The Josh Hawley approach to emergencies.

Another bad hair day

Fear and self-loathing in DC.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

It's lovely with a nice Chianti and Fava Beans.

Where's the Dave Matthew's tour bus when you need it?

The people's president speaks.

Louisville, KY had a higher per capita homicide rate than Chicago in 2024

Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

Having no idea what he is signing, the human autopen signs anyway.

Good god! Another streaming company to drop. Soon, I am going to be left just staring at a test pattern.

I wonder if the next speaker at the podium will mention the smell of sulfur.

Cuz he is a bad person?

Ironic that Trump envokes "hate speech" which was a result of the academic work around critical race theory.

How one state revamped high school to reflect that not everyone goes to college Indiana’s initial plan for revised graduation requirements was criticized for prioritizing work-based learning over academic preparedness. The state has tried to find a balance between the two.

Indiana redesigned what high school looks like to make it more relevant to young people’s futures. For too long, kids had been pushed to plan for 4-year college, yet only about half of seniors enrolled and those who did often dropped out before graduating.

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

Add a little authoritarianism, a sprinkle of nationalism, mix it with "corporate statism," and you have fascism. WSJ needs to bring it all together.

"Even totalitarians have to go back and explain themselves to their constituents . . ." Wut?

Oh my! And this guy got his JD from Vanderbilt?

Educators Summit centers care as foundation for learning Teacher Jose Rivas was welcoming his students to class as he usually does, singing and playing his ukulele, when a student walked up to him looking dejected.She’d used ChatGPT to do her homework the…

Leading Edge Fellow Jose Rivas created an AI Code of Ethics that he and his students would follow. “To implement AI ethically as a learning tool, we must build a strong sense of community with our students,” he said.

How might this work in your classroom?

My baby boy's first wonky media mention.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

As always, focused on the issues that matter to the American Public.

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The NPR talk show 1A is planning a live call-in special for teachers as they ready for the new school year. Anything is on the table: AI, school safety, curriculum, Dept of Ed. changes at 10 am ET on Wed. July 30. The number to call in is 1-855-236-1212.

Now if they could just field a "fine" team.

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Yes, let's have MAGAs refer to themselves as Nazis! All for it

I encourage everyone to read this letter.

Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th.

(🎨 Judith de Leeuw)

Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July!

249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.

President Commodus is nearly literally doing Gladiator now.