James Horn
@schools-matter24.bsky.social
writer, musician, retired ed foundations professor, SJ activist, blogger, sailor. Author of WORK HARD, BE HARD: JOURNEYS THROUGH “NO EXCUSES” TEACHING and co-author of THE MISMEASURE OF EDUCATION.
I block anyone who puts up Trump posts.
I block anyone who puts up Trump posts.
Pinned
I signed up for Bluesky after leaving all the other anti-social media sites behind. But more people here seem intent on bringing me the shit from those sites that I do not want to see or read. That’s why I block anyone who re-posts from X, FB, or TS.
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At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. #ICEOutForGood
January 13, 2026 at 1:16 AM
At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. #ICEOutForGood
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1. There is an ongoing smear campaign against Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother killed by ICE. The goal is to convince Americans to believe an official narrative over objective evidence — including video of the incident.
Kill, smear, cover-up
Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother and U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. After her death, Good was subjected to a vicious smear campaign.
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January 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
1. There is an ongoing smear campaign against Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother killed by ICE. The goal is to convince Americans to believe an official narrative over objective evidence — including video of the incident.
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Florida public schools are tanking - Schools of hope are actually schools of destruction and despair. reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/f... #Privatization
Florida public schools are tanking
According to the Florida Policy Institute (FPI), at least twenty-two school districts in Florida received letters of intent from charter school operators looking to claim space in public schools un…
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January 9, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Florida public schools are tanking - Schools of hope are actually schools of destruction and despair. reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/f... #Privatization
Plato and Aristophanes too hot for Texas’ censorious fascists?
Thought, itself, is at risk in these bastions of bigotry.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
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Thought, itself, is at risk in these bastions of bigotry.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Plato and Aristophanes too hot for Texas’ censorious fascists?
Thought, itself, is at risk in these bastions of bigotry.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Thought, itself, is at risk in these bastions of bigotry.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
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Check out the latest episode of my Democracy Docket podcast! Molly Jong-Fast and I discuss Trump’s declining political power, the myth of a governing mandate and the growing backlash heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Available wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
The Crisis Is Worse Than You Think | Molly Jong-Fast
Podcast Episode · Defending Democracy with Marc Elias · 01/08/2026 · 50m
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January 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Check out the latest episode of my Democracy Docket podcast! Molly Jong-Fast and I discuss Trump’s declining political power, the myth of a governing mandate and the growing backlash heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Available wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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🤡 PINOCCHIOGLES MAKES THE DAILY SHOW
CHIENG: “The point is, we need Greenland… why? Look, I don’t remember what excuse we’re using — this congressman will explain.”
OGLES: because we’re the “dominant predator” 🤦🏼 (as we do Putin’s bidding, effectively ending NATO)
CHIENG: “The point is, we need Greenland… why? Look, I don’t remember what excuse we’re using — this congressman will explain.”
OGLES: because we’re the “dominant predator” 🤦🏼 (as we do Putin’s bidding, effectively ending NATO)
January 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
🤡 PINOCCHIOGLES MAKES THE DAILY SHOW
CHIENG: “The point is, we need Greenland… why? Look, I don’t remember what excuse we’re using — this congressman will explain.”
OGLES: because we’re the “dominant predator” 🤦🏼 (as we do Putin’s bidding, effectively ending NATO)
CHIENG: “The point is, we need Greenland… why? Look, I don’t remember what excuse we’re using — this congressman will explain.”
OGLES: because we’re the “dominant predator” 🤦🏼 (as we do Putin’s bidding, effectively ending NATO)
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🤬🤬🥶🤬🤬 Motherfucking #VichyDemocrats. Primary them! #AnyBluScrewYou "Seventy-five #HouseDemocrats voted on Monday in support of a resolution that praised President Donald Trump’s #deportation regime." ⭐️ THIS is why we need #DavidHogg 's approach. l.smartnews.com/p-lIHQsI1/2F...
As 75 Democrats Vote to Praise ICE, Ilhan Omar Wants to Hold Police Accountable for Protest Abuses (The Intercept)
Seventy-five House Democrats voted on Monday in support of a resolution that praised President Donald Trump’s deportation regime.
The vote came as Trump dep...
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June 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🤬🤬🥶🤬🤬 Motherfucking #VichyDemocrats. Primary them! #AnyBluScrewYou "Seventy-five #HouseDemocrats voted on Monday in support of a resolution that praised President Donald Trump’s #deportation regime." ⭐️ THIS is why we need #DavidHogg 's approach. l.smartnews.com/p-lIHQsI1/2F...
As ANAR outlined an agenda to supercharge a racist, sectarian, & capitalist ideology, what part of that program hasn't been realized in 2026? Seems to me that that agenda wildly succeeded and will continue as long as the promoters of poverty, racism, & greed are portrayed as misguided bureaucrats.
The Accountability Era of Education Reform Failed
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The Accountability Era of Education Reform Failed
Because the Reform Never Matched the Problems
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January 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
As ANAR outlined an agenda to supercharge a racist, sectarian, & capitalist ideology, what part of that program hasn't been realized in 2026? Seems to me that that agenda wildly succeeded and will continue as long as the promoters of poverty, racism, & greed are portrayed as misguided bureaucrats.
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Corporations are now treating customers like we are just an obstacle to getting to our money.
They sit around conference rooms trying to figure out how they can squeeze more money out of us, wittingly or unwittingly.
They don’t give a shit about us, and could care less if the money the wrangle
They sit around conference rooms trying to figure out how they can squeeze more money out of us, wittingly or unwittingly.
