Zahava Stadler
@zahavastadler.bsky.social
K-12 education policy person with a focus on school finance. Currently Project Director, Education Funding Equity Initiative @educationwork.newamerica.org. Formerly EdTrust, EdBuild. Parent. Order Muppet. I aspire to one day take the Colbert Questionert.
My goodness people have some very strong opinions about Star Wars.
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My goodness people have some very strong opinions about Star Wars.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
I don't have the background knowledge to understand whether this is totally normal and no big deal, or whether I should consider it a Very Bad Sign (TM).
Navy weighs expanded ship training that could patrol Canada-U.S. border on Great Lakes, St. Lawrence
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Navy considers training-ship operations in Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River
Move would enable forces to assist patrolling Canada-U.S. maritime border, commander of Royal Canadian Navy says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don't have the background knowledge to understand whether this is totally normal and no big deal, or whether I should consider it a Very Bad Sign (TM).
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Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.
This is absolutely f'ing horrifying.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is absolutely f'ing horrifying.
I wonder if one of the few good side effects of having an administration that is Terminally Online is that they may actually see an online outcry as a real problem that merits a response?
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a more stringent policy on hate symbols, prohibiting “divisive or hate symbols or flags.”
The change came hours after The Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive.”
The change came hours after The Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive.”
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I wonder if one of the few good side effects of having an administration that is Terminally Online is that they may actually see an online outcry as a real problem that merits a response?
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This is what the Nazis did.
They blamed the Jews for everything to make them the enemy of the people.
It allowed them to commit atrocities.
Undocumented immigrants are not the reason for any of these problems, they’re a scapegoat.
Hold the billionaires, corporations & ruling class accountable
They blamed the Jews for everything to make them the enemy of the people.
It allowed them to commit atrocities.
Undocumented immigrants are not the reason for any of these problems, they’re a scapegoat.
Hold the billionaires, corporations & ruling class accountable
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is what the Nazis did.
They blamed the Jews for everything to make them the enemy of the people.
It allowed them to commit atrocities.
Undocumented immigrants are not the reason for any of these problems, they’re a scapegoat.
Hold the billionaires, corporations & ruling class accountable
They blamed the Jews for everything to make them the enemy of the people.
It allowed them to commit atrocities.
Undocumented immigrants are not the reason for any of these problems, they’re a scapegoat.
Hold the billionaires, corporations & ruling class accountable
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Truly, I cannot believe that anyone still trusts this administration to fight antisemitism. And nooses are "divisive"? Between what? the head and the body?
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Truly, I cannot believe that anyone still trusts this administration to fight antisemitism. And nooses are "divisive"? Between what? the head and the body?
Impt read from @lisaguernsey.bsky.social at @educationwork.newamerica.org. "In this vision of dismemberment, the word 'education' is scrubbed from any U.S.-led effort to improve our country. The concept of teaching and learning is not important enough to garner federal attention anymore."
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
www.the74million.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Impt read from @lisaguernsey.bsky.social at @educationwork.newamerica.org. "In this vision of dismemberment, the word 'education' is scrubbed from any U.S.-led effort to improve our country. The concept of teaching and learning is not important enough to garner federal attention anymore."
You know what's worth noting? That when Democrats said, "The military should refuse illegal orders," Trump's response wasn't to even try to claim, "My orders are all totally legal." It was "Hang those bastards who say I should be bound by the law."
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You know what's worth noting? That when Democrats said, "The military should refuse illegal orders," Trump's response wasn't to even try to claim, "My orders are all totally legal." It was "Hang those bastards who say I should be bound by the law."
Wishing for a system that allowed recall elections.
Trump is absolutely cratering on economy in new Marquette poll:
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Anger over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
As Trump’s inflation rants grow more unhinged amid brutal new polls for him, an economics writer explains why Trump is ill-suited for the crisis that might be coming—and why the bottom might be about ...
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Wishing for a system that allowed recall elections.
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Surrounding students with the trappings of a particular faith is a way of telling students of no religion AND students of any other religion that they don't belong. No student should be told that by their public school. Your "school of right" must uphold your rights.
Surrounding students with the trappings of a particular faith is a way of telling students of no religion AND students of any other religion that they don't belong. No student should be told that by their public school. Your "school of right" must uphold your rights.
The Ten Commandments are up in Texas schools. They're also being taken down
A new Texas law says every public school classroom must display a poster listing the Ten Commandments.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
apnews.com/article/ten-...
Surrounding students with the trappings of a particular faith is a way of telling students of no religion AND students of any other religion that they don't belong. No student should be told that by their public school. Your "school of right" must uphold your rights.
Surrounding students with the trappings of a particular faith is a way of telling students of no religion AND students of any other religion that they don't belong. No student should be told that by their public school. Your "school of right" must uphold your rights.
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I'm disgusted at the message this conspiracy theorist, eugenicist government is sending to autistic children and the people who love them with these lies.
Initially, some moms of autistic kids eagerly accepted vaccine lies, because that way they could reject the "refrigerator mother" hypothesis, which blamed autism on "cold" mothering.
Now, those same tired vaccine lies will likely be used to blame moms who choose to vaccinate their kids.
Now, those same tired vaccine lies will likely be used to blame moms who choose to vaccinate their kids.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm disgusted at the message this conspiracy theorist, eugenicist government is sending to autistic children and the people who love them with these lies.
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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It’s like I learned in law school:
If you don’t have the law on your side, pound the facts.
If you don’t have the facts on your side, pound the law.
