Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats

Like a pod of vampires thinking they understand the point of a 'blood drive.'

Men studying a dragon

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Trump: We need more awesome old-timey American ass-kicking authors like Mark Twain.

Meanwhile the real Mark Twain (1901): If the USA is going to attack other countries like the Philippines, we have to change the flag to this:

@biblioracle.bsky.social nails it.

And we can take it ALLLLLL the way back. US public schools evolved out of the ur-techbro hubris of Joseph Lancaster.

He promised Zuck-level ed revolutions, but also showed Zuck-level ignorance.

@palan57.bsky.social offered a smort review:

Hobby Lobby will release its 2026 MAGA-Midterms line soon:

Is that...Lil Sebastian?

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First take: Why are they avoiding politics?

Second: Oh, wait....this is the smortest SOTU commentary...

@sandylaats.bsky.social

House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

It works for other issues as well, besides funding.

NH's right-wing House just passed a bizarre and impossible law to control teachers. They dumbly don't realize that their own 1784 constitution forbids the state from imposing political or religious beliefs via public-school teachers.

First take: Why are they avoiding politics?

Second: Oh, wait....this is the smortest SOTU commentary...

This is the way.

Many state constitutions have explicit language about the state's duty to support public schools.

The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. Here's a thread with open-access links to all of the articles...

This is from an old PACE--the learning packets from Accelerated Christian Education. I don't know if they have stopped using those footprints these days.

Samesies, but for me it's all creationism redux:

U.S. Women's Hockey Team declines Trump's invitation to the State of the Union President Donald Trump invited the men's and women's hockey teams after both won gold medals in overtime games against Canada.

This is the thing power-mad delusional narcissists hate the most:

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

This just kills me. In every field, they are doing long-lasting damage without any reason.

"They had lost years of research in a matter of weeks. Whole labs had been closed...and none of it appeared to have anything to do with the quality or import of the research itself."
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I've been calling it "MAGA Treehouse."
(BTW, it's a brother and sister....)

YouTube video by PragerU Leo & Layla's History Adventures with Frederick Douglass | Kids Shows

The PragerU content takes it even further: Slavery was a blameless crime, but it was America's Founding Fathers who were the first to solve it and end slavery.

It's terrible stuff. If you haven't seen one of these videos, check it out. I'm not even scratching the surface of its awfulness:

Inside PragerU’s conservative push into American classrooms PragerU is a conservative video giant. It’s produced more than 2,000 videos that it says promote American and Judeo-Christian values. Now its content is approved in 10 states’ school systems.

For your weekend listen: PragerU makes bad history content.

Really bad--like Frederick Douglass explaining how the Founding Fathers were the REAL abolitionists.

And now it's on the approved list in 11 states.

Check out NPR's On Point for more from me and @edweek.org's Sarah Schwartz:

This law does seem to violate NH's constitutional provision on public ed: "the several towns...shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their own public teachers...."

They knew in 1784 that public school teachers should not be forced to believe any one thing...

Seems to ban some pretty important topics:
1.) the Civil War
2.) pretty much ANY strike
3.) Civil Rights

"Under the bill, teachers would be forbidden from framing historical events “primarily as class, racial, or identity-based conflicts intended to foster division rather than resolution.”""

Thank you Rep Selig:
“Teachers in New Hampshire are not indoctrinating students into Marxism or any other political ideology,” said Rep. Loren Selig, a Durham Democrat. “As a former teacher, if I could indoctrinate my students, it would have been to shower and show up with their homework.”

Inside PragerU’s conservative push into American classrooms PragerU is a conservative video giant. It’s produced more than 2,000 videos that it says promote American and Judeo-Christian values. Now its content is approved in 10 states’ school systems.

For your weekend listen: PragerU makes bad history content.

Really bad--like Frederick Douglass explaining how the Founding Fathers were the REAL abolitionists.

And now it's on the approved list in 11 states.

Check out NPR's On Point for more from me and @edweek.org's Sarah Schwartz:

There are already major defects on display...

The USA has long benefited from top talent flight from authoritarian regimes. Not just skaters, but...Einstein! And my dad, who fled from Stalin to help send the US to the moon.
(Pictured here c. 1969 working on Apollo).

Today's authoritarian regime in the US is sending them elsewhere....

Let's keep right-wing propaganda out of our public schools.

Check out yesterday's episode of NPR's On Point, where we talked about the many creepy dangers of PragerU's terrible content.
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Let's keep right-wing propaganda out of our public schools.

Check out yesterday's episode of NPR's On Point, where we talked about the many creepy dangers of PragerU's terrible content.
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...