Miriam Walden

Not sure there is a more disingenuous of the many disingenuous arguments for teaching students to use AI in K-12 than “Students are already using AI, so we have to teach them ethical use."

It's one of the arguments I tackle here:

No war with Iran.

Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fate-of-the-dis-union

This Week in the World: No War with Iran | Friends Committee On National Legislation War is not the answer, and diplomacy is still possible and necessary.

Congress must exert its constitutional authority to stop another disastrous forever war before it starts.

Yup. Can verify.

Quakertown student protesters likely detained until Monday. Here's why Parents of Quakertown high school students arrested in the ICE protest melee say their kids won't see a judge until Monday. What the law says.

Pa. high school students are *still in custody* after being *arrested* during Friday anti-ICE walkout www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...

It's impossible for me to look at this diagram and not have slave ship design jump to mind.

The standards are about 25 years old right now.

This is in the state standards that teachers are supposed to follow for tenth grade social studies in California.

California state standards for 10th grade world history begin by demanding that we teach the "judeo christian" origins of democratic ideals...a completely fabricated concept.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Put her in a choke hold and the other kids jumped in to beat his ass. The kids are alright.

The bill states that instruction on historical events and figures is not prohibited, nor are debates and critical thinking exercises among students, as long as there is no mandatory adoption of “the prohibited world-views.” But under the bill, any lessons on critical race theory and intersectionality are allowed only if presented “as Marxian theories contrary to American tradition, law, and ethics.”

This is a policy of political control over education. It gives the illusion of encouraging 'critical thinking' while underscoring what students must be told to think. No educator would be able to develop 'critical thinking' under such constraints. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

Or maybe...abolish ICE.

More than 50 activists gathered Tuesday (17 February) in Washington, D.C. to protest proposed federal rules that would restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter say.

Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

Jailing protestors on false charges is not new. What's new is pushing so many cases towards trial to extend the torture.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

When teachers are given time to do their job, they can do it well. It’s a simple truth, but as @marcusluther.bsky.social points out, this is far from the reality of most teachers in public education. #TeacherSky #EduSky

"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

What if we abolished ICE and instead created CARE, which would make sure everyone was warm and fed.

"We are all setting the norms & the tone about how children are and will be treated, with every word, choice and action...I have to believe that the care of our global community could, at least patially, restore fragments of childhoods stolen by war & atrocity."

Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. A person wading a blue body of water, Lilly pads, under a starry sky, pine trees.

Just finished the last reading group for @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s Read This When Things Fall Apart. You should read it with friends and comrades.

How the “Founding Fathers” stole their ideas from the native Haudenosaunee — and created our patriarchal system of government by “forgetting” the Women Elders

bit.ly/vinceandawkword

Study: More People Were Killed in First 16 Months of Gaza Genocide Than Reported The Lancet found that there were 75,200 “violent deaths” in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and January 5, 2025.

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet Global Health estimates that more than 75,000 people in Gaza were killed during the first 16 months of Israel’s genocidal assault — a figure that far exceeds the death toll reported at the time by the strip’s health authorities.

Unfortunately, WhereDoWeGo Berkeley reports that the encampment will be swept Tues Feb 24. Predictable, since Berkeley recently "discovered" a ubiquitous disease they never test for. No meaningful alternatives offered. Please call your council, mayor and city manager. Folks need care, not cruelty.

I'll tell you what strategy will not work and that's 'let's be quiet church mice'. Wait until June is surrender not a strategy.

Homeless people are your neighbors. They are your community. They are our people, our responsibility. Something I also tried to stress when I was with Food Not Bombs is- they're just people. Go TALK to them and include them in decisions about how you can help.

Every day there's some new horror. Forcing trans people off their hormones is just absolutely sadistic.

Oh..this sort of shit happens all the time. My personal favorite:https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1072505.html