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I genuinely don’t understand how it is possible for a president to personally sue organizations while in office and force payoffs into his post-presidency coffers, but no one can sue him personally because the Supreme Court decided he has absolute immunity. What am I missing?

What Mr. Ramirez Taught Me July Fourth means community.

I’m thinking about him today. I hope he’d be proud of me. I hope my sense of citizenship has lived up to his.

Happy Fourth.

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Full essay here for easier sharing: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-mr-ra...

📚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.

This Houston neighborhood may be hardest hit in all of Texas by SNAP cuts Houston’s Fifth Ward is the only area in the state currently without an elected member of Congress to fight the proposed GOP SNAP cuts.

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Fifth Ward may be the hardest-hit neighborhood in all of Texas by SNAP cuts

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.

My new book is out! It’s finally here!

My new book is out! Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts

open.substack.com/pub/pauloski... #SolutionTree #edusky #comprehension #adolescentliteracy #literacy #reading

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

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Hold the line. It’s not over yet.

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

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.

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hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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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

Wow. How disappointing. Read the room, @democrats.org

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

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

To change teen literacy outcomes, we need to free our minds Our thinking about students' comprehension is getting in the way of progress

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.

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#edusky #instruction #comprehension #NAEP #secondary #literacy

Opinion | The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be (Gift Article) The word “faith” implies the possession of something, whereas I experience faith as a yearning for something beautiful that I can sense but not fully grasp.

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

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Union Pacific has been endangering and interfering with school children and their parents as they try to get to and from school for decades. I’ve worked in East End schools. I know. Pols and district folks have tried repeatedly to broker solutions. UP always waits them out.

Houston, El Paso, San Antonio, even Dallas are far from disasters. We have blue city strongholds. But these state laws affect all of us, Austinites included.

And isn’t that the plan? My home state of Texas has underinvested in public education, child welfare, youth detention, and every other system touching our state’s children for decades. Our national ranking in % college grads is abysmal — by design. Ignorance serves antidemocratic movements. #texas

a baseball player is talking to a referee and says " king tuck " ALT: a baseball player is talking to a referee and says " king tuck "

As a Houstonian, I say to Cubbies fans — You’re welcome! Take good care of him. We call him King Tut. We wear golden crowns in right field. Please continue these traditions. #astros #houston #cubs

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

Pit of Despair Crawling out of December with help from Austin Kleon

Beautiful article for teachers and anyone else who may be at low ebb, from Adrian Neibauer

Pit of Despair
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I’m pretty sure Mr. Tuberville hasn’t read the document.

Kelly Latimore Icons Artist and Iconographer. Modern Iconography. Taking the Tradition of Iconography and carrying it into the present.

kellylatimoreicons.com — you might add a link to the artist and credit her in the alt text — I just came across this image last week, and it has haunted me. I was grateful to find out about the artist.

An image of the Holy Family as Hispanic immigrants

ADVENT BEGINS
They are making their way to us.