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Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses
Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.
www.latimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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There's so much work to do in the fight for our future & collective freedom -- incl. Mario Guevara, detained going on 7 wks, despite court order for bond release, no criminal charges, w/ work visa. Amid flurry of fascist news, I celebrate our coalition for his release: www.wabe.org/explained-a-...
Explained: A Georgia-based, Spanish-language reporter's ICE detention — and what comes next
Concerns are growing among press freedom and civil rights advocates over the case of a Spanish-language journalist fighting deportation from Georgia.
www.wabe.org
July 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
There's so much work to do in the fight for our future & collective freedom -- incl. Mario Guevara, detained going on 7 wks, despite court order for bond release, no criminal charges, w/ work visa. Amid flurry of fascist news, I celebrate our coalition for his release: www.wabe.org/explained-a-...
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"The rule of law is whatever people in power say it is...I say this as a lawyer." "...what is the social contract we want to enact with each other?" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"The rule of law is whatever people in power say it is...I say this as a lawyer." "...what is the social contract we want to enact with each other?" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social
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They want you to distrust public schools and misperceive education as only a private, individual good so that they can privatize it and subjugate the people who can't afford to escape it.
Mahmoud v. Taylor fast tracks that agenda.
Mahmoud v. Taylor fast tracks that agenda.
June 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
They want you to distrust public schools and misperceive education as only a private, individual good so that they can privatize it and subjugate the people who can't afford to escape it.
Mahmoud v. Taylor fast tracks that agenda.
Mahmoud v. Taylor fast tracks that agenda.
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Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.
Here’s How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.
www.forbes.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
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Next question: How do we ensure that public education still exists? I have thoughts. Stay tuned.
My prediction? RIP to whatever is left of the rickety old fence between church and state.
April 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Next question: How do we ensure that public education still exists? I have thoughts. Stay tuned.
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It's not just the evaporating line between church and state as Christian nationalism looms.
It's the privatization eviscerating the line between public & private education without which the democratic state is doomed.
It's the privatization eviscerating the line between public & private education without which the democratic state is doomed.
#1 States must accept religious charter schools even though they are public schools.
#2 States must accept religious charter schools since they are quasi-private, non-state actors.
5-3 Court likely going with #2, not as bad as #1 but still awful as I explain in the thread.
#2 States must accept religious charter schools since they are quasi-private, non-state actors.
5-3 Court likely going with #2, not as bad as #1 but still awful as I explain in the thread.
Let me try to be more measured about the Supreme Court taking this case: I see no upshot if you value public education.
All the usual caveats apply, e.g. Court could rule on different grounds, avoid issue.
Otherwise, my thoughts...
1/
www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supr...
All the usual caveats apply, e.g. Court could rule on different grounds, avoid issue.
Otherwise, my thoughts...
1/
www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supr...
April 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's not just the evaporating line between church and state as Christian nationalism looms.
It's the privatization eviscerating the line between public & private education without which the democratic state is doomed.
It's the privatization eviscerating the line between public & private education without which the democratic state is doomed.
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Looks like we're barrelling down the path towards *funding public schools means states have to fund religious schools* followed by *publicly-funded religious schools have to be able to discriminate or it's a violation of their religious freedom* www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Looks like we're barrelling down the path towards *funding public schools means states have to fund religious schools* followed by *publicly-funded religious schools have to be able to discriminate or it's a violation of their religious freedom* www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
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Watching the president brag about closing the DOE convinced me that school boards are now more important than ever. So I’m running to join ours here in Atlanta. Learn more at www.OwensForAPS.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Watching the president brag about closing the DOE convinced me that school boards are now more important than ever. So I’m running to join ours here in Atlanta. Learn more at www.OwensForAPS.com
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Say what you will of the regulatory aspects of the Dept of Education, but the one unit responsible for looking at real data & identifying effective education practices was told it was being shut down today. This is destruction for destruction’s sake.
www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...
Trump administration targets Education Department research arm in latest cuts
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for gathering data on a wide range of topics, including research-backed teaching practices and the state of U.S. student achievement.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Say what you will of the regulatory aspects of the Dept of Education, but the one unit responsible for looking at real data & identifying effective education practices was told it was being shut down today. This is destruction for destruction’s sake.
www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...
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Horrific. The "logic" here, which we've heard for decades, is that keeping undocumented children -- or children in mixed-status families -- out of public schools will discourage migration by making lives miserable. The cruelty is the point.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump won't ban immigration arrests at school. Some families are now weighing school attendance
As President Donald Trump cracks down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally, some families are wondering if it is safe to send their children to school.
apnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Horrific. The "logic" here, which we've heard for decades, is that keeping undocumented children -- or children in mixed-status families -- out of public schools will discourage migration by making lives miserable. The cruelty is the point.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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I talked with my friends @prisonculture.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @shaneburley.bsky.social about activism and organizing in 2025 and how we should move into the next phase of struggle.
Wading Into 2025: How to Begin
“We live in chaotic, disastrous times, but amid that madness, we can still find each other and fight for each other.”
organizingmythoughts.org
December 31, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I talked with my friends @prisonculture.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @shaneburley.bsky.social about activism and organizing in 2025 and how we should move into the next phase of struggle.