Joshua Weishart

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Repulsed by the thought of broligarchs and sycophants controling our children's schooling.

#Resist

Repulsed by the thought of broligarchs and sycophants controling our children's schooling.

#Resist

"Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself."

Still not over this: Should blue states accept Trump-prioritized, privatization-promoting subsidies that will inevitably exacerbate school segregation, stratification, and sectarianization?

Uh, no.

Lo these many days later, still not a "freeze" and releasing some but not all of the funds doesn't make it any less lawless.

Lo these many days later, still not a "freeze" and releasing some but not all of the funds doesn't make it any less lawless.

Re devil, details: There are ways to do this without running afoul of pluralism.
1000wordphilosophy.com/2024/07/18/m...

Re devil, details: There are ways to do this without running afoul of pluralism.
1000wordphilosophy.com/2024/07/18/m...

Moral education is the answer to our moral rot.

But the devil is in the details and will there be anyone left we trust to teach as we slide further down?

Moral education is the answer to our moral rot.

But the devil is in the details and will there be anyone left we trust to teach as we slide further down?

Ban rainbows and all students welcome signs, permit divisive school clothes... sigh

Trump’s private school vouchers create ‘conundrum’ for blue states on whether to take the money - The Boston Globe Democrat-led states like Massachusetts will have to choose between worsening budget problems for public schools and passing up scholarship money funded with their federal tax dollars.

No, no, no. Not a conundrum, don't take the fucking money!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/18/m...

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

“One of the real challenges here is the way that A.I. undermines the human value of attention, and the individuality that flows from that.

What we stand to lose is not just a skill but a mode of being: the pleasure of invention, the felt life of the mind at work.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Hard to deny the logic behind this hypothesized dystopian scenario. Very worthwhile thread; we've been warned.

“There’s no credible argument that would grant the president the authority to seize these funds."

It’s not “just politics,” it’s the Court’s institutional dissonance, underrepresentation, intellectual dishonesty in the self-congratulatory venture to do law w/out being overtly political, its craven, reverse engineered standards & rules, the opportunistic faux judicial restraint...

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the convenience of making it up on the fly, given to flights of fancy and nuance they never have to endure…and more recently doing what they want without explanation.

The last being perhaps most egregious b/c having to explain itself is among few things separating court from other political actors.

This is really true. There is no credible argument.

“There’s no credible argument that would grant the president the authority to seize these funds."

Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why

In its silence as much as in its words, SCOTUS is wittingly or unwittingly facilitating what @kimlanelaw.bsky.social describes as "autocratic legalism," what my colleague @stephencody.bsky.social dubs rise of "dark law," using cover of law to upend the rule of law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Yes scholarship.law.ufl.edu/flr/vol73/is...

Mahmoud v. Scopes A recent Supreme Court ruling should have learned from the history of opt-outs in US history.

In Mahmoud v Taylor, SCOTUS went from bad to worse.

BAD: cutting LGBTQ+ books.

WORSE: ignoring history and making public schools impossible.

Here's my take on the real, difficult, even dangerous history of school opt-outs:

Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why

In its silence as much as in its words, SCOTUS is wittingly or unwittingly facilitating what @kimlanelaw.bsky.social describes as "autocratic legalism," what my colleague @stephencody.bsky.social dubs rise of "dark law," using cover of law to upend the rule of law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

So let me see if I have this straight, they don’t want a federal education department, “send it back to the states,” except they also don’t want to actually send any federal money to help states provide education, except...
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Off topic a bit, but I’m so tired of legislators complaining about student test scores while simultaneously dismissing any effort to address America’s appalling poverty rate. All you hear about are poorly interpreted studies claiming that…

Yes‼️ to all of it

It's a disgrace that we seem to be heading in the exact opposite direction

...Yep, can’t wait to be pre-public education systems America great again.

...Yep, can’t wait to be pre-public education systems America great again.

...laws, public accountability, and civil rights protections for their students but not to worry if all else fails just homeschool them and if the kids happen to have neglectful or abusive parents just collecting a check from the state, well that’s too bad…

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