Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦
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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦
@dianeravitch.bsky.social

I write about the history and politics of education. I oppose the privatization of public schools. I support democracy, teachers, students, unions, liberal education, freedom to teach and to learn. Born in Houston, live in Brooklyn. Twitter refugee. .. more

Diane Silvers Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2010, she became "an activist on behalf of public schools." Her blog at DianeRavitch.net has received more than 36 million page views since she began blogging in 2012. Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books. .. more

Education 63%
Political science 13%
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Diane Ravitch: Bluesky Scribe Unmasking Education’s Villains
Mixing education advocacy with political satire, Diane is the kind of social media activist who would bring a red pen to a gunfight.
"Imagine if your grandmother could roast the Supreme Court while baking cookies—that's Diane on BlueSky"

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Every taxpayer is paying thousands of dollars per deported immigrant.

www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/...
Does each ICE deportation cost taxpayers at least $17,000? - MinnPost
As of late October, the Department of Homeland Security had deported 527,000 people during President Donald Trump's second term.
www.minnpost.com

Federal judges--all appointed by Republican presidents--will allow redistricting in North Carolina for 2026 election. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... NC has a Democratic Gov, but the Cong. Delegation will be 11 GOP, 3 Dems. Disgraceful gerrymandering.
Judges allow Republican-drawn NC congressional map to take effect for 2026
The challengers claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in northeastern NC for electing a Democrat in 2024.
www.newsobserver.com

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com

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What Trump’s plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ degrees actually means. Wrestling mogul Linda McMahon rules that nursing is not a profession, not eligible for extended federal support. Very stupid when we have a critical shortage of nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
What Trump’s plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ degrees actually means
The Education Department's definition of professional degrees has been criticized for excluding some fields, with industry groups urging reconsideration.
www.washingtonpost.com

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How many Americans will die or suffer because RFK Jr. has killed mRNA research and has used the federal government to wage his war on vaccines?

Thank you, Marie. The White House has hosted many events with no need for a ballroom that seats 1,000. Trump's ego is very large.

Federal judges--all appointed by Republican presidents--will allow redistricting in North Carolina for 2026 election. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
Judges allow Republican-drawn NC congressional map to take effect for 2026
The challengers claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in northeastern NC for electing a Democrat in 2024.
www.newsobserver.com

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I'll take "What Billionaires do for fun" for 500, Alex

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“Wanna talk about candidates who put their💰where their mouth is? @aftynbehn.bsky.social does not fuck around.” #TN7

@rachelwells1.bsky.social on Behn being dragged out of the state leg over ex-speaker Casada’s support for Rep. Byrd, who apologized to 1 of 3 women who said he sexually abused them.

Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees. His 90,000 foot ballroom will overwhelm the White House, which is 55,000. Trump's taste is vulgar. His attitude: "stop me if you can." As soon as he leaves, tear it down! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Important reminder from Jeff Tiedrich:

"when these shitsticks leave office, there are going to be so many broken pieces to glue back together. please don’t scream at the next Democratic president when they don’t have everything fixed after three months. it’s going to take years."

dianeravitch.net/2025/11/26/r... RFK Jr Is forcing his crackpot views on all of us. Don't trust the CDC while these crackpots are in charge!
RFK Jr. Quietly Hires Anti-Vax Extremist as #2 at CDC
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. quietly installed an anti-vax extremist as #2 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham is both a doctor …
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Why didn't Steve Witkoff tell the Russians to stop the bombing and killing? Just get the hell out of Ukraine!

Trump administration plans to punish universities by excluding them from State Department program. Way to dumb down the Foreign Service. share.google/bXc1otLxwe5K...
The full list of US universities at risk of losing state department funding over DEI support
State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and Yale
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