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If you attend the #Houston #NoKings #protest on Sat. June 14, 2025 BE AWARE that HPD check our sign handles/sticks for size adherence to city ordinance. Allowable limits vary if square vs round. Sec 28-33 ordinance is online at library.municode.com/tx/houston/c... #protests #50501Movement

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📚TEXAS: “We’re not removing filth… Books like Romeo & Juliet, Lonesome Dove, Catcher in the Rye will be removed from school libraries because these definitions are overly broad.” @jamestalarico dismantles a Republican bill like the one already doing damage in Tennessee.

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ICYMI — federal agents cuffed an @RepJerryNadler aide inside his congressional office, claiming they were “conducting a security check” The guardrails are off. More: www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex... Fifth Ward may be the hardest-hit neighborhood in all of Texas by SNAP cuts

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ERIC is also an archive of educational thought and research running back decades. Think of it as blowing up a library, which authoritarians do to consolidate their power.

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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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My new book is out! Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts open.substack.com/pub/pauloski... #SolutionTree #edusky #comprehension #adolescentliteracy #literacy #reading

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Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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#texas #edusky #vouchers Hold the line. It’s not over yet.

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God I love this place!!! #astros #BuiltForThis

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Letter from SFRC democrats on USAID.

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#BlackHistoryMonth Knowledge is power! #BLM

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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

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hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks. www.propublica.org/tips/#signal

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 139 days ago • 231 comments

“Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.”

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Pass it along far & wide! #Teachers, make sure you & your students know their rights. Have them share with their friends & family. #StrongerTogether #NoHumanIsIllegal

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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

submitted 139 days ago • 268 comments

The purge.

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Message to the whole #FBI workforce from Acting Director Brian Driscoll:

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@thedanrather.bsky.social on the latest corporate media capitulation, this time at CBS/Paramount. Legacy media is being brought to its knees. Turns out profit motive is an authoritarian’s best friend. Heartbreak for CBS News open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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In my latest post, I discuss a need for changed beliefs about adolescent comprehension--especially relevant in light of the latest NAEP results. I hope you will read, comment, and share. open.substack.com/pub/pauloski... #edusky #instruction #comprehension #NAEP #secondary #literacy

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What a beautiful essay about Brooks’ faith journey—it resonated deeply. Thank you, @nytimes.com, thank you, David Brooks, and thank you, God. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/o...

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Looking to support non-profit journalism in Texas? I've got the perfect link for you! trib.it/Matt Support the work of the @texastribune.org!

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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

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Research has shown that fear of a family member being deported has substantial negative impact on student academic achievement and mental health————How many millions of American kids might see their parents deported by Trump? wapo.st/3ZqDyUE

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New journalist anxiety unlocked.

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Beautiful article for teachers and anyone else who may be at low ebb, from Adrian Neibauer Pit of Despair open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

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“I was in Houston public schools during the McCarthy Era, and [the school] board alternated every couple of years, and it would sometimes be run by the Minute Women. And the Minute Women were the female equivalent of the John Birch Society.”

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Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

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At the beginning of 2024, throughout the world, over 320 members of the press had been arrested and locked behind bars. Charges ranged from espionage to “extremism.” These false, egregious charges are invariably politically motivated. In Vladimir Putin’s police state, journalists are jailed,…

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ADVENT BEGINS They are making their way to us.

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Some of my older columns for The Washington Post are no longer on their site, so I've been reprinting them on my blog. Teacher might or might not find them some of them useful. Here's one: Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2024/09/18/b...

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“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation… The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.

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