. We need to abolish ICE now.

Yikes.

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.

Any Nazi scholars out there that can help me understanding what is going on with kids asking questions about Hallow Earth theory? Specifically asking if I’ve been to Agartha.

Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

Voters understand who is responsible for the problems that affect their lives.

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Or teach them these things before they leave and support them after they leave. Don’t be an asshole parent.

“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV

A good thread on the Republican nominee for MN governor and her nonsense education policy. I’d like to say @amyklobuchar.com has better ideas, but she has a bunch of nonsense that no teacher has asked for. Except for her state wide health insurance plan which I think she added fairly recently.

@mischieftoy.com I’m proud to introduce you to Lady Giggle Fart. My 8th graders named it and they love it.

if you're a reporter "barred from recording video" by the government, you goddamn better record video

Today I'm honoring 9/11 Day by turning remembrance into action. 25 years later,,, we remember those we lost and honor the heroes who stepped up by continuing to do GOOD. If you a NYC school teacher,,, drop yo wish list and imma hook up the first 25. Join me and @911day and #UNITEFORGOOD.

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

What in the actual F is this?!?! What sort of educational theory went into this? There is a lot of pedagogy I disagree with but it is still somewhat effective. This is just malpractice isn’t strong enough.

that's akin to citing your drunken MAGA uncle in a poli sci essay According to some experts, "these Iranian fucks don't know who they're missing with." (1) (1) Lou Belcher, "Here's Why You're Wrong About Trump, You Ungrateful Little Shit", Thanksgiving 2025, Bethesda, MD.

I teach history. That's my profession. That's what I'm trained in, that's what I was hired to train students in. That's what all my experience and interest is in. I don't know a thing about AI and I don't want to. So if you want to teach AI, go teach AI in your own fucking classroom.

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Billionaires become billionaires by mining/exploiting employees &/or the environment. They are vampires on society. Villionaires. As such, there are no ethical billionaires. Abolish the villionaire class by taxing them out of existence.

These Dolly stories doing a number on me. 😭

-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."

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[Exit Queen.]

I spent a long time reporting on people w wealth & fame & protections they bring. often the excuse was "But I was injured in *these* ways." You don't think a poor child growing up in the South, a woman in country music, knew fear, want, rejection? Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.

you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.

I'm sure she got advice on her image, on how it might be better to reject her LGBTQ audience. She didn't. She knew what it was to be powerless & poor & she didn't want *anyone* to live that way. A lesson for people w aspirations to public life: Hurting others doesn't have to be part of the equation.

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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