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Exactly!

Anyone else reminded of Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter" when you read about these hucksters? Photos don't capture the malevolence that underlies their scams.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

WA voters deserve to know exactly what’s at stake. Repealing the Millionaires Tax would mean less funding for: ❌ K-12 schools ❌ Colleges and Universities ❌ Health care ❌ Other essential services

Analysis is pointed and language is unusually accessible. Critique of techno-optimist mythology is fun! Worth a read and cite.

Note it was teachers in the district that raised the alarm, the kind of activism we need. Hurray! But why was the state union MIA on this with legislation? Alas, busy supporting AFT's "partnership" with the tech bros to have them train teachers to use AI: aiinstruction.aft.org

Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

Chloe Asselin, DC teacher and WTU activist, explains how to Grieve to Win Again. Spoiler: It's grueling but you can do it! Applies as much to higher ed as to prek-12. open.substack.com/pub/futuresc...

Under investigation? By the thousands of CDC and USDA employees laid off by Trump? Curious these agencies are not reporting who is doing what and how. Congress should demand answers.

Its placement in the WSJ and its argument that repeats what most Dems and the explicitly neoliberal wing, like "Progressive Policy Institute," shows this is what we'll get if Dems win midterms: Sections of the Right blocking with Dems for a return to the conditions that brought Trump into office.

lol. "Snapping up" the men, as if women are predators and men, their prey, are hapless victims. Business feeding Right wing tropes of the manosphere.

Agree. Aside from its falseness and use of a long-time antisemitic trope of Jews controlling the media, "run by Israel" ignores his long-time involvement with the Democratic party as it followed AIPAC's instructions.

Great questions that need informed debate by those directly affected. IMO we first need to halt AI's imposition in school districts, higher ed, resisting the doctrine of inevitability, pushed by tech bros and many pols, in both parties: futureschools.substack.com/p/halting-th...

Wish this story had noted US hypocrisy masking imposition of tariffs, ostensibly due to labor conditions, while US workers' union organizing campaigns are repressed by corporations and govt. agencies doing their bidding: time.com/article/2026...

Plus AFT pocketed $10million for its coffers. California Fed of Teachers Exec Council passed this motion: www.cft.org/resolution/e... . Several articles in the substack I write. Link in my bio.

AFT took $23 million dollars from Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI for a National Academy that has the tech companies train teachers to use AI: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t...

Explanation for EI's position on AI? US teachers unions, NEA and AFT, dominate the EI politically because they have the most members and so control the apparatus. and its policies.

Harm done by spurious ranking nations on education noted in @eduinternational.bsky.social response to OECD’s 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Also disappointing and frustrating it won't critique OECD's push for AI in education: www.ei-ie.org/en/item/3275...

Note huge diversion of funding to "private companies" that reap profits from our taxes. These public/private partnership (PPPs) have been used for decades in school districts, beginning with standardized testing. AI accelerates and intensifies this "privatization with datafication," my term.

Higher ed faces the same changes being visited on K-12 schools.. The assault is the same and IMO our resistance has to be unified, informed by the knowledge we win or go down together: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...