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When I worked on the border with immigrants and refugees so many of them had very legitimate fears for their lives if they returned. Unfortunately our government doesn’t care and does everything it can to deport them back. And does no record keeping of how many are killed afterwards.

Deportations are death sentences. "[The couple was] killed weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband, who was deported last year. Their 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body. The child showed signs of dehydration." www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

you'll be unsurprised to hear it does not work in reverse! we actually did try to weaponize "parents have some concerns" for good instead of evil back when I was working with Portland Catholic schools opposing the archbishop's transphobic new student policies, and they couldn't even get a meeting 💀

Exactly. bsky.app/profile/clbe...

with a bit of sexism thrown in, since the work of monitoring and managing what's going on in school almost always falls to moms (and at intensive levels of involvement, requires that mom work for pay, at most, part-time)

I'm so sorry you were treated that way.

This is actually a wonderful example of why we should not try to squeeze ourselves into their framing. As Jess points out beautifully, parents rights is never about parents like us and it never will be. Because it's a thought killing cliche designed to undermine equity and progress.

As a former homeschooled child: fund public schools and pay public school educators.

Not directly related, but worth noting that the U.S. Department of Education's Facebook page seems to be dripping with copyright/trademark violations.

Thanks for sharing! Here's a website with a breakdown of all the embroidered icons, updated monthly. Beyond the cyclospora related ones for July, there are also a few other outbreak-related entries, like a hazmat suit for hantavirus, a cow for screwworm, etc. www.jessicacalarco.com/stitchthenews

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Of course, the deficit isn't the problem Musk is making it out to be (the federal government doesn't work like a household). But it's worth highlighting the absurdity of Musk's call for mass taxation, given that he amassed a trillion dollars by avoiding taxes and fighting government regulation.

I finally convinced my 12-year-old to sort through the stack of papers she dumped out of her backpack at the end of the school year, and in the process, she found this absolute gem. #deskdoodles

around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

Or maybe just that one guy whose personal wealth could basically cover the deficit in full.

Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...

McConnell has consistently voted against paid medical leave protections.

Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...