If you have neither, shout “(((SOROS SOROS SOROS)))!!” and plug your ears.
If you don’t have the law on your side, pound the facts.
If you don’t have the facts on your side, pound the law.
If you have neither, shout “(((SOROS SOROS SOROS)))!!” and plug your ears.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s like I learned in law school:
If you don’t have the law on your side, pound the facts.
If you don’t have the facts on your side, pound the law.
If you have neither, shout “(((SOROS SOROS SOROS)))!!” and plug your ears.
If you don’t have the law on your side, pound the facts.
If you don’t have the facts on your side, pound the law.
If you have neither, shout “(((SOROS SOROS SOROS)))!!” and plug your ears.
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this is wildly antisemitic. the argument is that the nefarious Jews are plotting to undermine the will of Real Christian Texans.
In an unhinged dissent in our Texas redistricting victory, a GOP appointed judge seems to believe that George Soros and I did...well, I'm not sure what...but he is very mad. Bigly.
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
this is wildly antisemitic. the argument is that the nefarious Jews are plotting to undermine the will of Real Christian Texans.
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Dr. Minal Giri:
"Families are now afraid to seek even the most basic care for their children or send them to school because they see immigration agents in hospital parking lots and helicopters hovering over their schools." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"Families are now afraid to seek even the most basic care for their children or send them to school because they see immigration agents in hospital parking lots and helicopters hovering over their schools." #AbuseofPowerWatch
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Dr. Minal Giri:
"Families are now afraid to seek even the most basic care for their children or send them to school because they see immigration agents in hospital parking lots and helicopters hovering over their schools." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"Families are now afraid to seek even the most basic care for their children or send them to school because they see immigration agents in hospital parking lots and helicopters hovering over their schools." #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Dr. Alan Shapiro:
"Children are seeing their own parents arrested in front of their eyes. Parents arrested at their homes, work places, outside their schools. Children are seeing bands of masked government-sanctioned law enforcement agents sweeping through their communities." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"Children are seeing their own parents arrested in front of their eyes. Parents arrested at their homes, work places, outside their schools. Children are seeing bands of masked government-sanctioned law enforcement agents sweeping through their communities." #AbuseofPowerWatch
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dr. Alan Shapiro:
"Children are seeing their own parents arrested in front of their eyes. Parents arrested at their homes, work places, outside their schools. Children are seeing bands of masked government-sanctioned law enforcement agents sweeping through their communities." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"Children are seeing their own parents arrested in front of their eyes. Parents arrested at their homes, work places, outside their schools. Children are seeing bands of masked government-sanctioned law enforcement agents sweeping through their communities." #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Dr. Alan Shapiro:
"I am here today as a professional witness to tell you that the kids are NOT alright and that our country is suffering from a pandemic of amorality and cruelty that is harming children, families and the fabric of this nation." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"I am here today as a professional witness to tell you that the kids are NOT alright and that our country is suffering from a pandemic of amorality and cruelty that is harming children, families and the fabric of this nation." #AbuseofPowerWatch
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Dr. Alan Shapiro:
"I am here today as a professional witness to tell you that the kids are NOT alright and that our country is suffering from a pandemic of amorality and cruelty that is harming children, families and the fabric of this nation." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"I am here today as a professional witness to tell you that the kids are NOT alright and that our country is suffering from a pandemic of amorality and cruelty that is harming children, families and the fabric of this nation." #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Dr. Minal Giri:
"Families are being forced to choose between safety and survival. Children undergoing chemotherapy, premature infants in intensive care — none should lose access to treatment because their parent has been detained." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"Families are being forced to choose between safety and survival. Children undergoing chemotherapy, premature infants in intensive care — none should lose access to treatment because their parent has been detained." #AbuseofPowerWatch
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Dr. Minal Giri:
"Families are being forced to choose between safety and survival. Children undergoing chemotherapy, premature infants in intensive care — none should lose access to treatment because their parent has been detained." #AbuseofPowerWatch
"Families are being forced to choose between safety and survival. Children undergoing chemotherapy, premature infants in intensive care — none should lose access to treatment because their parent has been detained." #AbuseofPowerWatch
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40% of all immigrants, and 48% of lawfully present non-citizen immigrants, report negative health impacts bcc of worries about their own or a family member's immigration status since January. They (COMPLETELY CORRECTLY) do not feel that the law is enough to protect them.
40% of all immigrants, and 48% of lawfully present non-citizen immigrants, report negative health impacts bcc of worries about their own or a family member's immigration status since January. They (COMPLETELY CORRECTLY) do not feel that the law is enough to protect them.
KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants | KFF
KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants The 2025 Survey of Immigrants, a partnership between KFF and The New York Times, takes an in-depth look at the experiences of immigrants during the first y...
www.kff.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
www.kff.org/kff-nytimes-...
40% of all immigrants, and 48% of lawfully present non-citizen immigrants, report negative health impacts bcc of worries about their own or a family member's immigration status since January. They (COMPLETELY CORRECTLY) do not feel that the law is enough to protect them.
40% of all immigrants, and 48% of lawfully present non-citizen immigrants, report negative health impacts bcc of worries about their own or a family member's immigration status since January. They (COMPLETELY CORRECTLY) do not feel that the law is enough to protect them.
Something I feel the need to explain to the non-Americans on bluesky is that when people are posting the increase in their health insurance premiums, that's MONTHLY. Not annually.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Something I feel the need to explain to the non-Americans on bluesky is that when people are posting the increase in their health insurance premiums, that's MONTHLY. Not annually.