When they are not busy tormenting transgendered people, immigrants, or teachers (because heaven forbid their students should read books about real life), Florida Republicans are thinking up brand-new draconian laws to get them kids back to work like they...
Donald Trump has draconian ideas about how the nation's public schools should be run and how students should be taught. Oh, and he also has some bad ideas about how teachers should be credentialed. He said as much on Truth...
Three things happening here, none of them good. First, Donald Trump is flipping out. Bigly. He's made that evident for some time. Second, he's dying to get control of the foreign policy narrative. That's a near impossibility because he...
We get the government we deserve In this country electing a government, whether state or local, is a crapshoot. Mainly because, for a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people, we are some amazing lazy mofo's. Rather than...
File this under “some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.” Three groups representing minority students, The Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino Network, have filed a...
Talk about a breath of fresh air. Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post have put together a terrific piece on the "backlash to the backlash," specifically the bat$hit anti-gay, book banning nonsense in the State of Florida....
I'm sorry, this isn't going to be gentle, but I've had it. On Tonight with Alex Wagner, she just went through the genesis of a very famous event of the civil rights era, Rosa Parks heroic refusal to give up...
‘It’s a conspiracy’ DeSantis appears to be saying in response to numerous press reports asserting that a biographical book about late, great beloved baseball player Roberto Clemente is being pulled from some school shelves. DeSantis, in his remarks, seems to...
At this point it must be challenging fro Marjorie Taylor Greene to keep coming up with more and more stupid things to say and yet, against all odds, she persists. A case in point would be from today’s House Oversight...
We live in very strange times indeed. This is the first time that I can recall, either from personal experience or from history, that a declared candidate for president of the United States has issued an announcement outlining a...

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