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"Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy the best of our American experience, to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring." - Bruce Springsteen 👏

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"Springsteen didn’t pull any punches — no references to 'our national divide' or 'both sides' or 'polarization.' He was direct, angry and precise in his language." - @guitarwatson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/opinion/no-n...

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Rümeysa Öztürk, welcome home.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Amen to this! 💙

submitted 12 days ago • 349 comments

Most students know how to scroll. Few know how to spot fake news. At a US school, teens build fake news stories then try to fool each other. They learn how bias works and how to think before they share. That’s digital literacy that sticks. #EduSky #AIEduSky

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NEW: Rumeysa Ozturk is free from ICE custody. There was a delay as ICE sought to fit her w/ an ankle monitor, prompting a 2nd order from a federal judge clarifying that she was to be released without any monitoring or restrictions. She is with her lawyer; expected to return to Mass. tomorrow.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

WKCR's reporting on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia and Barnard has been exemplary, and it's upsetting to hear that Barnard has been threatening rather than praising these extremely professional student reporters

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

This is brilliant. @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/05/we-n...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

maybe I'm being obtuse, but I really don't think AI is relevant to the project of reading something in common, discussing it, and working through thoughts about it in writing

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

At a time when journalistic freedom is in danger, it’s never been more important to reaffirm and solidify the First Amendment. On this World Press Freedom Day, let’s defend and celebrate—not denigrate and deny—the freedom of the press.

submitted 19 days ago • 138 comments

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

submitted 20 days ago • 156 comments

Temple University student newspaper prints pullout section, artwork, essays and poetry by students, K-thru-12th grade, who lost schools and homes in Southern California wildfires youtu.be/hS7iUbfmMmI

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Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

Expect more headlines like this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

With alt-text

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Student newspapers are navigating an unprecedented number of takedown requests by sources, & even some of their journalists are asking for their bylines to be left off articles because of safety concerns. 🎞 Why this is a real time #NewsLiteracy lesson. www.tiktok.com/@newslitproj...

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Shout out to student journalists at The Crimson. They're stepping up and doing great work rn. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Oakmont’s EXCEL Program Ignites Possibilities with Candle Company | By Ava Corso, Oakmont Regional High School

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I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker: Read whatever the hell you want. I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.

submitted 43 days ago • 185 comments

Here is how serious the funding crisis in education is right now. Students today did a fantastic job letting the Legislature know this is a crisis. #mapoli www.gazettenet.com/SouthHadelyW...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Morning thought... #561 #quotesoftheday #edusky #edchat #art

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Great essay. This is reminiscent, of course, of Susan Sontag’s classic article “Fascinating Fascism” on the fascist aesthetic of Nazi Germany.

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@tracynovick.bsky.social

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@nefac.bsky.social and several national advocacy organizations denounced today the recent detention of Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk by federal immigration authorities, calling it a “blatant disregard for the principles of free speech and free press within the First Amendment.”

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 58 days ago • 1908 comments

I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

submitted 57 days ago • 41 comments

If you care at all about this still being a country of laws, where the Constitution applies, you should be outraged right now!

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Among the people who back channeled between law firm Paul Weiss and the Trump administration about cutting a cowardly deal? Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots. His son is currently running for Mayor of Boston. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

We need 10 pairs of Dynamic Dem Duos on the road 24/7.

submitted 61 days ago • 55 comments

You're not overreacting

submitted 62 days ago • 177 comments

This

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No. Right now it’s to prevent shit from getting done.

submitted 62 days ago • 46 comments

“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” This week, we're looking at five techniques that will make any person you’re talking to feel seen, heard, and understood. www.cultofpedagogy.com/listening-sk...

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@teenvogue.com looks at how Gen Z and Gen Alpha actually are using ChatGPT in school www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Just walked out of yet another local school district meeting where local people are working so hard to meet actual needs of students And the contrast between that and Senate Dem leadership is just so disheartening

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“The Department of Education isn’t working as intended,” says Linda McMahon. neither is the nation she’s helping dismantle.

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Looking for Alaska was published 20 years ago today. What a journey that little book has been on.

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Student journalists are increasingly in the public eye — and in the crosshairs. They cover consequential issues and are shaping local news, but they also fact backlash, censorship, other growing press freedom threats. Here are 7 things to know about student press: www.poynter.org/educators-st...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Never be another like her. Goodbye to the goat.

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 89 days ago • 120 comments

Send Dems into rural America to talk about what Trump is doing. The Republicans are too scared and won’t show their faces…in the vacuum of messaging, there is power. Tell the folks who is hurting them. Point to the GOP. Be the foil to the shit that’s happening. Be the party of the people.

submitted 90 days ago • 170 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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