They don’t give a shit about us, and could care less if the money the wrangle
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Corporations are now treating customers like we are just an obstacle to getting to our money.
They sit around conference rooms trying to figure out how they can squeeze more money out of us, wittingly or unwittingly.
They don’t give a shit about us, and could care less if the money the wrangle
They sit around conference rooms trying to figure out how they can squeeze more money out of us, wittingly or unwittingly.
They don’t give a shit about us, and could care less if the money the wrangle
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out of us makes it harder to just get by.
I am sick of it. And at least in NYC, they have a mayor willing to do something about it.
What is plain as the nose on our face is that the pendulum must swing back the other way, and the Dems are not doing enough to signal they will be truly be the
I am sick of it. And at least in NYC, they have a mayor willing to do something about it.
What is plain as the nose on our face is that the pendulum must swing back the other way, and the Dems are not doing enough to signal they will be truly be the
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
out of us makes it harder to just get by.
I am sick of it. And at least in NYC, they have a mayor willing to do something about it.
What is plain as the nose on our face is that the pendulum must swing back the other way, and the Dems are not doing enough to signal they will be truly be the
I am sick of it. And at least in NYC, they have a mayor willing to do something about it.
What is plain as the nose on our face is that the pendulum must swing back the other way, and the Dems are not doing enough to signal they will be truly be the
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champions of not just change, but systemic realignment to serve the people. We take too much money from corporate interests to be credible advocates for the working class people.
And that needs to change NOW!
And that needs to change NOW!
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
champions of not just change, but systemic realignment to serve the people. We take too much money from corporate interests to be credible advocates for the working class people.
And that needs to change NOW!
And that needs to change NOW!
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This angle shows Trump’s ICE agent standing on the side of the vehicle and firing into the open window at the driver. This was murder.
January 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
This angle shows Trump’s ICE agent standing on the side of the vehicle and firing into the open window at the driver. This was murder.
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Google the video & see for yourself.
This is not law enforcement. This is murder.
Sickening.
This is not law enforcement. This is murder.
Sickening.
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Google the video & see for yourself.
This is not law enforcement. This is murder.
Sickening.
This is not law enforcement. This is murder.
Sickening.
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FEDERAL AGENT WANTED FOR MURDER. HAVE YOUR SEEN THIS MAN?⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
FEDERAL AGENT WANTED FOR MURDER. HAVE YOUR SEEN THIS MAN?⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Jake Tapper tears into Kristi Noem's 'abjectly false' claim: 'Clear to anyone with eyes'
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Jake Tapper tears into Kristi Noem's 'abjectly false' claim: 'Clear to anyone with eyes'
CNN anchor Jake Tapper did not hold back when he fact-checked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for putting out false information about a lethal shooting where an Immigration and C...
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January 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Jake Tapper tears into Kristi Noem's 'abjectly false' claim: 'Clear to anyone with eyes'
www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
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Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.
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Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
January 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
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Fellows Dems, it is time make @bsky.app our primary social media link and posting place and leave X behind.
It is time now.
It is time now.
With X now under investigation by governments all over the world for allowing its users to create child exploitation images maybe now, fellow Democrats, we can start making our primary social media links Bluesky and not X?
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Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
January 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Fellows Dems, it is time make @bsky.app our primary social media link and posting place and leave X behind.
It is time now.
It is time now.
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Greenland is Trump’s favorite distraction trick that works every time.
He’s not going to seize Greenland. He’s not going to buy it. He’s going to keep using it to distract the media.
Every second of Greenland coverage is wasted time and a media win for Trump.
He’s not going to seize Greenland. He’s not going to buy it. He’s going to keep using it to distract the media.
Every second of Greenland coverage is wasted time and a media win for Trump.
January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Greenland is Trump’s favorite distraction trick that works every time.
He’s not going to seize Greenland. He’s not going to buy it. He’s going to keep using it to distract the media.
Every second of Greenland coverage is wasted time and a media win for Trump.
He’s not going to seize Greenland. He’s not going to buy it. He’s going to keep using it to distract the media.
Every second of Greenland coverage is wasted time and a media win for Trump.
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FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Good charter schools? Where? How many? Charter schools “should” be governed by local school boards? Or “eventually absorbed” into the public schools system? How? When?
No doubt NPE believes Trump “should” abide by the Constitution and federal law, right? Whine harder.
No doubt NPE believes Trump “should” abide by the Constitution and federal law, right? Whine harder.
Charter School Flimflam Documented tultican.com/2025/12/31/c... #Privatization
Charter School Flimflam Documented
By Thomas Ultican 12/31/2025 Charter schooling has a 33-year history. In 1992, the first one opened in Minnesota and it was exactly the kind of school American Federation of Teachers President Al S…
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January 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Good charter schools? Where? How many? Charter schools “should” be governed by local school boards? Or “eventually absorbed” into the public schools system? How? When?
No doubt NPE believes Trump “should” abide by the Constitution and federal law, right? Whine harder.
No doubt NPE believes Trump “should” abide by the Constitution and federal law, right? Whine harder.
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Trump’s team thought they could silence an astronaut and war hero with threats. They were WRONG.
See Mark Kelly's legendary response here: 👇
See Mark Kelly's legendary response here: 👇
We Are Standing With Mark Kelly Against Hegseth’s Attacks, Refusing To Let Trump Rewrite Jan 6 History, and Calling Out Dangerous Russian Propaganda
They picked a fight with the wrong folks
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January 7, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Trump’s team thought they could silence an astronaut and war hero with threats. They were WRONG.
See Mark Kelly's legendary response here: 👇
See Mark Kelly's legendary response here: 👇
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January 7, 2026 at 12:48 AM