Teacher placed on leave after Native American student records incident | APTN News (Video)
A California teacher has been placed on leave while the school district investigates her behaviour shown in an online video. A Native American student in...
The backlashes to critical race theory leave scars: racism is never funny, even if ignorance is.
Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida's State Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of an amendment banning the...
RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.
These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal and the reactionary path to critical race theory,...
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the Critical Race theory
Oklahoma’s right-wing politicians would like to erase history because that’s what they do, whether it’s the omission of facts or rewriting them to favor those...
As another school year comes to a close
I step back to reflect on many things, including this strangest year of my more than 2 ½ decades as a classroom teacher. It is...
Friendly Reminder About Beto O'Rourke's Webb County Flip Texas Blue GOTV Phone Bank Tonight
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: Don’t miss your chance to join Beto and...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: financialization and sandwich shop capitalism
Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of its supply-chain hijacking yet another example of an impending...
Beto O'Rourke Launches Webb County GOTV Phone Bank On April 27th To Help Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered By People: I'm personally inviting you to join...
Jen Psaki shows the world how to handle dopey Newsmax reporters
As far as I’m concerned, allowing Newsmax reporters into the White House briefing room is a little like High Times asking Mitt Romney to write...
Sen. Johnson wants to force 10-hour reading of entire COVID bill, because he's a huge d*ck
Well, actually, he’s a Badger, not a duck. I was born in Wisconsin and currently live in Oregon. Believe me, I know the difference. And...
Betsy DeVos Backed Candidate For WI Superintendent Busted For Black Racial Slur Twitter Blunder
Here’s the first big campaign of 2021: A white candidate to be Wisconsin's top education official deleted her Twitter account and apologized after posting a...
Some thoughts now that the impeachment is over
since 1995 I have been a secondary social studies teacher, most of the time teaching US Government in some form or another, especially since I...
“It’s much more fun to cosplay as Robespierre than a financial literacy teacher.” Žižek on GameStop
No one wants to hear about GameStop(gate) even if it’s not really a scandal or a flaw in capitalism. Slavoj "we must end capitalism but won't" Žižek...
VA-Gov: Terry McAuliffe (D) Unveils Bold Plan To Build Upon Virginia's Criminal Justice Reforms
Here’s the latest news out of Virginia: Former governor Terry McAuliffe has released his plan for reforming the state’s criminal justice system, focusing on parole,...
Vaccinate Teachers Next, and deflate the Reactionaries.
Oregon will push teachers to the front of the line for the next round of the vaccine. Schools can re-open. Children can return to school, and...
My Son the Science Teacher–Back in Quarantine again
A young boy goes to the school nurse’s office, complaining of a sore throat. The nurse gives him a cup of ice and sends him...
Trusting the Science…
In the first week of April this year, the first quantifiable effects of the Covid-19 virus on people of color were released in the press....
Pro-Trump party switcher now stinks of Trump's failures, trails Dem opponent
When this is all over — hopefully very soon — the number of lives Trump managed to destroy will be truly mind-boggling. But while I have...
Gabby Giffords posts a video of Biden comforting the son of a Parkland victim that melts the heart.
Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords tweeted a video of a special needs child, the son of a murdered teacher at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in...
Covid has stricken a student of my son.
The ill child is now kept at home. My son, the teacher, is quarantined, with no symptoms yet. This school, half the time, had a...
Branch Covidians: Typhoid GOP Senators and their court-packing attempts
The GOP Senate mischief continues, as the GOP’s rush to endanger the women’s health of at least 17 states and 30 million people also continues....
The Michigan State Supreme Court Just Reminded Us We Need A Second Huge Blue Wave To Hit Michigan
So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle...
MS-Sen: Joe Biden Endorses Mike Espy (D) For U.S. Senate
Some big news today out of Mississippi: x.@JoeBiden unites and heals. He has dignity and empathy. He is the leader our country needs right now...
Biden ad out on Trump tax story
just so you know how they are going about it you can see it here: xWell that was quick — the Biden team just released...
Lol! This has to be the stupidest, most ridiculous White House lie yet
Oh, tell us more about Dear Leader, Kayleigh. The tales of his rugged exploits are riveting! x“It keeps him up at night, thinking of even...
46 years ago ….
I was at the Bryn Mawr PA train station waiting for a train to take me into Philadelphia for a party I was going to...
