David Hawkins
@khnashi.bsky.social
If only there was a way to prevent this…🙄 www.k12dive.com/news/schools... #whoopingcough #pertussis #texas
Schools grapple with whooping cough as 2025 outpaces last year’s peak numbers
Preliminary reports from the CDC, as well as state and local agencies, suggest a significant increase in U.S. pertussis numbers — particularly in Texas.
www.k12dive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If only there was a way to prevent this…🙄 www.k12dive.com/news/schools... #whoopingcough #pertussis #texas
#TexasTech showing the kind of ignorance befitting a #Texas institution www.highereddive.com/news/texas-t... #highered
Texas Tech orders colleges to align instruction with Trump administration’s gender views
The directive from Chancellor Tedd Mitchell immediately drew backlash from free speech advocates, with one attorney describing it as “obvious censorship.”
www.highereddive.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
#TexasTech showing the kind of ignorance befitting a #Texas institution www.highereddive.com/news/texas-t... #highered
Hmm. What are the business hours for other fundamental rights? Another #fail brought to you by the substandard state of #Texas www.highereddive.com/news/court--... #FirstAmendment
Court temporarily blocks overnight ban on expression at University of Texas System
A federal judge found “significant First Amendment issues” in a state law barring all free speech on public campuses between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
www.highereddive.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Hmm. What are the business hours for other fundamental rights? Another #fail brought to you by the substandard state of #Texas www.highereddive.com/news/court--... #FirstAmendment
There needs to be an IMMEDIATE cessation of whatever this is with #Venezuela theconversation.com/trumps-squee... @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @beyer.house.gov
Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond Monroe Doctrine – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There needs to be an IMMEDIATE cessation of whatever this is with #Venezuela theconversation.com/trumps-squee... @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @beyer.house.gov
Doesn’t using #AI kind of take the “special” out of #specialeducation? Or the “individualized” out of the Individualized Education Plan?” www.k12dive.com/news/artific... #IDEA #IEP
Heightened AI use in special education brings elevated risks
Nearly 60% of special education teachers reported using AI to develop an IEP or Section 504 plan during the 2024-25 school year, a CDT report finds.
www.k12dive.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Doesn’t using #AI kind of take the “special” out of #specialeducation? Or the “individualized” out of the Individualized Education Plan?” www.k12dive.com/news/artific... #IDEA #IEP
#Censorship and #bookbanning are un-American. Except they’re clearly also very American now. #sad www.k12dive.com/news/book-ba...
Book bans becoming the new norm for districts, report says
Four years since book bans proliferated, the movement’s spread to the federal level is creating “unprecedented” pressure for districts, PEN America says.
www.k12dive.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#Censorship and #bookbanning are un-American. Except they’re clearly also very American now. #sad www.k12dive.com/news/book-ba...
#OldNews: Look how dumb this headline looks in retrospect www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Some Conservatives Blame Higher Ed for Political Violence
The president and his allies are accusing the “radical left” of “terrorism,” blaming unnamed organizations. Some conservatives are condemning universities.
www.insidehighered.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#OldNews: Look how dumb this headline looks in retrospect www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Why do we have colleges “striking deals” with a presidential administration? This is not the way a healthy #democracy functions www.highereddive.com/news/trackin... #highered
Tracking the Trump administration’s deals with colleges
Cornell University agreed to pay $60 million in exchange for the federal government’s restoration of over $250 million in research grants.
www.highereddive.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Why do we have colleges “striking deals” with a presidential administration? This is not the way a healthy #democracy functions www.highereddive.com/news/trackin... #highered
Reposted by David Hawkins
A team headed by a Hungarian Nazi cosplayer's wife.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
The US Department of Education “in partnership” w/ America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, Heritage, etc. recently launched a new civics education coalition.
AFPI’s team is led by Katie Gorka (Sebastian’s wife) & by Erika Donalds of Moms for Liberty infamy. 1/
AFPI’s team is led by Katie Gorka (Sebastian’s wife) & by Erika Donalds of Moms for Liberty infamy. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A team headed by a Hungarian Nazi cosplayer's wife.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
This is #extortion, pure and simple. An administration that decides #swastikas are not hate symbols doesn’t give a shit about anti-Semitism. They want control of #highered www.highereddive.com/news/title-v...
The legal debate over Trump’s Title VI campus crackdown
Recent enforcement actions have set off high-stakes arguments about whether the federal government is weaponizing the civil rights law.
www.highereddive.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is #extortion, pure and simple. An administration that decides #swastikas are not hate symbols doesn’t give a shit about anti-Semitism. They want control of #highered www.highereddive.com/news/title-v...
Republicans: Tell me again why gutting #highered and the federal role in #education is a good idea? www.highereddive.com/news/us-face...
US faces shortfall of 5.3M college-educated workers by 2032
Nursing, teaching and engineering would experience the largest gaps, per a study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
www.highereddive.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Republicans: Tell me again why gutting #highered and the federal role in #education is a good idea? www.highereddive.com/news/us-face...
