Anne Lutz Fernandez

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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ICE agents are reportedly creeping around high schools in Chicago. And because they are wearing masks, often not wearing uniforms and using unmarked vehicles this means that ANYONE could show up dressed like this and disappear kids off the streets. This is especially dangerous

This is why districts, administrators, and teachers need to resist self-censorship.

Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to Read This Bari Weiss’s reported hiring at CBS News is the latest example of corporate media capitulating to Trump.

We are so screwed if people keep relying on mainstream outlets to protect democracy. @davidchasecohen.bsky.social and I make a case here for why we need independent media and people with resources need to step up and fund it thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/03/b...

The wave of censorship in schools over the past 5 years has been driven by dark money far-right groups fronted by a tiny, tiny percent of parents.

sentence him to community service [continuing to serve as superintendent]

AI's monstrous share of capital investment looks to me like an industry that is, inter alia, making itself too big to fail. If it returns commensurate with investment don't materialize, at this point the choice is btwn the Mother of All Bailouts or annihilating a nontrivial share of national wealth

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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

If I Ran the Media™
Fewer stories on:
—How Dems Need to Change Their Messaging
—How [event xx] Will Play w [voter bloc YY]
—How 2028 Field Is Shaping Up

More of:
—Which points of resistance are actually working
—What specifically GOP Reps/Sens are so afraid of
—Real-world tariff/immig effects
—ETC

Episodes — Have You Heard Podcast

On a related note, Jennifer and the crew at @haveyouheard.bsky.social have been doing a great job since they started looking at some of the tensions around school improvements efforts across the political spectrum. Their latest episode gets into it.

www.haveyouheardpodcast.com/episodes

Absolutely superb piece, using Kimmel to connect back to a much more pernicious threat; the subversion of our education system to jingoistic propagandists.

From Kindergarten to Kimmel MAGA's treatment of K-12 teachers was the warm-up act to taking down comedians

The usual suspects, many of which were behind Project 2025, are on the job, including Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, Moms4Liberty, Faith and Freedom Coalition, Turning Point USA, and PragerU.

More here:

ANNOUNCING: America 250 Civics Education Coalition YouTube video by America First Policy Institute

ICYMI: the USDOE's new “civics” initiative. It's not civics.

It’s a massive propaganda effort by an authoritarian regime designed to warp Social Studies, History, English curriculum, and part of the project to break down the wall btw church and state with the help of well-funded far-right groups.

Thank goodness, we found this incredibly reliable and sturdy trustworthy basket. Now to make the obviously intelligent choice of putting every single last egg in it.

cc Tom Nichols

He is sending southern states National Guard to northern states. Are we now in a civil war?

As political violence continues its ascent, a look back to the violence against public servants we saw during the early months of the pandemic.

You could fund propublica 2 3 and 4 for what she normally pulls to get beat by thirty points

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA."

That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.

AI 🤝fascism

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

If all this was purely fiscal the AI actors would be some musclebound guy designed to replace Chris Hemsworth or something.

Texas L.G.B.T.Q. Teenagers and Families Navigate a Public School Clampdown

It was never about parents' rights. It was never about what is best for children.

It was, and is, about discrimination, hate, fear, conformity, minority rule, and authoritarianism.

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One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

From the New York Times: Breaking news: U.S. attacks Venezuelan boat for fourth time, challenging legal bounds

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients 10.3.25

At the newsletter right now:

One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty

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