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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

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · Dec 1

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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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 1d

What else can he sell? Trump watches! They are right twice a day.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

This coming from Stitt - very conservative and Trumpy and right next door to Texas - is surprising.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 1d

Florida's largest grocery chain, Publix, with 900 stores, will allow customers to carry guns openly while shopping. If I lived in Florida, I'd shop elsewhere. l.smartnews.com/p-6mbyUqxa/l...

Florida’s Largest Grocery Store Chain, Publix, Announces It Now Allows Shoppers to Open Carry Guns (People)

Florida struck down a ban on no carry policies in SeptemberNEED TO KNOWPublix will permit customers to open carry guns...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-DEI legislation suffers another setback in federal court www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Federal Judge Blocks New Hampshire’s Anti-Diversity Law

U.S. District Court Judge Landya McCafferty has issued a preliminary injunction against New Hampshire’s law meant to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in public schools.

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1d

Lawsuit: South Carolina book ban regulation is unconstitutional
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Lawsuit argues South Carolina's book ban regulation is unconstitutional

The Regulation’s prohibition on materials that depict or describe “sexual conduct” is overbroad in both libraries and classrooms.

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Massachusetts Association of School Committees @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social · 1d

These activists want to dismantle public education. Now they run the Department of Education

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 3d

Man arrested by ICE, hospitalized for 37 days, no contact with lawyers. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal agents held him in a hospital for 37 days, at times shackled to his bed, without charging him

Bayron Rovidio Marin broke his leg when immigration authorities raided the car wash where he worked in Carson in August. He was surveilled for more than a month in his hospital bed at Harbor-UCLA Medi...

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 3d

ICE wanted to deport an 88-year-old immigrant. They couldn't. He died two years ago: link.latimes.com/view/6529c7f...

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 3d

Resist peacefully! With style and humor!

Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 3d

Texas Governor Abbott sends Texas National Guard to Illinois to help Trump dictatorship
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Texas National Guard headed to Illinois, as Pritzker decries 'authoritarian march' (ABC News)

As members of the Texas National Guard boarded a plane on Monday, state and city leaders in Illinois were holding a news conference asking them to stay away ...

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 4d

South Carolina judge ruled against Trump. Strangely, her house burned to the ground. Coincidence?
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Judge Who Ruled Against Trump Finds Her Home Burned to the Ground (The New Republic)

A South Carolina Judge who recently ruled against the Trump administration had her house go up in a massive cloud of flames on Sunday. Judge Diane Goodstein’...

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