Nate

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

If you live outside the United States, I'm sure the senator's office would love to hear how much more you respect the United States now that Donald Trump is president again.

Here's his number: (202) 224-5251

This is exactly the issue.

Writing is thinking. We want students to learn how to express themselves in their own terms. And writing helps them sharpen that.

You don’t have to look too far or too long right now to find examples of why that’s valuable.

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

Wow, the White House is so shaken by the turn in the public mood that they thought Chuck Schumer might actually rise up and "seize this moment" to get meaningful concessions.

That's how panicked they are. They thought Chuck Schumer would do something.

Coaching Through Core Values: Episode 276 Podcast Episode · The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar · 01/19/2026 · 10m

I really appreciated this podcast episode and it made me wonder how many teachers out there have experienced something like this…

How many people have experienced a leader/coach who has engaged them around core values?

What worked / didn’t work?

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We need to talk about this issue of patience WAY more often in education … and not only for students, but with novice teachers, pacing guides, roll outs of new tech, evaluating impact of new tech … just everyone needs to be more patient about just about everything.

An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

“A lot of people say to me: 'Aren't you afraid that they're going to get behind?' And my response is: 'I know that when my students leave my class that they know how to think and they know how to write.” - @heymrsbond.com

Inspiring. That’s the gig, folks, that’s what educating is for!!!

"It's less harmful to me to make sure that they can do the things without the AI than to try and push the AI into my classroom knowing that, at least for some of them, it's going to mean that they don't get to acquire the skills that they need."

This this this this this this this this this this 🙏

I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss. If you are a commentator who cannot see what the play is there, I'm not sure you should be offering commentary.

Wembanyama says he's 'horrified' by the 'murders' in MInneapolis The 22-year-old Frenchman addressed the unrest between civilian protesters and ICE agents in Minnesota while speaking to reporters after practice Tuesday.

Asked after practice about the ongoing horrors in Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama answered at first cautiously, then forcefully and always eloquently.

Our @tom_orsborn has the story:

www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs... via @expressnews

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.

Well worth a watch.

Another case of normie radicalization. This guy is the former president of a local HOA, a web developer for real estate companies and a self proclaimed "member of the square community" and he's out in the streets.

Immigrant Rights Groups Immigrant Rights & Mutual Aid Groups by State This list was compiled from Fair Immigration Reform Movement membership, Win Without War immigration and mutual aid resources, National Network for Immigr...

Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Democrats cannot even bring themselves to talk about reducing the ICE budget (which was TRIPLED out of the blue and no one knows how exactly such sums could ever be spent even on the vast network of concentration camps and private contractors) to, say, its already-record 2024 levels.

It's time to abolish ICE Federal immigration agents have shot and killed another person in Minneapolis, the third such incident in just weeks amid aggressive federal enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agen...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: It's time to abolish ICE. Do sign this petition with me. Thanks. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/it...

We had to put up with school shootings because "the 2nd Amendment"
But watch ICE eliminate the right to bear arms by executing anyone they find with a gun and to hell with the 2nd Amendment.
ICE will soon be killing citizens in their own homes because they're scared there might be a gun inside.

Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.

Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Contact Congress today!

Kristi Noem is an absolute disgrace. Tell your representatives in Congress it’s time to impeach!

The Timberwolves may have signed that insipid CEO statement, but their chaplain is spitting fire

Two screenshots from the Star Wars TV series “Andor. Top photo has a man addressing Senator Mon Mothma: “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore”. 2nd photo is of Mon Mothma responding: “I suppose that the final humiliation.”

Watching Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino giving their account of the murder of Alex Pretti…I can’t stop thinking about this scene from “Andor”.

TEXT: I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal. Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera. It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well. Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.

TEXT: I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need. Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity. Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

They want state and local officials to “work together” with a fascist federal regime?

What in the world would you even expect the outcome of “cooperation” with these people to be?

This is shockingly tone deaf.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

Deep in Frederick Douglassland as I tinker with this unit—going to have kids read 6 of his speeches and the “narrative.” I do think every American kid should get to read this paragraph in context; I think it’s the best English language para about reading.

this is a small thing but it would be nice to feel good about paying taxes. i would like to write a check to the government and think about kids going to school and freshly paved roads not all the death squads my income helps fund.

This is so real. If nothing else, diversity provides natural challenges to our own perspectives that just expands the range of our social imagination and possibilities for what we can be. We should WANT that to create a better society.