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Nancy Flanagan 🎼

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Lifelong public school educator and advocate. Michigan Teacher of the Year, 1993. National Board Certified Teacher. Musician. Prodigious reader. Gardener. Ardently Blue. #Resist! https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · Nov 16

“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other idea for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.” John Dewey

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1h

Trump and his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men and women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1h

To capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control 3 sources of power: intelligence agencies, justice system & military. Trump & his circle of would-be autocrats made rapid progress toward seizing these institutions, detaching them from the rule of law www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark214 @mark214.bsky.social · 8h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2h

Courts could block Trump’s TX NG deployment, but the president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments.

This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2h

There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kathy Downs @kathykatd.bsky.social · 1d

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 23h

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2h

The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2h

Curtis Yarvin—the anti-democratic ideologue who helped shape Donald Trump’s approach—now believes American democracy will outlast this administration.

He’s so sure democracy will survive that he’s already planning his exit. www.theframelab.org/good-news-jd...

Good News: JD Vance‘s Favorite Blogger Plans Escape from USA

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.theframelab.org

Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 3h

The truth is chilling:
Most people will follow an order that violates their conscience if that order comes wrapped in structure…hierarchy…and legitimacy.

That’s not opinion. That’s science. www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/obedience-...

Obedience, Authority, and the Illusion of the Oath

Why We Can’t Count on the Military to Save Us from a Rogue President

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 3h

Like all new "AI" gadgets reviews have been universally terrible: "invasive," "manipulative," "condescending," "useless." "I hate my AI friend." (Wired headline) Perhaps 22-yr-old founder of Friend thought dropping over $1 mil on ads would counter this 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/companion-an...

Companion Specious

If you've ridden the NYC subway lately, you've seen the ads for Friend. "Largest subway campaign ever," the founder proudly posted on Instagram. Friend is (of course) an "AI" startup, another one of ...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 3h

Title says it all: janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t...

To Ensure They Qualify for Federal Research Grants, Trump Demands Universities Sign a Compact Declaring Loyalty to His Agenda

The Trump administration continued last week to hound the nation’s universities, demanding that they cancel all diversity programs designed to include and welcome students from historically m…

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 3h

The full canon of DHS video footage has made evident one of the defining features of the president’s deportation campaign: He wants it publicized far and wide, literally shouted from rooftops, and in ominous tones. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

"In her appearance Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pam Bondi delivered a display of puerile arrogance so complete it amounted to contempt for the rule of law."

But her hair was perfect. #SoTrumpian harrylitman.substack.com/p/a-ridiculo...

A Ridiculous Attorney General

Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

If we are concerned about teacher burnout & need for more time to do the work (problem since forever) let’s start by asking “How could we help teachers have more time to do the work?” We know the best answers. They aren’t “an unreliable plagiarism machine” curmudgucation.substack.com/p/saving-tim...

Saving Time With AI

As AI-mongers continue their full court press to crack the education market, we keep hearing the same pitch over and over again--

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

'Not all change -- not all technological change -- is good. Not all change -- not all technological change – is progress.' 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/without-our-...

Without Our Consent

When I wrote last week’s round-up of “AI”-related news, I didn’t include any of OpenAI’s product releases, mostly because it’s 2025 and I’m exhausted by this game that tech companies and tech journali...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

No other president would permit an underling to flaunt his racist rhetoric, display blatant animus toward a cross-section of Americans, and peddle his xenophobic, violent schemes. But Trump—until now—has gobbled up all the hate and lies Miller has dished out. contrarian.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...

Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement

The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

In spite of what you may have read... www.nationofchange.org/2025/10/03/t...

Twenty years after Katrina, the city’s all-charter schools system is failing many families | NationofChange

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

Serious eye roll.

So many things to worry about. This isn't one of them. bridgemi.com/talent-educa...

Bathroom wars hit MSU: This time, it’s unisex showers, toilets in honors dorm - Bridge Michigan

MSU has opened its first unisex community dorm bathroom as part of $37 million in renovations to Campbell Hall. While showers are private, public spaces aren’t — and not all parents are on board.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 5h

Sad to say, Trump and his enablers have worked this out in advance. At the Pentagon on September 30, 2025, Trump pitched the plan to use American soldiers for the purpose of punishing his political enemies. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-pla...

Trump's Plan

To invoke the Insurrection Act

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 5h

Proposal from House Repubs would push for deeper K-12 cuts, notably a $4.7 billion reduction in Title I funding. This funding stream has enjoyed bipartisan support for decades, currently sends roughly $18 billion to schools in disadvantaged communities all over the US. www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget

Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 6h

Once authoritarianism shows up, there can be only 2 kinds of media:

Propaganda sanctioned by the regime

Independent media that exists to see the authoritarian project ended

There is no third way. Eventually, every media institution will have to choose a side. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 6h

More than 8 in 10 elementary and secondary students in the U.S. go to a traditional public school. But Lindsey Burke (who wrote the education section of Project 2025) expects that public schools will see dramatic enrollment declines www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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...

www.propublica.org

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