30 seconds from Lincoln Project: “School”
put out just in time for the day on which most students head back to school lots of quick powerful images and words including images...
adding to Trump's 20,000 lies: the DNC omitted the 1954 “under God” part of the pledge of allegiance
Back to 1954 is the desperate place that Trump is going to spread disinformation. The GOP has tried to make Democrats “godless”, because how else...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D. MA) DNC Speech Endorsing The Biden-Harris Ticket Full Transcript
Received this e-mail just now form former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), in support of the Biden-Harris ticket: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1rZjB0b36Sw I was honored...
AOC used her short time allotted at DNC to completely define the Progressive movement
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) got just over a 60sec window to say her piece. She was able to fit the entire Progressive movement within that time....
CO-Sen: HuffPost, “Cory Gardner Runs Pro-Trump Facebook Ad Being Seen Everywhere — Except In CO”
The Huffington Post reports that U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R. CO) has been boosting a new Facebook ad touting his record being Trump lapdog. But...
TX-Sen: Sen. Cory Booker (D. NJ) Helps MJ Hegar (D) Give Coronavirus Cornyn (R) The Boot
MJ Hegar (D. TX) Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D. NJ), in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX)...
Crying 8-year-old special needs boy handcuffed, arrested, and booked for felony battery.
A video of an eight-year-old boy arrested at Gerald Adams Elementary School in Key West, Florida, for allegedly punching a teacher in the chest has recently...
Joe Biden is tweeting out some good ads
Here are just two, the first relevant to today, because of the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed 55 years ago (I was...
Do Not Send your kid to school. Find another way to educate them other than public arenas.
There is a diary on here which is very good about Betsy No nothing and it is good. www.dailykos.com/... I am a parent, grandparent and...
Reflection on many things
Part of my preparation for becoming a teacher, at my MAT program at Johns Hopkins, was to take time to reflect on what I was...
School chancellor ridicules Trump on his threats coercing school districts to put families at risk
Donald Trump and his Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have been threatening schools to coerce them into fully opening. New York City Schools Chancellor Richard...
So I am going back to school
to finish my doctorate. I abandoned my previous attempt almost 20 years ago with a dissertation almost half written for a variety of reasons I...
AZ-Sen: New OH Predictive Insights Poll Has Mark Kelly (D) Leading Martha McSally (R) 52-43
Some good news today out of Arizona: Retired astronaut Mark Kelly (D) holds a 9-point lead over Sen. Martha McSally (R) in Arizona, a state critical to...
Ron DeSantis: If you can go to Home Depot during pandemic, kids can 'absolutely' go to school
Ron DeSantis, who’s doing a fantastic job as the Joker’s top henchman but a horrible job as governor of Florida, has OD’d on his crazy...
Thoughts on “opening” schools
from the perspective of someone who has taught every grade from 7 through 12, in public, charter, and private (both religious and secular) schools. CLASSROOMS...
TX-10, 24 & 25: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Helps Push Texas Out Of The Red And Into The Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA): Texas has a special place in my heart. It's where I...
Another sad milestone reached
< p class="is-empty-p"> # Country, Other Total Cases New Cases Total Deaths New Deaths World 11,630,451 +79,909 538,161 +1,716 1 USA 3,000,469 +17,541 132,665 +96...
TX-Sen: PPP Has Joe Biden Beating Trump In Texas 48-46, John Cornyn's (R) Approval Continues To Sink
Some very big news today out of Texas courtesy of PPP’s latest poll done on behalf of EMILY’s List: xTEXASBiden 48% (+2)Trump 46%@ppppolls/@emilyslist (D) 6/24-25https://t.co/Qmoaz481Fd—...
CO & MS-Sen: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Endorses John Hickenlooper (D) & Mike Espy (D)
Former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), endorsed a whole slate of down ballot Democrats today. Two of them are for the U.S....
Patrick & Delvon Carolan: White dad, Black son discuss their experience w/ Police, School, more
Patrick & Delvon Carolan, father & son discuss their American experience. Delvon’s police encounters & discrimination at school was met by no-holds-barred dad. Patrick &...
NY-16: PCCC, “Thrown in jail for Driving While Black. Now, running for Congress”
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support of Jamall Bowman’s (D. NY-16) campaign: x YouTube Video As we see videos...
Trump is a dumpster fire. But have any of your Republican friends admitted that to you?
Trump’s unfitness for office, and his destruction of government institutions and norms, is positively cartoonish in its obviousness and threat. But — three years in — have...
Beto O'Rourke's Virtual Voter Registrations Are Crushing It In Texas & Trump Should Be Terrified
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate & Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): This is a picture of progress: More than 1,000 people signed...