#Texas needs to be placed on a performance improvement plan www.k12dive.com/news/more-te... #FirstAmendment
More Texas school districts ordered to take down Ten Commandments displays
The temporary order by a federal judge said a Texas law’s requirements to put up the Ten Commandments in every classroom violates the First Amendment.
www.k12dive.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#Texas needs to be placed on a performance improvement plan www.k12dive.com/news/more-te... #FirstAmendment
Helpful reminder that the #Trump #Republican #fascist playbook on suppressing #freespeech isn’t new theconversation.com/first-amendm... #FirstAmendment
First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red Scare
The congressional anti-communist hearings of the 1940s are a reminder that freedom of speech today is even more fragile than it may seem.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Helpful reminder that the #Trump #Republican #fascist playbook on suppressing #freespeech isn’t new theconversation.com/first-amendm... #FirstAmendment
During my 25 years in #highered policy, few things annoyed me more than bond rating agencies www.highereddive.com/news/moodys-...
Higher education outlook remains negative for 2026, Moody’s says
Enrollment, political and cost pressures abound and will stick around in the new year, analysts said in a recent report.
www.highereddive.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
During my 25 years in #highered policy, few things annoyed me more than bond rating agencies www.highereddive.com/news/moodys-...
@apnews.com: How about if you operate from the baseline assumption that nothing #Trump says is true? apnews.com/article/trum...
FACT FOCUS: There's no proof each strike on alleged drug boats saves 25,000 lives, as Trump claims
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that strikes on suspected drug boats his administration began carrying out in September in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are saving hundreds of thou...
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
@apnews.com: How about if you operate from the baseline assumption that nothing #Trump says is true? apnews.com/article/trum...
#WhiteNationalism fuels #politicalviolence. This is one reason Virginia Republicans failed in their efforts to criticize Jay Jones’s text messages—the far right/Republican Party uses political violence regularly at this point. theconversation.com/white-nation...
White nationalism fuels tolerance for political violence nationwide
Active white nationalist groups operate in all but two U.S. states. Researchers have found that there’s a strong association between holding white nationalist views and supporting political violence.
theconversation.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
#WhiteNationalism fuels #politicalviolence. This is one reason Virginia Republicans failed in their efforts to criticize Jay Jones’s text messages—the far right/Republican Party uses political violence regularly at this point. theconversation.com/white-nation...
While claiming to want to eliminate federal overreach in education, the #TrumpEpstein administration is instead erecting a fascist ministry determined to control. Judiciary says otherwise, though. #FirstAmendment www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Judge: Trump Can’t “Blanket” Deny UC Grants or Demand Payout
A judge ordered federal agencies Friday to end their “blanket policy of denying any future grants” to the University of California, Los Angeles, and further ruled that the Trump administration can’t s...
www.insidehighered.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
While claiming to want to eliminate federal overreach in education, the #TrumpEpstein administration is instead erecting a fascist ministry determined to control. Judiciary says otherwise, though. #FirstAmendment www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Heartless. www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... Trump is #FleecingAmerica
The Trump administration plans major shift away from long-term housing for homelessness
The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Heartless. www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... Trump is #FleecingAmerica
Just going to keep repeating this: there are 45 million students in public K-12 education vs. 5 million in private in the US. Nowhere near enough capacity in private schools. #SchoolVouchers don’t add up. www.k12dive.com/news/private...
Where the federal school choice program stands
The U.S. Department of Treasury is expected to issue proposed rules early next year detailing how the program will operate and how states can opt in.
www.k12dive.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just going to keep repeating this: there are 45 million students in public K-12 education vs. 5 million in private in the US. Nowhere near enough capacity in private schools. #SchoolVouchers don’t add up. www.k12dive.com/news/private...
Texas A&M showing us all what a #fascist dictatorship looks like. #TAMU www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Texas A&M Requires Approval for Courses That “Advocate” Certain Ideologies
Many faculty members decried the new restrictions on race- and gender-related courses as an assault on academic freedom. Meanwhile, the board also discussed a once-per-semester systemwide course revie...
www.insidehighered.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Texas A&M showing us all what a #fascist dictatorship looks like. #TAMU www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Mortgages (30y or 50yr), credit (debt) cards, car loans, student loans, payday loans, lines of credit (debt), extended payment plans, rent-to-own…America’s debt economy *will* crash. Not a matter of if, but when. #debteconomy #wageslaves
a man is stacking playing cards on top of each other on a table
ALT: a man is stacking playing cards on top of each other on a table
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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Mortgages (30y or 50yr), credit (debt) cards, car loans, student loans, payday loans, lines of credit (debt), extended payment plans, rent-to-own…America’s debt economy *will* crash. Not a matter of if, but when. #debteconomy #wageslaves
Reposted by David Hawkins
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
In defense of public service loan forgiveness open.substack.com/pub/khnashi/...
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In defense of public service loan forgiveness open.substack.com/pub/khnashi/...
