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Trump's Firehose of Lies About Resistance in Portland and Chicago

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 10h

ICEing the Epstein Files - As happened in Washington DC, a Chicago grand jury has declined to indict protesters charged with interfering with ICE activities. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

ICEing the Epstein Files

Cory Turner: What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget - Network For Public Education

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 10h

Writing for NPR, Cory Turner outlines what is on the line in the battle over the 2026 federal budget. Three proposals, and each is grim for education. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Writing for NPR, Cory Turner outlines what is on the line in the battle over the 2026 federal budget. Three proposals, and each is grim for education. First up, President Trump’s proposed budget would...

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Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can’t Trust Government Data?

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 10h

Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can't Trust Government Data? - It began not with censorship in the usual sense but with a subtraction of knowledge. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/j... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

What happens when government data are politicized? What happens when a President fires the professionals who report the data and replace them with his loyalists? Jack Hassard, a retired professor o…

The Trump Cabal’s “Compact” to Stamp Out Academic Freedom

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump Cabal's "Compact" to Stamp Out Academic Freedom - He is also stamping out American ideology and introducing authoritarian ideology. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

Our reader Christine Langhoff discovered an excellent analysis of the “compact” that the Trump administration has offered to several universities. A “compact” usually refers…

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 11h

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students - A NOLA mother gets to choose which child she can stand with every morning. That’s no choice at all. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

If you read only one article about what happened to the students, teachers and schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this is the one. Ashana Bigard is a parent of students in New Orleans. …

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 16h

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute - Even the Rev. Lyman Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s father, was a vocal opponent of Catholics. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationHistory

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

Religious bigotry has shaped public education. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

It's Time to Vote for Prop 50, California

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

It's Time to Vote for Prop 50, California - Getting the MAGA quislings out of Congress is a necessary first step. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #RealPolitics

Ballots Have Arrived! Don't Delay, Do It Today!

A Move Toward Establishing Thought Crime With Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

A Move Toward Establishing Thought Crime With Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 - We have reached what many have feared—an Orwellian reality. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

“[A]s the dominos fall, who will be sympathetic to those accused of supporting ‘domestic terrorism’ if that means that advocating for the free speech of such a person might also make them suspect...?"

Curtis Yarvin is Engaging in Two Debates at Yale

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis Yarvin is Engaging in Two Debates at Yale - Yarvin’s anti-democratic views demonstrate how extremist key members of the Republican Party have become. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/07/c... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

Curtis Yarvin is the guru for a number of major political figures on the right, including Vice President Vance and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is hostile to democracy and holds racist views. Y…

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

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

To Ensure They Qualify for Federal Research Grants, Trump Demands Universities Sign a Compact Declaring Loyalty to His Agenda - To get a grant, you need to not demonstrate merit, just ideological fealty. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... via @janresseger #SickPolitics

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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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen: Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That’s why we’re suing - If by harming you mean destroy their schools, well yeah. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen: Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That's why we're suing - Network For Public Education

A lawsuit is challenging Idaho’s school voucher law, and Republican Representative Stephanie Mickelsen writes in the Idaho Statesman to explain why she has signed onto the suit. Last week, I added my...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

MS: Pushing for Privatization - School choice works? It’s pretty to think so, but that’s not what the evidence says. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization

MS: Pushing for Privatization

Douglas Carswell at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy is excited about all the great privatization pushing that’s been going on in the state lately.

Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding

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jasrand8 @jasrand8.bsky.social · 2d

If the Governor of #Maryland request assistance in removing a domestic terrorist in the #Whitehouse can all the states send their national guard to #WashingtonDC to purge the traitors from congress & this Administration.. #IMPEACHTRUMP #DEPORTmikejohnson #PurgeMAGA #TakeourgovernmentBack #BLUECREW

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding - More unhinged policies from the want-to-be dictator in the Whitehouse. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

The new conditions for federal funding the Trump administration offered to MIT put the school in a no-win situation, people on the Cambridge campus and throughout academia said Frida…

ICE Picks Fights in Chicago & Portland

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

ICE Incites in Chicago & Portland - The feeling that the America they loved is gone is pervasive. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Rehearsing for US Military Occupying Democratic-Run Cities in the 2028 Elections

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time - An important post. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/j... via @dianeravitch #HealthyPolitics

In the post at 9 a.m. today, two scholars of racism and equity explained that Trump’s scrubbing of museums, national parks, and other federal facilities is an attempt to capture control of th…

Nonprofit reaps millions from schools

tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Learn4Life and its related partner, Lifelong Learning, reap millions from schools with little transparency. Looks like another A3 type swindle of state education dollars. enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/art... #Privatization

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

No, Trump Can't Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes - Sending troops into American cities is not to be done without significant proof of insurrection or invasion. He is not a king. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/05/n... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

No, Trump Can’t Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes

Someday, somehow, there will be another President of the United States, and his name won’t be Trump. That future President might well be a Democrat. That President might be in a position to e…

ICYMI: Applefest 25 Edition (10/5)

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: Applefest 25 Edition (10/5) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. substack.com/app-link/pos... #EducationMatters

Every year, on the first full weekend of October, my small town turns itself over to Applefest, a small town festival hung on the hook that Johnny Appleseed lived around here for a few years before hi...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 4d

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? - Just who wants us on this one? Well, scammers. And the folks who turned DEI into something to be avoided. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/03/h... via @nancyflanagan #EdTech

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools?

I haven’t written much about AI and education, for several reasons. First, there are already many people writing compellingly and with considerable expertise about the uses and misuses of AI in the…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 4d

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b... #EducationMatters

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda

By Thomas Ultican 9/29/2025 September 9th, propaganda rag, ‘The 74’, published a classic example of anti-public education flummery, “COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading”. That long…